Hellboy (an old Spring Clean Challenge)
HELLBOY
So I tried to maintain my current methodology and use glazes, and washes and build up to my desired effect but found 2 general issues.
- Glazing red to get the specific shades of red I wanted wasn’t as straight forward as I wanted. Hellboy is a very solid red but as glazing up to an effect generally relies on you starting with a white or light colour, glazing red on white left areas that were too pale. I had created a few glazes from red/orange up to a dark red to see how it changed as I went through each layer. In the end I found my mixes weren’t providing as consistent a finish as I wanted so resorted to using some thinned down citadel , Wild Rider, and Evil Suns Scarlet and used my home made mixes to tint or glaze as required.
- Glazing and washing over larger smooth areas is a bitch. Yeah it’s an obvious one, though its not normally an issue with most standard figures up to 32mm it did play havoc with the scaled up bust. So his great coat required a bit of back and forth but I got there in the end.
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