Managed to finish up Taneyva, the bodyguard for the Blackthorn faction. I chose to paint her up first out of the Freeblades models as it was one of my favorite sculpts. There are still some places I may go back and fix, but since this is probably just for my own use, I'm stopping on her here for now.
My first thought on initially taking her out of the package was that with such a look, I had to paint her a red head. I haven't painted red hair very often, so I liked that this would be a challenge. I built up layers from brown until I finally got something I was happy with. The legs had some roughness on the sculpt that I didn't notice until well into painting, so I let it go for now.
I tried a lot of new things out, some frustrating, some fulfilling. The biggest one was trying to use 2 brush blending. I had a lot of frustration doing this, and ended up redoing several areas, but there was some improvement. I can definitely see where the technique is faster, and as I'm such a slow painter, I really want to learn things to help speed things up.
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