Diesel DM

Shading and highlights on the rocks

Finished up the shading and highlighting on the Mountain King’s rocks. I initially followed the Gargantuan’s guide, but found that the highlights were not bright enough, so I went back and dry brushed in a three additional layers of highlights.  Over all I’m not thrilled with how the rocks came out.  In reality there are to many faces and angles to the different rock spikes I could spend a month highlighting and shading them.  I think starting a shade darker may have helped, or maybe try washing in some of the shades into the recesses.

Cleaned up the skin base coat

Once the rocks were done I quickly went back in with Trollblood Base and cleaned up the parts of the skin that had gotten splattered from the rock texturing.  As I was doing it I realized that the splatter technique would work really well for Trollblood skin as well.  Probably want to choose different colors than from the rocks, but maybe do a purple or magenta for a darker splatter and maybe a Frostbite for a lighter splatter.  Though the rock colored splatter was also interesting.  But in the end I decided to stick with the original plan of regular smooth colored skin.

120mm Slate Wastes base from Dragon Forge

And lastly, my base has arrived.  A 120mm base from Dragon Forge, it will match the Slate Wastes base I used for eDoomie and that I plan to use for all my casters.