Inspired yet again by the OG Vince Venturella, this time by his painting black video, I decided to start painting these black riders with a basecoat of a near-black and shading with a black wash. If you basecoat pure black, you cant shade with a wash and get any meaningful contrast between raised surfaces and recesses.
For the left wraith I basecoated dark blue and for the right one I basecoated dark grey. Nighttime vs daytime nazgul. Something something its always sunny reference.
I plan to highlight these some more (the hoods offer some good practice edge highlighting) but even with this intro of basecoat and wash I like where these are going. Improved from just plain black primer.
While the base of the night rider looks like the body, I actually painted it dark grey and then washed it with blue tone. It seems like blue tone works so well for this that I could easily turn day wraith into a night wraith with a single blue tone coat.
#hobbystreak day 38
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