Step 6: Start Painting

I don't have many pictures of this process mainly because I didn't have my camera with me when I started.

The entire body was given a coat of white latex primer.

The torso was given a coat of black acrylic.

Originally I was going to make a cloak for Monax that covered his body. In the middle of the project, I decided I would attempt to cover it (the parts covered in black) in dog fur. No, I didn't shave a dog. The beloved family pet has loads of fur that comes free when brushed.

For the face, I started with sloppy lines of black in any divots/sunken spots on his face. I then put a brown streak on the outside edges of those, and then a medium blue highlight on top of those. Let dry.

Do the same for the hands and feet.

The next steps involves layering of whites - greyish whites on the base of any bulging surface (for example, the eyebrow bones) and stark whites on the highest points.

Almost all the initial dark colours I used on the 'skin' are covered over with a variant of white paint. I would dry brush white over the dark hues that I still wanted to be visible. This makes the shading subtle.

The teeth have a mixture of black and brown along the gum line. That is allowed to dry before I use a watered-down grey to soften the edges, dabbing the brush along the black line.

At this stage, I still need to work on the eye socket areas and the front teeth.