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Thanks!
Now I need a bit of help here.
I glazed the sigils as planned and they look kiiinda cool but I lost a bit of contrast during the process. I should probably gave gone for yellow sigils instead of blue but well, they are done blue now.

So I wondered: Should I try and give the skin parts around the sigils a very light drybrush using a bright blue color? That would make them look glowing and cover up the ugly white spots on the edges where the glaze didn't stick perhaps...

Or what would y'all do?

 

Small update without pics (please look at the post above, I am still unsure so I'd appreciate your help):
I did the hair (brown, gradient of reds turning brighter towards the tips, highlighted orange) and the hooves (also brown, also drybrushed red a bit.
I also did his belt (using the recipe from the Tzaangors and the Kairic Acolytes) and his loincloth (just the base color, which is Skeleton bone).
Also base coated the wood of the staff brown and finally primed the other staff part.

I also twitched and dropped him onto the floor ....twice.... which caused chipping in several places and also the fresh blue glaze splattered onto the bright parts such as the muscles. Dammit.... I have to correct that and hope that it doesn't look too bad.

 

@Aginor highlight the sigils with Lothern blue/white just do the top part of all the curves

 

Ok I think I'll try that.
Right now the sigils became a bit too dark.
I did a second layer of glaze to make them look better but made them darker that way. Less contrast. Your suggestions could lighten them up again I guess.

 

Yeah, I thoought the blue would look differently on white so it would stand out more. Fail.

 

Not a fail at all it just needs highlighting then when you do the muscle work deepen the shadows to nearly black and don't over highlight.

The grey and red on the hound was tied together with lots of Nuln oil washes, just build up gradually.

 

Yeah but highlighting is my arch enemy!
Ok, not THAT bad, I will have to try it here I guess, but yeah, one of my "problem zones".

I'll post some more evolved pics soon and see from there.

 

Ok here are some new pictures.

As you can see I followed the great advice y'all gave me (Or at least tried to) and the sigils look much better now. Thank you very much, @Crowsfoot and @Ritual !
I think I will keep them that way.

I also highlighted and shaded the face a bit, painted the beard and shaded the loincloth.
I also did some gold parts and basecoated the horns black.

I will next do highlights on the horns with grey, and highlight a bit more.
As you can see I gave him black hands, how would you highlight those? I was thinking about using either a drybrush with light grey over the knuckles, or perhaps with a light blue?
I'd also like to ask for suggestions for the eyes. I was thinking about green (moot green for the eyeballs and green glaze around them for a glow effect), but purple could also look rad....

 

Looking good, for the black highlight in 2 layers you can highlight into blue or green.

Blue use dark reaper and final highlight of Fenrisian grey.

Green use Incubi Darkness and final highlight of Skarsnik green.

Use this just on the knuckles etc, the eyes need to be green in my opinion.

 

Thanks again!
Orange for the eyes is tempting, because it is a color already used on the model, and you are right, it is the complementary to blue so the contrast would be cool. I think I will go for green eyes though, since that will fit the green flames I have planned for the staff.

Dark reaper is a slightly blueish dark grey, right? I don't have such a color but I might just take a bit of dark blue and mix black into it....

 

I ended up using Army Painter's Wolf Grey and darkened it a bit using black.
It looks.... ok-ish on the knuckles but otherwise I am not too happy with it.

But in the meantime I highlighted the horns by drybrushing them grey (and then again with a lighter grey, might still be too subtle but we'll see) and I painted the teeth, eyes, and a few other details.

Pics tonight, I forgot to take some yesterday.

 

Still WIP but I am getting there I think.

I wonder if I should try OSL from the green flames to the base. But then I would also have to do it on the staff itself and I fear I will ruin it if I try that.

 

Thx!

 

Looking better, now we all want to push our skills to the next level but trying OSL is a gamble not worth having atm.

Practice OSL and NMM on a test model but you really should be perfecting blending and glazing first, if you can try to download a copy or purchase.

Cool Mini or Not, The Ultimate Miniature Painting Guide.

That has everything you will ever need combine it with youtube and your laughing.