The Drowned Earth - Wispa's Militia painting project

Another model done. I’ve a couple of problems with my results here if I was to be critical.

Firstly I attempted to use wet blending on the skin here, something I’ve never really done. I wanted to go from a pale underbelly (Vallejo Model Color Pale Sand 837) to the blue skin (VMC Prussian Blue 965). Through trial and error I managed to avoid a hard line between the two and some more natural transition between the two (just thinning the two colours as I apply then and using a wet brush to merge them seemed to work). I was pretty pleased with the results for a first real go but then I went and added a blue wash all over (I wanted the skin details to pop) and it just ended up losing all the blended stuff. In hindsight I think either just applying the wash where needed or possibly a dry brush would have done want I needed. Lesson learnt there.

Secondly I used some different greens (VMC Light Green & Deep Green) and I think they are problems too cartoony, especially when I compare them with the other models. I guess he’s a blue skins lizard with a cross bow so how realistic do I need to be 😉   If I was to redo tho I’ve use the more duller greens I’d previously used.

The mini looks better than the photos – at least to my old eyes – I can live with it anyway.

* UPDATE *

I decided to try and redo the blending on the skin, it’s not great but it’s better. All I did was use a wet palette and mix the sand/blue gradually and apply it in thin layers. I think with practice I’ll be able to get some good results – as with all painting stuff its just a case of practice practice practice.

Revised image below..