![How To Paint Moonstone’s Nanny | Goblin King Games [7 Days Early Access]](https://images.beastsofwar.com/2024/12/3CU-Gobin-King-Games-Moonstone-Shades-Nanny-coverimage-225-127.jpg)
A Master Of The Arts Comes To Life With FitzPatrick’s Lugh
September 20, 2018 by brennon
Lucid Eye wasn't content with just their releases for Toon Realms yesterday as they also put up the pre-order for their next Jim FitzPatrick miniature. Here is the mighty Lugh.
Lugh, also known as Lugh LámhFada (Lugh Long Arm) or Lugh IlDána, is one of the iconic Celtic Gods. I think Lucid Eye has done a sterling job of bringing this character to life from the artwork by FitzPatrick and I love that they've captured that androgynous look to him as well.
The pale skin is going to be the challenge here I think; managing to give it an almost ghostly glow whilst still making him look full of life.
What do you make of this new FitzPatrick project?
"The pale skin is going to be the challenge here I think..."
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
That looks really nice.
Lovely representation of Jim’s art work. Lugh is one of my favourite from the Irish pantheon, even named a character I play after his title samildánach, the master of the arts. I really feel like pickin up all of the collection now. Bad OTTers, bad.
A fabulously detailed figure.
For the pale skin, start off with something very light that reads as white, and keep an eye on the direction of your lighting as you shade and highlight it (shade in blue, but you’ll probably want to highlight with a warm near white). If you keep a really strong eye on the direction your light is coming from, you can shade the skin all the way to black, and it will still read as white. Alternatively, if you want him to appear ghostly, then shade and highlight everything else with a solid light direction in mind, but paint his… Read more »