Re: [WIP]Female Turian, Nyreen Kandros
That's actually after and before
Wanted to show the final effect first.
So the cast is a matte grey latex and i really wasn't sure where to go with the colour. Normally I cast in flesh and am able to paint and tone based on how the colours changed over a semi-opaque ground.
So I used black airbrush tattoo ink to define shadows and get worked in to the deep surfaces. I washed all the pieces in the way, starting with the scalp and scaled spine then started on the face and got a bit lost. Okay so it needed some warming. A little red and tiny bit of white in black and it makes a maroon. Well I'll wash with that too. It's a tad harsh but hey.
And then stippling a grey the same tint as the latex (yeah, it sounds mad but I have essentially given the skin a layer that mimics blood vessels and muscle and now this is the skin that shows hints of that from underneath.
he grey though lifted the layers from underneath (all sponge work at this stage- latex sponges which soak up the ink but at least do a really nice stipple). So a layer of white has been used as a finall base colour.
Next up is to test a few colours in my airbrush to warm up this base colour. I may even be able to use a powder to buff in. But right now I have no really transluscent pigments to work with and these next layers do need to be able to be misted in super fine layers.
But I have a second casting to also paint up and that will be a much softer paint job
The female Turian Garrus chats to on the Citadel has such pretty colous (and conveniently the same costume as Nyreen- different colours) so I want to make a mask of her as well
And maybe a custom female Yurian too