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Astorath the Grim

My version of Astorath the Grim. It won a painting competition in our the local GW. Id love some feedback if anyone has the time its pretty much the first mini i have painted for about 4 years:) Sorry for the blurry images ill try and upload some non blurry ones when i can.

Posted: 18 Sep 2011

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in reply to Trucker thx for you input :) Actually as for the face i had to make a sorta scar on his one eye because the mini was the new finecast and it came with an air bobble in the eye so there isn’t actually a pupil which i didn’t actually discover till i had already started painting and at that point i was like screw it I cba to model one :/ The mini wasn’t as bad as another fine cast I got at the same time though where it looked like it had joined chaos since there where bubbles all over its skin and half the head was missing :S Not the best start ever for me and the new finecast models. As for the wings your very right about the blend its rough mainly because well there isn’t used any blending its just layers of lighter and lighter colors moving further out. As I Stated it was the first mini in about 4 years so I kept it somewhat technically simple but the effect still holds up imo when you look at the model from a little bit of a distance like a table or in a glass cabinet and not a camera 10 cm from the mini:D. As for the shoulder pads bone coloring you very right it is rather white and lacks heavy shadeing I wanted to make something drastically different color wise to try and make the mini less mirrored if that makes sence. But if I have to be honest I think it didn’t work out quite the way I wanted it to so I can only agree with you there. As for blue and red fitting together all I can say is spider man disagrees with you :D

21 Sep 2011 • Vote: 9

Trucker

Looks realy good from here. Here are a few pointes you can use or not, its upt to you :) 1) I'd like a better closeup of the face. Fromhere it looks like 1 is just a black hole. 2) The highlights on the wings could do with a softer blend. 3) The bone color looks to have little to none shading. 4) blue and red are hard to make fit together. I would have chose other colours if I was you, but thats a matter of taste. Good precision though!

20 Sep 2011

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