The Herdstone

The skin tone is gorgeous, I'm loving the texture and contrast. The NMM has fooled me, it looks legit! Black can be hard to paint, but I've found that finding a light source and sticking to it can help. In conjunction with really thinned down paint, it can be convincing. Then again I took my time doing this and laboring through it only to add some extreme highlighting to my most recent Night Goblins  

Thanks so much for the kind words, yeah for black im finding less is more but still the contrast needs to be there aswell. Its all balance.

The two colours that I dislike painting are black and white as both are really easy to make look like grey instead of the intended colours. Your blacks look great, but I'm loving your skin tones and nmm. I'll have to give that painting technique a go at some point.

I've found nmm works well on small bits, or weapons, but trying to do multiple plates next to each other is  really easy to make look confusing. I made the mistake of trying to do full plate armour in nmm as an early experiment. It did not go well as the lighting/alignment was slightly off on a few plates, which made it really stand out

Thanks, yeah black and white can be difficult but really they just take patience and a slightly different approach. The trick with black was to mix it with blue to create the transition from the highlighr of white so the layer wasn't grey.

Edited June 15, 2016 by Xemenes