I finally made myself get out the paint tubes and finish the Beast from Beyond. I think it's a fairly good response to Propnomicon's challenge.
As you can see I used a lot of dioxazine purple and white paint, and I'm pleased with how that turned out. Whenever I make these things I keep telling myself I should use more colour and expand my palette beyond grungy brown and grey. I admire the way Fauvist painters like Andre Derain use colour, but whatever colours I use generally end up transformed into shades of brown and grey. This project, I think, is quite colourful yet still looks plausibly organic.
There's still a lot of brown and grey here. The creature's underside and the tops of its fins are finished with a wash of diluted white paint, and the result is a pale, sickly, somewhat unpleasant grey effect. I like it.
I really enjoyed this sculpt, and I think Propnomicon may have got me hooked on extra-dimensional specimens. I may have to make another of these.
As you can see I used a lot of dioxazine purple and white paint, and I'm pleased with how that turned out. Whenever I make these things I keep telling myself I should use more colour and expand my palette beyond grungy brown and grey. I admire the way Fauvist painters like Andre Derain use colour, but whatever colours I use generally end up transformed into shades of brown and grey. This project, I think, is quite colourful yet still looks plausibly organic.
There's still a lot of brown and grey here. The creature's underside and the tops of its fins are finished with a wash of diluted white paint, and the result is a pale, sickly, somewhat unpleasant grey effect. I like it.
I really enjoyed this sculpt, and I think Propnomicon may have got me hooked on extra-dimensional specimens. I may have to make another of these.
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