Shub, Six

Worked more on Shub's legs. The fur is done, and I darkened up the skin around the wounds a bit. The pink was still bothering me. Next I'll move on to the body. I'll probably shade and highlight the main body, and then start working on the eyes and mouths and things.

I also started her. This is going to be a quick piece to practice working from a photo. This is Six, from Battlestar Galactica. Or will be.

Shub - Leg wounds and Fur

I did the wounds on his legs (ick!) and the skin around them, and got a first layer of highlight on the fur on one leg. Not thrilled with the color of the skin around the wounds (too pink), but I'm going to wait and see how it looks with the fur done before deciding if I'm going to do anything else with it.

I will need to put some shadow areas back on that fur, too.

Shub - hooves, legs

I'm working from the bottom up on Shubby. I put some highlights on the hooves that I'm still not sure how I feel about. Then I started on those wounds on his legs. I'll finish those, then the skin around the wounds, and finally the fur.

Shubniggurath

Yes, it's been a while. I've been busy with household projects, but I did get this far. This is airbrushing  a base coat on Shubby. The top is airbrushed purple; the fur on the legs is dark brown.

Back From ReaperCon

ReaperCon went well! I got two golds, one for the Conan diorama and another for these wizards:

The wizards are from the Bones 4 Kickstarter and painted for Reaper.

I did almost no painting while I was there. I did start her:

And I will try to get her finished up quickly, just table top quality.

I have come back motivated to work on things. So, I'm spinning up a number of projects. One is a small vignette with the dragon head I didn't use on the Conan diorama. To do it, I will need to make a pile of treasure, so I'm starting to experiment with how best to do that.

First, I tried mixing glitter into a few different type of modelling pastes:

This is not really doing what I want. The shape of the glitter is getting lost. Also, I decided it'd be better to use something else for the bulk of the pile, and then just cover the surface with the texture. So, for the next experiment I made a couple mounds of Milliput that I will cover with glitter and paste, and glitter and glue.

If that doesn't work, I got some other suggestions that I'll try.

And last, there's this guy:

The threaded rod and the chunk of wood are the handle that I used for Cthulhu last year. This is the main body of Shubniggurath. The handle is going into its big maw because that seemed like the spot that would be the least disruptive. Well, not quite; we also thought about putting it in to one of the spots for the tentacles on its back...but then I'd have had to paint it upside down, which would have been way weird.

There are many tentacles which I will paint separately and attach afterwards. This is a large figure, so I'll be starting with the airbrush. First he's gonna need a bit of gap filling where the legs and tail joined.

12!

Finished Nemesra today, with a whole week to spare before ReaperCon! Yay!

Nemesra's Base, Con't.

I went back and painted the yellow bits on the base brown instead. I'm happier with this; I think it retains the pattern detail but makes it less in-your-face, so hopefully it won't compete with the figure for attention. I left variation in the brown just because I like the way it looks. That may end up being a mistake, but..meh. I still like the way it looks.

Once that was done, I moved on to preparing her busking bowl. I picked out the best of the batch and then cut some small chunks of round green stuff to serve as coins.

They're pretty chunky for coins, but I'm going with it. Paint will help, and they need to be a little exaggerated to show up. So we'll see.

Tomorrow will be painting the bowl and coins, and hopefully putting everything together.