This has been a real joy to paint. Such a wonderful sculpt, full of character and life.
I'm particularly pleased with the skintones. It's pretty natural to paint skin in brightening tones of the same colour - lighter flesh tones for Caucasian skin, lighter browns for Black skin. But skin is not matte, it reflects the light, and under a blue-grey sky, those are the colours it reflects. On Caucasian skin, the cool blues and greys are not so obvious, but on Black skin they are. So I used VGC Glacier Blue to brighten her skin, and it really works (imo).
I'm also happy with the colour choices. I used a pretty restricted palette (for me) of just 16 colours. I think it gives a coherent, unified finish.
And this is my first serious attempt at non-metallic metal. It was really a no-brainer to give it a try, as the metal components lend themselves to that treatment. In particular the absence of large areas of metal, which look fine with NMM through a camera (if you paint it right, no mean feat) but are compromised in real life (again, imo).
Anyway, here's some pictures.
I'm particularly pleased with the skintones. It's pretty natural to paint skin in brightening tones of the same colour - lighter flesh tones for Caucasian skin, lighter browns for Black skin. But skin is not matte, it reflects the light, and under a blue-grey sky, those are the colours it reflects. On Caucasian skin, the cool blues and greys are not so obvious, but on Black skin they are. So I used VGC Glacier Blue to brighten her skin, and it really works (imo).
I'm also happy with the colour choices. I used a pretty restricted palette (for me) of just 16 colours. I think it gives a coherent, unified finish.
And this is my first serious attempt at non-metallic metal. It was really a no-brainer to give it a try, as the metal components lend themselves to that treatment. In particular the absence of large areas of metal, which look fine with NMM through a camera (if you paint it right, no mean feat) but are compromised in real life (again, imo).
Anyway, here's some pictures.
