This little piggy went to Laell

[steeldragon]

It looks great!!!

I might be tempted to get this girl too!!!

Andres

[Balgin Stondraeg]

You'd need the alternate Haley too for the legs.

[Custom_Hobby]

It is coming along well so far. Finsih with all the putty so we can see her painted up.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Pictures of her & The Autumnblade coming soon (can't find her thread). I got bored of waiting to touch them up a bit and sprayed them black. Now I've done the eyes and skin too.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Well, I've painted the face and it came out nice. She's got a nice round face. Unfortunately some of the contours are so extreme (like her projectile cheekbones, and yes, I do know that projectile means they could shoot out at you) that it can prove difficult to paint.

So anyway the face is nice, I painted the face. Then I tried to paint the hair. What a nightmare. Okay, so the hair's nice, it suits the face, suits the character concept. However, it's just really badly sculpted. I should know this because it's the third time I've painted the hair (I even had to paint it twice on her stunt double to get it looking barely acceptable). Here's the deal: it's bad hair. With good hair, you can drybrush it, ink it, highlight it, anything. With bad hair you have to either ink it or drybrush it because the grain of the hair is too fine for decent highlights. To make things worse, not only is the grain too fine for a decent paintjob but also it's too shallow so drybrushing kills details and inking gets ink onto the sides of her face (and due to the shape of the hair you have to paint the face first).

So you paint the face. Then you paint the hair. Then you get hair paint on the face. Then you look at it. Then you re-undercoat the hair. Then you touch up the face. Then you try to paint the hair again.

So currently it's black but I was aiming for a mid to light brown and it really wasn't working (highlights got too bright so I inked it down, the contrast shot up and it looked hideously bad). I think I'll either start with a bestial brown base or a bestial brown & scorched brown mix (a lovely colour) and then try really carefuly painted highlights. I know the sculpt really discourages it but hopefuly I can hide the shallowness of the sculpting with shading.

[Custom_Hobby]

Post a pic

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Front on:







From the side:






And look, she's even got a neck. It was fun painting the neck and practicing not getting any on the hair (and tidying up the bottom of the hair a little bit afterwards but  alot less than I'd expected to :)):

[Balgin Stondraeg]

There's a picture. I've been trying to get a hair colour similar to that (but less green and more light brown) and can't get it right. If anyone's got any suggestions then let me know.

[Perv]

I'd say basecoat a very dark brown, highlight with desert yellow, brown ink over it all, extreme highlight with a mix of 2:1 or possibly 3:1 of desert yellow:burnished gold, very thin brown ink if necessary to tone down highlights.

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Well I'm thinking of a bestial brown/scorched brown mix for the basecoat but I'm not sure where to go from there. The sculpting on the hair is pretty shallow and yet it's too fine for graded highlights (so it's almost drybrushing & inks only but with no recesses to hold the inks). Maybe I should just paint her boots of something to see if that inspires anything.

[Perv]

yeah the hair on that fig doesnt look too easy to get right.  It may be easiest just carefully drybrushing it all the way thru.  basecoat brown, heavy drybrush bubonic brown, meduim drybrush desert yellow, lightly drybrush a mix of desert yellow and burnished gold.  You could add a thin brown ink after drybrushing the bubonic to try and get a bit more depth in the colour but inking after that stage may throw the whole thing out....

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Burnished gold is metallic!

That aside, I'm not aiming for yellow, I'm aiming for a light yellowy brown.

So today I had a third attempt and realised it was the exact same way I'd tried it the first time (the second had come ou a lot worse).

Basecoat: scorched brown & bestial brown (a lovely colour, they really should sell that mix separately).
Next layer: bestial brown
next layer: snakebite leather
next layer: vomit brown

I realised the vomit brown looks too chunky and stopped halfway through. It's too drastic a step up and inking it down with brown ink (the first time) looked hideous. If I could get a light brown ink or something. So I did half the hair vomit and left the rest 'till tomorrow. Once I've finished that layer I might take some more photo's. It's almost, but not quite, what I'm after. Bubonic brown would've been too greenish but vomit brown's got a lot of orange in it :(.

[matty1001]

Burnished gold is metallic!

Yep. So it will give it a slight metallic shine, like real hair has.

[Perv]

judging by the picture you posted, the final highlight would have to be metallicy to emphasise the light effect.  I dont know NMM but I would expect it to be impossible to do on hair or very very hard at least.  Maybe post a picture closer to what you actually want?  its hard to guess what shade you are going for mate.

"Yep. So it will give it a slight metallic shine, like real hair has."  My thoughts exactly  :icon_wink:

Just had a thought, couldnt you add Vallejo Metallic Medium into your final highlight shade and use that as an extreme highlight to emphasise the light?  it may be the ideal way to get a closer final highlight shade as the Burnished gold may throw the colour out slightly too much

[eyeolas]

With the posing of the right arm, I recon it should be a bit higher, pointing more to body height, the pointing down doesn't look realistic in my eyes