Uthuk berserkers scorn anything  that might slow their headlong charge  into the fray. - Fantasy Flight Games Hi everyone, it's time for another post of The Art of Caesura! If you haven't had a chance to already, check out last week's post where we looked at the painting process for these berserkers. Today we'll take a look at some better shots of the completed miniatures.    From the official artwork below, you can see that I was heavily influenced in my colour choices. I think the red rags suit the savage and rage-fuelled berserker well.  As in the artwork, I kept my skintone especially light to provide enough tonal variety against the light bones and strange horny growths.  One casuality of my adherance to the artwork is that I brought my skin highlights up even brighter on the face to draw the eye to that area, but this did not leave enough range to paint on the white war paint on the forehead in the artwork. I tried it once, but it just looked like an ...

Touched by the demonic darkness of the Ru and frothing with murderous frenzy,  Uthuk berserkers have forsaken drill  and formation as well as armor and shield. - Fantasy Flight Games Before these recent exciting birthdays ( my daughter's , and the blog's ), I had started to paint some of the very awesome miniatures from Descent: Legends of the Dark. Today, we're looking at the Berserkers! Because models do not necessarily appear on the blog in the order that I paint them, I am starting to lose track of exactly when I painted these guys. It was a couple of months ago anyway, and I believe they were the last miniatures that I painted with my old airbrush. That being said, I only zenithalled them with the airbrush (bringing them up to the level seen above) before pulling out the hairy brush.  In the official artwork, these guys are illustrated with pallid skin, to stick to that I mixed Contrast Guilliman Flesh with Contrast Medium.  I then painted all of the bone elemen...

Howdy, howdy, howdy! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Last week we looked at how I painted this amazing model (using both my new airbrush and also a standard hairy brush). Today, we will admire the Satyr in all its dark glory.  Something that I kept in mind while I was painting this model was the idea of focal points. With his large, busy staff, it would be quite easy for that to draw attention away from his face (where I wanted the gaze to initially land). To counter that, I painted all elements of his staff in neutral tones, while painting the Satyr's face and skin using saturated hues.  On the topic of focal points, something that is a bit bothersome from the photos, is that the glowing rune on the ground appears extremely prominent. It doesn't appear quite so bright "in real life", but also when you hold the model up to your eye-line (a vantage that I failed to take a picture of for this page) the angle of the stone actually completely hides the rune. This is c...

My men like satyrs grazing the lawns, shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay. - Christopher Marlowe   Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Hello readers all, welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Last week , we interrupted our regularly scheduled content with the very exciting news of the birth of my third daughter! This week we are heading back to The Deepwood for a closer look at the model that had the very distinguished honour of being the blog's 8th birthday present .  True to form for the models that are chosen for the blog's birthday models, this monster is MONSTROUS! As you can see in the picture above, this guy is huge - about the same size as my hand! It is also the first model that I painted using my new airbrush (Ultra by Harder & Steenbeck).  Comparing the above two pictures gives a good idea of how much volume a zenithal highlight adds from the original grey plastic.  With a nice basecoat, bringing out all the details of the model, I started in w...