I thought it might be interesting to show the thought process (random crap) that goes through my head when trying to pick a colour scheme for a miniature I'm painting. Plus if I start on this path I'll have people nagging me to actually fecking paint something!!!
Where to start?
You see back in the good olde days before the internet I used to like looking at a miniature uncluttered by the influence of other people's paint jobs... well that's well and truly out of the window nowadays. So the process goes something like this:
- Look at studio paint job and worry I can't do better (I know I can't)
- Paralysis and nagging self dou... erm no I pick the aspects of it I like, tone, colour, theme neat touches
- I then try and see if I could change the palette or if I just want to bloody copy it!!!
- If I want to change it I start looking for source material
For the Aleph lets be brutally honest the art work is pretty damn striking, but what I actually Liked about Angel Giraldez's paint job was the almost monochrome tone of them and the neon pink/purple lines:
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