Banshee Anonymous bust part 2

Pretty much more of the same this week.  I continued to work on the Anonymous bust, working my way around the model and fixing areas up.

Banshee Anonymous bust

First area that needed some work was the back.  The left shoulder blade needed to be made closer to the right shoulder.  Also the lower back area needed the contrast pushed a bit more.

The left side of the neck proved to be the hardest area.  My original attempt had resulted in a very purple skin finish.  Also the hollow areas were much too stark and continued too far up the neck to the head.  I had a very big inverted V on the side of his neck.  This got repainted at least half a dozen times as I just couldn’t get the colour where I wanted it.  Always too purple or too brown, loosing all the orange tones.    In the end I found using VMC Dark Sea blue instead of VMA Armour brown as the shade colour seemed to work.  I think I’m almost there now.

Under the scar area on the left side of the head I put some normal flesh colour at the base of the neck.  This helped define the area and stopped the shading in the hollows of the neck from continuing all the way up the head to the scar area.  The scars were worked on and I added some more dark red/purple shadows next to the flesh lines to make them pop a bit more.

The wife mentioned that the hair stubble didn’t look different enough from the flesh.  So I took the contrast a bit further.  I used very small dots of colour (both the shadow and highlight) over the stubble area and then with a wet brush sumped the dots out much like you would with oil paints.  You have to be quick as the small dots dry very fast.  I used the same technique on the beard.  I probably should have used the flow medium I have to help out there on second thoughts.  The main hair got some more highlights.

Lastly I glued the figure into the base before the final finish up tasks.

This week more touch up work and trying not to ruin things by over fiddling them.