Well, after an even worse England performance that the last one (I should have called this post 'I Wish I'd Painted Now - Pt. II'), I've managed to drag myself up out of the pit of despair and get a little bit more done on Njal.
At least the weekend it looking up - I'm watching Green Day at Wembley tonight, then I'll watch the recording of Doctor Who tomorrow (very excited!) and it's also Father's Day tomorrow and I get a lie in... Hurrah!
Anyway, enough of my life, I hear you cry! What about Njal?
Well, I've managed to finish the fur on the wolf's head and am now ready to start on the rest of the mane.
I did the wolf's head first as this is the focal point of the wolf, and the bit that really needed to be right, so I expected to have to have a couple of attempts at it. I didn't see the point in spending a very long time working on the whole wolf if I had to start again because the face didn't look right...
So here it is in all it's glory:
At the moment, it's nice, but not really fantastic, but I didn't expect it to be yet. When the rest of the fur is done, I can do the nose and eyes, which should really bring out the character in him.
I gradually, over about eight or nine stages, worked the face up from Chaos Black with Charadon Granite and Graveyard Earth, gradually adding more of the latter until it was virtually a pure coat. After that, I mixed about a 1:1 blend of Graveyard Earth and Codex Grey to do the final, most extreme highlights.
I'm going to try and follow this method for the rest of the fur, but as I want the wolf to look natural, and not uniformly-coloured, it shouldn't be a terrible loss if I don't manage to get the mixes exactly the same.
I should hopefully get some more done in the couple of spare hours I have tomorrow night...
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