Commission painting mushroom people

A random commission that started out as a joke. However, I got really into it and decided to base the color schemes on real mushrooms. The minis are mostly Bones with some metal, all primed white.

Common elements

Most of these are sort of low effort, with Contrast paints and drybrushes doing the heavy lifting. They have molded bases but also open spaces on the plastic base so I decided on Woodland base for them. Just paint the puddle base Cygor Brown.

Fly agaric

This is probably the best known mushroom ever, and any minis that had large warts on their hats got this color scheme. Basecoat the body Seraphim Sepia, and paint the red hat Blood Angels Red. Blackline the details Nuln Oil. Drybrush the body Off White.

That's about it for these small, non-sentient (I hope) mushrooms.

Paint the eyes Aethermatic Blue.

Paint the mushrooms infesting the back of the mushroom Gore Grunta Fur.

Mossy wood

Basecoat Wyldwood and Plaguebearer Flesh.

Drybrush Off White, along with the mushrooms.

Bring back the browns with a coat of Agrax Earthshade. Coat the smaller mushrooms Gore Grunta Fur.

Black morel & stubble rosegill

Start the morel with the same Seraphim Sepia basecoat, and coat his hat Skeleton Horde. I decided that the rosegill is paler, and painted him Nuln Oil instead. The hat is Agrax Earthshade, with Wyldwood under the rim.

I made the morel's hat browner with another layer of Skeleton Horde, then Agrax Earthshade. Details as with the fly agarics.

A new type of shroom on its back! Or whatever. Nihilakh Oxide.

Darken the rosegill's hat and move into greens with layers of Plaguebearer Flesh and Athonian Camoshade.

I wanted to keep its body pale, so I drybrushed Ghost Grey instead.

Oyster blue stocking

Now for the larger mushrooms, I decided they were pale enough to follow the rosegill way of painting the bodies. I finished them off with a white drybrush for some variety on the larger bodies.

Paint the hat Akhelian Green, then Nuln Oil, then Aethermatic Blue, until they approach the desired shade of greenish blue.

In keeping with my color palette, Aethermatic Blue eyes, Nihilakh Oxide mouth, Plaguebearer Flesh moss/hair.

Green cracking russula

Same body as above. I went for a deep green with Ork Flesh, Creed Camo, Militarum Green. Should have just used Dark Angels Green. Then paint the warts white.

Pixie cap

She is pretty and delicate, so I decided on investing more time. Paint her using shades and Contrasts on the white undercoat: Reikland Fleshshade (skin), Fuegan Orange (clothing and underside of hat), Magmadroth Flame and Gryph Hound Orange (hat), Blood Angels Red (hair).

She occupies all of her base, so  Simplified wasteland base. Feather the Cygor Brown into her dress, like she's growing out of the soil.

Then, highlights. As pale as she is, diluted White looked fine on the skin, clothes and underside of the hat. Highlight the hair by mixing white into Blood Red. Then paint eyes and female face.

Highlight the hat Elf Skintone, and paint the warts white.

Fungal queen

This one wasn't inspired by a real mushroom, but by an artwork I've seen somewhere.

Reikland Fleshshade skin, Gryph Hound Orange clothing and hair, and whatever she's standing in plus part of the hat. Creed Camo the rest.

Luxion Purple blended into Blood Angels Red on the hat.

A unifying drybrush of Heavy Goldbrown takes care of her front. This is where I learnt that drybrushing either Sun Yellow or Moon Yellow is pointless, as they are very weak and diluted. I instead did highlights after the drybrush.

I also messed up her skin completely.

Repaint her skin from scrath. I went for Light skintone but instead of Reikland Fleshshade, I used Fuegan Orange. This would blend the skin more into the orange clothing/hair.

Then paint eyes and female face.

Now, for the hat. The transition was too harsh, even after a bath of Magos Purple.

I sat around thinking what I was missing, then I realized that her front worked because the drybrush (yellow) was right in between the other colors (green and orange). Here, I had nothing in between purple and red. So I just did a unifying red drybrush.

Then went towards orange. The purple is almost gone, and the hat looks great.

Simplified wasteland base and we're done.

Finished!