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Aric-Wulf — Slave Ogres
Published: 2006-08-07 09:34:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 973; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 12
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Dark Elf slave ogres, led by a Druchii noble on Cold One with an enslaved noblar carrying his shield and lanceRelated content
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That is an awesome job! I have to ask, as a beginner Warhammer player trying his hand with ogres, how did you paint their skin so well? I must be illiterate when it comes to art instruction, because every method people explain to me always ends up ruined somehow when I try it.
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mostly it just comes from a lot of practice, any art technique is useless if you just try to apply it straight out of a book. Basically, if I remember correctly, the skin is just a blending effect with three colours. I think I started off with bronzed flesh, then blended that to elf flesh, and then to a mix of elf flesh and skull white. The trick to blending is to keep the paint really thin (watered down). That way it's more transparent, so more of the colour from the previous layer shows through. If you want to do a really smooth blend, you may even water it down so much that you have to go over the same area dozens or even hundreds of time with a colour to build up the right effect (see my Dark Angel predator, some of the green required that level). But that requires an insane level of patience more than anything else. It's also generally easier to blend dark to light, but not always. Like with my predator, I did the first three colours from black to Dark angels green. Then I painted strips around the edges in 50:50 goblin green and dark angels green, which I then blended back into the Dark Angels green using really thinned down Dark Angels green. Some colours are just harder to blend than others. Generally, don't try to get too much of a contrast to start off with, and just practice lots, you'll get better as you do.
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I really dig your painting!
But in this one there is one thing, these guys are slave ogres they need to be dirty or at least brown from the hard work in the open.
But hey that is just opinion because i really like how you did this!!
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thanks... ya, I thought about that... but they're kinda more combat slaves, and up in the land of ice and such I thought they might stay a little more dust free... a little grime wouldn't hurt though, you're right... they do have some impressive whip marks from the back though
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thanks... ya, just about anything fits in with a dark elf army, so long as you give it some lash marks and chains
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I love the gut-plates. nice idea 
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thanks... marauders eh? that could be a cool looking unit... of course not that you really need them on the battlefield when you got Witch Elves at your disposal
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yeah I know. I had them to use as a total sacrifice unit. one that I could throw away without feeling guilty. then of course, dark elves got an update so ordinary elves became cheaper to do that with 
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that's all anything is there for in my armies... otherwise we'd all just deploy 20 hellblasters and let rip
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