Inspiration

So when planing on what I wanted my blood angles army to look like I started talking with lots of people. Someone suggested doing a demon themed army, which I think would look pretty cool for blood angles. However, I don't want it to look like Chaos demons, so I started looking for inspiration. I decided the way I'd like to do it is using lava demons as my primary theme. So lots of hot lava with guys basically made out of molten lava. I want to make a bunch of scaly guys made out of lava but avoid making them look rocky like "The Thing" from the fantastic 4.



So with that in mind I set out to start looking for inspiration. After google imaging lots of different lava flows this is basically what I want to take my inspiration from: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.southwestbirders.com/Hawaii_2002/lava%2520flow%2520i.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.southwestbirders.com/hawaii.htm&usg=__tEcTOmIoNInQp52jbRBPFE3WunM=&h=569&w=450&sz=54&hl=en&start=9&sig2=8N_pqY_hpKvnwdzHsuNixw&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=PykgK2VsWo0h4M:&tbnh=134&tbnw=106&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlava%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2GZAZ_enUS372%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=cGa3S-HXOYKWNa_-0OEL



So there is my color pallet. Deep yellows, lots of orange to a glowing red and finally red-black where it cools off. I want to keep my lava to the hot end, so I'll be shifting it slightly to the orange-yellow. So with that in mind it's off to look at how other people paint their lava to get some painting ideas.



The first place I found was this. If you stopped at step 4 that's basically the effect I am looking for for, still molten but not quite crusty. So they go from yellow to back through orange and red with white highlights. Not bad but lots of wet blending involved. I haven't ever really wet blended before so now I'm starting to get scared.



So more research, more wet blending required. This is starting to look like a daunting project, maybe I should give up? But then I found this. PERFECT! This is exactly what I want the guys in my army to look like. This is going to require some insanity to get through, but damn if I could do an entire army like that just imagine how amazing it would look.



On to some test runs.