Experiments with highlighting

I didn’t take a before picture so bear with me.

I highlighted the lizardman’s skin with yellow. I tried to hit a bunch of the raised features and scales to make them stand out from the brown recess shading I did with my wash.

The scales make this a pain though so I could have spent a lot more time if I got anal about it. But I think the face looks a lot better with the highlighting where it looked too brown filtered before.

I also highlighted the yellow on this ranger’s sleeves while I had the yellow on my palette:

I can see a difference between before and after but I also see much room to grow. Getting the paint to go on even is trickier than I thought. Especially when you have such a small working room. I want to try again with a smaller brush to see how that goes next time.

And here’s a bonus picture of something I did today, painted the base of this magician!

I tried to mix a sandy color but got this orange instead and ran with it. I read in a book that orange plus white equals sand color. So I mixed equal parts yellow red and white. And got a weird salmony pink color I did not expect. Adding more and more yellow I finally got to the above orange and gave up on my sand look.

Now I envision his base as the floor of a palace where he’s come to demonstrate his magic.

K bye

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