Sorcerers

My first attempts at experimenting with manual shadowing and highlighting:




So, with the sorcerers the technique was to base coat with each color and then to wash with a dark version of that color. Then, instead of just allowing the wash to show the shadows by itself, I used the wash as a guide and manually painted in the shadows with a non-washed dark color. Finally, I manually highlighted the raised areas with a light version of each color.

I still suck at facial features, though.

Before the Sorcerers I was using strictly Delta Ceramcoat paints which you can buy in 2 oz. bottles from a craft store for $1 each. However, I had read really good reviews of Reaper's Master Series Paints online and bought two sets of flesh colors and a set of 3 blues that looked interesting. So, the flesh and the blue Sorcerer are used using these paints.

The MSP paints are great because:
1. They are pre-thinned to a consistency that is just right
2. They flow well from brush to mini in a way that the cheap paints never seemed to
3. They come in sets of three (dark, medium and light) which are designed to go together and are used to base coat, shade and highlight.

This last feature was really nice. Up until this point I had been mixing dark shades by adding black and making highlights by adding white.

The down side is that they cost $2.25 for a 1/2 oz bottle. Well worth it, though.