Painting these guys taught me an awful lot and forced me to move my skills forward real fast. I went through a phase with my trolls where I wasn't actually shadowing anything - I was just building up the highlights from the darkest base colour I could pick. Quite time consuming, but I was fairly happy with the results. They led to a very natural, but subtle, effect across the whole thing.
As one would imagine, subletly started to drop by the wayside in the favour of more exaggerated highlights (and accordingly more obvious shadows). I experimented with a bit of inking and washing before settling down to a more usual technique, although mixed with a judicious amount of P3 Mixing Medium (that stuff is gold).
Don't have my trolls anymore - they weren't being played, they were finished being painted and it was time to clear out some room. I do miss them on occasion, and I've pretty well decided to stop selling stuff off in the future and just pick up another storage bag instead :)
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