Brisket Bust by Broken Toad: Lawnor's first ever bust (& a cheeky attempt at winning the Spring Cleaning comp)
Non Metallic Metal Gold
The gold areas got a base coat of Reaper MSP 09301 NMM Gold Shadow, While painting this I discovered that her bottom belly buckle is missing its underside! Given I'm this late in to things and you won't notice unless your eyes are at her belly button's level I'm just going to go with it. I've googled for pics (Their website is currently down) and it appears to be missing on all of them. Odd.
Nothing new to look at yet. All but the deep shadow areas got a coat of 2:1 NMM Gold Shadow : Reaper MSP 09302 NMM Gold Base
Next layer was pure NMM Gold Base, only over areas in the light. I have no idea what I'm doing here and it looks horrible and I'm staring at all the pots of metallic paint asking myself if it would really be so bad if I used them. I'm hoping this is one of those schemes that only stops looking terrible with the final highlight. Gotta see it through once at least before I condemn it.
I took the highlights up with 2:2 and then 1:2 NMM Gold Base : NMM Gold Highlight and eventually pure Highlight. I really think I've hit upon something I'm not going to get to work. I can sort of see what its trying to do but its just not working for me. Theres 3 more steps so I'm going to follow them through and then I have to make a decision to either try again, find something different to try, or go true metallic. Would true metallic really be so bad on a bust?So I came here to post an updated pic having finished the scheme off looking to moan about the end result being poor, but it seems I can’t take a representative pic of it. The photos look better than in real life. They actually look good. Adding the final 3 layers has definitely improved things, but I think it isn’t quite there yet.
I’d love some constructive feedback on the NMM as I am still not happy with it and I don’t know if I’m a simple extra unknown step away from making it pop, if I should be happy with what I have, or if I should accept defeat and use true metallics. Would a mid tone glaze or two, followed by reclaiming the extreme highlights help?
I also don’t currently know where to begin with NMM iron, especially on flat surfaces like her axe head.
So here’s the steps I took since the last update:
Shade along edges and inside the engravings of 1:4 Black : NMM Gold Base
Extreme Highlight 1:1 White : NMM Gold Highlight
Dot highlight pure White
Again, feedback and advice greatly appreciated. I’ll likely be painting her again tomorrow evening and I’m not sure which way to go now.
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