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If someone could please educate me on how to paint the Seals and Parchments that are usually on most SM, I would be very appreciative. I just recently painted a Librarian, but the white pages for his book and parchment don't quite look right. I used the color bleached bone to paint his tunic so I really cant reuse it for the parchment. Any tips or different ideas on other colors to pick up for this very use?


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You really need the distinction between parchment and bone on Chaplains, so plan ahead! Give your white a sepia wash and it'll do wonders - I usually use Dheneb Stone but wash it down it more so it ends up darker than the bleached/yellow-to-white bone which is starker by contrast. Many people do it the other way around. I think it makes sense for parchment to be far more yellowed.

take a teabag and soak it, either use the stained water as a wash or use the teabag as a stain. its actually a great way to antique paper. Its a little trick i use when designing and want to achieve that look.

I'm sure if you figure out a good way to either concentrate the stain for a wash or whatever, it would work better than anything and would be perfect to create a distinction between the tunic and parchment

Bleach bone as a base, hit it with Dev mud, clean it up with more bone, then highlight with Dheneb stone

Thank you for the advice. I am heading out to get me the washes and even some tea bags! Thank you again!

I will throw another vote towards the Dev Mud. That is what I used on my Chaplain. Bleached Bone & black wash for bone, and white & Mud for parchment.

I am wondering where it is written that because you painted the robe bleached bone,you cant paint the paper bleached bone?

Take a look at this guy;



The skull mask and parchment were all painted with the same color, Valllejo Ivory. Then on the parchment I simply used washes of varied brown and yellow shades to give the paper the effect I wanted. The text was done with light brown, Vallejo Beige Brown, this helped to minimize the contrast.

Ashton