Leviathan Carapace

Thin coat of dark plum to help set the shadow tone

Game color black is pretty thin already so not a lot of need to dilute much.

The main focus here is to get in to the recesses to further darken the shade areas

This is really the first step in building up the true colour for the carapace.

Try to avoid getting too far in to the recesses but if you have thinned the paint properly, it won't matter

Try to cover a little less of the areas than with previous step as we start to build the volumes

Starting to build the volumes more...notice how the shoulder and upper carapace areas have more of the lighter shade

Quite a big jump in hue here, however there are still a lot of steps to go.

This step is here to bring up the saturation of the colours as we will be using greyer purples later as well as white

Foundation for the edge highlights and feathering.

Only apply to edge areas and always end yours stroke where you want the colour the brightest

Covering less area, start to define the edges of the carapace

Mostly just an edge highlight, trying to keep within the lines of the previous step, covering less again

The edgiest of edge highlights...make the carapace definition stand out

Just a few flecks and dots at the highest point of the highlight, very quick step

Bringing back in to the shadows. Very thin coat / glazing....starting from highlight edge and drawing back to carapace panel joins

May need to do several passed to build enough back in to the shadow

Another very thin coat / glaze to restore some saturation and vibrancy to the carapace.

This time starting from the shadow area and bringing back to the edge highlight

...paints not actually mixed...the final step is a bit of back and forth stipple glazing and edge highlighting to make sure the details pop as much as possible.

So the naggaroth night is used as a stipple glaze to smooth out any transitions that are still a bit too rough whilst the slaanesh grey and bone white are used solo or mixed to finalise the edge highlights