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So I've started a World Eaters army and I need to find a suitable red, a nice deep, darker red is what I'm after. I've experimented with purple washes over a red basecoat but I haven't quite found what I'm looking for yet.
Does anybody have any ideas for a nice red? If so, it would be great if you could show some examples!
I've been painting blood angels for years, red is a pain.
I go for the same idea, deep, dark red... not orange, not flesh colored and not pink.
I've had the best luck focusing mostly on my shadows. Keep the Model very dark, using black and blue in shadow and then you can keep your highest highlight color still around "mephiston red" and keep that nice contrast.
Use this tutorial and adapt it for your World Eaters.
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If you want a warmer, bloodier, looking red, then try messing about with red-browns added in to darken things up. Maybe even throw a hint of dark green in the deepest recesses if you want to get fancy. This guys has some of those naturalistic brown under-tones:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/215079?browseid=3710734
Personally, I find the biggest difference maker is how yellow/orange you chose to go with the highlights. This guy http://www.coolminiornot.com/312081?browseid=3710734 ha s a lot more orange in his palette than the previous two examples.
One not too hard technique I've used to avoid that orange look is to highlight with whites but then go back in with red inks to mitigate the pinkness that often results. Red can be challenging to paint.
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Look into colour theory.
The topic is broad but there are a tonne of ways to use a colour wheel to help you with colour decision.
Understanding how paint mixing works is a great step forward. Some mixes can be counterintuitive without the knowledge.
Or just try adding green to darken your reds.
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I find the "classic" painting way (basecoat everything, shade, highlight) pretty difficult to do on red, mostly because highlights tend to turn too orange or too pink.
Pre-shading/highlighting seems to be a good way to go. Start from a brown-red base, with dark shadows (almost black), and yellow highlights. Then if you airbrush very thin coats of red on top you can get nice contrasts. So far my attempts haven't been that great, but I think there's potential, and have seen people do that with great success.
I don't mind pinks anymore, but for a while I did and this is how I avoided it. Basecoat in a dark red, something like khorne red. Next shade with a very dark blue. Finally highlight with pure red.
Well the official GW dark red (from Citadel Paint App) is Khorne Red base, Carroburg Crimson shade, edge highlights with Wazdakka Red and final edge highlights with Wild Rider Red. Wild Rider Red is actually almost like orange, so maybe skip that if you don't like orange or limit it to the sharpest of edges.
I have a WE army with a dark red colour scheme, what I do is base the model with black spray paint, give the entire model a coat of watered down red (then I do all the detail colours) and finally I go over the red with nuln oil which darkens it even more. Depending on the model I might then dry brush edges on the model to make it a bit more metallic.
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Fenris-77 wrote: If you want a warmer, bloodier, looking red, then try messing about with red-browns added in to darken things up. Maybe even throw a hint of dark green in the deepest recesses if you want to get fancy. This guys has some of those naturalistic brown under-tones:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/215079?browseid=3710734
Personally, I find the biggest difference maker is how yellow/orange you chose to go with the highlights. This guy http://www.coolminiornot.com/312081?browseid=3710734 ha s a lot more orange in his palette than the previous two examples.
One not too hard technique I've used to avoid that orange look is to highlight with whites but then go back in with red inks to mitigate the pinkness that often results. Red can be challenging to paint.
A lot of good ideas here, thanks everyone, especially for the links.
I think what I'm after will require gradual transitions from a very dark brown to a dark red, with "traditional" red only as an extreme highlight. Also, I will keep experimenting with purple washes!
I think what I'm after will require gradual transitions from a very dark brown to a dark red, with "traditional" red only as an extreme highlight. Also, I will keep experimenting with purple washes!
It may seem odd, but throwing in that hint of dark green in the shadowed areas is an excellent idea from a color theory standpoint. I'm talking maybe a light to medium wash and only in the deepest shadow. It shouldn't mess with your bloodier brown-red over-all effect and it'll help tie things together. Your call, of course.
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