Immeril, Eladrin Wizard You are a powerful spellcaster from the magical lands of the Feywild. You seek arcane knowledge and magical treasure from the ruins of Castle Ravenloft. Immeril is a favorite of ours, for when we need more power in our games. For comparison, Alissa the Ranger is the best character for fighting weak monsters because of her automatic damage to an adjacent monster. However, sometimes we experience a lot of 2 hp monsters that hit pretty hard, and then we want Immeril. His spells allow you to hit from a distance and some of his spells hit multiple targets or deal more than 1 damage. However, Immeril is easy for monsters to hit and he doesn't have a lot of endurance, so he needs to be paired with a tank character, like Arjhan or Thorgrim, who will do the exploration and take the hit when a monster appears. |
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Below are some different paint jobs for the Eladrin wizard. The leftmost figure has a Jedi-like look that I admire, with the leather tunic and earth-tone robes. But, I like the bases and color-schemes to match the card; the fireball looks nice, though. The center figure is from a painter whose pieces always look very nice, and this is no exception. Although I want a purple color scheme, this is a bit much, and the cloak blends with the tunic too much. The right-most figure is from the D&D Miniatures game and is prepainted (same sculpt), to give an idea of what a mass-produced paint job looks like. Not as bad as it could be, but the boots really should be a different brown than the leggings. I like the interpretation of metallic greaves along the arms, which is different than how the previous two artists saw the same sculpt.
I've begun basing all of my figures with a black wash, which I think makes shadowing easier since anywhere that I don't paint (or can't reach) is already black. It's scary though when I want a white color, since I'm afraid the black will show through. Fortunately, my white is pretty thick (I have to thin it down or the consistency is like toothpaste) and the black doesn't show through, except between the locks of Immeril's hair is more gray than white. After basing with a black wash, I added another base layer by painted the hair and skin white, the clothing brown, and the cloak purple (probably from the Drow skin palette, because that purple seems darker than I remember it). The plain white skin looked rather freakish (maybe ghostly?) so I based in a flesh color on hands and face to make it less disturbing. This is my flesh tone lightened with a lot of white - it looks too washed out online, and maybe too yellowish. Might have added some pink, but then later touchups become problematic because getting the right mix again is hard. You can also see that I've painted over the base purple with a much brighter tone; I was really tired of my Drow palette at this point and definitely wanted a brighter color scheme. |
- The hair is basically the same as the Drow priestess, with the black undercoat showing through the locks and white drybrushing on top. There are white eyebrows as well, but they blend into the pale skin. I'm on the fence about the skin tone, that maybe it is too light. There's definitely a washed-out appearance, but I wanted that effect to some degree. The eyes are violet, but I had a hard time getting too much or too little color. I tried adding color to the lips, but there isn't enough sculpt detail to hold the paint, so i left the lips with only a little extra color.
- I used a dark flesh tone for light leather pants, and darkened my brown for the boots. The contrast is still very good while maintaining variations on a color theme. The tunic started as light blue, but I added dark blue on top to prevent the entire figure from appearing washed out. The dark blue appears blotchy in closeups but at a distance it blends better, creating the appearance of highlights and shadows without putting real work into it.
- I borrowed the idea of metal greaves from above, deciding that I like greaves better than sleeves. I think it looks more militaristic. I used the same metallic silver for his ... apron? cumberbund? codpiece? Anyway, it's good to have protection where you need it. His little knife has a silver blade, wooden handle, and bronze hilt.
- As usual, I spent a lot of time on shadowing of the cloak. I'm not sure I'm getting enough bang for my buck here, but with a lot of these details they look better at normal scale and not closeup (remember this is a 28 mm figure, or 1" tall).
- I based the fireball with black to create dark areas, then layered with yellow, orange, and red from hot to cool. In retrospect, maybe I should have gone with a solid color and moved from white to a progressively more saturated yellow. I like red, but he looks like he's holding an Autumn centerpeice instead of a fireball.
- The base looks lavender, being a mix of purple and silver. I thought a straight purple (no pun intended), as I did for the cloak, looked too much like the Underdark series and I wanted to emphasize the difference.