Topic: How to paint text?

[Max Stahlgart]

Well, i got this swordsman regiment, and some of them has small scrolls, and i was wondering, what is the best way to paint text on the scrolls?

Is there any website where i can print out text and glue it on? if so, please Link it to me.

Or do you write it with an ordinary pencil? or just paint it with chaos black and small detail brush?

Grateful for a swift response

[Immovable Object]

Watered down chaos black, a fine brush and a steady hand Im afraid.

[Finlay]

Can't you buy little pens which are great for this? Soth uses them, iirc

[commandant]

a very fine nibbed fountain pen works well, also a steady hand

[Obi]

Can't you buy little pens which are great for this? Soth uses them, iirc

I think so too. It's what do anyway- a small felt-tip ([edit]MICRON, thanks delthos![/edit])(or whatever it's called), the kind of stuff you write on CDs with, only really small. It does take practice though!

[Delthos]

While the black micro pens, (Micron and Sakura are brands that I've used), work I don't like then as their colors are just too intense and for me they don't look good on the scrolls or book pages. I prefer to just paint them on with a brush, but instead of black I use a mix of gray, brown, and black, and it's also watered down. It gives a much more realistic look to the text and it fits the scale of the scrolls and books better.

[smaug123uk]

try using the pens that are for draughting - very fine nib

if you are not confident in that try using smallest font on word and printing it out

[White Knight]

I have a sepia colour version of the pen which works well.

[LochNESS]

Watered down Chaos Black, and if you think that's too harsh colour (on some backgrounds the contrast can get too big IMO), you can add a little bit of scorched brown in it. Then paint small moving lines (something like this, but then smaller of course: ~~~~~ ).

Painting full text on a scoll is a waste of time as almost none will see them. Maybe a first letter of the text (the so called miniatures) can be painted on but next to that just wobbely lines to give the impression of written text.

And as will all painting: practice makes perfect. So don't expect Golden Deamon winning results the first time, but the more you paint and try, the better you will become.

[Delthos]

Watered down Chaos Black, and if you think that's too harsh colour (on some backgrounds the contrast can get too big IMO), you can add a little bit of scorched brown in it. Then paint small moving lines (something like this, but then smaller of course: ~~~~~ ).

This is good advice, but you should also have occasional small vertical squiggles, which go above and below your lines of squiggles. I find a line of just squiggly lines on the horizontal look like horizontal squiggly lines. Adding the assendors and decendors, puttting occasional breaks in the squiggly lines and not making your pages solid filled with perfect blocks of text, helps to make it look more like real text.