Marvel: Crisis Protocol

Man I’m really glad I didn’t try to paint this model a year ago. I’ve learned so much since then about painting black, faces, blending that the things I was able to accomplish here I would absolutely have botched or not bothered with a year ago. The only real critique I have of her is I’m not thrilled about the face, but I’m not sure yet what about it I could’ve done better. Whenever I have moments like that I always suspect that I will return to that model later after learning some other lesson and it will be immediately obvious to me what I should’ve done differently.

I’m really, really happy with the black on the outfit. I think the highlight placements feel really natural and the amount of highlighting gives it depth while still keeping it looking like the color black. I also really like how the sword and the blue magic and portal effect came out. I worry that had I tried to do this with a different paint brand, it wouldn’t blend as nicely and at least a portion of my progress as a painter is tied to the paints cheating for me. There’s something about the Scalecolor paints that just kind of blend together even though I’m just doing layering. I often get questions if I’m doing wet-blending or glazing or something along those lines and really the closest I get to any of that is I’ll go back in and soften transitions with a mix if the transitions look too rough, but for the most part the paint is just cheating for me, giving me a better paint job than I likely deserve.

So overall I’m really happy with how Magik came out. She was a fun model to paint and I think she looks really striking on the table top.