I want and need to start painting again, got three plastic Pirate skulls (no backs) that I primed and want to have painted for Halloween decoractions.
So I will be painting at them this weekend.
2-3 hour painting later.
The skin....
Bone is not finished yet but I think I got a good start on it.
The nasty black primer I used for the first time on plastic, made a few wrinkles on the surface which gave it a slightly rough look.
It's a bit bigger than a cats skull to give you an idea of scale.
What would be a good glaze for the bone, blue?
I wish I still had pics of the skulls my housemate and I made for a play once...
Anyway! Blue might give a supernatural touch to them - go for it!
This one was started from Black and highlighted up, Think I will try starting from white with the next one and shading it.
I'll be looking forward to the results for sure.
Every year I take a lot of pride in my jack o lanterns, and always take a picture to save them.
Theomar did you take pics this year?
Wristy did you finish the skulls?
That one is still the same and I sprayed one white to try shading it instead of highlighting and the other got a light spray of white to show where to highlight and give the highlights a start.
why are there 3 sets of teeth? I'd primer grey, heavy drybrush light grey, lightly drybrush white, add a thin black ink with matt medium in over the whole thing to add some more depth in shading. Using a large brush you could get this done in no time mate. If you find you over drybrush anywhere use a thin black ink to counter. If you want a natural skull look prime grey or white, drybrush everywhere with buff or bleached bone, all over brown ink, drybrush buff\bleached bone again. Add a few extreme white highlights if necessary :icon_wink:
With out checking a skull, the top set that look like teeth are where your top lip covers.
If you rub a finger with some pressure across there on you, you can feel that it is like that.
No dry brushing was used on the skull, it was all free hand. :icon_cool:
I'm trying not to dry brush unless I have to, so I can build up my brush skills, painting more often would help as well. :icon_redface:
Been busy yesterday and today, so the painting I planned to do, didn't get done. :icon_tears:
I always thought those lumps and bumps were the roots of my teeth, only 1/3rd actually shows I was led to believe, Molar? Do they really look like that with all flesh removed? never noticed it b4 on any skull but they're not something I look at a lot thankfully :icon_w00t:
Yeah painting more often is the key, I dont paint much at all now and am actually getting worse at it....gotta sort myself out for this alice fig....
When in doubt ask the resident dentist....