El Harkir, Renowned Pirate

Description	:	Primed white. Reds are worked up from Scar, Gore to bloody. Then glazed with a 50:50 mix of bloody red and hot orange. The white shirt was basecoated bone, then highlighted VMC ivory, skull white and titanium. The blue pants were painted mid-tone-washed with my darkest blue then highlighted magic blue. The stripes were black, then 50:50 black and dark blue then a highlight of the dark blue. Once dry I glazed the pants with a single layer of the magic blue. For the flesh I kept it darker than my usual “recipe” and added ivory after the lips were painted for a sun-dried, blistered look. I kept the base simple as I have some more pirates to paint and I want them to tie-in as a group. Painted the base sand, then dry brushed with bone and highlighted with skull white, aiming for a white sand Caribbean beach – before the tourists arrived!

Poll results:
Number 7 overall.
Third Place: one vote

From:	Michael Stubbs` (LavronYor)	(Fri 13 Jan 2006 06:19:44 AM CST)
Nice job, you might try a little darker under his arms on the white, and a little lighter on the top of his right thigh. I really like the sand. It does look beachy.

From:	Rhonda Bender (Wren)	(Sun 29 Jan 2006 11:03:11 AM CST)
The reds look nice, and I like the white shirt, although I agree that some of the shadows could be a little darker. Nice clean stripes on the pants, and good shading, but there I'd have liked to see a bit more highlighting, particularly on the dark stripes.