To Blood & Dig, thanks fellas. I'd have to attribute the quick improvement you mention to personal help from the artists on CMON, and the loads of inspiration and research data available online. I am very much the type of person that learns from what he reads, so this set up works great for me. And no sorcery is involved, just divine inspiration from the Skullfather Khorne.
Thanks Andy. The face def needs some attention, as well as the hair. There are some accidental white smudges on his face so please ignore these, but deeper shadows are the answer fo sho. I've taken the lights as far as they can go.
What exactly do you mean by under lighting? Is this sort of setting the stage for subsequent glaze layers by putting down an appropriate base layer?
Finally, big plans for this base. It's going to be a forest scene with a crumbling Elven statue being overtaken by the undergrowth. Think bright green grasses and flowers here and there. I bought some weathering powders so I'll need to read up on how to use these convincingly. Plan to weather the statue with some slate green powder and citadel's Typhus Corrosion. (See pic of real world inspiration-Angel). I'd like to build the base with some changes in altitude also. Finally, I want to make some stone work, some tiles on the ground made of GS or milliput. So I've got my work cut out for me, but it won't disappoint I hope. Pics below:
