Angel: Staff, Wings

I'm not that thrilled with the staff, but I don't hate it enough to redo it, either. Really, this piece is just in 'get it finished' mode.

I base coated the wings in the same color I used for the base coat on her armor. Goes to show how much the highlight color can change the perceived color of something.The wing tips I'll do in green. Very limited palette on her.

Still haven't decided what to do with the flame. Right now I'm thinking maybe yellow.

Angel: Clothes/Armor

Finished my commission. I think the rest of the year is going to be dedicated to finishing off bits and pieces, starting with the angel. Today I worked on her clothes/armor...whatever that is supposed to be. Still no plan for the flame.

Angel: Hair and stuff

I did her eyes, hair, and started on the rest of her clothing, such as it is.

I'd originally wanted the drapey bit on the bottom to be a darker green than her hair, but when I had that darker green on there it just looked black, which I didn't want. I'm also being lazy with the purple parts; there should be multiple materials in there. Meh.

I'm still unsure what I'm going to do with the flame. I will note that I did not take the highlights on the green toward yellow, so that's not going to be a thing.

Angel: Skin

I'd meant to start working on my commission piece today, but I just wasn't feeling it. So, instead I went back to the angel. I may keep working on her for a couple days - do a quick, low pressure piece to recharge my batteries - or I may go to the commission piece next time. Depends on how I feel.

I've decided to play with colors on her. The skin tone is a much yellower one than I usually use (it's Reaper Elf Flesh). I'm using a reddish purple (Reaper Bruised Purple or something like that) mixed with the skin tone for the shadows, and for the highlights I'm mixing the base skin tone with Linen White and Lemon Yellow. I used that Bruised Purple straight for her lips and the lining around her eyes. It gave her a pretty goth kinda look, which I'm going to stick with as a theme, I think. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to articulate that theme, as I've already decided she's going to have green hair and probably a lot of green elsewhere on the figure as well.

I also haven't decided what to do with the flames in her hand and the OSL that they call for. That's not really good - I should have a plan for that so that I can handle the highlighting and shading over there appropriately as I'm working on those areas. At best, it means I'll probably have to redo all those shadows and highlights.

I might go with a white flame - I can't recall seeing anybody do white OSL, though it should be possible. There are two difficulties I see what that. One, white is the defacto light color used for the regular' highlights on most figures, so having white highlights from the source won't be as different as they could. I'm thinking I'll try to get around that by putting yellow in my 'regular' highlights.

Two, the source needs to be the brightest thing on the figure, meaning it needs to be the actual white thing. Which means the highlights from that source will be...what? Less bright white? No good will come of that. Probably it'll just be white mixed with whatever the base color for that area is.

In any case, I expect it will be a bit of a challenge, not made any easier by the fact that I'm not accounting for it early.

But I do like those yellowish skin tones with the reddish purple shadows.

22!

Here's the cowboy, with his base completed!

Clearly, I used the railing. I had some trouble getting it attached. My plan had been to run a pin from the base up into the posts. The problem is, the posts are far enough toward the edge that I couldn't drill into the plinth. So, I moved it in a board and stuck a couple bits of plastic under there to add some more surface that I could glue the bottom of the posts to. It's still not great, but I think it's reasonably solid.

For the wanted posted, I printed out the posted on my printer, then glazed it with a very thinned down off-white to age the paper. I tore it up a bit, crumpled it, and glued it in place.

Last was some pigment to add some dirt and dust on the floor, railing, and his boots.

Next, I have a commission piece to work on, so posts will be sparse until that it done.

Cowboy: Coat Part 8 (Done!)

And, finally!

I have to finish his base now, which I expect to take a couple of days.

Cowboy: Rifle

With the back of the coat finished, I put the rifle in its spot on his back and painted that.

I'm hoping to get the coat finished tomorrow.