You're an ork Harry!

Managed to do some more orky skin and red tops today. Tried out some shading with washes too, seeing which colours had what kindof effect on green. I can't remember what stage I left them at yesterday, and I'm too lazy to check.

This is roughly the stage I left them all at

With my space orks looking more shiney, as you'll see in this step as I applied a liberal amount of watered orange paint . I carried on by applying a broad highlight of snot green (1:3 Paint:10%F). I was careful to leave a very fine band of the dark green and let most of the colour build up on the bulging parts of the muscles. I can't get my photos off of the camera for this stage at the moment - annoyingly.

Next step I highlighted the uppermost and bulgiest parts with 1:1:2 Snot green : Scorpion Green : 10%F. I found this to be a bit vivid for my liking so I decided to give everything a wash to hopefully bring down the colour and unify it where I'd been a bit rushed dolloping paint on.

And some useless pictures after washing;

Thraka Green Wash

Asurmen Blue - I really liked this combo

Asurmen Blue, Thraka Green, and Bhaal Red

Thraka green or asurmen blue - I didn't write it down :S

I really like the blend of asurmen blue over the greens of the skin. It helps blend the colours together very well, and adds greater depth to the shadows than just a darker green. With a thraka green selectively on top I think I have a keeper for doing skins.

Then I did a final highlight of 1:1:1 goblin green : scorpion green : sunburst yellow with an equal amount of 10%F in there. I dotted it on the most raised and highest areas of the muscles. Then I finished with a light shading of the lowermost parts with very delicately dotted asuremen blue.

I am very happy with the result

On top of all this I tried shading a couple of the orks pants with snakebit leather and then scorched brown but it just looked awful. In the pots I thought the snakebite would work nicely with the iyanden sun but it went on much more orangey than I expected and I couldnt salvage it at all with the scorched brown. So I got angry and washed it loads with devlan mud >: |

I have lost one of my orks, on which I tried out my new iridescent medium. The update was very close to being called Dude, Where's My Ork?