Let's Paint - Wolves (RPG Mini Painting)

Last time we painted up an Earth Elemental from the Temple of Elemental Evil Board Game.  This week the board game painting continues with a trio of wolves from the Castle Ravenloft Board Game.

I continued my journey of painting miniatures with no guide by painting up these wolves.  In the weekly game I run, our party has a ranger with a wolf companion, and a druid who often wild-shapes into a wolf.  Because of this I felt that the wolves would make a great addition to the table.


I started by searching images of painted wolf minis to see what others had done, but I was unsatisfied with a lot of the solid-colored wolves.  I quickly abandoned the mini search in favor of using reference images of actual wolves.  I really wanted to capture the shift of color from dark to light in the fur.

I started with the lightest coat and slowly added darker shades near the top.  I also wanted to have one of the wolves stand out from the others and so I went back in with some black and really tried to make him look darker.  I washed with a darker brown, and highlighted with a tan.  I think these two steps really helped blend the fur together and make it look more natural.


After the dry brush, the darker wolf didn't look that different so I decided to try something else new by painting the eyes.  I started with the lighter wolves and gave each of them yellow eyes.  I decided to just darken the socket with black and place a dot of yellow in the center, instead of trying to add a pupil.



I think this turned out okay for a first attempt.  I then moved to the darker wolf and painted his eyes blue.  I wanted to go for more of a husky feel with him to make him look more tamed, like a ranger's animal companion would be.


The photos kind of wash out the wolf a bit but the blue-eyed one is noticeably darker than the others. I was really pleased with how these turned out.  They are definitely my most used, painted minis.

Over the last week I finally finished the Reaper Bones Learn to Paint Kit: Layer Up.  I definitely strayed from the guide but I am very excited to share the results with you, so look forward to that coming out next week.

Minis Used:
Wolves - Castle Ravenloft Boardgame

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