Feeling festive!

Quick and easy paintjob, fun after the more complex Barbarian and Witchhunter. I originally was going to have the glow coming from within the robe and lighting his skull from below, but decided that would be too distracting. In contrast to the grand mis-tradition of source lighting where trend-chasing idiots paint the normal highlights too bright and the source lighting too dark and colourful so it looks like someone's thrown food colouring over the poor bugger, I made sure to keep the skull highlights muted (one step down from the hand bone highlights) and the eyes bright.

Barbarian and Witchhunter

I painted things! Two of the better (i.e. less hideously-over-designed-by-committee-themeless-cartoon-mashup-bollox) figures from Games Workshop in recent years, and the quality of the design came out when I was painting them. Of course there's always a concept, the initial concept for the Witchhunter was "purple and copper" and for the Barbarian it was "cold-ish". Then I decided to paint them in the same colours and it was an interesting challenge working out which colours would be suitable on which bits of two differently themed figures. I made some subtle differences, i.e. the Barbarian metals have rust and verdigris and blood, the Witchhunter ones have a very faint oily wash to evoke serviced machinery. I liked the jade as a spot colour and indeed the overall result :)