Hello and welcome to the next tutorial about painting Adrax Agatone.

As you already know today I will present to you how I painted his back.
Of course the first thing I did was placing the miniature on the screeen of my
smarphone presenting google earlier image of red color.
Thanks to that I had a very good reference on where to paint light coming from Lava.

Vallejo:
Black

Vallejo:
White

In the first step, of course, I marked all the places where the light
coming from my smartphone reflected on the miniature.
I had to make around 3 thin layers of white paint in order to do that.
You don’t have to create a very homogenic layer of white paint in
this step because the last color is going to be red and it’s not a
super bright color. However, of course you can’t also leave any
black lines coming through white paint because the next layers of
paint might not cover it fully.

Polycolor:
Deep Yellow
or Vallejo
Deep Yellow
or any other
basic Yellow

Polycolor:
Vermilion or
Andrea Red
Paint Set:
3rd Light

I assume that you already know this step very well. First I painted the
white areas with yellow paint (one layer of paint was enough) and
then I painted them with Vermilion paint.
If you have problems with your yellow paint, visit your local art shop
and ask for a yellow acrylic paint from a very good brand.
Paints made for ‘real’ painters usually have more pigment than the
ones made for miniatures. The same thing goes for Vermilion paint,
which I saw only in Adrea Red Paint Set and nowhere else.

Vallejo:
White

Vallejo:
Nautral
Grey

Vallejo:
Black Grey

Now, once I’ve prepared the places where the lava light is reflecting,
I prepared the space for regular reflections on the armor and the
weapon.
For this step, as reference, I recommand using a different photo
than the one in the beginning of this tutorial.
The light coming from my desk lamps reflected in different places
than in the first photos. Anyway, I still had to mark the reflections on
the cloak and for that I used Black Grey as the base and Neutral
Grey for reflections. As you can see, I used Neutal Grey on the steel
elements of the weapon and also on the sphere on the foot.

Vallejo:
Military Green

Deep Yellow

Mix no 1:
Military Green
50% + Deep
Yellow 50%

Vallejo:
Ochre Brown

Vallejo:
Yellow Ochre

This time I decided to check out how the armor will look like if I skip the
step where I apply yellow paint on the armor.
What you can see right now is the first, thin layer of mix no 1. Mix no 2.
As you can see, this paint on the white basecolor looks almost like Ochre Brown
yellow. 85% + Black
15%
Other then that, I started working on brass elements on the weapon.
For the darker parts I used mixture no 2 and these bright, yellow
reflections are painted with pure Ochre Brown and highlighted with
Yellow Ochre in the middle.

Vallejo: Flat Mix no 1:

Brown Military Green
50% + Deep
Yellow 50%

Mix no 3:
Military Green
70% + Deep
Yellow 30%

Vallejo: Blue
Grey Pale

Mix no 4.
Flat Brown
80% + Ver-
milion 20%

Now, you can see how the armor looks like after applying many
layers of mixture no 1 and then mix no 3 on it’s sides.
The difference between this color and the color that I achieve when Vallejo:
I have a yellow basecolor is small but significant. I think that I won’t Ochre Brown
skip the yellow basecolor step anymore.
Now, as you can see, I made the final highlights on the cloak using
Mix no 5.:
Blue Grey Pale color. I used it also to highlight the reflection on the Mix no 4 50%
sphere. + Ochre
Other than that, I finally prepared the golden elements on the armor. Brown 50%
As I said many times before, it’s pretty hard to work with brass and
gold on the same miniature, because they are both yellow metals.
Because of that, I’m going to paint my gold in warm tones and make Vallejo:
Yellow Ochre
it more reflective. While at the same time brass will stay greenish in
the shaded areas and more matt.
That’s why, as you can see, the base for it is mixture no 4, then hi- Mix no 6.
ghlighted with mix no 5, next going into pure Yellow Ochre. The last White 80% +
and the most important color is mixture no 6, which is supposed to Ochre Brown
cover the biggest areas of golden elements and create this magical 20%
golden reflection that we all love ;)

Vallejo:
Military Green

Deep Yellow

Mix no 1:
Military Green
50% + Deep
Yellow 50%

Mix no 3:
Military Green
70% + Deep
Yellow 30%

Now, I finally started working on the blendings. I always show you

how I blend layer by layer starting with the darkest one, so this time I
decided to show you the progress color after color.
The first layers I blended on the armor were the green ones.
For that, like always, I used just the tip of my Winsor&Newton series
7 size 1 brush.
I gently painted with the color from the brighter layer over the darker
layer in the place where they both meet. You can see this process in
each of my videos.
After I finished blending, I decided that I will never again skip the
yellow basecolor step :D

Now let’s go to the next part of the tutorial and see the progress on more details.