Mary: Experimenting. Urbicus: Shading Skin

So I decided to try a different direction with Mary and see about replicating a brocade look from a picture I found. I re-based her bodice and went over some of the texture with other colors. It's terrible!

So I decided to set her aside and think about it for a bit while I switched to Urbicus.

On Urbicus, I did the next round of shadow on his skin.

I'm probably not going to go much darker. Maybe one last darker shade for lining and in the deepest shadow areas, but the use would be very limited.

Mary: Base colors

I added some base coat colors on other parts of Mary. I wanted to get a sense for how it was all going to go together before getting in to shading and highlighting. For now, at least, I'm happy with the results. I'll probably go back to shade and highlight next.

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Finished up Cassie today:

With her done, I moved on to a first layer of shading on Urbicus:

Cassie: Clothes, Leather, Bits

Continued on Cassie - shaded and highlighted the green bits, and base coated the leather. My first instinct was to go with a dark brown. I decided not to since there's already a lot of dark on the piece. I'm not sure about the medium brown, but I'm going with it.

Cassie: Clothing

It has been a little while. I was traveling over the weekend to a class with Banshee on color theory. That's going to take some time and effort to digest.

I worked some on Cassie - some of this was last week, but I wasn't able to get pictures up at the time.

Cassie: Skin, Face

Today I finished Cassie's skin and her face, including eyes and lips.

I'm thinking red hair with green and purple for the robes. Maybe gold as an accent color.

New Projects: Urbicus, Cassie, Mary Read Bust

Most of last week I worked on prepping my next round of projects. Here they are, finally ready to go.

This is Urbicus, my next Arena Rex gladiator. I think he should be pretty quick to finish. There's not a lot of fiddly bits to him.

This is Cassie. She's next in the 'quick and for gaming' set.

And lastly, a Mary Read bust from Scale 75. I want to keep working through my large scale stuff as well. I went with a darker, redder skin tone on her because...well, she's a pirate. She's on deck all day. I want to give her a more suntanned/burned look to reflect that she'd be out in the sun a lot. I think this might be too pink, but hey, it'll be a fun experiment.