You may or may not recall that my
very first painting project for this blog was a set of five Heroquest fimir.
I’ve already finished three of them
and shelved another (didn’t want to waste time on it), but the last one has
been standing around next to my painting-station in a near-finished state for
almost a year. I left it after painting the skin (so about 90% done), but never
got around to doing the last details.
Well, after rediscovering my
painting mojo, I finally decided to finish it, so here it is:
I experimented with wet-blending the
skin (using a retarding medium). The end result is fine (not great), but it
took way too long to do, so I haven’t reused the technique.
The main problem is that the paint
still dries too quickly when the area is this large (it works better for faces
and hands), so I couldn’t really get as smooth a blend as I’d wanted without
spending way more time on it than I’m prepared to. Maybe if I’d used oils
things would be different, but I’m not really ready to go that old-school yet.
Croaker
P.S. Sorry about the pun by the way.
It’s terrible, but I couldn’t resist it.
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