Cel Shaded Blightkings

Cel Shaded Blightkings

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    28 Nov 2025
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First try at cel shaded art style. Make sure the highlights are incredibly sharp and not gradual. The contrast is the selling point.

Armour

  1. Base coat iwithn Lipstick . This may take multiple coats, need a close to perfect base coat
  2. Sharp highlights on ~50% ish with Wicked Pink
  3. Sharp highlights on ~33% ish with 50:50 mix Fluorescent Pink : Intense Pink

Leather

  1. Base coat with Quicksand Brown
  2. Highlight with Parasite Brown
  3. Highlight with Pale Flesh

Bone

  1. Base coat with Quicksand Brown
  2. Highlight with Sun Bleached Bone
  3. Highlight with Wraithbone

Wood

  1. Base coat with Grim Brown
  2. Highlight with Grey-Brown
  3. Highlight with Grey Green

Rust

  1. Base coat with Dark Rust
  2. Highlight with Medium Rust
  3. Highlight with Light Rust

Skin

  1. Base coat in Dead Flesh
  2. Highlight with 1:1 Dead Flesh : Deep Yellow
  3. Highlight with Deep Yellow

Hanging heads etc

  1. This is very much the most WIP as I can't seem to get this looking good.
  2. Base coat with Athena Skin
  3. Highlight with Pale Sand

Green pitting

  1. Base coat with Deep Green
  2. Highlight on the bottom of each pit with AK Color Punch Slime Green

Exposed wounds

  1. Base coat with Amethyst
  2. Highlight on the bottom of each wound with Deep Purple

Black outlining

  1. Edge "highlight" all sharp edges, any recesses and then add hashing and marks with any black, I used Matt Black
AK Interactive 3rd Generation Acrylics 11
Standard 7
  • AK11016 Grey Green
  • AK11032 Pale Sand
  • AK11103 Medium Rust
  • AK11105 Light Rust
  • AK11107 Dark Rust
  • AK11112 Grim Brown
  • AK11125 Grey-Brown
Intense 4
  • AK11045 Deep Yellow
  • AK11065 Intense Pink
  • AK11074 Deep Purple
  • AK11142 Deep Green
Citadel Painting System
Base 1
  • Wraithbone
Green Stuff World
Acrylic Color 2
  • 1823 Sun Bleached Bone
  • 1834 Quicksand Brown
Monument Hobbies Pro Acryl
Fluorescent 1
  • F06 Fluorescent Pink
The Army Painter Warpaints Fanatic
Acrylic 2
  • Matt Black
  • Wicked Pink
Vallejo Game Color
Base 4
  • 72.003 Pale Flesh
  • 72.035 Dead Flesh
  • 72.042 Parasite Brown
  • 72.107 Athena Skin
Vallejo Nocturna
Imperial Purple 2
  • 74.027 Amethyst
  • 74.029 Lipstick
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