The Mad Hatter's hat

Oops, I've just realised I haven't updated my blog with the Mad Hatter for quite a while despite a lot of progress.

Meanwhile his skin is almost done ... White is tricky to paint. I used blue for the shadows.

Then I painted one of the most important parts, his hat ...

Regarding the flower pattern you can only see after enlarging the original picture (see below), I made use of my freedom of artistic expression and changed it a bit compared to the original.

How do you like him so far?

First eyes on a bust

Today I added eyes to both entries for Banshee's Anonimous Bust Contest. The first time ever on a bust ...

White followed by Reikland Fleshshade and a black dot ...

Two shades of yellow on the left and two shades of green on the right ...

... and in the end a tiny black dot and an even tinier white dot.

Don't ask me how often I tried and repainted the different stages - and I'm not even satisfied with the result. :-(

If you have any recommendations on how to proceed or helpful links, don't hesitate to post them in the comments. I definitely need to improve!!!

Have I gone mad?

 

"I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers."

"But I will tell you a secret. 

All the best people are!"

(Alice in Wonderland)

I'm relieved to tell you that several people realised that it's the mad hatter even before I had added hair to the bust. Which was a lot of fun BTW as you can see on these pics. :-)

Do you like him?    

Anonimous Bust Contest - Update

I've made progress with the conversion of one of my entries for the contest mentioned above:

 First attempt to put the bow tie together.

Done!

 When I turned my back on the bust and my partner for a minute or so, this happened:

:-DDD

Eyebrows!

So now that you have seen all these WIP pics: Who is it?

Banshee's painting and creation contest

Slowly the pieces all come together ...

Any idea what I'm trying to build?

Banshee's painting and creation contest

First pics of one of my contributions for Banshee's painting and creation contest:

I'm going to enter two contributions, both of them in the creation category which is rather unusual for me. Normally I'd go for painting only. For both ideas I have painting wouldn't be sufficient though. So I decided to go for a new challenge: sculpting.

Warponies - almost done

 
Finally managed to add some darklining to the armoured war ponies.
Almost done now ...