Beastmen

While painting the Beastmen I had my first feeling that I was starting to get the hang of mini painting.With the Beastmen I started to combine the techniques I'd begun learning on the previous figures and began experimenting with a new one: highlighting.

First I lay down the base coat, then I washed with a darker version of each color, then I took a lighter version of each color and tried to highlight the raised areas. Thus, each part of the figure has three tones of each color, a base coat, a dark wash and a light highlight.

It is hard to see in these pictures, but you can notice it a bit in the muscles of the arms.

You can tell I had no idea what to do with the faces, though. I just washed them and walked away.

Still, these are the first minis I painted that I felt proud of.