Over on Mastodon, Berit ran a small challenge for #FediPaint to complete a figure with the Zorn palette. It's been a while since I did anything with a Zorn scheme, and felt this was a nice time to jump back in! Behold the Pig Orc Shaman, or the Boarcerer as my friend named him.
For anyone unfamiliar with the #Zorn palette it's ivory black, white, yellow ochre and cadmium red. This article (https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2021/02/02/colour-mixing-exploring-the-zorn-palette/) is a great illustration of the breadth of tones you can find in just these four paints. I don't have a perfect match to those, so forgive my substitutions. You can see me trying to find some skintones in the early mixes here. The palette won't stay this neat throughout the project though!
I have ten of these fabulous models in total and jumping straight into the shaman felt wrong, so I started with a couple of skintones on a foot soldier. He was also my test for quick steel on the helmet but gave me a good idea of whether it would work on the character.
So that's the shaman finished, and I'll continue with the other members of the warband in the same palette over the next week or so. Yes, I should be working on one of my army projects I commited to earlier this year but that's how just things are right now so onward!
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