#hekatrix

[yr-hen-ogledd]

You've been tracked, you've been seen Murdering their next of kin Ate their hearts drank their blood Washed your fins in blackened mud Now you swim try to hide Heart beats faster from inside Thought it was a big charade Your life was ended by murmaids

[yr-hen-ogledd]

Damsel in distressed dress. Step-by-step for some kabalite kloth (only one K away from disaster!) is under the cut, if you fancy.

The original idea here was to give her a kind of lacy white dress, stained by the acid rain & other pollutions of Commorragh, but I needed something that wouldn’t clash with the bone armour. So I settled on a very pale teal colour, and that’s what this is.

So initially, I start with a mix of sky blue and pale grey, over which I do a layer of sky blue mixed with white, leaving a little of the darker base layer visible in recesses.

Now I start trying to make it look a little more ragged & rained-on. The next thin layer is a mix of bone white with just a smidgen of sky blue - this produces a very very pale green (that I think GW might have used to sell as Rotting Flesh). Apply that on raised sections of fabric, and then apply a loose, broken edge highlight in pure bone white. Once that’s dry, add some white to the bone/sky mix and use that as a further highlight layer, applying a very sparing edge highlight with pure white.

Almost done: mix some Lahmian Medium and the ever-useful Athonian Camoshade and apply that all over. This should leave your cloth looking suitably mouldy and weather-beaten.

The final step here is to go back in with a mix of white and bone white and apply another ragged highlight - you’re picking out the edges for sure, but also using fine, separated brush strokes on any raised (or just filled-out) bits of cloth to suggest a slightly threadbare texture.

[sup-emily]

Well.. I got her put together! #hekatrix #warhammer40k #first