I focused on his face and head tonight. Did some smoothing and cleanup on the shadows, and added a first round of highlights. I also started on details - lips, eyes, eyebrows. He's not quite there yet but once I get more of the details in he'll start looking like a person.
I put in a final, purple shadow. It doesn't show well in the pictures, but it's there. I like the color shift. Now I need to go back and do cleanup and smoothing.
The skin on this guy is taking a long time, but when I'm done I'll be like 60% done with the figure, so there's that.
I realized as I was finishing up this 3rd round of shadow that I forgot about his hands again. So, I need to go back and shade the hands. I think I am going to put some purple in the shadows, too. Then I need to go back and smooth everything and bring back some of the middle shadows.
I got a second shadow in on this guy today. He needs a name. But other than that, so far so good. I'm going to do another round of shadow and then decide if it needs to go darker still. Then will be smoothing everything.
I didn't get much done tonight, just finished blocking in the first round of shadows on his skin.
I got the last couple base coats on his skin and started roughing in shading, though I didn't manage to get all the shadows in. Maybe about 3/4 of the way around. I think when I actually sit down and work on him, he'll go pretty quickly.
Got a base coat on his skin. I might need to do another layer, at least in a couple places.
I realized I needed to paint at least part of the plinth for the rocker before attaching him to it, or I'd have trouble painting parts after. So, I did that, and then glued him on. For good or ill, he's attached now, and I can start working on him in earnest.
I had to give the glue time to set, though, so I worked on Aquilla, doing a base coat on his skin. There's a joint on his raised leg that I should have done some gap filling in, but I didn't. I'm trying to fill in with some sealer, so we'll see how that goes. That trick isn't really meant for irregularities of this size.
I've been working on the arena the past few days, but it's hard to get decent pictures of. I'll try soon. Today I did get back to the bust a bit. I'm still working on the low parts that will be difficult to impossible to paint once it's attached to the plinth. I think I just need to do the speaker? amp? thing next, and it should be OK to glue him in place. I've also made some color choices. This guy is all about the drama...I think the gloves will be purple. Purple, red, black, and silver will be his colors.
Finished the guitar body. I need to make some color choices for the guitar's strap and another piece, parts of both of which need to be painted before I can put him on his plinth permanently. I meant to try to get a picture of the back, but forgot. Next time.
