Thanks again for the feedback everyone. Definitely need to work on getting some better photos up. I've been using a little light box, but am still having troubles. Best tips for background colors? I feel like I see white used most often, but have found arguments online that this washes out the color. Also any advise on camera settings? My camera (it's a pretty old Cannon) has a micro and super micro mode - but these won't let you zoom so you have to get crazy close to the mini. The normal setting just makes everything appear really grainy when I zoom close enough to see any detail. THoughts?
Thanks Sekiyama! What colors are you thinking of using? I use the Reaper Paint Triad colors but add two additional highlight colors for a total of 5 layers for pretty much each color (if it's really small detail I'll just stick to 3). To get everything to a similar tone, I used their Dusky Skin triad as an additive for all other colors including the more natural skin tones and hair colors. I started with a ration of 1:1 bright color:Dusky Skin color, but upped this to 4:1 for the human...er, non-Sorrow skin (Sorrows' skin is straight Dusky Skin to give you an idea of that color on its own). Using this, my red formulas looked like
1:1 Dusky Skin Shadow:Bloodstain Red
1:1 Dusky Skin:Clotted Red
1:1 Dusky Skin Highlight:Carnage Red
1:2 Dusky Skin Highlight:Carnage Red
1:3 Dusky Skin Highlight:Carnage Red
Other than that, it's just watering down your paint and doing multiple layers. I always use a black primer, so that probably keeps everything a little downed down. The final step for these (and all my minis) is a few layers of satin varnish thinned with water (usually a 2:1 or 1:1 mix varnish to water). I then put down washes over a majority of the minis with an emphasis on the small details and deep recesses. The wash color is a 1:1 mix of the darkest color used in an area (so Bloodstain Red in the example above) and black.