Ready to board

[Metal Extremo]

Gonna start with a 1/12 bust from Heroes & Villains. Is a great casting of resin, very well sculpted, and cheap. What else? IMO the best caracterization of a pirate made bust. The face of this bust is the prototype i've got in mind when i think in a seawolf, with the headscarf and the vest showing a no perfect chest. Added the expression with open mouth and showing teeth, in a not friendly expression, is perfect.
Ok, my pirate is in the ship, waiting to board a portuguese ship that was previously cannoned carefully to destroy the boat mast and the sails , and to dismast. Now that can run away, is time to take a rope with hook and kill for the loot. His part of the work.
I want to obtain a tanny fleshtone, going to the sunburn of long days sailing looking for victims at the Caribbean sea.
I'm of pale flesh, so i gonna try to do it in two steps. First looking for the tanny, and then burning the skin.

So, the first step is here.







The transitions aren't so fine as they must, but there's a lot of work to do.
The mixes used



This dirty palette will be my reference to redo the mixes for the chest.

Now is time to irritate the skin and put it in red. I gonna do it with glaces, and i hope blend transitions at the same time, keeping the tanny tone.

 

[smudger1960]

Gonna start with a 1/12 bust from Heroes & Villains. Is a great casting of resin, very well sculpted, and cheap. What else? IMO the best caracterization of a pirate made bust. The face of this bust is the prototype i've got in mind when i think in a seawolf, with the headscarf and the vest showing a no perfect chest. Added the expression with open mouth and showing teeth, in a not friendly expression, is perfect.

Ok, my pirate is in the ship, waiting to board a portuguese ship that was previously cannoned carefully to destroy the boat mast and the sails , and to dismast. Now that can run away, is time to take a rope with hook and kill for the loot. His part of the work.

I want to obtain a tanny fleshtone, going to the sunburn of long days sailing looking for victims at the Caribbean sea.

I'm of pale flesh, so i gonna try to do it in two steps. First looking for the tanny, and then burning the skin.



So, the first step is here.















The transitions aren't so fine as they must, but there's a lot of work to do.

The mixes used







This dirty palette will be my reference to redo the mixes for the chest.



Now is time to irritate the skin and put it in red. I gonna do it with glaces, and i hope blend transitions at the same time, keeping the tanny tone.

I like this start a lot,i love the facial expression on this piece,looking forward to seeing how it develops

 

[franck edet]

that's a nice start for sure !

 

[Nap]

Looking good ..do you not use a wet pallete to keep the mxes the same for something like the flesh

Following with interest

Nap

 

[bucsfan21]

Excellent attention to contrast and tones in flesh tones on Pirate's face! Love the expression as well. Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to seeing this continue to develop.

Terry Martin-Member of the Atlanta Miniature Figure Society

 

[peedee]

Ohhhh that is a great set of weathered skin tones.

Paul.

 

[Metal Extremo]

Thanks everybody for the feeding. All your comments and suggestions are welcome in my threads.

Looking good ..do you not use a wet pallete to keep the mxes the same for something like the flesh

Following with interest

Nap

Hi Nap. I'm a desaster with wet pallete. Can't work without the feeling something is strange. And my wife don't want see painting inside the refrigerator. I can speak, argue and negociate but is a lost battle I prefer keep the pallet dirty and replay the mixes over the rest as a guide. In this bust, with the handkerchief at neck is easier. With something similar is enough.

Excellent attention to contrast and tones in flesh tones on Pirate's face! Love the expression as well. Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to seeing this continue to develop.

Terry Martin-Member of the Atlanta Miniature Figure Society

Ohhhh that is a great set of weathered skin tones.

Paul.

Till now i only have lights and shadows. My next step gonna be sunburned at face. Is my first time, so i hope the painting will be similar enough at what i'm thinking, or must redo what i've got now.

 

[fermatgom]

I think I know this guy!!! I've met him recently!!
Agree with all your comments!
About the wet palette I only use it for small details or small surfaces. So I don't have to dirty a plastic pallet. Also you don't have to use so much paint. But for all the rest it happens to me the same as you. By the way, if you want to keep the mitures fresh you can do this:
http://www.planetfigure.com/threads/keeping-fresh-mixtures.74991/
The mixtures will be fresh for more than a week!
I will follow with interes!

 

[Metal Extremo]

Hi Fernando.
Your idea of the tupper could be good. I'll try to put it on the refrigerator and pray to all the gods... is not allowed in my home to have paintings in it

I was burning skin, all the time with glaces. About a hour of work, and well, here go the pics.

First, the colours used


Now the seawolf.







The eyes



At least the pallet had two colours more. Sunset red and Royal purple



Inspiration for this bust is pirates music.
Group Running Wild

Under Jolly Roger


Treasure Island


The face is not finished, but i think over a 75% is done

 

[Metal Extremo]

A little advance.
Hair and teeht done. Now 've got a general view (without eyebrow the sensation is strange) of this hollander buccaneer. Perhaps a bit of satin varnish at teeth coul be added... The next step will be the shadow of the beard. I suppose saving was not a priority on a pirate ship, so must be of a week more or less.

Till now.

 

[Viking Bob]

Superb painting and in close up detail, thank you.

 

[Metal Extremo]

Thanks for your kind words Bob.

These Holidays were good moment to advance
For the beard, i use


For the handkerchief at hte neck



The browns were used to put some soil

Whit the clothes, i decided a green to equilibrate all the oranges and reds at the skin



Colours



the border is golden




Colours



As you can see, no mixes for it. Firse Japonese Unifor, some glaces of English uniform, beige to mark the thread, and glaces of Japo in lights and English in the rest. The glaces of chocolate for shadows. Some purple and oxford blue will be added for tones in green and golden in the future

My sailor now







Skin is burned, at shoulders and neck with more insistence. I think is how it was. The satin finish is for the sweat under the sun of the Caribe. And i want put dirty on the vest, but i don't know what was right in a ship. All ideas are welcome

 

[Jay-BFG]

Nice work going on here. Loving the burnt skin tones.

As for dirt, I just read Sharpes Trafalgar where it's mentioned that the crew had black hands due to the tar used to preserve the ropes, no doubt they wiped their hands on their tunics.

 

[phil_h]

Looking fantastic my man. Loving the skin tones and expression

Regards,
Phil

 

[Metal Extremo]

Very glad you like mates.

Nice work going on here. Loving the burnt skin tones.

As for dirt, I just read Sharpes Trafalgar where it's mentioned that the crew had black hands due to the tar used to preserve the ropes, no doubt they wiped their hands on their tunics.

Thanx Jay. Very interesting. I'll study how to use this.

Looking fantastic my man. Loving the skin tones and expression

Regards,
Phil

The expression of the figure is very good, with a lot of strengh

 

[kevininpdx]

Amazing skin. He really looks like he's been on the deck of a ship in the Caribbean somewhere.

 

[Metal Extremo]

Thanx Kevininpdx.

I finished the leather.

 

[Metal Extremo]

Time to draw hair at chest

 

[Osebor]

Those eyes... and the rest of the details. Amazing!