77040 Bones Satheras, Male Warlock, Limited Palette

[Doug Sundseth]

Just finished painting a copy of the Bones version of Satheras using two hues plus black and white:

 

I started him during our last paint day as an example of how you could use a single brown to get quite a few different looks. After I got home, I decided to keep on with a very limited palette.

 

Paints used (all Golden Fluid Acrylics):

• Burnt Sienna
• Dioxazine Purple
• Zinc White
• Carbon Black

 

Not intended as a competition mini, but it was a really interesting exercise and the result, I think, has some virtue as a piece of art.

[Othikent]

Great work with such a limited palette! I may give this kind of challenge a go myself. 

[Glitterwolf]

That looks good!

[Rigel]

Amazing blends and gradients!

[Adrift]

I haven't done a limited palette in years! It's so much fun!! You did great!

[Iridil]

Great use of the limited pallete - purple and brown work well together. Love how the staff turned out as well as his hood and face.

[Warlady]

Good job, especially the crystal on his staff!

[Doug Sundseth]

Thank you all for your comments.

 

This was the first time I have really worked with Zinc White and I think I'm in love. It's a much lower tinting-strength white than Titanium White, which sounds bad, but turns out to be really useful. Mixing subtle gradients is easy and I didn't see any of the graininess than often happens with Titanium White.

 

The exercise was really interesting. As often happens, the restriction of only using two hues meant that I had to really exercise my creativity. The range of browns was interesting and I think effective. The purple was so strongly tinting that I found it hard to use it to get color shifts without overwhelming whatever I mixed it with.

 

The NMM in most cases was really weak, partly because I need much more work on NMM and partly because I'd like to do a bit more color shifting in the shadows and highlights, but the pauldrons were the best of that. And I know quite a lot more about how all of the paints I used here work now than when I started.