These i feel is my best looking model.and its based to has to have a better score than my others. Only down side is i have yet to do anything with the flags.
Don't let the scores your figures get discourage you! This is about where most of us are at this point in your painting career. Now your paint is still a bit thick and you've still got some "stray paint" on parts of his gear, but it's good to see that you're experimenting with shading. Not sure if you saw my comments on your Blackclad so I'll repeat a few here. Take a photo or two when you sit down to start an evening's painting and load it into a photo viewer (photobucket or even just MSPaint), you can blow it up and see areas that you may have strayed into or missed easier that way. Looks like you need to thin your paint down or possibly not make as many passes across each surface as you're covering your detail. Some of it may be your priming also (no clue what he looked like before you started) since a thick primer coat can mask detail and cause surface ripples even before you start in on the color. I would say "Hit the articles and then start a WIP on the forums so the painting gurus can give you advice!" They don't bite that hard = ) Now for a bit of (possibly useful) advice. I would recommend using a thinned paint wash or ink (GW and P3 lines have some decent inks and washes) to help bring out breaks in his armor (red, brown or green depending on your goal hue) and gold/bronze (brown will make it look gold, green will push it to bronze). HIs swords could use a bit of dulling on the main blade or alternately, push the highlights on the edge. His hair is definitely flat looking at this point, hair gets lighter near the ends (as strands seperate and move away from each other) and usually has a "halo" near the scalp where it is closer to the light source. Think of it as two half moon shapes, one on each side of the part in the hair. His flags don't need to be super detailed, just a bit more shading and highlighting could bring them to a good starting point for future freehand work. Keep it up, you're coming along just fine!
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