Cleric: Armor, Cloak

So, I've been having serious motivational issues for the past week or two. In an effort to solve them, I went to one of my usual go-to techniques: get something small and easy that I can paint through fast, and just get it done. I'll usually pick something in a different genre than I've been doing, too. For instance, this is an excellent time to do a mousling.

This time, I went to a modern figure so I could stick something on that brick base I did a while ago. I picked out Dionne from Hasslefree, who is totally not a vampire pulled from a mediocre vampire vs. werewolves chain of movies:

I haven't decided if I'm going to dress her all in black.

But then, today I decided I felt more like finishing projects than starting new ones, so I went back to this cleric from last month's paint day. I didn't go to Paint Day today, but perhaps with working on this figure I was there in spirit. I shaded and highlighted his armor and then put a base coat on the cloak.

Freya: Skirt, boots

Finished the base coat on her skirt and bodice. It's nice and opaque now. Also started shading the brown. Ran into some trouble there because the dark brown I chose is kinda glossy, so it looks a little weird. That'll get worked out eventually.

Freya: Skirt, Bodice

I wanted to work on her some today, but didn't want to do anything complicated. So I finished the base coat on her boots and gloves to get it good and solid, and then started the base coat on her skirt and bodice. Once again, I managed to choose a color that doesn't cover that well. I think it'll need one or two more coats to be a good opaque base.

As far as the color goes, I think it's fighting with the red hair a bit, but I'm hopeful that once the green cloak is put in place it'll help make everything play together.

Freya: Boots, Gloves, Straps

Yes, I'm back, and back to work on Freya here. I've started the 'leather bits' - some of the straps and such, along with her boots and gloves. The boots and gloves need another coat, I think, to get a good solid base coat.

I might do the shading and highlighting on the belts and strappy bits on her torso, then switch to working on the skirt and bodice before I go back to the boots. The purpose of doing that would be to get the rest of the main colors on and make sure I like them.

Freya: Highlighting Cloak

I worked on smoothing the shadows on the cloak and then highlighted. The shadows are still not that great, but the highlights are decent.

I'm going to call this done for now and move on. I may come back and work on the shadows more later, but for the moment I'm kinda sick of this piece. So, I'm going to move on.

Freya: Shading Cloak

I put some shading on her cloak. It's quite rough and needs a lot of smoothing. That's a bit disappointing as I layered in a couple middle shades of green. But, so be it.

Freya's Cloak

Tinted it to the bright green I wanted. Here's a before and after, to compare. Since I've gotten this this far, I may finish shading and highlighting it so I can get some sealer on it and put it away someplace safe until the rest of her is ready for it.

After:

Before: