Painting Topaz from Nightshift by Exotic Cancer

 With the first of the girls done, it's time to move onto the next.

Again, we're going more for "high tabletop" quality than anything else.

 Step 1

First step is the same as always, prime with a matt black spray and cover up the parts you missed by brushing on a matt black. Boring but necessary step of the process.

Step 2

For this girl, we're going to use two thin coats of Jasper Skin from the Army Painter. It'll still look a bit translucent, but that's fine because future layers will cover that up.


 Step 3

She looks a bit red at this point, so we're going to darken this down with a wash of Dark Skin Wash from the Army Painter, once it's dried she'll look a bit more natural.

Step 4

With the skin tinted and some deep tones in the recesses, we want to make the raised areas lighter by applying a highlight layer using Jasper Skin.


 Step 5

With the skin done, we move onto the hair next. For this, I used a layer of Vallejo Game Colour Extra Opaque Heavy Sienna. This paint is highly pigmented, so you can get away with a single layer.


 Step 6

To add depth to the hair and darken it down, we apply a wash of Vallejo Umber.


 Step 7

With the hair done, we move on to her clothes. Start by applying two thin layers of Vallejo Scrofulous Brown (yes, it does sound pretty disgusting) to the lingerie, shoes and jewellery.


 Step 8

Next we use Vallejo Model Colour Golden Yellow to highlight up the areas we painted with Scrofulous brown in the last step, making sure to leave the deepest recesses alone and, like we did with Ruby, do a slightly smaller second layer from some pseudo-blending through layers.

 

Step 9

A couple of light touchups to the face, and going over areas where we might have accidentally "gone outside the lines".


 Step 10

We base her the same way we did with Ruby; Bone White and Stone Grey checkers lined with a black micron pen. Though, for Topaz, we will paint her rim using Golden Yellow, instead of red, before applying a matt varnish to seal the paint and keep it safe.


 And that's it for Topaz, thanks for reading and keep an eye out for future painting guides.

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