Mini-Paint: 2-1B Medical Droid Action Figure

Action Figure Painting:

2-1B Medical Droid

Hey, it's another Action Figure painting!  Or, rather, IN-action Figure...  Am I right, folks?  Hello?  Is this thing on?  Anyhoo, it's another action figure mini-paint.  This time around, I chose to do another droid: 2-1B Medical Droid, first seen in "Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back" after Luke was rescued from the Wampa cave, and also attached Luke's robotic hand at the end of the movie, too.

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STEP ONE:  As with the other action figure painting, I used a mixture of light-blue casein (sort of like an acrylic paint, except it uses a milk-based protein as the binder) and matte medium on a 6" x 9" piece of Canson XL (#140) watercolor paper.  I then used a colored pencil to draw out the image to keep it from smearing around with the paints.

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STEP TWO:  Here's roughly the halfway point.  I just threw down some color to model some of the darks and lights, and a sense of the form, as well as the background color.

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STEP THREE:  And, as usual, lots of lots of painting, repainting, and re-repainting and here's finished painting of the 2-1B Medical Droid Action Figure.  For some reason, the color and painting gave me a lot more trouble than usual.  It took about 8 hours to finish, give-or-take.

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Done with gouache on 6" x 9" Canson XL (#140) watercolor paper.

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