Gloomhaven Circles progression
Yesterday(!) on Productivity Thursdays, I had a lengthy night with the unlockable Circles miniature from the Gloomhaven Boardgame. In the spirit of my “My Painting Process” post earlier, I took many pictures through the night. It ended up with me not having time for my normal “professional” lightbox shots, so those will come later. I will split the spoilers into two groups. If you just want to see the final results then click the second spoiler.
Lazy base coat in all purple
Adding a second color, normally I don’t do highlighting before a wash, and it turned out to be a waste of time this time, so big surprise.
Single layer of white over skin. The pinkish still shows through, because a single layer of white is not enough for coverage. I wanted to see what it would look like after a wash.
Added third color (purple-brown), and post-wash, still drying
Manually repainting skin tones
No more in-progress pictures, but it’s the starter steps that matter. I added a metallic silver to her bands, and dagger, and a orange brown for the raised bit of ground, and blacked out the base.
I then highlit raised edges manually with the base purple I started with, and then went over them with a slightly lighter purple and thinner lines.
Here is my palette around the end of the night:
I made the hand blue, in the original art she’s thrusting her hand into a portal. There’s a little triangle rune-like design I added to her hand. I added light blue highlights on edges facing towards her hand, and also edges facing towards the tip of her staff. This first pic isn’t taken well, poor-quality screens really blow it out.
Okay, here’s the final, final pics, the next day:
