Overly protective of their incubating siblings,
Emberlings are caring and fierce creatures.
- Dragon Eclipse Gamefound
Hello again friends and welcome to the five hundred and first post on The Art of Caesura!
That's right, last week we celebrated the blog's 500th post, so pop back and check it out if you haven't had the chance to already!
Today, we're looking at minis from a game that has yet to have made an appearance on the blog: Dragon Eclipse.
Now, I must really take efforts to reign myself in, because I would be very liable to spin off in the direction of just gushing about this game (which I will do in a future post). Instead, today I just want to focus on the first little dragon that I've painted for the game: the Young Emberling.
Dragon Eclipse is the first Awaken Realms game that I have bought. They are a seriously heavy hitter in the board game world and are known for the high quality of all of their components (Nemesis and Tainted Grail would probably be their best known franchises). I must say, my first impressions have been excellent - the art is beautifully evocative and the quality of the miniatures are excellent. In terms of quality of components, it reminds me of Descent: Legends of the Dark.
Anyway, Dragon Eclipse is their "Pokemon" game. Of course they can't call it Pokemon - instead the creatures are called Mystlings, your character is a Tamer (not a trainer) and you go on adventures through the world using your Pokemon...sorry Mystlings to battle other Mystlings before you catch them, train them and evolve them into more power forms. Sound familiar? Happily so.
There are 2 starter Mystlings in the core box and today's miniature is one of them: the Young Emberling (think Charmander)
From a Wraithbone undercoat, I used my airbrush to spray on Bloody Red and then Gory Red on his back.
In miniature painting, when colour theory comes up we are usually talking about complimentary colour schemes (schemes that use colours on opposite ends of the colour wheel for maximum contrast and visual impact: red and green; blue and orange; purple and yellow). Today, however, I'm using a harmonious colour scheme.
In order to emphasize the heat emanating from this little guy and his fiery breath, I'm sticking to a narrow band of the colour wheel: reds oranges and a little yellow. So with the red on his back deepened a bit, I sprayed Orange Fire from below: onto his fire, belly and tale.
I then repeated this process with Gold Yellow.
We're starting to get there, but there isn't nearly enough contrast yet, so I sprayed his back with a darker red again, Red Terracotta this time.
I then grabbed my hairy brush and popped in some details: his teeth, belly and wing membranes are diluted Wraith Bone over the previous red.
I used Kimera's Cold Yellow for his eyes, and the fire coming out of his mouth. This helps create some separation between the fire and the dragon.
I dry-brushed the outer aspects of the fire with the Red Terracotta to make the inner-most bits look the hottest. Finally, I finished off his base. I wasn't a huge fan of the purple for the egg, I even started by painting it an ashy grey instead, but it didn't look great so I reverted to the colour of the official artwork.
My wife has already claimed this little guy to be her starting Mystling when we ever get to play this game. Tune in in a couple of weeks time to see who my starting Mystling will be!
See you next Friday on The Art of Caesura!
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Fire in the dark...
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