Hot off the heels of OdinI went straight into the bust of Blagomir the Silent. I followed the usual route of a zenithal highlight. I then followed this up with underpainting it with Magenta to set the ambience, this was then overlayed with Spring Green on the left side to start setting in an OSL point. Crimson was added to the right to build the vibrance of the magenta. Finally I added Naples Yellow to act as a main light source on the face and the shoulder/arm armour, the result can be seen below.
I then painted in the eyes, this was done with a basecoat of Art Black which was then overlaid with Vanilla White. I then painted in the iris colour using Turquoise Blue and finished up by adding in the pupil with a dot of black. To do the face I used Naples Yellow and Spring Green with Vanilla white to push up toward highlights. I used thing coats to keep some of the underlying coats coming through, I then increase the opacity of the coats as I build towards the highlights.
I then focused on the NMM gold using Yellow Ocre, Spring Green and Naples Yellow to build up highlights, finally I used Pastel Blue with the above colours to lay in the hair colours.
As you can see above I also started to lay in the NMM for the arm/shoulder armour, this was done using Pastel Blue and a mix with Naples Yellow, with Pastel Blue being used for midtones and Naples Yellow being the highlights.
I'm actually super happy with how this is going so far and I'm keen to see where it goes, follow along to see how I do it.