"Pariah's Soul" - Leveticus

And he that killeth a beast,

he shall restore it;

and he that killeth a man 

shall be put to death

~ Leviticus 24:21

Happy Friday here on The Art of Caesura!

Welcome to another Malifaux themed week, our last for a little while. It's a bit of a special one today, the boss of the box: Leveticus!

Before I started painting this miniature I was already getting excited about it. I knew I was going to have fun splattering his lab coat with blood, gore and other unidentifiable smudges. This was indeed fun, and was achieved by flicking Blood for the Blood God and Seraphim Sepia from the bristles of a stippling brush close to the finished model. It's always a tense moment, because you have the finished model before you looking quite clean and neat and you don't know where exactly the drops are going to fly. I once had a little drop of Blood for the Blood God zoom into the eye of a model which I had painstakingly painted an iris and pupil! 

I also knew that I wanted to paint his hair "Bride of Frankenstein" style (with the pepper on top and salt at the sides). I'm happy with how that turned out. I think it looks better than the "all white hair" of the box art. 

There was a lot of white on this miniature. I like to approach white in a couple different ways depending on the tone of the model. For "good" characters (tabards of knights or my Black Templars come to mind) I like to work up from a beige base (Ushabti bone or the like), while for evil characters I work up from colder greys or blues. For Levi here, I worked up from a base of The Fang and used a very fine controlled wash of diluted Drakenhoff Nightshade into the recesses of his lab coat.

Incidentally, these are the first pictures of minis that I have took in our new house (I've had some photos stocked up to tide us over the moving period these past few weeks). I'm happy that I've managed to get my dark, moody lighting to look fairly similar.

Thanks for joining me over the past 5 weeks of this Malifaux focus on The Art of Caesura. 


Reading: All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Watching: Sense8 Season 2 - The Wachowskis


Next Week:

A glance behind the curtain...