Yogie Paints Large Minis and Busts

My plan was to have a very cold John Snow and then match it up with a warm Daenerys. Fire and Ice so to speak. However I’d never really painted female skin that much so before I broke out the dragon queen I thought Ibwoukd have a go at another female bust first. I went with Evelyn from Nuts Planet.

I wasn’t going to go with the purple skin tone though I was going to with with a more yellowy/red warm skintone.

I received a skintone set from a Nocturna kickstarter which I never used but heard great things about it so I decided to go with it.

The colours I used were the following.

Base Flesh 74.004

Natural Flesh 74.006

Highlight Skin 74.008

Burned Flesh 74.002

I first primed the miniature with my standard stynylrez black then a directional light using vallejo model air light.

For this bust the light was going to be straight on and from high rather than a standard zenithal lighting (this created issues later).

Next I base coated with base flesh with 2 light coats.

I then started to add highlights by slowly mixing in more and more of the natural flesh until I was using pure natural flesh.

This is where the complications started. You can see the stark contrast on the face on her right side which isn’t facing the straight on light source. It’s here where I realised I needed to try something else so I put the face on hold and continued with the chest area.

I really wanted to have that realistic light on the top of the breast so I continued to build up the layers using highlight skin while also trying to keep that natural skin tone.

I was going for the natural effect on this beautiful piece by David Colwell. I think my effort was pretty good.

I was using extremely thin glazes to build up the highlights while also glazing down with my midtones to try and keep that natural skin tone.  This was quite time consuming and although Ibwas using a hairdryer in between layers after around 50 or so layers I decided to call it a night and revisit again in the morning.