"Face o' Tentacles" - The Illuminated

"Brilliance will bring a person great joy,

but it is more than a drug. It is a substance

formed by the magic of the Hungering Darkness.

When a person first gets a taste,

his mind begins to wander

and he is left shivering with pleasure..."

Malifaux 2E Rulebook

Hey Caesurians, welcome home to The Art of Caesura!

How did the week treat you? Mine was mighty fine. Summer came to Ireland and we had two days of near 30 degree (Celcius) temperatures!! Gorgeous!

Today, we're sticking to Malifaux. After focusing on The Hungering Darkness last week, lets look at one of his buddies: The Illuminated!

Okay, I'll come clean...I actually painted this one a while ago but with the crammed schedule of Silver Tower and beer I wanted to hold off so that I could do two weeks of Malifaux in a row.

So, The Illuminated. Basically crack-fiends hooked on the drug that The Hungering Darkness spreads through Jakob Lynch. They've became so hooked that they've started to...change.

As with most Malifaux miniatures, I love how these models are so unheimlich! I tried to do the mini justice with my painjob. I liked how from the face down she looks like a relatively normal Victorian-era girl and I tried to paint her as such. Then we get to her face...

I painted her skirt with some blues mixed with silver for that satiny look, then washed the whole thing with Nuln Oil. I did the same thing for the blue trim on her corset but without the Nuln Oil.

With Huggy D last week I did his claws with increasingly strong coats of Nuln Oil, but with this fine specimen I tried something completely different. I wet-blended the pallid fleshy tones of the tenticles into her more normal human flesh, then wet-blended again down to the black at the ends. I must admit to finding this technique trickier than expected. Maybe it was because I was going for such a contrast. In the end I like the effect and think it's how I'll do my other Illuminated.

So there she be! Two more Illuminated to go, but they're both very different and I think I'll do them a bit later on.

Take 'er easy and we'll see you next time on The Art of Caesura!

Listening: Til the Water's All Long Gone - The Decemberists

Watching: Stranger Things - The Duffer Brothers

Gaming: Evolve Stage 2

Next Week:

Back to the madness of the Silver Tower...

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