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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9626672" data-attributes="member: 4534">Ok, it’s been a while since I’ve said anything about technique.  This is a wolf (dire?) from WizKids.  I painted this a few years back, but it was so bad I stripped it and just repainted it.  I generally don't like WizKids miniatures, but this one is textured well enough that it makes for a good practice piece for fur.  Both fur and hair are particularly vexing at times.  Sometimes I paint a head of hair and it looks fine, but other times it just looks bad and I don't know why.  I painted a bear so bad he looked like a patient in burn ward rather than a furry best.  And I painted that bear just a few short years ago.  For this guy, I started with a white primer and laid down a base coat of Smoke (a very dark brown) from Vallejo paints.  A reminder to you all, most acrylic paints are translucent, so I had to put down three thin coats of Smoke to get a good, solid base color.  Normally I'd tell you it's important to have a good, solid base color, but in the case of a furry beast, it's actually okay to have some tonal variations because a lot of animals aren't perfectly uniform in color.  The next steps consists mainly of dry brushing and applying a diluted wash, more of a tint really.  I tried dry brushing with Vallejo Wood Grain and Chocolate Brown first, but they were so close in color to Smoke that you could hardly tell the difference.  I bumped it up to Flat Earth, a lighter brown, and that helped establish a nice contrast.  I used to Army Painter Speed Paint, Sand Golem, a kind of brown, as a tint.  Just make sure the Speed Paint doesn't pool up.  Once it thoroughly dried, I used Dark Sand from Vallejo as a highlight.  I applied more of this highlight in the lower areas because most animals are lighter on the underside than up top.  I finished off the details by painting the mouth a flesh color, applying diluted Speed Paints of Blood Red and Hive Dweller Purple in the mouth, letting that dry, then highlighting the teeth with some Dark Sand.  The claws I painted with Dark Warm Grey from Pro Acryl, used Hive Dweller Purple as a wash, and then highlighted with the same grey once dry.  I'm going to have to sit down and some point and just take a few hours working on one furry miniature to get a more realistic effect.  For now, I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.  I'll have to find a miniature I care about, because I just don't like most of these WizKids miniatures for some reason.  Maybe they remind me of someone who used to steal my lunch money?  [ATTACH=full]401341[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]401342[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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