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"Icthyo Sapien" - Abe Sapien - Part 1

It should be a very simple operation, Abraham

- Abe Sapien: The Drowning


Welcome back to The Art of Caesura!

I'm sending lots of positive vibes your way, especially if you need them at the moment. 

Unlike Roger the Homunculus, who we have been focusing on these past two weeks, today's character is likely quite well known even amongst casual Hellboy fans: it's Abe Sapien!


Where Roger just had a small cameo in the Guillermo del Toro films (powered-down in the background of some shots), Abe is one of the main characters! He's named Abe because when he was discovered in a stasis tube in the basement of the B.P.R.D. headquarters, there was a handwritten note on the tube saying: 

Icthyo Sapien, April 14, 1865” (the day that President Abraham Lincoln died)

Apparently his own spin-off comics reveal Abe's origins, but I haven't got there yet, so no spoilers!

Regarding the mini, I was really excited to paint teal. I never paint teal. I remembered, when I got my Kimera Kolors, that they have a leaflet with the paints with suggested mixing recipes, and I remembered seeing a pretty bitchin' teal in there. So I busted them out, followed the recipe (Phthalo Green and Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), and boom, a beautifully vibrant teal!


Many of the original greens that I owned are very desaturated (the likes of Creed Camo, Death World Forest, and Militarum Green, even Sotek Green doesn't have too much punch). But, I mentioned before, that I recently bought a bunch of paints off of a friend who is taking a hobby break, so it was fun to try a bunch of new colours.

I glazed Sick Green on to the upper surfaces of the skin and the fins. 


I then further highlighted these areas with Scorpion Green...


...and then Light Livery Green. This was one of those "trust the process" stages, because while I was loving the intensity of these colours, the jump from the base tone was quite dramatic. So to amalgamate the colours, I gave it an all over wash (avoiding the fins) of Aethermatic Blue and DAAAMMMNNN, if I do say so myself, I think it turned out mighty fine!




I painted the rest of the model in the same way that I have been doing my other BPRD agents: Snakebite Leather for the pouches...


...and Black Templar for the vests.


I used Skeleton Horde for the rope on his harpoon, and Wyldwood for the shaft. 



Finally, I dropped in the details. Lothern Blue for his eyes, XV-88 mixed with white to highlight the pouches. Skavenblight Dinge to highlight the vest. The black wavy lines on his head were quite difficult actually, because there is a modicum of sculpted detail there, but it is so shallow as to just cause confusion, so I tried to ignore it and just freehand the black lines. 


And that's it! Thanks for tuning in for this painting of Abe Sapien on The Art of Caesura! I'll see you next week!


Reading: Hellboy Omnibus 2 (surprise, surprise)
Watching: Armageddon - Ricky Gervais


Next Week:

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