An exercise in painting black.....

[Dagenhameast]

[DRAGON]

And very well done too ! 
You even managed to avoid most of the dust I seem to get when I paint anything dark ! 

[weareblind]

Very well done. This time, however, I don't like the bright face... maybe too much exposure to the light?

[alrith72]

I really like that. Black is great but the face is awesome, really captures the character well 

[Penfold]

  great pj and so many shades of black, tutorial please

[Inso]

Nice, subtle shading on the black and the pale skin on the face really suits it too.

...unfortunately, it is one of my least favourite HF sculpts because of the ridiculous pose...but an excellent paint job (as usual).

[Dagenhameast]

Cheers, all

Re the flesh; did do it a bit paler than usual to reflect (no pun intended) his nature which has led to nightmares trying to photograph..... if the flesh is right exposure the blacks disappear and vice versa.

Re the blacks.... 3 different: the T-shirt has VGC blue grey added, the jeans the highlight tone from the T and then white and the coat and boots VGC cobra leather plus a bit of white for the final highlight.

[Penfold]

thank you sir 

[wskr]

Impressive! 

[Brandlin]

impressively subtle colouring in and very characterful but i'm with inso on the figure - it leans way too far forwards - his c of g would make him topple forwards!

[Bungle]

 

[Lorbaat]

Re the flesh; did do it a bit paler than usual to reflect (no pun intended) his nature which has led to nightmares trying to photograph..... if the flesh is right exposure the blacks disappear and vice versa.

Photoshop can be your friend.  It's not cheating if you change things to reflect what the eye can see but the camera lens can't capture.

[agentmolar]

Its very nice, theres some yellow, and white and silver.... and Black... BLAACK.. BLACK like the pits of my soul. BLACK BLAAAAACK

[freakinacage]

i think he looks great the flesh tone is just right imo although the shading could do with being a little harsher imo, eye sockets and cheek bones for example

[PhilH]

Very nice. Black has always been a bugger to get right. I'll be trying your process. Thanks for sharing.

[MartinWhitmore]

That's one heck of a paintjob, sir!  All the subtle shading is really quite impressive - I especially like the way the coat is stretched tight over the back of his leg.  Looks really great!   

[aysonator]

an exercise or a masterclass! nice one