Gokufan's Celestial Genesis Twilight

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I had some more time for painting today. I decided to work on her rear arms. They’re much more “monstrous” than her front arms so I wanted to make them go from blue skin near her body to chitinous red on her gnarly hands. I highlight the arms near her body similar to the skin I’ve done so far, but not as light. Then I base coat the hands with gory red. I work with a mix of squid pink, gory red, dark prussian blue and light turqoise to try and make a gradient between the red and the blue areas. Then I finish up by highlighting her hands in the same way as the other chitinous areas.

After that I moved on to her arm guards. This is just the same process as I used for her headdress and costume; I start by base coating with hull red and then go for an NMM look using hot orange, dark flesh tone and ivory. The arm guards are extremely textured which makes it a fairly slow, painstaking process, so I decide to pace myself and only do the left ones today.

I’d been thinking about what color to do the various straps/strings on her arms and decided to use VMC Desert Yellow and ivory, which is similar to what I plan to use on her eyeball crown. I base coat everything with desert yellow, wash with Army Painter Strong Tone, overbrush with a mix of ivory and desert yellow, and then finish with a few spots of pure ivory. I also use this scheme for her claws. That’s it for today. Big thanks to everyone who has been commenting, recommending or just reading this, I really appreciate it!