I paint me, and some other stuff

Wren

Wren

Member
I\'ve finally got some new ones up. Comments with honest critique are very welcome. I\'m starting to work on some entries for convention contests, so I\'m looking to identify and attack my weak areas.

I paint me
In a moment of nostalgia I finally painted up a new version of my old D&D character from 1990. I didn\'t paint at the time, and was very grateful to the guy in our group who painted my character.

Dynamic Barbarian
I painted this for Dark Sword Miniatures. I love this sculpt, it\'s really dynamic. And pretty hunky, so this is one for the ladies of CMON. :->

Druidess
A simple but lovely sculpt which I painted with some of my favourite colours.

Goth Chick
Another for Dark Sword, this was an interesting challenge for me as it was the first time I painted something to try to match artwork as closely as possible.

Ice Witch in Ice
A bold experiment that didn\'t quite work as intended, but I\'m still proud of the paint and of having made the attempt.
 
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mattrock

New member
Wow, It\'s really cool to see your D&D character there next to the new and improved version. REALLY serves to show what a change a high quality paintjob can make in a mini.

They all look pretty slick but that\'s the one that struck me. Great work! :)
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Love the before & after on the \"I Paint Me\". That looks about where I came from in the late \'70\'s. Wish I could say that is where I\'m at now as well. lol

Great work.
 
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Ritual

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Some great stuff there, Wren! I really like your before-and-now mini. It\'s always nice to see how far someone\'s come in their painting.

I like the paint jobs on the barbarian and goth girl, but don\'t particularly care for the sculpts.

The druidess is really great. Especially all the folds in the clothing!

And, I really love Rasputina and cry a bit inside of me when I see her covered in goo... :~( Such a great mini that you can\'t see anymore... :no:
 
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mrrocknroll

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I love the \"Me\"one best, I read the little info that you put down the page, made me wish that I had a model like that which I could have when I was younger and find the same one years later :drool:
But they are all very good, voted on them as well.

Nick.
 
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treide

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Voted and commented - love your stuff as always. And for the rest of you exceptional painters - paint an old mini every once in awhile - Wren has provided a great example of how they can look good!
 
Wren

Wren

Member
Thanks for the comments everyone, I really appreciate it!

Ritual - I promise I\'ll paint Rasputina again, though probably not until after August. I\'ll likely even paint her a pretty similar way. I think I\'ll want to do the lion a different way, though. Oh, and I also promise to not then cover her in goo. Believe me, that wasn\'t easy for me to do. I usually wimp out on freehand cause I don\'t want to ruin painting I\'ve done that I like!

mrrocknroll - pick something you painted early on that\'s still available, buy a second copy, set it aside and wait a few years. The side by side difference can be pretty effective regardless of the pedigree of the mini - look at Crappy Mini or Not for some fun examples. :)
 
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matty1001

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You certainly have a style, very clean and it fits the mini\'s that you paint well. (But if it didn\'t I suppose you wouldn\'t paint them!)

Il have to do a now and then mini someday...
 
Wren

Wren

Member
I do try to experiment once in a while. (this hag was both a different type of sculpt and a different paint method, I think this treeman was a fairly different sculpt to what I usually do.) If I painted faster I\'d probably experiment more dramatically more often. A lot of the time I am trying to experiment or refine something, just not sure how much it shows in the end result. (After a couple of classes with Jeremie at Gen Con last year I\'ve been trying to experiment with colour to express light and unify colour schemes throughout a piece more, but I\'m not sure how that\'s going yet...)

But I think you\'re spot on, and there are things about a mini that will make me much more or less likely inclined to paint it quite aside from subject matter or sculptor or those sorts of things. I like a fairly uncluttered sculpt. Part of that is just a time thing - every separate colour area is going to add at least 30-60 min or something I paint. But I think part of it is sort of psychological. I\'m a messy collector married to a messy collector, so I\'m surrounded by piles of clutter. I think painting uncluttered sculpts with a fairly clean look is a sort of antidote to that, or a meditation or something like that.

I love the complexity I see in a lot of other people\'s painting, and I love the look of lots of detailed sculpts, but when I pick what and how I\'m painting something for myself, I just can\'t quite go there yet.
 
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pez5767

New member
Great stuff, thanks for the inspiration. The bard and barbarian are my favorites. I hear what you mean about the clean uncluttered models. It\'s always a real joy to see those long clean lines and make them sing... which you\'ve done an excellent job of by the way. One thing I noticed in your gallery is that you alway seem to do a really excellent job of commiting to your light source and making in a feature of the model. Really impressive.
:)
 
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Ogrebane

Active member
I dont think I could critisize your paint job. The before and after hardly look like the same mini. The goth girl tho whilst a great job I would expect her hair to be darker (With maybe a blonde streak) and her face to be paler. Also hermake up should be darker (I have a teenage goth at home)

Still all great paint jobs.
 
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eastman

New member
the Druidess is my favorite of the minis. The skin and cloth look fantastic.

I was glad to see that the watercolor technique worked out for you on the Goth Chick. I learned that from the garage kit painters (mostly over at \"The Clubhouse\"). It does take a lot of the pressure off when you know you can easily erase any part you don\'t like (I did that with the dragon\'s legs on the HF Mary).
 
Wren

Wren

Member
It gave me three tries to mess up and finally figure out the best way to lay down a gridwork of dots to connect up for the mesh stockings. It was still a tedious process, but that absolutely took the pressure off of experimenting and failure, thanks again for sharing that technique!
 
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