Urban Legend Cowgirl
My latest assignment from Reaper is the Master’s Series Urban Legend Cowgirl. I’m including a WIP picture of one of her eyes. It’s a technique that I’ve been playing with & I feel it’s almost time to do a tutorial about it. It’s got similarities to the technique that I’ve seen used by the great miniature painters that do regular work for Reaper, but it’s slightly different.
The basic technique is to flood the eye socket with a base skin-tone, paint the whites, paint a large iris using a color slightly lighter than the color you’d like the eyes to be. Next, dot the pupil using black (it’s ok if it’s larger than it would be on an actual person). Then, use white to dot an even smaller highlight or two.
To me it’s pretty realistic looking AND it adds depth to the expression on the face. I’ll do a step by step tutorial once I’ve got this assignment done.
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