Yogie Paints Large Minis and Busts

I thought I would start with a bust and the bust of choice was Nuts Planet Night’s Watch.

I picked it because all the other busts or minis I had had lots of different surfaces and intricate details. This one seemed the simplest with a face, hair some leather and fur. How hard can it be? I’m about to find out.

I was trying to find a good example of this bust but non really jumped out to me. Until I saw this.

I really liked the cold feel of this bust but I thought to my self I’m going to push it even further, I’m going to go with a colder bluer skin tone. Now it’s the first time I’ve ever done this so it will be interesting. I’m going to follow the nocturna vallejo malefic skin guide. So here we go, wish me luck.

Step 1. Lay down a base coat of 74.014 Cold flesh.

Step 2. Highlight with 50/50 cold flesh and Pale Flesh. As per my bust class, I’m just going to sketch in the highlights and worry about smoothing out the transitions later. To do this I am going to place the highlight and then with a large damp brush (size 3) feather out the edges to smoothen out the transition. Now this won’t be perfect, I’ll tidy them up further later on.

The highlights are going to be concentrated on the forehead, the nose, the chin and the high parts of the cheeks.

Now I just kept working at it until I liked it.

I also started adding in a pure pale flesh highlight.

Step 3 – Shade with Frozen Flesh.

Here we are concentrating on the lower cheeks, under the nose and lips, in the creases etc.