Marvel: Crisis Protocol

So Black Widow is complete, save for the base. This was much more challenging than the other 3 I’ve painted thus far and I’m far less happy with the end results. The extreme highlighting on the black is very difficult to make look right. I had to essentially redo the highlights a few times before I got it to this point. This is more of a me giving up it than it is me feeling like it’s done. Perhaps in the future I can revisit her when I’ve gotten in some more practice on this technique. For now I need to move on to other characters to prevent fatigue.

So to give everyone a better understanding of what this process looks like, I’ve taken a pic of Iron Man after the first step of highlights are complete. You start with the highest level of highlights and then you mix in darker colors and slowly fade into your base coat. As you can see in the photo, the first steps looks pretty terrible. I’m also new to this technique, so I’m sure that’s contributing to how bad Mr. Stark looks right now. I have to remind myself that it’s a process so I don’t get too put off on the progress I’m making on the model.

The next step here is to mix in a light orange to the yellow and paint all the yellow save for the most extreme edges. Then mix in a darker orange and feather into the base coat. Then continue doing this with darker and darker colors until you’re working with a dark red. If you prefer a different red tone you can do the same thing with white/pink instead of yellow/orange.

The next pic I’ll take of Iron Man will probably be after the next couple of layers are done to give an idea of how it looks as you progress with the technique.

Finally, after popular demand I’ve included a pic of America’s Ass. God bless.