by Pes !
What do supermodels look like before three hours in the makeup chair? It's Ghasts!:/pic8625487.jpg)
Noteworthy paints used: There's actually only a single color any of them have in common, which is Sharpnel red, used as the base color for each of their dead eyes. Otherwise, each one has a different color/combo of speedpaint base, highlights, and washes.
Challenges: What's interesting is how much the gulf between a basecoat color & its highlight can do to change the feel of a mini. The left & right ones are extremes in that regard... lefty used only a subtle gradient highlight and looks like a clean, cohesive design. Righty used a very pale extreme color over his base coat and it looks VERY unsettling in comparison. I put this in the "Challenges" section though because I did not get this correct on the first pass. The pale skin color was too much originally, washing out his features and just being too intense to look right. So another carefully applied coat of Pallid Bone speedpaint helped tamp that down. Fortunately now I love him, he looks delightfully ghoulish.
Things I'm proud of: I'm imagining there just aren't many painters who are going to be stoked to paint these guys... They're squat, ugly, and a somewhat lame mini design. But I'm really pleased with myself, because despite very much feeling that way, I think I successfully turned these into something spooky rather than just ugly. I mean, they're unpleasantly ugly, but in a way I'm proud of?
All of these were done the same way as alluded to above. First coat was AP speedpaint, a highlight coat of Scale acrlyic, and then some washes/shades applied with an emphasis on their right sides. The highlights I specifically tried to grab their bony features, the eyesockets, collar bone, knees etc. They have different hair colors on the back of their heads too but I liked this angle a lot more!
Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy! =)