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been working on a buste to spend some more time working with a brush en practicing.
not really sure about the way he hair is going... so some C&C would be appreciated...

this is the second attempt at the blonde hair
toned down the yellow.... and darkened the beard.
nevermind the face... just put down a basic tone to have an idea of the contrast between hair and face.... this still needs a lot of work





this was the first attempt

Its way yellow. like cartoon yellow

It might be because its too dark. Id go with a Lighter Brown in the shadows and mix a bit of white or ivory into the yellow.


or the picture isnt doing it justice.

what colour are you using for the undertone?
my burbonic brown is dead and i dont know what colour to replace it with

It's too yellow, as mentioned.
It's also too consistently the same dark-light transition. It looks like you are highlighting each strand without really describing the whole mass. The beard for instance would be darker closer to the face and then lighter further out as light starts to diffuse through it (unless you are going for wet hair, in which case it's all way too light/bright)
The whole thing is a bit too saturated. You could probably knock it back with some neutral/cool washes and then pull the highlights back out again but with a much more subdued palette.

Part of it is the sculpting. In reality people tend to have much more coarse beard hair than head hair, which would give his beard more volume than it has here where it's basically just more of the same kind of hair.

 Desubot wrote:
Its way yellow. like cartoon yellow

It might be because its too dark. Id go with a Lighter Brown in the shadows and mix a bit of white or ivory into the yellow.


or the picture isnt doing it justice.

I've added some tan and white brown to the mix to do the highlights..... but after looking at it again it still looks to yellow...
I'll try starting out with tan basecoat and work my way up from there.

 plastictrees wrote:
It's too yellow, as mentioned.
It's also too consistently the same dark-light transition. It looks like you are highlighting each strand without really describing the whole mass. The beard for instance would be darker closer to the face and then lighter further out as light starts to diffuse through it (unless you are going for wet hair, in which case it's all way too light/bright)
The whole thing is a bit too saturated. You could probably knock it back with some neutral/cool washes and then pull the highlights back out again but with a much more subdued palette.

Part of it is the sculpting. In reality people tend to have much more coarse beard hair than head hair, which would give his beard more volume than it has here where it's basically just more of the same kind of hair.

well.. now that you guys mentioned this I did have another look at it from that perspective.. and you're right... too yellow and needs to be toned down a lot....
Need to make the roots a lot darker...
and get more different shades on the head...

LordRahl wrote:
what colour are you using for the undertone?
my burbonic brown is dead and i dont know what colour to replace it with

I uesd vallejo's heavy gold brown as a basecoat


Thanks for the input guys.. I hope I can show something better at the end of the weekend

LordRahl wrote:
what colour are you using for the undertone?
my burbonic brown is dead and i dont know what colour to replace it with

Army Painter's Desert Yellow is an excellent replacement for the (much missed) Bubonic Brown.

first post updated with a second attempt after C&C

Looking better. though the roots looking way too dark.

Makes him look like he is dyeing his hair