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Hey all. Honestly, I am unsure if this really warrants a post but, Dakkanauts always help me a ton with my projects.

The title sorta sums it up but, basically speaking how can I capture a Dark souls/H.R Giger, Blanche or lovecraftian feel?How do people capture this feel/mood with their miniatures? Is it solely taking inspiration from refrence? Types of paint? Conversions?

I'd assume it to be a little of all. I'm looking for tips to make my army a bit more of "all those things," above. Before I get invested into a project like that, I am hoping to get your advice/suggestions concerning capturing this feeling.

Also, any ideas or cool projects you think I should look at concerning this, feel free to send them my way.

Take a look at gmm studios, he produces some wonderful work (more specifically his golden throne and utero projects)
http://www.gmmstudios.net/

The key to the Blanche look is limiting your pallette, and I imagine the same would apply to Geiger (from what I've seen, which isn't a huge amount). My start point for everything Blanchey is as follows:

Put relevant amounts of dark and light brown, grey and two colours of choice (personally I default to red and yellow) onto a wet pallette. Anything on the mini that isn't metallic gets painted using only those colours, or shades blended/mixed from those colours.

For Geiger, you would do the same, but probably using grey, black, silver and again two others of choice (I'd say dark blue and deep green if you want to mimic the classic Alien look).

Washes would be important to both (brown for Blance, black or green or blue for Geiger), as an all-over wash seals the deal with limited pallettes; pre-wash they can look a mess, but once the wash ties it all together they will look so much better.