Industry 1: Summer Project- Painting outfits and hair

For painting the figures I began with the clothing. I had coloured reference photos for each of the figures. I took the ideas from the colours of the outfits but made lots changes as there where lots of dull greys and blacks. And these would have been boring to paint and less visually striking within the model of the Great Hall. I wanted to make sure they all stood out without making all the colours obnoxiously bright. Furthermore, the brief wanted modern day looking people so I tried capturing that with the colour choices.
I made sure to mix every colour myself and not use any paint straight from the tube. This make for more realistic and cohesive colour palettes. A tip that I was given was to desaturate the colours using grey to make the models appear larger. I made sure when making each colour to create an excess and not wash out the palettes. This way I would have spare to paint over any mistakes or bits I missed without spending the time mixing the exact colour again. This really helped save time especially as I got the the smaller details.
I used different thicknesses of brushes to cover all the clothes. I painted 1 models outfits fully then moved onto the next. This is the work flow I chose and after finishing it I feel like it was a good decision. The paint dried faster than I thought it would which was very helpful for speeding up the painting process. Completing all the outfits took around 25 hours in total

After the outfits I did the hair and accessories like caps and phones. There wasn’t a huge variety of hair colours, mostly shades of brown so I altered some but not drastically. I started with the darkest hair and moved to the lightest. I did each hair with slight colour variations. Giving it a bit more of a realistic look with some lighter and darker bits. With some of the longer hair I accidentally painted over bits of the clothing so it became very helpful that I had been saving the paint from the clothes. For the hair I mostly used thin brushes as there was lots of small gaps that were hard to fill. The hair took about 10 hair to do.