Gokufan's Celestial Genesis: Uzeon

So, moving on to the body.

I decided to start with the area around the back cavity, since that seems to be the focal point of this piece. I started out by basecoating the raw flesh in the middle with my scarlet-black mix and the metal surrounding it with the hot orange-black mix. I haven’t used any washes up until this point, but the fleshy area is almost the ideal surface for that kind of technique, so I hit it with a heavy wash of Army Painter Dark Tone. While that was drying I finished the orange metal by glazing up to hot orange and then highlighting with dark flesh tone and white. Once the wash dried I highlighted the flesh, also with dark flesh tone and white.

After that I moved on to the cylinders. Uzeon here is just lousy with cylinders, I counted 22 on his body and another 20 or so on each arm, plus a few on the head. Previously I had been wet blending them, since paints with a lot of white don’t glaze very well, in my experience. I decided to change to a method that would let me paint them in large batches here, since there are so many. I painted the shadows black, the highlights white, then layered greys in the in between areas. I finished up black-lining the recesses and edge highlighting with white.

Finally, I painted the rest of his back with my scarlet based mix. This area was smoother than most of the organic areas so I went for a shinier look.

After that, I moved on to the front of the piece. This area is dominated by Uzeon’s weird jet-bosoms.

I began by painting the organic areas with my black, light turqoise, basic skintone mix.

For the mystery spheres themselves, I painted the spherical shells with my orange metal scheme, the stripe of fleshy material across them turqoise, and the “nipples” are of course yet more cyber-cylinders so those were grey metal.

Last I painted the bits around his neck.

There was more orange armor, some of the blue, green, and purple feathers I’ve been painting on the other areas, and, of course, 6 more grey cylinders.