1st work using glazing techniques taught by Vincent Hudon - Ilyad Taurg minoatur

StarFyre

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So this is my first work, since attending a painting class by Vincent Hudon. I completed this back in september but just got around to photographing it now.

It pays hommage to (but no where close to as good results) a similar cool colour themed Taurg by MatthiueL.

It uses something I have to work on now to get better, that Vincent taught - glaze techniques. Massive amounts of super thin glazes to slowly tint the model as needed.

The skin was basecoated (with 4 thin basecoat layers) with a mix of snakebite and space wolf grey. Then some added snakebite to bring up the brown, to the darker areas. Then added blues and purples.

Turqouise and blue/purple inks and black were used throughout the model after the basecoat.

The 2 crystals are from...a company that I can\'t remember the name of (I have the link at home). THe base I made via apoxysculpt.

I am very happy with the glazed blends on the leg muscles and the axe.
Errors:

Some known issues that I realized after I decided to stop work on it...
1) the freehand tattoo on teh back, unlike the ones on the leg/arm is just too rough/thick. I should hvae removed it and started over
2) there are small drops of blue on the lighter areas of the muscles, from paiting other areas and not noticing the drops sprinkling all over :(
3) the colours, I notice now, aren\'t deep enough to see. Only on parts of the legs is is visible the change to purple. Most of the model, I should have done more deeper glazes. I may go back over it during the holidays and add some more depth to the muscles, since I like this model so much.

Regards,

Sanjay
 

generulpoleaxe

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looks cool mate :)

i would have done the tattoo on the base coat as it\'s easier to correct mistakes and the glazes over the top would add to the illusion of it being under the skin.

realy like it :)
 

Arctica

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its a great piece but a question. Whenever i use glazes the surface i\'ve glazed has a shine/sheen to it any suggestions to reduce this effect? or maybe something is wrong with my glaze/technique?
 

Aidan K

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Are you using inks or just watering down your normal paints? I find you get a shiny effect when using the GW inks, so now for most of my glazes/washes now i just water down normal paint to a really thin consistency. Avoids the shiny problem. Either that or try a matte acrylic medium as a thinner for inks.
 

Arctica

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ah ok, im actually using the very very old GW glazes and i noticed the shine effect from the inks, i don\'t normally water down my paints to be used as inks but might try that instead, thanks for the tip. :beer:
 

generulpoleaxe

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inks need to be watered down to take advantage of their transparancy.

use them to brighten colours or change the tone of something.
(they can also be usefull to adding into your mix when shading!)

but they do need watering down, a lot.

okay, to get things back on topic, sweet job sanjay.
this is a realy big step in what you normaly do and how you \"work\" the paint.
the more i look at this the less i see the little mistakes and the more i see how much you have improved.

top job matey :)
 
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