"Headlong Charge" - Descent: Legends of the Dark - Berserkers - Part 2

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 especially poorly placed highlight, so I just repainted it.  

And then there were four...

We're already getting a bit of a palate-cleanser after all of the Black Templars that featured so prominently on the blog last year. 

Watching: Slow Horses

Reading: The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday

Next Week:

The head honcho himself...