Planning means not actually painting... lol...
1. Armor/bodice - a dark bronze (VMC Bronze) with a silver sheen, with a blue wash inside instead of green. See Hordes: Evolution for a recipe using red; substitute blues. Use armor colors on bracelets as well.
2. Robes/fabrics - a base of VMC Black Grey. P3 Armor Wash to darken it up and add shadows to the recesses. Lightened it back up with Black Grey, then a lighter medium grey (borrowed from brushtralls.com). Possible use this or P3 Coal Black for the cloak, and take it all lighter, perhaps with Cryx Bane Highlight, for the sleeves and skirt. Use darker for fabric behind the bodice.
3. Skin tone - basecoat 50/50 Reaper Blue Liner and Reaper Tanned Skintone, and worked up from there by adding more and more Tanned Skintone, then adding Linen White at the final. The key to this skintone is that, no matter how light the layer, there is always a trace of the Blue Liner in the Tanned/Linen mix (borrowed from the Reaper Gallery). Consider scraping this idea and just going with the standard warm healthy skin tone. Regardless, lips and eyes should match by adding a little VMC Rose Brown or other neutral red (to make either a purpley color or a natural lip color). Consider Dune-esque effect for her eyes.
4. Leathers - dark brown base, P3 Armor Wash, highlighted up with brown base, then progressive mix of P3 Trollblood highlight or Cryx Bane highlight.
5. Hair - Brown so dark that it's almost black. Highlight with dark browns. Very dark overall.
6. Stones/runes - consider turquoise, provided the balance of colors work out.
Whatcha think?
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