Gokufan's Celestial Genesis Twilight

Her skin seems like a natural place to start given its size and centrality to the model. I decide on blue skin, since it seems like a good fit for a multi armed Celestial being. I’m also considering doing a sort of “red oni – blue oni” thing with her and Jingwe, we’ll see how that pans out.

I begin with an undercoat of VMC Dark Prussian Blue. For a midtone, I cover most of the skin with VMC Light Turquoise. Then as a highlight I use VMC Basic Skintone, a light and desaturated pink with a hint of yellow. It does a good job of desaturating and highlighting the turqoise, and I think using an actual skin color gives her more humanity than a purely fantasy color set. Such a large and smooth surface really challenges my blending skills, so I periodically return to the skin when working on other parts if I notice an area should be blended better or highlighted further.

I fuss over her eyes for a bit. The sclera are VMC Ivory, the iris a mix of VMC Hull Red and VGC Hot Orange, and the pupils VMC German Camo Black Brown. I’m not entirely happy with how these turned out so perhaps I’ll return to them later.

For her hair I decide to go for a platinum blonde so I experiment with a basecoat of VMC Dark Flesh Tone (an interesting desaturated yellow with a hint of pink. If you basecoat someone’s skin with it they’ll look a bit like Homer Simpson) mixed with a combination of VMC Cam. Olive Green and VGC Escorpina Green. The result is a lurid chartreuse which is not at all what I was going for, yikes! It’s at this point that I have to end my painting session, unfortunately.