Heat Blade
Heat Blade
Heat Blade
Heat Blade
The character 'Heat Blade' was sculpted by French Doll (Cerberus Project) after an illustration of Tsukasa Jun. I bought the figure 6 years ago and kept her until my painting skills could do her justice. Since I really wanted to bring my painting skills to the next level, I needed to stop painting figures in the boring clean Japanese Anime style and stop pinning them on a wooden base like dead pieces of plastic. I spent many hours thinking about how a frontal, cenital light source reflects on all different kinds of materials instead of doing 'deep area dark, high area bright'.

Heavily inspired by a piece of my big inspiration Jarhead, I turned the base into a little sci-fi scene, putting the figure in context and telling a story. Probably she is a brave galaxy defender? So brave that she doesn't even need chest armor.. : ) The basic tones are airbrushed, but basically the whole figure is hand painted. She is completely detachable so I can continue to refine every part when I want to, because there is still so much room for improvement. But for now I really enjoy just watching her in the display case.

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  • Roman LappatPLUS

    I see what you did there with that base... It is great to see such unusual figure projects by you here on P&P. Very cool, very different style ... lovely! Keep on happy painting! Best Wishes, Roman

  • Radovan DarkTower Rybovic

    Nice clean sexy hi-tech manga babe. She's hot and as Roman saind, she's different... Thanx for sharing

  • Jeff Burns "Tinman"

    Your flesh tones are crazy good!! Gold!

  • John Margiotta "BloodASmedium"

    Gold I love your female paintings.

  • Howard Rasmussen

    I'm trying to wrap my head around your flesh painting technique. It is so remarkably realistic. This is the level of skill that I aspire to emulate. Thanks for the inspiration!