WIP The Gladiator buste

[John van Pelt]

With the second Gladiator movie appearing i thought i could give Russel a try.
Face almost done, it is the YM buste.

 

[marco14]

that is looking very beautiful already,is that dark brown hair John,because I must paint also dark brown hair,and no idea what to do???
but it's going to be a very nice busts
Mario

 

[MalcC]

Great start, and looking forward to following.
Fingers crossed, they'll be some new figures/busts based on the forthcoming film.
Apparently no.2 is based on the character Lucius from the first film.

Malc

 

[John van Pelt]

Hi Mario,

the base is done in pure black. Then light strokes of chocolate brown, not a drybrush but it approaches this technique.
Vallejo camo black brown is also a nice color.
Do not dillute the paint too much and be gentle. Then to finish go to the edges of the hair in the face area with a 25% sunny skine tone mixed with chocolate brown. Again not a hardcore drybrush but it comes close. Painting haircuts and a beard is sometimes done to with a hardcore drybush which is still the Verlinden way of the 80’s i guess.
Just try it and do what for you feels good.

 

[marco14]

Hi Mario,

the base is done in pure black. Then light strokes of chocolate brown, not a drybrush but it approaches this technique.
Vallejo camo black brown is also a nice color.
Do not dillute the paint too much and be gentle. Then to finish go to the edges of the hair in the face area with a 25% sunny skine tone mixed with chocolate brown. Again not a hardcore drybrush but it comes close. Painting haircuts and a beard is sometimes done to with a hardcore drybush which is still the Verlinden way of the 80’s i guess.
Just try it and do what for you feels good.

thank you very much, I didn't think about chocolate brown,I was with vallejo germ.black brown,but gonna try to do it like you say this evening
and see what I get,thanks a lot

Mario

 

[Ferris]

Very nicely painted face!

Adrian

 

[Briggsy]

Great face painting there, love the colour variation you have got in there it's very subtle and very effective.

Cheers Simon

 

[housecarl]

Very well done.

 

[WarhammerAdjacent]

This is looking great, thanks for sharing and thanks for the tips on hair.

 

[fabrizio19691969]

very fine

 

[Steve Ski]

Beautiful start!

 

[Steve Brodie]

Thats very nice