How to Paint IFAN - Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game

Steps

1. 1 Mix Beasty Brown into Cadmium Skin to slightly darken the tone, then base-coat all the skin — the face above the beard, hands, and elbows — with a couple of coats.
2. 2 Mix black and Beasty Brown roughly 50/50 for a near-black brown shadow color; base-coat the cape, boots, and belt with it.
3. 3 Base-coat the neck fur and the rock base with Stonewall Grey.
4. 4 Base-coat the pants, undershirt, and hair with pure black.
5. 5 Mix black and brown roughly 1:2 for the leather armor color; use it on the leather armor panels and the wrist bracers.
6. 6 Paint all the metal — the crossbow, shoulder armor plates, and the armored boot plates — with Chainmail Silver.
7. 7 Dry-brush the neck fur and the rock with Dead White to bring out the texture.
8. 8 Wash all the skin with Flesh Wash, then wash everything except the skin and cape — the leather, metal, and fur — with Black Wash.
9. 9 Build up highlights on the cape, belt, and leather boot areas by layering progressively lighter and thinner versions of the black-brown mix, adding more brown and then Stonewall Grey, each pass covering less area.
10. 10 Highlight the leather armor panels and bracers with thinned pure brown inside each armor square, brightening the edges and the areas underneath the plate armor.
11. 11 Highlight the pants and undershirt with a near-black mix of Stonewall Grey and black, following the sculpted stripe texture.
12. 12 Dry-brush a highlight over all the metal armor parts, then optionally redraw some of the panel-separation lines with Black Wash to boost the shadow.
13. 13 Paint the eyes: ivory whites from white mixed with a little Sun Yellow, black pupils, then trace the outer shape with Beasty Brown to sink the eyes in and clean up the pupils.
14. 14 Fill the recesses of the base's runes with pure white.
15. 15 Build up three passes of skin highlight — the Beasty Brown/Cadmium Skin mix, a lighter version of it, then pure Cadmium Skin — focusing on the forehead, cheekbones, nose, and fingers.
16. 16 Paint the hair with short, layered strokes of a black mixed with Magic Blue, progressively adding white over several passes to build volume and highlights, then wash the whole head with Black Wash to bring the darkness back.
17. 17 Paint the top of the base black, then heavily dry-brush black over the white runes so it only catches the raised edges, and paint the base rim black.
18. 18 Optional: selectively add Black Wash into deep shadow areas like the hair and where the hands meet the crossbow, highlight the forgotten fur tufts on the boots and sleeves with Stonewall Grey, and draw in eyebrows with pure black.
19. 19 Finish with a coat of spray varnish to protect the paint job.

Paints used

• Beasty Brown (Vallejo Game Color)

  Mixed into Cadmium Skin for the skin tone and its highlights, mixed with black for the cape/boots/belt color, mixed with more black for the leather armor, and used to trace and shape the eyes

• Black (Vallejo Game Color)

  Base coat for the pants, undershirt, and hair, mixed into the cape, leather armor, and hair colors, the base top and rim, and the pupils and eyebrows

• Black Wash (Vallejo Game Color)

  Wash over everything except the skin and cape, redrawing panel lines, over the finished hair, and selectively deepening shadows

• Cadmium Skin (Vallejo Game Color)

  Mixed with Beasty Brown for the skin base coat, and used pure for the final skin highlight

• Chainmail Silver (Vallejo Game Color)

  Base coat for the crossbow, shoulder armor plates, and armored boot plates, later dry-brushed for a highlight

• Dead White (Vallejo Game Color)

  Dry-brushed onto the neck fur and rock, fills the base runes, and mixed with a little yellow for the ivory eye whites

• Flesh Wash (Vallejo Game Color)

  Wash over all the skin to build shadow

• Magic Blue (Vallejo Game Color)

  Mixed into black for the bluish-grey hair color

• Stonewall Grey (Vallejo Game Color)

  Base coat for the neck fur and rock, mixed into the cape highlight and the pants/undershirt highlight, and used to pick out the fur tufts on the boots and sleeves

• Sun Yellow (Vallejo Game Color)

  Mixed into white for the ivory eye whites