Monday 2 February 2015

Smaug's new clothes

Neck details (underbelly texture)
 still some work left at this point
 The underbelly was base coated with talarn sand, and then drybrused with a mix of talarn sand (desert yellow)and sunbusrt yellow, until a pure drybrush of sunburst yellow and eventually a dry brush of sunburst yellow mixed with ushabti bone(bleach bone)


 Lovely nashers... scorched brown highlighting up with talarn sand ushabti bone in mixes and drybrushing, same goes for the cranial dorsal and pteryl spines
 The eyes were painted using as a base an orange made form mixing mephiston red and sunburst yellow together  and gradually highlighting by adding more yellow, but the central slit of the eye was not highlighted leaving the dark redish streak in the middle, to finish off the eyes were highlighted with sunburst yellow and a last detailing of white scar mixed to the yellow, then the black I shape was painted in the centre of each eye.



 The back scale and legs were base coated  with an opaque layer of terracota, then dry brushed with mephiston red (blood red)







 Wing membranes were painted with a mix of mephiston red and enchanted blue, this was the base layer, then the detail was picked out by drybrushing shadow grey


 Below you can see the scale of the beast, notice Treebeard looks tiny in comparison