Simple Methods For Painting Horns

misterwister2000 · Post by **misterwister2000** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:38 am

I'm looking for a simple method for painting horns, the type of horns that can found on the Minotaurs and Black Orcs. I need an easy 2- or 3-step process that doesn't involves inks or blending.

Someone told me to paint the horns Snakebite Leather (GW) and then drybrush in Bleached Bone (GW). He told me this produces a decent effect without spending too much time on them.

Does anyone else use this technique? Anyone here ever heard of it? I know some of you use paints other than Citadel Colours, but I'm curious about basing and drybrushing with the two I just mentioned. Can anyone post any advice? Any pictures? I'd like to see the horns on the Chaos Minotaur and Black Orcs.

Thanks.

Orinoco · Post by **Orinoco** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:52 am

I tend to use a three stage process - paint the horns in a dark colour (bestial brown, snakebite leather or graveyard earth), then go over that with a dilute bleached bone, always painting in a line from the tip down to the base. Repeat using dilute skull white. You get a sort of striping effect, which you should be able to adjust for your own taste

Orinoco

Snorri · Post by **Snorri** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:12 am

Orinoco has the same method that I use, it's fast and looks nice( well, most of the time)

t3clis · Post by **t3clis** » Fri May 21, 2004 11:41 am

Yes, that's definitely the method I use too... but using Scorched Brown as undercoat, and striping diluted Bronzed Flesh and Bleached Bone, but this is only a matter of personal taste

juck101 · Post by **juck101** » Fri May 21, 2004 2:01 pm

not the norm but: i paint the horn black. Then paint over with rotting flesh on whole horn (nail etc) but leave a almost zero gap to edge the rim with black.
If want a realist look on a long horn now give a thin brown ink wash-then paint over with white once. Then paint a thin highlight of white as second coat.

Or if not very big-after rotting flesh paint white highlight once over most of horn are. Then highlight second time with white.

Lots of progressive white will give brighter look and more like an ivory horn would be.

furocious_fleabag · Post by **furocious_fleabag** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:34 pm

This ( all the above) is the way I used to paint my horns. But I've switched.

1 For the base I use regular white or bleached bone or a mixture.
2 Then I paint the base of the horn With watered down paint.
By layering the second stap from thin to thicker you will get a nice overlap.
3 I use brown or most of the times black ink to out-line the very base of the horn.

Try it,,, it will give you a more mean and sharpend horn.

grotemuis · Post by **grotemuis** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:46 pm

the same as flea bag, but after watering the base I put my brush in the water and stroke up. thus creating small lines on the horns

furocious_fleabag · Post by **furocious_fleabag** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:11 pm

Exactly, I forgot to mention the lining part

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:55 pm

Sounds very sinilar to the way I did my Minotaurs horns too. I started with a Bestial Brown base coat, then added a 50/50 Bestial and Bleached bone to the horn with a line stroke away from the base of the horn. I left about a 1/8th of the original Bestial Brown. The next step was to do the same with Bleached bone only, and finally highlighted with White.

Just to add a bit of definition, i watered down some Black and applyed very fine lines to the base area and tip to simulate cracking.

Snorri · Post by **Snorri** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:35 pm

Odin wrote:
Just to add a bit of definition, i watered down some Black and applyed very fine lines to the base area and tip to simulate cracking.

Thanks for the idea.