Alright, this is the last of this round of bust studies, the scales painting. Sheesh...I think I redid the face scales about 3 times, and then the body ones I restarted from scratch...oh only like 8 times. Ha, just to realize after I was happy (ish) with the last version that i didn't figure out my base shading for the body before adding the shading to define the scales' shape. At that point it around 2:30am and I had been working on this for far too long for what it is, so I just finished it off with the soft shading and was like, "I'll make sure to remember next time." If there were something of importance I would of tried harder to add the shading I missed, but for the bust study, bah.

By the way, time really flies when your painting scale by scale. You hardly notice it go from 11:00pm to 2:30am. Glad I went with hand painting each one though, I didn't like how the brushes looked. But, I do have an idea for creating a good set of hand painted scale brushes now.

With that, I call this set done! Onto other things!

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