Phew! - glad I finally got this one finished, he's been languishing on the painting table for ages. So the Tac squad now finally has a sergeant - just the missile launcher to finish and then we're done, yay!I tried taking the pic outdoors this time - dodgy background I know, but the colours end up looking a lot closer to reality - shame we only get 3 sunny days a year here...
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Really nice, even smooth white, good blue shadows, contrast is good and the whole model has a good "clean" feel, nice one.
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the face - two things suggest themselves here, perhaps the dwarf fleah? was a little too viscous, and would have benefitted form more thinning, and the step between your shadow - (dark flesh?) and it are a bit jarring - I'd suggest on your next guy, - use dwarf flesh as your base, highlight with elf flesh, wash the whole thing with ogryn then pick oput final highlights in elf again, it's quick and it works :)
Thanks Karitas - hugely useful comment - you're right about the fleshtones, the brutal tone changes are not quite as noticeable 'in the flesh' as it were, but after seeing it enlarged in the photo I'm definitely thinking about reworking it a little. It's not a big area to rework after all. Good idea about using a wash and then retouching the highlights, for some reason on flesh I don't use washes - I've no idea why, I use them everywhere else - so perhaps I should give that a go first
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