Pushed through and finished the gnome today. This is clearly not my best work ever. The sword and the base are both pretty meh. I was happy with the flame until I put some red on it, but then the red was too much, so I glazed it back with orange until it wasn't quite as stark.
Anyway, the dude served his purpose. He was fine for the face tutorial I did a while back, and I finished him up for the heck of it. He'll end up on a gaming table somewhere.
I had a little time after I finished up my commission work today, so I went back to this guy. I put highlights on his pants and finished up his boots. Also got in a base coat on his sword.
Got some work in on Frigge today. Finished her skin, face, and hair, and started the base coat on her leathers.
I'm working on a commission piece right now that is taking most of my time, but I've also started this next Arena Rex gladiator: Frigge. She should be quick and easy to finish, and will let me get her spare pieces attached before I forget what they go to. This is the base coat on her skin and a first round of shadow.
I managed to finish up Adriana tonight, which was a little surprising. I'll admit it's probably partly because I'm very ready to be done with this project.
I'm disappointed with the texture on the coat. I needed smaller dots and more of them. Am I going to go back and fix it? Nope. It's a lesson for next time. I'm still really pleased with her face and hair, and her shirt is fine. This figure definitely looks better from the front. There's not much going on on the back. I probably also should have used a different color/texture on the inside of her jacket; realistically it'd be lined with something.
But in any case, it's done! Time for new projects!
I got farther with the texture on Adri's coat. I've got all the stippling on. The next step will be to glaze over it, which will tame that down a bit. One of the nice things about texture shading is if you don't like what you've got, you can just stipple more to adjust it.
I've mostly been working on a commission piece lately, but I finished it last night. I've got a couple more of those in the queue, but...it is long past time to get this lady finished, so I'm going to focus on that for a bit. I did some more texture shading on her coat tonight, and will be continuing with that.
