Hi everyone, could anyone suggest a recipe to get that sort of black skin on my beastmen? This is the only mini I could find with such dark skin. Most of the black fur beastmen I found were really too heavy on the grey.
#Recipe for black animal skin?
vital crow
vestal atlas
On a closer inspection it dosent look black as much as it looks like a really dark blue
Like a greenish blue
Or grey…
This is a video on salamander skin which is black in color
fair hawk
Very few things that are either black or white, are actually black or white.
Most black things are some shade of darker gray. In modelling and minis this is often made a little lighter, in order to make the shadows more visible. There isn't really any way to make black darker, so to have some depth and definition on something that is supposed to be black, the only real option is to make the things that aren't supposed to be darker a little lighter instead.
So the recipe for black is: Dark gray.
How dark is your own preference, but the basic idea is that to paint something black, don't actually paint it black.