At some point my self-distractions will loop back on themselves and I’ll actually finish a thing. Today is not that day! 🎉 Having a play at unifying yellows and reds via purples and pinks, inspired by @minis ‘s gorgeous Howling Griffons scheme.
He’s gone for the obvious progression, folks. Skin, dagger hilt, crown. The goal is always to make painting everything else as pointlessly fiddly as possible.
Look at that cheeky grin.
There’s something weirdly satisfying about painting high-contrast skin, whether Ork, bug, or Scotsman.
Ooo, new lovely thing has arrived to distract me from all the other unfinished lovely things.
Looks a little bit more in keeping with the rest of the mini?
A bit of tidying today, smoothing some of the worst colour blends. I’ve added a bit of yellow at hard transition lines in an attempt to suggest that the Actual Human Sun might be directly glinting on those edges, discrete from bright sky and ground reflections.
Boop the paint at random, make a horrified face, glaze it away until the tears stop.
Pro strats, hobby pals, as we attempt something less cartoony on the rear face of the axe.
Finding myself with some purples and reds still on the palette and the long-abandoned Spooky Lady within arm’s reach, I’m randomly trying to improve this older coloured NMM attempt by boosting contrast.
Hey, look at me, un-abandoning a thing! I really like the dark desaturated purple and red I ended up with as a base on the big bug, so I’m glazing the same mix over the clashing too-vibrant versions here (while I remember what they are).
Imperceptible little increments.
Little boops of highlight on his mittens and spiky hat.
Can’t completely stay away from those reds I don’t see properly.
All that glorious skin, you tell yourself, all that expanse of carapace. But you forget the vents, dear reader, you forget that 70% of the surface area is tiny vents.
This sculpt could have been lifted straight out of the OG Space Hulk manual art 😍
Black-removal continues.
Working out where I’ll want the most saturated reds to go.
Chasing ‘green’.
Making a brief (?) step away from dwarf pal to give @Berit ‘s Zorn challenge a try. A greenskin with metal bits makes perfect sense for a palette without explicit green or metallics, right?
Am I broken?
Obligatory wig-mount shot.