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Beelzebrush
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There\'s a ton of things you could do to vastly improve this... all of which are dead easy.
You need to get past the one colour coverage thing. By this, I mean, look at the belt... it is, to my eye, painted in a single base colour with no shading or highlighting.... even to improve it in the easiest terms... run a very quick dark colour wash over it. When it\'s dried, darken the underside and lighten the topsides... vastly improved.
From an elementary point of view, think about where the light is hitting it. Simplest way to do this is the imagine that everything sticking out from the figure is going to be lighter towards the top (zenith) than the bottom... make the underside areas of details darker. For example, the skirt thing has creases and pleats... the areas sticking out... ie the high points need to be highlighted, whareas the depths of the creases need to be in shadow... ie darker. This goes for the fur too. The top of the head, top of cheeks, top of nose etc all need to be lighter, the undersides (under the chin, under the pecs and ribs etc, need to be darker). Drybrush them in a lighter colour if need be and then run a darker wash to the undersides to add contrast. All I\'m suggesting are basic... and very quick and easy techniques... use them and you\'ll see an immediate difference.
Hope that didn\'t sound harsh.... but there\'s a ton of good articles about this sort of thing on cmon (written by ppl who probably haven\'t just returned from the pub
)
BTW... you don\'t half paint some weird minis Tzor
You need to get past the one colour coverage thing. By this, I mean, look at the belt... it is, to my eye, painted in a single base colour with no shading or highlighting.... even to improve it in the easiest terms... run a very quick dark colour wash over it. When it\'s dried, darken the underside and lighten the topsides... vastly improved.
From an elementary point of view, think about where the light is hitting it. Simplest way to do this is the imagine that everything sticking out from the figure is going to be lighter towards the top (zenith) than the bottom... make the underside areas of details darker. For example, the skirt thing has creases and pleats... the areas sticking out... ie the high points need to be highlighted, whareas the depths of the creases need to be in shadow... ie darker. This goes for the fur too. The top of the head, top of cheeks, top of nose etc all need to be lighter, the undersides (under the chin, under the pecs and ribs etc, need to be darker). Drybrush them in a lighter colour if need be and then run a darker wash to the undersides to add contrast. All I\'m suggesting are basic... and very quick and easy techniques... use them and you\'ll see an immediate difference.
Hope that didn\'t sound harsh.... but there\'s a ton of good articles about this sort of thing on cmon (written by ppl who probably haven\'t just returned from the pub
)BTW... you don\'t half paint some weird minis Tzor
darkartminiatures
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What Beelzebrush said.
Your painting is really neat and tidy which is a great skill to have.
Your painting is really neat and tidy which is a great skill to have.
No Such Agency
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\"You\'re one ugly motherf***er\" - Dutch, \"Predator\"
It\'s better to learn to paint neatly before you learn to shade and highlight, IMO. That\'s how I learned, I always found it odd that some young painters couldn\'t even \"stay inside the lines\", but were shading and drybrushing (which I considered advanced techniques at the time). This guy does look unfinished, but he\'s an excellent project to keep working on, improving and expanding yoru skills
It\'s better to learn to paint neatly before you learn to shade and highlight, IMO. That\'s how I learned, I always found it odd that some young painters couldn\'t even \"stay inside the lines\", but were shading and drybrushing (which I considered advanced techniques at the time). This guy does look unfinished, but he\'s an excellent project to keep working on, improving and expanding yoru skills
I agree with NSA and vike, a good solid base is better than jumping in and trying highlighting and such. I was painting with my brother a couple of weeks ago and i suggested just painting the entire thing in really good solid basecoats and just try and be tidy with it, he managed to get a great looking TT miniature in two hours, the first thing he had finished in months, because he used to try to hard and get worked up about it when things didnt go as planned.
Yes I can see how the belt really needs some depth to it. I avoided going into shades / highlights for the two GW colors in it (tentacle pink and warlock purple) in part because I didn\'t want to ruin it bybad experments in color theory. Then again, the reaper master series is so well balanced you can\'t really notice the work I did on the fur.
I\'m still convinced the loin cloth deserves to be detailed with precise highlights or shodows as it should be a generally unattractive loincloth on a generally unattractive monster. But the belt was clearly an OMG let\'s get it done with moment.
(And I realized my photograph hid the most evil thing of the mini. The brown tinted green metalic paint was covered with a light cvering of ... gold glitter)
I\'m still convinced the loin cloth deserves to be detailed with precise highlights or shodows as it should be a generally unattractive loincloth on a generally unattractive monster. But the belt was clearly an OMG let\'s get it done with moment.
(And I realized my photograph hid the most evil thing of the mini. The brown tinted green metalic paint was covered with a light cvering of ... gold glitter)
