Friday, December 14, 2012

USMC Korean War 1950 Part 2

Took a week off to do work so that we can finish all the projects and hand them over by Christmas Eve.

The eyes are blocked in and top lash is painted and outlined with black. Beard is blocked in with pure black with some Matt Varnish added into, as well as the eyebrows.

The beard and eyebrows are stroked with dark grey and then off white to give the mane some body look.


The bottom eyeball areas are lined with Vermillion. Pupils have the blue highlighted and the iris are scaled down to portray high light conditions as sunlight reflecting from snow capped landscape during that year. Lips are painted violet red and highlighted on the lower lip edges with Sunny Skintone mixed with Basic Skintone. The helmet is sand coloured toned with highlights. The uniform is shaded with shadows of 10% black.

The hood on the helmet is shadowed with black green to get it ready for highlighting with Yellow Ocher mixed into German Luftwaffe Camouflage Green. The sand on the helmet has the shadows added with 10% black glazes. The right side of the face is reshaded with Black Brown and Burnt Cadmium as well as Basic Skintone as well as in between blend of the two colours. This is to remove the long line edged into the original resin to make the both sides of the face balanced in tonal and weight-age balance. The lower cheeks are highlighted with Basic Skintone to give it a 3D effect. The side edges of the cap extensions that doubles as ear mufflers are edged with black and Black Green. The adjacent areas of the side cheeks are toned with Flat Brown and Burnt Cadmium.