Kingdom Death:Monster - What have I gotten myself into??!!!
The Pariah
Started work on another of my favourite KD:M sculpts – The evil nasty that is The Pariah!! The fluff behind him is ……. well, judge for yourself!! from the Wiki –
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The Pariah is the last male white speaker. He violated the vows of the white speaker cult by murdering countless white speakers, unraveling the quivering lobes of their brains, to piece together a forbidden story hidden in the cult’s members.
Once learned, the story bestowed the Pariah with Cyclopean Empathy, a means of communication so deep and personal that it could speak to the core of a person with a single gesture. The Pariah’s empathy is so complete that he can manipulate any wounded heart to obey his capricious whims.
The white speaker cult erased knowledge of the Pariah from all members save for the Red Witches who were tasked with hunting down the Pariah.”
Skin is really not my forte at all and I find I tend to wing it alot and every model is an experiment. So with that in mind I decided to try and get a workup of some sort documented and written down.
Quick black then white rattle prime to kick off. Lateral priming (the white is sprayed not from the zenithal point directly overhead but from a high side angle)Next should be a photo of the verdaccio undercoat but derpy me forgot to take a bloody photograph of that stage. Verdaccio is an italian underpainting technique used in frescos which i’ve been experimenting with a bit. I am planning on doing a post just on its usage later on. For now though – bascially you undercoat the model (over the primer but under the actual paints you are going to have as the final workup) with a dull olive gray green. I went for a desaturated grey green here in S75 field gray with a little drop of ardennes green mixed in. Once that was done I sketched in some highlight areas bu adding a little cold off white into the mix with S75 Nacar.
From that verdaccio base I used thinned mojave white as the base tone for The Pariah’s skin. Letting the field grey glwo through a little in the darker shadow areas but only subtley.
Next I wanted to add some life to the skin. This stage is super important. Although I want the final skin to be very pale and unhealthy, I do not want it to look lifeless. This can be a big problem when painting pale skintones - it comes out looking dead and lifeless. Look at your own skin - you can see the life beneath the skin; the blood veins and vessels, the glow of whats keeping you ticking!!! So I went in with some glazes. First I made a reaaaaaaaally thin glaze from S75 basic flesh and glazed that into teh areas of midtone and shadow - leaving out some of the more lit high areas. Then I added a tiny amount of deep red into the glaze, thinned it further and pushed this glaze into the reccess and areas below the mid tone. Finally to make sure it wasnt looking too healthy - I glazed in a little S75 sherwood green just in the darkest areas. 
And this is where we are now. With thinned down S75 Mojave white and a brush tip of basic flesh mixed in I've started to refine the skin. Smoothing out and over some of the previous bright glazes to bring back the pale palour I'm wanting and also bringing up the areas most touched by the light source(s). So much still to do but that's its so far. Any question - plz feel free to ask :D
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