Demon: Horns, Cloak

I continued on with the demon lady I started working on while I was away. I finished the horns and started the robe and belt. I'm hoping to finish her tomorrow.

I'm starting to feel a little iffy about the color choices. She's on a jungle base which will have a fair bit of green on it. I can and will also bring in some of the colors from the figure itself, particularly the purples, but I am a bit concerned it'll be a bit much. I'm also not sure I love the purple with the reddish skin tone. However, I need to get her done and move on to other things, so I'm probably going to go with it either way.

Workshop!

Last weekend I was at a two-day workshop taught by Sergio Calvo. We had a great time, and the workshop was really useful, though it will take some time and effort to figure out how to integrate what he was teaching into my process.

Here's the class mini. There's a glazing step he taught us that hasn't been applied to Mr. Oni here.

I painted this sorceress after the workshop to try practicing what was taught. Clearly, I need more practice. She also got dinged up on the way home.

And lastly, this is something I was working on while I was travelling. No new techniques or anything here. I'm probably going to try to get her finished up quick before going back to other stuff.

Kalee: Shading Armor

I have added the first round of shading to Kalee's armor. I'll add a second round of purple shadows, then go back and clean up the base coat/smooth the transitions some.

I'd been hoping to get her finished before I go away next week (yes, I am going away next week), but that's not going to happen. Too much slacking. :)

Kalee: More boots, armor

I went darker with the boots and leather bits. I am pretty sure I like it better this way. I also went with gold for the chains and bits.

I think next will be shading the armor.

Kalee: Boots & bits

I wanted to do a color check, so I base coated her boots and leather bits in a middle-ish brown. I think I might rather go darker with it, but I'm not sure. I'm going to ponder on it a bit.

Kalee: Skin, face, hair, armor

Finished off Kalee's skin with some smoothing and another round of highlight. Then I did the face details - eyes and lips. I am considering adding a little makeup, but I like her as-is so I'm probably not going to go that way. Next was her hair, then base coating her armor.

The armor took a while because I did a green undercoat, and then put the gold metallic on. It took probably three or four coats to get good coverage.

Kalee: Skin

Kalee's sword is back on; I did that yesterday. I also continued on her skin, adding deeper shadows in purple and a first round of highlight.