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"Skin in the Game" - The Vulture - Part 2 - Skin, Hair

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...