Painting HeroQuest: Episode 10 - The Druid

Steps

1. 1 Prime with a zenithal white spray from the front, then base coat the skin with Dark Fleshtone for a deep skin tone, covering the vine details on the legs and her bare back for now.
2. 2 Base coat the leaves around her waist, the leaf bikini top, and the armband with Deathworld Forest.
3. 3 Mix Eldandil Violet with black for a near-black purple and base coat the hair with it, using the purple only to add contrast rather than to read as purple.
4. 4 Base coat the staff with Peanut Butter.
5. 5 Base coat the flower in her hair with Evil Sunz Scarlet, then thin it into a glaze and brush top-to-bottom over the lower leaves in several coats to build a red gradient at the base of the skirt leaves.
6. 6 Glaze thinned Deathworld Forest bottom-to-top over the transition to smooth the blend between green and red, then base coat the rope ties holding her clothes with Buff, the leg vines and hair thorns with Skrag Brown, and the satchel with Charred Brown.
7. 7 Highlight the leaves by mixing Toxic Waste Green into Deathworld Forest and applying it to the upper portions of the waist and chest leaves in a couple of passes.
8. 8 Highlight the flower with Wild Rider Red, push a thinned highlight into the leaf tips with a little Moon Yellow mixed in for extra brightness, and highlight the leg and hair thorns by mixing yellow into the Skrag Brown base.
9. 9 Wash the leaf recesses and veins with Athonian Camoshade, wetting the area with water first to keep the wash controlled.
10. 10 Paint the eye whites with Ivory, wash all the rope ties, the hair flowers, and the entire staff with Agrax Earthshade, then fill the pupils with Decay Black.
11. 11 Paint the tiger-transformed hand with Tau Light Ochre, then highlight the staff's carved wood grain by mixing Ivory into the Peanut Butter base and tracing the sculpted grain lines.
12. 12 Highlight the hair by mixing Braineater Azure into the violet-and-black base on raised, upward-facing areas, then push it further in two more stages by adding Ivory and a touch more black to keep it from reading too purple.
13. 13 Once dry, coat the staff in Brown Ink and the hair in Black Ink, wicking off excess, then use thinned black paint to draw fine linework between fabric transitions and around the vines and ropes, and to draw stripes on the tiger hand.
14. 14 Highlight the skin by mixing Dark Fleshtone with Ungor Flesh, building it up in two more stages focused on the nose, forehead, cheekbones, chin, shoulders, and back, then glaze thinned Dark Fleshtone back in to smooth the transitions.
15. 15 Shade the tiger claw and hair ornaments with Fuegan Orange and Casandora Yellow shade, paint the claws pure black, then highlight the claw's fur with Tau Light Ochre.
16. 16 Re-highlight the flower with Evil Sunz Scarlet, mix Evil Sunz Scarlet with Ungor Flesh for the lips, paint the base with Hull Red, highlight the satchel with Charred Brown mixed with Tau Light Ochre, and optionally freehand tribal-style skin markings with Celestra Grey.

Paints used

• Agrax Earthshade (Citadel)

  Wash over all the rope ties and vines, the flowers in her hair, and the entire staff

• Athonian Camoshade (Citadel)

  Wash into the recesses and veins of the leaves

• Braineater Azure (Scale75 Scalecolor)

  Mixed into the violet-and-black hair base to highlight raised, upward-facing areas of the hair

• Buff (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Base coat for the rope ties holding her clothes on, and the tie in her hair

• Casandora Yellow (Citadel)

  Layered over the stuff/ornaments in her hair for added color variation

• Celestra Grey (Citadel)

  Freehand tribal-style skin markings (a dotted circle and swooping lines down the legs) - optional

• Charred Brown (Vallejo, Game Color)

  Base coat for the satchel; mixed with Tau Light Ochre to highlight it

• Dark Fleshtone (Vallejo, Game Color)

  Base coat for the skin; mixed with Ungor Flesh for skin highlights, and thinned as a glaze to smooth highlight transitions

• Deathworld Forest (Citadel)

  Base coat for the waist leaves, leaf bikini top, and armband; thinned as a glaze to blend the red-to-green transition; mixed with Toxic Waste Green for leaf highlights

• Decay Black (Scale75 Scalecolor)

  Fill in the eye pupils

• Eldandil Violet (Scale75 Scalecolor)

  Mixed with black for a near-black purple base coat on the hair, used only to add contrast

• Evil Sunz Scarlet (Citadel)

  Base coat for the flower in her hair; thinned as a glaze over the bottom of the skirt leaves; re-highlighted onto the flower later; mixed with Ungor Flesh for the lips

• Fuegan Orange (Citadel)

  Shade the tiger claw hand and the stuff/ornaments in her hair

• Hull Red (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Base color for the round base, matching the other hero miniatures

• Ivory (Vallejo, Model Color)

  Paint the whites of the eyes; mixed into Peanut Butter to highlight the staff's wood grain; mixed into the hair highlight

• Moon Yellow (Vallejo, Game Color)

  Mixed into the Wild Rider Red highlight on the leaf tips for extra brightness

• Peanut Butter (Scale75 Scalecolor)

  Base coat for the staff; mixed with Ivory to highlight the carved wood grain

• Skrag Brown (Citadel)

  Base coat for the vines wrapped around her legs and the bundle of thorns in her hair; mixed with yellow to highlight them

• Tau Light Ochre (Citadel)

  Paint the hand partially transformed into a tiger claw; highlight the fur on the claw; mixed with Charred Brown to highlight the satchel

• Toxic Waste Green (Scale75 Scalecolor)

  Mixed into Deathworld Forest to highlight the upper portions of the leaves

• Ungor Flesh (Citadel)

  Mixed with Dark Fleshtone to highlight the skin, and with Evil Sunz Scarlet for the lips

• Wild Rider Red (Citadel)

  Highlight the flower over the Evil Sunz Scarlet base

• Black Ink (Vallejo, Game Ink)

  Wicked-off coat over the entire hair; thinned for fine linework between fabric transitions and the vines/ropes, and for stripes on the tiger hand

• Brown Ink (Vallejo, Game Ink)

  Wicked-off coat over the entire staff for a rich wood-stain look