12!

Finished the cleric. Wow, my count for this year is really pathetic. I'll get a few more done before January.

Cleric: Cloak, Tabard

This is actually a couple days of work, but some of it I did late enough at night I couldn't get pictures that day. Here, I've finished his cloak and tabard with all the shading and highlights. There's not actually a whole lot left for this guy. Couple days more and he'll be done. I'm heading off to Reaper's ArtistCon next week, so I probably won't get back to Freya until after that.

Cleric: Shading the Cloak

Got in a little work on this guy today. I was shading the cloak. It still needs a bit of work.

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.