I worked on the mermaid's skin today. This is shaded and has a first round of highlights. I also changed the base tone - looking at it again, it wasn't dark enough and was too yellow. I glazed over it, but I couldn't get that to be smooth; it was all blotchy. So, I ended up going over it with the glaze color as a base coat. Now the base is darker than I wanted, but I'm going to go with it all the same.
Hopefully I should get back to more frequent updates for a while.
Anyway, I've started working on Medusa's hair-snakes. The red ones will have a pattern; the green will just be viper green.
It's going to take a while to do all those snakes.
I've also started a mermaid:
I'm going off a reference photo for that skin tone, which is just the base coat so far. I'm not quite sure it's a total match...but it's close enough that I think a bit of glazing should handle shifting it to be a bit darker and browner.
I didn't want to post much of this while I was working on it, as it's an Xmas present. Arguably I shouldn't be posting it yet at all. Still, here's Yog-Sothoth, all finished.
No, this is not the base for the cultists, it is the base they are decorating. It's mostly done; I am going to paint the grass and vegetation a bit. But other than that, the base is done. Next I will move on to the main thing itself.
More highlights on the cloaks and robes, some detail work on the guy with the book. These guys are done; the next step will be to lay out the base, put the ground texture on, and make the spots for these guys. Once the first layer of ground texture is dry, I will glue them in place and use a little more of the texture paste to hide their bases.
Continued on the cultists. I base coated and did a first, very sloppy highlight on their cloaks.
I've started working on a commission, so posts will be more infrequent for a while. But in the meantime, here's what I've been doing:
These cultists are going to go on a base for another figure I'm working on. I need them to be painted before they go on the base, and I need to be able to place them as I'm laying down the rest of the base pieces, so I'm trying to paint them quickly. I might bring up the highlights on the green robes a little more, but I might not - they're supposed to kind of blend in to the background, not be focal points themselves. I might wait until more of it is together and decide then.
