Last night and all today I worked on all the painted areas. I blotted and scrubbed in some browns and reds into the landscape’s rocks to give them more presence and form. I also tried some bright yellow and white for highlights. I then moved on to the model, starting with her face, painting in the eyes and mouth. She’ll have some wild long lashes in the end, but since I have to add oil pastels onto the skin around it, I only roughed them in for now. Next, I painted the hair using ultramarine blue, black, and violet. I’ll use colored pencils and perhaps more paint later for highlights and more texture. I outlined the edges of all the kin areas, and washed in some skin tone in the smaller areas (face, abdomen, left arm and leg).
I then started on the transparent rings on her outfit. I mixed a violet blue with the color that would be behind it wherever is was to give it that transparent look. Once everything else is colored, I’ll come back and finesse the colors here as well as add highlights to them.
All that remained was the uniform itself. I started using gouache to paint the top in, but decided I wanted sparkles, so I masked it all out and went to the airbrush. I mixed various shades/tints of the magenta and built up the layers to form the top and shorts. I used white for some highlights, although I’ll use a paintbrush later to get the solid white highlights. I finished the magenta areas with red ‘sparkle’ acrylic.
Once dry, I covered the magenta area and unmasked the gloves and boots. Before starting the airbrushing, I used some colored pencils to mark the designs and details in, especially in the boots. Then I mixed a variety of yellow-greens and covered those areas. I finished them with a mix of florescent yellow and green ‘sparkles’…