Ansgar the Staller - The Face

Pretty happy with my first attempt at this scale. I feel it still needs some tinkering done but overall pretty good!

My first use of Vallejo paints as well. Love those dropper bottles!

Ansgar the Staller - The eyes

After doing a bit of research and watching/reading some tutorials on the web I had a bash at painting his eyes.

I am extremely happy with my first attempt at eyes on this scale. My first attempt at doing decent eyes on any scale really.

Some things I noted:

• Don't use white as the base coat, a bone colour or similar is best.
• Do wash that colour with a 10:1 ish crimson. Concentrate on the corners of the eyes.
• Do use black for the whole pupil.
• Paint over this with e.g. black or blue, then paint back in a pupil, I'm assuming darker colours of eyes are easier.
• A little touch of pure white as a reflection works as well.
• Do paint in the parts where the eyelid meets the eye. Brown for the bottom eyelid and black for the top.

All I really need to do now is put some gloss varnish on the eyes.

Some pictures (base and wash):

Some more almost finished article:

Notes on painting skin

A collection of stuff I have found on painting skin.

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/tutorial-human-skin.html

http://blog.brushthralls.com/?page_id=3680

http://www.ageofstrife.com/topic7363-p79081.html

http://www.skankgame.com/Painting101.html

http://www.madponies.net/flesh.html

Will hopefully put some of this to use soon :)

Extra notes, painting red/thinning paints

How to thin acrylic paints: http://www.reapermini.com/Thecraft/15


painting red: http://www.necrotales.com/necroTutorials/tut_paintingRedf.php

Ansgar the Staller - More notes

eye tutorial/leather tutorial/more faces: http://www.planetfigure.com/pages/articles/


another leather textures tutorial: http://twistedbrushes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/textures-leather.html