Here are the finished pictures! I'll have to apologize in advance.. I am NOT a photographer but I've done the best I can. White balance, exposure, composition.. It all goes over my head sadly, so I've chosen a broad range of images to hopefully get the point across.
First off, I'd like to give a shout out to @
horrorfx for uploading this amazing tutorial video. It was great to follow along with for my beginning steps, as well as cutting the cape.
The video can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z-NOCst-Q
I began by doing a dark wash with black oil paints. This alone really makes the figure shine, (both figuratively and literally for some reason!)
I then proceeded to apply silver paint around the bumps on the figure. There is actually no silver on the suit, but it was a good way to get the "look."
You can see what a huge difference that makes in this photo here.
I did this technique across the whole body.... and I ended up with the Silver Surfer! :lol
The next step was to carefully dry brush all the raised bumps black. Once this was done, it was on to airbrushing the body as well as repainting the flesh tone on the face.. I left the eyes alone, simply because I know I can't hand paint something so small without completely messing it up.
So flesh tones were carefully added to the face, and then I used some thinned black in an airbrush to weather and shade the suit. I hit areas that were a little too clean or shiny, and shaded around certain muscles.
Then came the cape! I am not in love with the pleather I used as it just doesn't fold or sit how I'd like. May be redoing that in the future. My advice is watch Chris's video as its the same process I used. He just looks a lot better doing it. :lol
So, without further ado, here is the Batfleck!!!
