[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by Kirathis

@Trivial
Damn man, those are some bad ass customs! Absolutely loving the paint work on both. I will be really interested to see how the hair for Psylocke turns out once you have another Silk head to use. I think DTL asked but I missed it if you answered, did you mask off (tape) the lines on Psylocke? They are really clean.

Thanks Kirathis for the kind words...I really appreciate it! Hopefully I'll be able to track down another Silk head soon...I have seen several custom casts of it out there online, but I really struggle with painting facial features and eyes, and as a result, will usually only paint heads if the eyes are covered (like my Blade) or have a mask of some sort (my Black Panthers.) Otherwise, I usually settle for a standard painted Hasbro head and tweak it and work around it as needed. Drybrushing the hair shouldn't be too hard when I find one...especially when when Hasbro has been hitting it out of the park with their female headsculpts and paint applications for them lately.

As for the tape question, on Psylocke, I did manage to use tape to apply the upper "strap" on her left leg, but on the second leg strap, I ended up freehanding it out of frustration with my canvas (the paint was running under the tape down her leg, creating a mess.) The same thing kept happening whenever I tried to apply the X to her chest, except in that case, after failing at that several times due to various issues, I decided to forgo that design element altogether, and just paint the tiny square at the nape of her neck for the sole purpose of breaking up the solid black color scheme. The arms and hands are also freehand.

On Rogue...no tape touched her body. It's all free hand. What I will do when painting, is make a rough shape or line with the contrasting color, and then paint over the excess and clean it up with the base color (in this case, painting it green first, and then cleaning up the edges with black paint.) I've found it to be much easier, rather than trying to get it perfect when painting it the first time. It was a mostly trial and error process that managed to come out mostly symmetrical.