Habanero Tan Update
Since I wasn't satisfied with the result of the Habaneros, I'm working to fix some issues I have with them before shipping them out to the customer. First and foremost the two halves of the head pieces have different tones,…
Young Hip Cover Gal done and Habanero Update!
Easy to see how busy I was this month since there was no posts; but I’m making up for lost time with these things. The future on the eyes for the Cover Gal has solidified so I put the head back onto the body and took a few pictures. Now, I did take her out to Valley Con and a couple of people including friends had made mention that she was a bit on the pale side. The PVC kit and the reference photos have her as even more pale than what I did, I think. But regardless, the end game is that this affects my current mixture of skin tone. I was running low on skin tone, so before working on her, I mixed up a new batch, and I think I may have gone a little too pale. I use this as a base color and my technique for shading uses this as the dark base color for which a lighter version of the color is then use to highlight the kit. So my problem now is if anyone else feels that she is overly pale? I will have to go back and adjust my mixture to darken the tone; but again, I’m partially color blind so I need as much guidance in this as possible. (more…)
New Tutorials and Updates to Existing Tutorials
I pulled the videos I have for my model building seminar and converted them to flash video files so that they will be easier to download and stream from my site. The quality of the videos is no where near…
Habanero Tan Progress Update
Prep work is the most important phase in any model building. Painting is easy. Sanding, priming, re sanding, re priming, and repeating is tedious work but in the end, it is well worth the effort. Once all this is done,…