Bought this at Euro last time and couldn't resist starting painting it.
As Mark Bennet did some awesome painting on this I try to duplicate it .
So this is as far as I am. What do you guys think: A beard or not a beard.Painting the eyebrows more or not.
Tell me something what is wrong to improve. Moustache and hair is wet.
All painted with oils.

I like very much the fleshtones Marc. A very promising start sir.
Leave him like these.

Cheers,
Pedro.

Very nice skintones Marc. I think the eyebrows need a bit more paint otherwise I think he's good to go

How did you do the lips? It's one of the things I struggle with.

The lips are done with skintone (mix from Napel Yellow Deep, Burnt Sienna and White) with a thinny-little-thinny amount of cadmium red. This is blended into the skintone on the lips.

Marc

Did you use oils or acrylics?

Thanks Marc, I'm probably adding too much red to my mix as what I usually get is akin to The Joker. I'll try your "thinny-little-thinny" approach (I'm presuming that's dutch for "a smidgen")

This looks very nice Marc , you could go with the current trend of a five O clock shadow and deep shadows to the hollows of the cheek bones.
But personally I would leave it as it is

Ron

Very nice start with this one mark,like the flesh colours as well,look forward to seeing more of this progress

A great start Marc.
You have really captured the character in this face.
Nice work,
Keith

Hi Marc,
For the beard I am going to say yes because the man has a mustache. So, do it with a light wash of base color mix with a tip of black and green. The face will be imho more living.
Regards
Pascal
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Thanks Guys for the positive feedback.
@ Richard: I'm a old guy and use oils.
@ Billy: it means a little bit, a thiny spot or something similair.

Marc

Hi Marc,

Yes, I'm an old guy too and love oils, but I've just come out of a 15 year break from the hobby and thought I'd try acrylics. It's been, er.....interesting!

Hello Marc my friend. That's very nicely done. Excellent flesh tones.

Xenofon

Een mooie start Marc. de wenkbrauwen mogen wat zwaarder. maar voor de rest super .

schildergekke groeten Ronny

Looking good Marc.I would suggest darkening the eyebrows and adding a highlight to the top of his lip.I would add a very dark stain of your flesh colour between his face and where the collar meet as it will tend to make the face stand out more,and maybe the eyes are a wee bit too white.A thinned reddish colour would sort that out.
These points are all minor tune ups of a very good face that you've painted Marc.There the type of things i would do wet on dry.

Brian

Like the fleshtone.

Looking good,how about a catchlight in the eyes.
Ralph.

Thanks for the positive comments guys.
@ Ronnie, Zal de wenkbrauwen wat zwaarder aanzetten. De sculpt ervan is niet zo mooi, misschien wat krasjes in de klomp resin geven voor wat textuur.
@ Brian: Thanks for the tips. As far as the eyewhite goes: I did some red into the corners of the eye but the pictures have lost that. Should I do more???
@ Ralph: Instead of catchlight into the eyes I use a gloss varnisch when completely dry. A catchlight looks akward for me. If you look at the figure from another angle then straight forward they always look crosseyed with a catchlight.

Marc

I see now since i looked at the bigger picture that you've got a red tint in his eyes.I would just leave it like that.
Brian