There's many a man hath more hair than wit. - Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Hello again, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! We are on the second part of my coverage of my painting competition piece: skin and hair. Just like last week , there is a lot to cover, so grab some refreshments, and let's tuck in! The above picture is where we're going to end up today, but let's see how we'll get there. I started by painting all of the skin areas with Bugman's Glow, this gave a nice, deep, fairly saturated base to work from. In retrospect, I think I could have pushed this base coat even further (going in to a deeper more saturated colour in increase contrast). With the base coat down, I used a mixture of Bugman's Glow, Cadian Fleshtone and Wraithbone for highlights and I started with the arms - leaving the face for later. I then further highlighted with just Cadian Fleshtone mixed with Wraithbone. With all of the highlights brushed in, I gave a little...
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! - Shakespeare, Henry VI Good morning, and welcome back to The Art of Caesura! I hope all is well with you in whichever part of the world you are reading this from! We are still immersed in the bleak midspring here in Ireland with plenty of wind and rain to go 'round. But that's what keeps it green! After celebrating the 10th birthday of the blog over the last month, last week we looked at the painting competition I organised which helped mark the big occasion. For the next few weeks, we're going to look in detail at the painting process of my competition piece. Bear in mind that I had never really painted a bust before (although, I suppose the character markers for World of Smog (the very first models posted on this blog) are really busts. I also had never entered a live painting competition before - so with a lot of 'firsts' at stake, I wanted to put a huge effort into this piece. Let us begin. To continue the them...