Painting the Flames

THE SHORT VERSION

Anja paints the armour’s flat flame motifs as graphic decoration, putting brighter yellow and white at the upper edges rather than imitating a three-dimensional fire directly. Red provides the base, with orange and increasingly yellow highlights defining each tongue. The article explains that following natural fire too literally would merge dark flame edges with black armour and make the design visually unbalanced.

AT THE PAINTING DESK

Paints in this article

Every named colour below is searchable across the archive.

Mechrite Red↗Blood Red↗Blazing Orange↗Golden Yellow↗Skull White↗

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Find this article in White Dwarf 361, p. 83.

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