Hive fleet naga

[burnt lintel]

I am almost for. With this dude but I was wondering what I could do to highlight or shade more, or in general bring it to a higher standard.

I have not used any washes yet

[tacit mural]

You could get a darker green, and put darker lines at the areas underneath the transition between each plate (the grooves and stuff), and get a lighter green and make vertical lines across the plates/scales. that’ll give it some contrast, texture, and shadow

You could do a similar process for the skin, to give it a more interesting feel. Place darker orange in the recesses and where shadows would be, and a brighter orange where light would be

You also might want the eyes to be a different, bright, contrasting color to the rest of the head, if you want to bring attention to the eyes and face

You also probably want to paint those grey areas a different color

[burnt lintel]

The paint job isn’t complete I have not done eyes the weapons or anything else of the sort, thanks for the tips I will put them to use.

Could I use a nulin oil or smth of the sort to shade the scales?

[tacit mural]

You definitely could if you want to do that, however I dunno if it would look better than manually shading stuff yourself. Plus, getting practice with shading could be quite good for developing your skills

[burnt lintel]

Did some more details and added some nulin oil to the scales. I tried to do some shading on the skin but, I don’t know where to put the shadows

Also how would you recommend painting the hoof like feet, I was trying to go for a bone white so I started with a brown, and I’m not aware where to go next

[tacit mural]

I’m not sure how you’d paint them like feet, but usually what I see is people do a base coat of a certain color, do a lighter shade in the little indented areas, and then go over at least the bottom with smth that fits the base, or just a blood paint

[tacit mural]

I’d put the shadows in roughly the areas I put the red marks. I didn’t do all the shadows but hopefully you get the idea with this little example, though if my explanation was not sufficient, please let me know

[median lodge]

For the hooves you can get natural looking bone color with a white or off white and a sepia wash. You could also choose a contrasting color like a purple, which is particularly good for something like big scything talons, as it brings more focus to them.
I also agree with adding a darker green in between plates, gives them a bit more separation, a drybrush with a lighter green might help in highlighting the edges if you don't wanna go to the painstaking process of doing it manually, might get a bit messy though with the skin already painted.