I’ve just started on my marine portion from my leviathan box. Been painting nids for a few years now but finally was brave enough to try my first human face. Would love any feedback you have.
I’ve just started on my marine portion from my leviathan box. Been painting nids for a few years now but finally was brave enough to try my first human face. Would love any feedback you have.
That’s REALLY good. How do you manage the detail? I gave up with faces a long time ago because they ended up looking wonky and cartoonish.
Thank you! I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. I was kinda just working with the paints I had on hand so ended up base coating with a slightly warm brown, valejo natural wood or something like that. Then I just added a little white at a time up to something flesh like. For the actual painting, I really tried to bring up the raised areas with the lighter shades while leaving the dark in the contours. I I used wyldwood contrast from citadel (a dark brown) like a wash around the eyes and cleaned things up with my previously mixed skin tone. The eyes wasn’t anything fancy, an off white, black and a steady hand. Getting the pupils lined up took a few tries, and I got them close but they are definitely not the same size on both. Fine enough on a table, but noticeable up close.
My Tyranids are purple, but gaunts are a pretty good way to practise anything organic/flesh and even with the different colours, the principles were all the same.