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Shadowed Skink
This is a practice miniature I painted to try to get the hang of directional lighting. Rather than using highlighting to indicate the model's texture (e.g. raised areas are brighter and grooves are black-lined), I attempted to paint the model to show light coming from above. You can see this best on the inside of the legs and the chest area in the outside photos, and how the shoulders and the middle of the tail are the brighest spots. Unfortunately, in the photo, it's hard to tell this effect from real lighting - next time I'll paint the miniature with light coming from one side, lest I be labelled a fraud! I used the same seven shades of green to paint this miniature as my last practice skink (34323), but the blending is a little smoother - almost creamy-looking, I'd say, on the skink's back, except for the glare spots from my lights. I haven't tried wet on wet blending yet, but I'm using acrylic fluid medium in a way that gives good results. To transition between patches of green #5 and green #7, for example, I'd mix up a very translucent batch of #6 (e.g. 5 parts fluid medium to 1 part paint). Painted on thickly along the transition (either in several coats, or as a single ridge of paint, thickest on the boundary itself) it results in a smooth gradient from #5 to #7.
Posted: 18 Oct 2003
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