CashWiley Posted October 24, 2015 Author Share Posted October 24, 2015 Some more work on the flesh highlights then decided to do the hair and weapon... Apologies for the blurry pics, I was in a rush to finish up the (short) session today. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator OneBoot Posted October 24, 2015 Moderator Share Posted October 24, 2015 His skin looks very nice indeed! I love how you're experimenting with different techniques, it's cool to see a new process. I think his abs and upper arms look the best (at least in the picture); abs especially, since just a few posts ago (before you started the legs) I was thinking to myself "It looks good so far, but the abs look really rough." And then your next paint session happened, and BAM! They suddenly looked amazing! :) Keep being awesome! Huzzah! --OneBoot :D 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 24, 2015 Author Share Posted October 24, 2015 I was thinking to myself "It looks good so far, but the abs look really rough." And then your next paint session happened, and BAM! They suddenly looked amazing!Well, thanks for your kind words. I'm really enjoying this one, but he's far short of what I was hoping for. The main change was that I went back over the shadows with both glazes of the 4 colors I'd used thus far and also made 3 intermediate glazes from those 4 colors to smooth things further. Currently my choice seems to be take a looong time to get smooth blends or quit my job and paint as many minis as Jessica Rich. Since the latter isn't an option, either I take even longer than I do now or I learn to live with crappy blending. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 24, 2015 Author Share Posted October 24, 2015 Another really quick session today, took a while to get going. I did manage to transfer my P3 Coal Black to a dropper bottle, though! I did a glaze of a yellow green on the cloth and then roughed in some shadows. Like....really rough, so I called it a day before I really messed anything up! But it does give the feel of what I'm going for, especially the front parts. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 You know the drill, another short session. We're getting there, though! This session focused on the cloth again, deepening the rough shadows and then using glazes to smooth things out and then highlight upwards. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corporea Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I'm all caught up now! Great skin!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 I'm all caught up now! Great skin!!You went all OneBoot with the like-bombing! Thanks, I really feel like I should spend more time refining it...but it's gaming plastic and I'd like to paint another miniature this year... The silliest part of the whole thing is that I'll be getting the resin version of this guy at some point, hah. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corporea Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I got my resin survivors and I have to admit, they're nicer. I'm with ya- I may just do some quick painty painty and then use the resins to do a nicer version. besides, I'm just going to drop the plastic ones a lot anyway... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 30, 2015 Author Share Posted October 30, 2015 Started off tonight's session by finishing up the skirt with some glazes and highlights. Then I did the lamp and the base. Yep, that's a bad phone pic of the finished paint job. Won't be able to do a proper pic until I get out of this cast and can finish the project in my den that I began before I broke my toe. Photo setup is in there, though I may have to make another temp setup before then... 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3r_n3rd Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Looks amazing! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 Gracias, mi amigo! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pochi Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 He looks so good! I love the skin tones and the cloth is a nice color that complements without drawing too much attention. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 Thanks! I can't take credit for the cloth, I used a variant of Scott Hockley's recipe - variant because I don't use the same brands of paint, the only paint we both used was P3 Coal Black. The skin tone was more or less the same as I used on RBG Rollo last winter, with a couple tweaks. Of course, I'm no Scott Hockley! I should've stole his skin tones, since he's the master. But it's too hard to try to recreate all those brand differences, so I'm just trying to expand stuff I've developed. This particular recipe is based on a couple paintings by Boris Vallejo, and very much a work in progress. Anyway, the cloth is basically Alien Flesh (my sub for his ubiquitous Deck Tan) shaded with Coal Black and tinted with glazes of Camo Green. Highlights mixed in my newest paint, VGC Ivory (I blame Ben Komets...but it is a nice off-white!) and I deepened the shadows with my new 'Corporea Black' variant, mixing Walnut Brown into the P3 Coal Black. I looooove that color, it desaturates it and shifts it warmer as Coal Black is a turquoise vs the more primary blue of traditional Corporea Black (sapphire blue? drawing a blank and not near my recipe book). Liked it so much my wee bit of nmm on the lamp is just that new 'black' - coal black - mixing in alien flesh - mixing in ivory. Little touches like that, keeping the palette restricted, help keep the piece cohesive. I'm also lazy, so it's stuff that's right there on the palette... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashWiley Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 Zach heads over to Show Off! Hope you folks dig it. Took a long time, but man was it a fun project! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsterdoom Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Great work on the skin tone and the cloth. Plenty of photos here to scrutinise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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