Hi PF member friends

I started to paint this bust from United Miniatures Empires.



Only the face and hair are paint (I still have some details to correct).

As usually now, I undercoated with Humbrol n°84 with an airbrush.

The skine tones : Brown Madder + Yellow Ochre + Carmine Alizarin.
Shades : Burnt Umbre, Ultramar Blue, Viridian Hue Green
Highlights : flesh teint, yellow deep, white, and for cold parts flesh teint + green.

I try to use this source of light (instead of the now classical zenith light):



Any comment and critics are welcome.

JP

Jean , beautiful work so far, I like your flesh tones.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Cheers
Roc.

Looks good so far JP.........look forward to the next step

Great Flesh tones Jean. Thanks for sharing the mixes.

Xenofon

I like specially the hair. Wonderful

Hey Jean Paul, nice painting as usual. It is me or lately you are working (enhancing) a bit more the overall contrast ? I like those highlights, ending them in white will give you a great effect. Maybe just a little smoothing on the lips is needed ?

Hallo Jean Paul,
beautiful face painting!

best regards
Artur

Hello JP<

This is looking very promising. I always liked this way off painting. The Zenith Lighting is unnatural. It is just at the 0 meridiaan where the sun is just right above you at 12:00 hour.
So, in my opinion you are painting the figure in his naturale light, and that is a challenge.
It looks like it is gonna work.

marc

JP, Very nice. I really like your choice colors for the face.~Gary

Hi all,

thx for your nice comments.

Luca, my friend, I of course will adjust my finals light to make the overall looks good. For now I stopped my highlights with Yellows and small part of white. I'd like to simulate intense hot sun. Btw that s why the lips look cracky, he's thirsty.....

JP

Great work my friend . I like your tones . waitingv to see it finished !!!!

JP excellent work so far. The flesh tones are spot-on! Funny you should mention the lips, I can see lots of extra work there. I like the fact that you are adding to his forlorn look. Keep us posted!

Jay H.
OKC