Lucas Ferron
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I have recently started working on this lovely bust from Nocturna Models.
From a zenithal priming I added some skin tones with an airbrush (that were later painted over):

I decided to go for a rusted NMM helmet and a warm-ish tone for the skin, so I chose green for the cloak to have something cold to balance the scheme.
I basecoated the skin, blocked the dar area of the eyes and also painted the eyeballs with a warm offwhite:

I stippled some lights on the face and painted the green iris:

I kept working on the face adding more lights and finished the eyes with the black pupil and the reflections:

To help frame the face I painted the hair with a warm brown. I'm still not sure if i'll wash it to darken and go for a brown hair or if I'll go towards a golden-brown/blonde look.

I sketched the lights for the NMM helmet and that's where I am right now. I still need to find a way to make these weird NMM lights work.

Looking at a better picture it looks like I need to crank the contrast on the skin by quite a bit.
Every time I'm painting I feel like I'm already too light, turns out I never am.

I'll need to do the NMM, finish the hair/beard, touch up the face to make it more interesting and finish the cloth. So basically nothing is finished yet hahahah
From a zenithal priming I added some skin tones with an airbrush (that were later painted over):

I decided to go for a rusted NMM helmet and a warm-ish tone for the skin, so I chose green for the cloak to have something cold to balance the scheme.
I basecoated the skin, blocked the dar area of the eyes and also painted the eyeballs with a warm offwhite:

I stippled some lights on the face and painted the green iris:

I kept working on the face adding more lights and finished the eyes with the black pupil and the reflections:

To help frame the face I painted the hair with a warm brown. I'm still not sure if i'll wash it to darken and go for a brown hair or if I'll go towards a golden-brown/blonde look.

I sketched the lights for the NMM helmet and that's where I am right now. I still need to find a way to make these weird NMM lights work.

Looking at a better picture it looks like I need to crank the contrast on the skin by quite a bit.
Every time I'm painting I feel like I'm already too light, turns out I never am.

I'll need to do the NMM, finish the hair/beard, touch up the face to make it more interesting and finish the cloth. So basically nothing is finished yet hahahah