Bot War - Mercenaries

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Project Entry by rum8le

Day 21 - Stormbreak

April 21, 2022

Tutoring 5

Skill 5

Idea 5

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Stormbreak is up next, and i was originally thinking that it was another one of the classic Snake Corp bots (called Stryke), however it transpires that this is a new sculpt based upon the original art for a COILS air support bot named Messenger, however this has been a very fun bot to paint.

There were lots of flat surfaces which made the glazing a bit easier to get gradients on, working from the dark P3 Thornwood Green to the more vibrant P3 Bog Moss. I have used the same workup throughout all of the mercs and i have made some subtle changes throughout, sometimes working up through all colours one over the other, sometimes blocking in the colours in different parts and blending them together. On this bot i painted almost the whole model in the darkest thornwood brown, then used traitor green over 80% of that area, then bog moss glazed over the top, making sure i took my brush off the model at the point i wanted to leave the most pigment (like the top edge of an armour plate). After i went back in with a sickly skin edge highlight i did go back in with another thin glaze of bog moss to try and blend in some of the edges and only leave those at the highest point. I have noticed some bots where i may have covered too much of the edge highlight, so will need to go back in and fix that in these last 9 days of the challenge.

for now, heres a shot of Stormbreak, and the 2 Snake Corp mercs from the last few days.