My bone carapace sucks, any pointers?

[bahnee]

I'm practicing my scheme on used models from ebay, trying to make my bone carapace look right. I can feather, and I have an airbrush but I'm obviously doing something very wrong because none of them look good although I'd say the gargoyles are closest (maybe):



I want it to look more like this:



Any tips or suggestions would be most welcome!

[jimmyp]

Well you need to do a base coat of prob white, then wash with agraxearthshade with a mix of 50/50 Lahmian medium which makes it flow easier in cracks edges.
Then best to do 3 steps of feathering I do orange, then yellow and finally bone colour.. Slowly fading it away ie large,medium,small etc

Or try blending the colours also using Lahmian medium or water.
Are you after real bone effect???

[jimmyp]

Check this out

youtu.be/GvQWWGqux2U

[jimmyp]

Or this for dedicated feathering to get 3 colour highlight

youtu.be/V8rXOl_m8ew

[monkeychuka]

I think the 2nd gant from the right looks great. Obviously not the same as the fex but why not make it your own? If I was trying to copy the fex I'd start dark and build up to to the white, but there are many ways to skin a dead cat and I am not an expert.

[Davor]

I like the 2nd and 4th from the right. What are you going to do with the skin to complement it?

[Exocrine NzL]

The Termagant in the bottom left corner with the curved tail looks pretty close to the desired outcome I think.