this amazing David Eastman Hellboy bust and this is super cool. We're gonna be using these new Vallejo paints that I've been using. I am loving these things. Now starting off with a just their base red with a little bit of blue and a tiny bit of black and it's just to knock it back because it was very very bright. And if you're familiar with Hellboy especially Mike Mignola Hellboy which this is really looking like we're not looking at bright colors here. We're looking at muted colors and darker type things. You can see how dark that dried. Now we're hitting it with some brown and even though Vallejo paint really has some amazing coverage I do water it down a little bit just so it goes on a little smoother. I will have to give this guy a second coat and I'm just gonna hit the base with some gray and again we'll be adding some details later. This is just the initial sort of get the paint on. Okay now I'm gonna start adding some detail and you're probably thinking that brush is huge and it is way too big for that. Yes it is but I committed and I went ahead and did it anyway. I will be going to a smaller brush later. Now I want some sort of modeling to the skin tone. You know your skin tone isn't always just one thing. You don't want just like you know red. So a the base I always start with the shadow colors, the deeper tones and then I move up to the highlights. So now this right here is actually the red with just a tiny bit of blue in it and you can see it's not as bright as it is right out of the package but it's still pretty bright and it's still gonna dry back darker and then I'm gonna go in and dry brush it a little bit to sort of again get that modeling to happen. You can kind of see how it's happening on the chest where it's not just this one uniform color because then you know that doesn't look like a real thing. Where I am gonna add a lot of highlights are the coat because this is a leather coat and even though it's Hellboy and it's dirty and grimy I'm still gonna add the highlights on these upper areas in the folds and this is that same brown color with a little bit of yellow and it just sort of pump it up a little bit and and give it that highlight look and then I dry the brush off. I use a little paper towel and I go back in and sort of wipe over those highlights so that they sort of blend in a little bit more or it look kind of strange just having these really crazy specular highlights on something like this again where I'm going for a more muted look because that's a Mignola Hellboy. I think it seems just aniximorian sometimes using my fingers sometimes drying the brush and you can start to see now just how these little bit of highlights really start giving the coat a little bit more dimension and make it sort of stand off on them. Yeah the coat is modeled amazingly I mean it is incredible but just these adding these highlights and the shadows we're gonna add later really help give it shape. Now I'm giving it just a little bit more highlight there and I'm pretty much done with the body. Now the beard and hair was fun you could see some of the earlier using that larger brush it was way too big but what I wanted to do was I wanted to have some areas that were a little white and gray I wanted to red of the skin there so that when I went in with this really fine brush and just a straight black there would be some modeling happen. Again our hair isn't always you know the same colors for sure you should get a little bit older it gets a little grayer you can sort of see the scalp through pieces of it so even though this isn't you know totally done I am trying to get that sort of individual hair look and that blending between the head and the scalp because you know if you just painted this all one thing and you sort of just made it look very solid it wouldn't look as natural as hair does and it's you know it's always funny when I can break out these little teeny tiny brushes to get that detail in and in some places I'm going a little bit over the where the hair is what he's even added and modeled in just to make it look like it's sort of real hair little things and then I did the eyebrows and you said wait a second how boy does not have eyebrows and then I fixed the eyebrows it was like a reaction you just sort of start doing the eyebrows and that's what happened so I just want to end the teeth made a little bit of a mess but I'll clean that up later and then I went on to the emblem now I'm gonna do something simple here with the emblem and we'll work on that a little bit later I'm hitting these hairs I debated whether or not to do these but what I did was I used a really really fine brush and just barely hit them so you can see them a little bit now what I'm using here is what's called a wash and these are washes from Army and you can see how they just sort of sit in the crevice of something and really give it that sort of that deeper look that you're getting more contrast here you can definitely see it in the horns where it will go into the creases and sort of sit on top of the highlight area and wipe a little bit away and you can really see how it really sticks in there and gives you that depth that you want and I just went through and just pushed it along into the cracks and crevices and into the coat and again this is gonna sit in these crevices and give it that depth and sort of a little bit of a grime look at how boy would have and you could really start to see now how these washes work intending the areas and darkening them and really sort of filling into the cracks and crevices and giving it some super super depth this was a really fun one the print I mean Kevin Eastman Eastman did an amazing job on this there's gonna be of course links below and you can see how much this wash really gives you an incredible amount of depth now the last thing I did was hit the back of the coat a little bit to sort of help those sort of creases and cracks look a little bit more natural and then I knocked his teeth back with some brown wash because I mean those teeth were way way too white and here it is super happy with this I mean I'm always been a huge fan of Mike Mingle your Hellboy and this statue by David Eastman is just incredible I loved painting this it was super fun there's some glowing eyes I added again you can see how the chest is just you know not too too overly dramatic in the hairs and this was a real fun one if you guys like this the links to his models and his paint translate David Eastman's is below and this was a real real fun one the paint I really enjoyed it