Hasslefree HFA021 Dionne(b)

[Suden]

Everything looks good, but I love the trench coat.

[Pingo]

Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine blue. I use those two colours a fair bit by themselves, but I would never have thought blending the two would come out like this. Learn something new every day, and seeing how I have a dark elf on my plate next, something immediately useful.

Ooh yes, I didn't even think of that. The combination gives really organic looking colors. It would be great for inhuman dark flesh.

[Pingo]

Wait you haven't seen at least the trailer for Underworld to get the joke?

 

Wait you haven't seen at least the trailer for Underworld to get the joke?

Still one of my favourite movies. MMMmmMMmm Kate Beckinsale in latex with fangs.

Underworld is a little shallow, it actually gets better with the successive sequels, if you're into horror-themed over-the-top action. Personally I LOVE IT.

Aha, so that's what it is.

 

The name rings bells, but I'm not familiar with it, sorry. Been a pop cultural ignoramus all of my life.

[Pingo]

It's Selene! Do they have Michael as well?

Probably. Kev of Hasslefree tends to sculpt these things in sets.

 

Unfortunately, I couldn't point you to him. I "get" the NotScooby Gang and the NotBuffyTheVampireSlayer Crew, but this is one of my blind spots.

[Don Rodolfo Graziani]

Very cool.

[mustardgreens]

O_O

[Silas Coggeshall]

Wow! This looks amazing!

[smokingwreckage]

I love how your blending is a little rough but the lighting is perfect. Normally in the hobby you tend to see total, obsessive brush control and billion layer blends before you see really amazing use of light.

 

I hope neither you nor the hobby take this the wrong way :P

[Trodax]

Wow, looks cool!

[Dadcubed]

Really lovely paint job. I think you are right about the eyes though. Smaller would give a more gritty and dark look. Different look though, not better. Love you take on the eyes / face. Thanks for sharing :)

[Simon]

The coat and catsuit look awesome! :) Amazing light effects on both.

I'm a small-eyes guy myself, though. ;)

Edited April 18, 2013 by Simon

[smokingwreckage]

Wait. Dionne. Selene. NYARGHHHHH

[Pingo]

I love how your blending is a little rough but the lighting is perfect. Normally in the hobby you tend to see total, obsessive brush control and billion layer blends before you see really amazing use of light.

 

I hope neither you nor the hobby take this the wrong way :P

Thank you. I wonder if the lighting thing is my coming in with a background in the fine arts.

 

I'm interested in the way light and color play over forms, but I haven't been really obsessive about smooth paint blends.

 

I look at some of the incredibly smooth work of some of these artists and an just awed by their skills on such a minuscule scale.

[Adrift]

Overall looking good Pingo!

 

For the skin, she looks a bit warm to me. I'm comparing her skin to a Bones vampiress at the show that I saw a guy paint and he really nailed the pale, cool, vampire skin to perfection IMO.

 

It looks like you lined her face with tan, or possibly used a watered down tan as the basecoat. I think a shade of blue or even a lighter purple (perhaps even violet) would have helped you add layers that would have consistently pulled out the cooler tones of paint underneath. She might have also benefitted from using a dark blue or purple to line between her hair and her face for the shadowy effect.

[Jordan Peacock]

Wow. I really love those highlights -- especially the hair!