Howdy, howdy, howdy! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!
Last week we looked at how I painted this amazing model (using both my new airbrush and also a standard hairy brush). Today, we will admire the Satyr in all its dark glory.
Something that I kept in mind while I was painting this model was the idea of focal points. With his large, busy staff, it would be quite easy for that to draw attention away from his face (where I wanted the gaze to initially land). To counter that, I painted all elements of his staff in neutral tones, while painting the Satyr's face and skin using saturated hues.
On the topic of focal points, something that is a bit bothersome from the photos, is that the glowing rune on the ground appears extremely prominent. It doesn't appear quite so bright "in real life", but also when you hold the model up to your eye-line (a vantage that I failed to take a picture of for this page) the angle of the stone actually completely hides the rune. This is cool, because when you hold the model up to eye-level, you can't see the rune, but then when you set it back on the table, it seems to appear.
This was a really fun model to paint. Full of character and atmosphere, it didn't have excessive details bogging it down. The large scale provided a forgiving canvas to give the airbrush a go!
I hope you enjoyed this look at the Satyr! See you next week on The Art of Caesura!
Watching: True Detective: Season 4 (Night Country) and Slow Horses (Season 1).
Reading: 5 Little Indians - Michelle Good
Next Week:
Going berserk!
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