Dragon's Laire Dragon's Flame Charter - Golden

[wyntersea]

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[wyntersea]

thanks:-}

gold gold gold

[wyntersea]

Figured out part of my lighting issues, while the "shadow" gold is darker it is also shinier, so when a camera flash is used it actually looks "brighter" (lighter) and without a flash (top photo) you can see the dark contrast, but it doesn't appear like aurum mosaicum either.

Re: gold gold gold

[corvideye]

Fantastic! What did you use for the gold, and what created the shadow effect?

two tone gold

[wyntersea]

Used Daler Rowney "Rich Gold" gouache - it's my go to gold for charters as the base and Dr Ph Martin's Spectralite 18 Carat Gold for the shadows (I've noticed that it goes over most existing "gold" much easier than other golds) it might have been better to have used their bronze for trompe l'oeil shadows though... looks like I've found something else to purchase in the new year...

[bend_gules]

So this is all gouache? Wow. It's very effective.

Is the calligraphy yours as well? beautifully crisp. Do you 'push' the pen to get the clubbed shape on ascenders, or do two strokes?

Calligraphy

[wyntersea]

All gouache except for the spectralite used to do the shading on the gold.

Yup on the calligraphy - for charters I use a Rotring Art pen since it's relatively standard here in An Tir for filling out charters (pre-prints) so it's easier to match up the calligraphy when filling in the blanks. The upper fifth of the 11X17 copy master has a lower case alphabet, plus each of the types of Champions written out for ease in filling in the form.

I do push the pen upwards for the b's, h's, l's and other straight ascenders. The Rotring handles this pretty well unlike a lot of sharp edged nibs that I've seen. That had to be the way the letters were formed from what I could see in details of the calligraphy.

Beautiful!

[arontius]

As Baron and Baroness, we certainly benefit hugely from your being a member of Dragon's Laire. Thank you for this. It is absolutely beautiful!

Arontius.