Gokufan's Celestial Genesis: Jingwei
Clothing and accesories
With the skin finished I moved on to the clothes and accessories. To keep with the scheme I had decided on I made the metal parts gold and her leotard-thing turquoise-green.
I did a good bit of work here without much in the way of WIP pics, but I'll show you some for her right armSo my formula for gold went as follows:
Basecoat with a mix of VGC Dark Fleshtone (dark red), VMC Flat Green, and VMC Black to get a very dark brown. I hoped by incorporating colors I used in other places on the mini it would help tie the gold to the other areas, but I’m not sure how much difference it made in this particular formula.
Start adding in P3 Meaty Ocher, the main color of the mix, and do successively brighter highlights until I reach the mid tone, leaving some areas darker for shadow/dark reflections.
Add VMC Desert Yellow for the large highlights, followed by some VMC Ivory on top of that for smaller highlights.
Be sure to clean up/blend the transitions around this point in the process.
Edge highlight with a mix of meaty ocher, desert yellow, and ivory (mostly ivory).
You have a pretty nice gold look at this point, but it leans both orange-r and less saturated than I was going for here. So I glazed over the transition between the midtone and the highlight with VGC Sun Yellow to get a bit more of a classic yellow gold look.
See the gallery below for the steps illustrated
I don't have many WIP shots for her Leotard, sorry! The fabric is a mix of vmc flat green and light turqoise, highlighted/edged with a mix in of pure white and shaded in some spots with a bit of vgc midnight blue. Taking WIP pictures is a great way to notice things you might not just by holding and looking at a miniature, like that really obvious line on her left leg which I went back and fixed after seeing this picture.
The grey metal (which you can also see on her arms and helmet) is a mix of vgc dark flesh, vmc flat green, and vmc black highlighted by mixing in whites. The pale blueish purple I used in the gems is from mixing light turquoise and vgc gory red.
Rear view of where we're at. This angle isn't so important as it largely gets blocked by the her big eyeball, but I don't want to totally neglect it either.At this point her main body is really coming together, with only really her chicken legs plus some cleanup work to do before we move on to her eyeball.
Nice job I have to admit. Do you use clothing aggregators like https://cools.com/ for references and inspiration? Clothing design is not that simple, actually.