Objective Markers WiP

To ink or not to ink?

 

I figured for the next couple of things I'd try some more inking techniques, and see what ink does work with and what it doesn't work with.

 

The green and browns were winners, straight from the bat they worked well, and sunk into recesses. The red however did not. Like painting, a single coating of red seems weak and allows the grey to poke through to easily. I'm going to see if additional layers of washes, both red and maybe a few minor browns makes a difference to the red...

 

Pro's of using inks:

-Time. Very quick to coat an entire miniature.

-Looks good as flesh. Flesh has all these natural recesses, and the inks show them really well on a miniature.

-Thin. If you're like me and paint many layers of something using an ink for a really thin basecoat is ideal.

 

Con's of using inks:

-Messy! The ink seems to get everywhere...

-Drying time. Much longer than a GW wash.

-Contamination. It's very easy to contaminate an ink with another color if you don't let it totally dry. Even using the same color as the potential to 'wipe' away the first coat unless it's totally dry.

 

The next step is painting over the inks... which will be happening tomorrow. I got smacked around a little at Kendo last night and I'm sore... :(

Done