Avicenna Paints Guild Ball Busts

The last of these 4 busts is Angel and Salt – a ‘double’ bust really as you might argue that Salt (the otter) is as important as Angel to the Fisherman’s Guild!

In all of the pictures I’ve seen online Salt has been a white otter, but he doesn’t have pink eyes so I didn’t want to do him as an albino (plus I wanted him to look different to the albino rat on Piper’s shoulder). I decided to google ‘white otter’ and got a couple of interesting photos.

Otters are normally a dark brown/black colour and it appears that white otters are a very pale browny-grey. The fact that this adds a good bit of interest to the model sold me on the idea of trying to reproduce this colour scheme.

Here is my attempt

Well, this is the last post for this project as I have now finished all 4 of this first lot of busts and wanted to share her (them) with you.

My last update was Salt in all of his white-otter goodness, and now I have finished Angel to go alongside him.

I really wanted her skin to be quite different to Brisket yet still smooth and feminine. To achieve this, I ended up mixing yellow ochre with P3 Sanguine base and a load of ivory. Using completely different colours helped make sure the base tone was different from the outset, even though the shadows and highlights were the same.

One thing that took a crazy amount of effort was the non metallic gold beads in her hair… ouch! they are beautifully detailed but NMM really made it tricky for me! I’ll be chalking that up to experience 😛 Looks good though 😉

If you’ve followed my whole project, thank you!