Seeking coloring advice from all you artists and aesthetically-minded people...

[EireWolf]

I sculpted a small unicorn head -- not just any unicorn but an angry, dangerous unicorn. So I don't want to paint it the same old unicorn-white. I want something very different from normal horse-colors. And I don't want to paint it just one solid color, either. Oh, and it's to be mounted on a glass rod in a block of soapstone (which is light gray and white with a bit of a greenish cast -- looks kinda' marble-y).

So... any cool ideas? If I use your idea, the winner will get to... uh... see his/her cool suggestion painted on my unicorn!

[Link Antilles]

Ah, what the heck, just doing this for fun...

So, angry, dangerous unicorn? Cool. Hmmm.... random ideas.... maybe like solid red with black fang like stripes or brown with black stripes. Or instead of a fang like stripe, maybe kind of a wavy triangular shaped stripe. Maybe that gave ya' an idea.

[shooraijin]

I was thinking a deep silver grey, with possibly lighter or more iridescent grey as an accent. If you added some iridescent quality to it, it would have to probably be some shade of red to communicate the right feel of "danger."

[Kovyn Alander]

Hmm, this sounds interesting. I'll take a whack at it. Hmmm, lets see...usually if I want something to stand out in color I go opposite the color on a color wheel. Green is opposite red, red sounds good, but dark red. A maroonish brown sounds good. Being that the soapstone is dark/light grey, the colors so far look good to me. You could use a black fading effect on the nose and as it gets farther up the nose to the head make it spotted. Spots can start big and eventually get small and fade into the maroonish brown color. Well, that was quite a bit. Hopefully not too much? Hehe.

[EireWolf]

Oooh! Good ideas, everyone. Thanks!

I still haven't decided exactly, and I'm still open to more suggestions, but I may end up incorporating all of these together somehow...

It's funny, I was actually thinking of doing something reddish. Like some kind of red roan, with a twist... I like the fading spots idea. You guys have given me something to think about!

I'll definitely post a pic of it when it's done.

[Kovyn Alander]

Glad to help out, hehe. *waits for pic of finished product*

[EireWolf]

Here he is. I submitted him to the student art show, and should know next week if it got accepted. I'll also post a pic of the mouse faery that I repainted and entered in the contest along with the unicorn.

Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions! ^_^ You did help me decide on the colors, even if I didn't exactly follow your suggestion.

[JediSonic]

Cool111!1one!!1 :lol;

[Archan]

Eire Wolf

Hi, long time no reply. But I just had to see some good sculpting and whammo, here I am. I really like the bust you did of the unicorn. and i like the colors, so kuddos to you there. Tell me though, the gloss, is that from glazing or is it the paint? Just curious, either way it looks good.

I also like the mousy you did, cute little fellow. your sculptures do rock. Have you considered doing a full body sculpt of the unicorn?

God bless,
Archan