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I painted this guy a while back for the 'Eavy Metal competition on Facebook, for the theme of "magic". I rushed to finish him in time, so for the past few weeks I've been gradually improving him.
The base was very quick to do, but I'm quite pleased with it - more of a natural, swampy look than my usual jungle bases. It's made up of moss, coffee grounds, thyme, potting soil and various other planty things 
Like the base, I painted Mage Priest himself to look natural and realistic, drawing inspiration from the skin of various living reptiles and amphibians. The mottled effect was achieved using a wide range of colours gradually added over a white undercoat (Bubonic Brown, Shadow Grey, Catachan Green, Liche Purple, Regal Blue, Bleached Bone, Goblin Green, Dark Angels Green, Scorched Brown, Sunburst Yellow, Black, White and Blazing Orange are all in there somewhere ). I tried to keep the cooler colours, the blues and the dark greens, to the shadowy areas, and used bright hues to accentuate his eyes to give him a tropical and exotic look despite the overall muted tones. I'm quite pleased with the zenithal lighting effect (this is most evident from the top-down photo), and with the eyes and face area. There are still small areas I'm not entirely happy with, but I think he came out pretty well.
I hope you like him
~Bill
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Viewer comments:
psybertech
10-Feb-09
#283576 |  | Rating: 10
Stunning, you have brought it to life. |
Gildor
02-Dec-08
#277050 |  | Rating: 10
Nice! |
Wren
16-Sep-08
#270064 |  | Rating: 9
I'm not at all surprised that you would create something so naturalistic looking. The skin patterning is terrific, particularly the darker areas. I love the eyes, also. Great work on the base! |
demonherald
08-Sep-08
#269428 |  | Rating: 10
this is so underappreciated.... just a cool cool looking frog ... lovely job and displays your eye for the natural things on this earth good job Bill. |
jarhead
08-Sep-08
#269391 |  | Rating: 9
This one is a real frog...c'mon no shame to tell us that you caught a real one to prepare him after death... just kidding - wonderful colours in there... Great work! Regards jar |
vincenti
07-Sep-08
#269296 |  | Rating: 10
I love him !
Id love this little chap sitting on a lilly pad in my garden.Excellent reptillian paint job as well ...............Score sucks !
GOD bless ...... .VINCENTI |
krokar
01-Sep-08
#268784 |  | Rating: 8
Overall its a fantastic piece id I am inspired to paint a slann myself, however i think it looks a bit messy underneath the spots ,
nice piece though
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