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X O Factos Dracula has risen from the grave, airbrushed and hand painted, with acrylics, artists oils, artists inks, pastels, and enamels. A realy nice kit this one, only very slight sanding, and no filling, I started, by spraying the inside cape, with a mix of bright red acrylic, thinned with, scarlet artists ink, to get the rich red base that I was looking for, when this dried, I blended crimson artists oils into all the folds, to acheive shading, I finished with a satin laqeur, then masked off ready for the suit, which I sprayed a very dark grey, rather than flat black, a darker shade of grey went into the folds for shading, then I dry brushed with lighter grey, for highlights. The flesh base coat of tamya flat flesh, then I shade using a mid brown pastel round the hairline cheekbones, eyes etc, then used a charcoal pastel round the jaw line, for five oclock shadow, I now use this technique for all flesh tone rather than washes and dry brushing. the eyes and teeth where then seen to, then it was onto the cross which was painted in gold enamel, I painted the outer cape matt black, dry brushed with dark grey, for highlights, finally I glued the cross then used artists inks in an eyedropper, and literally squirt the inks randomly, over the cross and let the liquid drip and run how it wanted to. Great fun!!!!!!!
X o facto
Dracula has risen from the grave.
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Copyright Mark Atherton 2002
