Need help painting bottles (DONE, Pics added!)

[OrkyDave]

Hiya,

This week I will mostly be painting the Marco Columbo model.

I just have absolutley no idea how to go about painting his wine bottle at his hip!

The look I am after is the same way the superb David Rodriguez Has painted the \'official\' GW piece way. (link to his fantastic work below) And I would like to achieve the same effect (or very similar)

Any help?


David Rodriguez\'s fantastic Marco columbo hyperlink

 

[Bignastyshark]

Hummm Bottles

First i would do a black undercoat

Then paint on where you would like the wine to be say in a warlock purple,

Once dry paint over several very thin glazes of dark green,

this will dull down the purple and allow it to show through the green slightly,

I would then put on a varnish or something then add highlights to the bottle for finishing touches,

Does this help?

Cheers Iain.

 

[demonherald]

I generally lay the colours of the contents down first remembering it is liquid and needs to lay horizontal to the ground at it\'s surface (make sense?) Then lighten tis up a litteand highlight as normal.
Next I use thin glazes of the glass colour in the case of a green bottle Darka angels green with a little black.
Paint these so they darken to the top and back of the bottle.
Next paint a few highlights of the green towards the front of the bottle and a little over the bottom liquid contents.
Keep all colours nice and thin and paint on as glazes to keep the transparent effect.
The final thing is to paint some light spots as you would with a gemstone.
Depending on where the light is coming from these tend to follow the shape of the bottle a little and pick up mainly where the neck joins the bottle as well as the bottom edge.

Hope this makes sense...
Of course as homework for reference I recommend you empty yourself a few green beer bottles.. peel off the labels and look at how the light acts upon it....:beer:

 

[generulpoleaxe]

a nice little section under tips for bottles.
http://www.minipainting-guild.net/

i think angela imrie may have one on her site blackmoor as well.

 

[Ogrebane]

Thats the one I was going to post. Show pics when you can.

 

[the alleycat]

I\'d just add that using a gloss varnish on the bottle is quite effective [glass in general] esp if you generally finish off with a matt varnish.

 

[No Such Agency]

Have a look at how \"real painters\" paint glass bottles full of liquid. Find some still-lifes and crib their highlighting techniques. And don\'t forget that red wine looks essentially BLACK in a green bottle.

 

[OrkyDave]

thanks for the tips guys, off a painting I go!

 

[OrkyDave]

well here is how I got on!!!


so whaddya think?

 

[Bill]

The pic is a little dark, but from what I can see.... poifict Job well done Mr. Dave.

 

[goblinLB]

cant see the bottle

 

[Jericho]

Even with some fudging in Photoshop it\'s hard to make out the bottle... more pics please!

 

[goblinLB]

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still cant make out bottle but i tried

 

[skeeve]

OOO it was just posted. look at this

http://www.coolminiornot.com/143027

 

[Rev]

looks great from what i can tell Dave nice work!

i\'m jealous.

 

[OrkyDave]

more pixels than a sega master system, but does this help?

Think I may need to paint more contrast in future!

 

[matty1001]

Well i can see it perfectly, it looks great, has a really glossy glassy effect on it, and the liquid has a clear line across the bottle. looks good.

 

[OrkyDave]

Thank you all for your help with this one, especially NSA, Demon herald, zaphod, Ian and Genrulpoleaxe.

Had a bit of tweakerry pokerrey with the image and got something half decent up in my gallery.


voterey linkerey

Votes and comments as always appreciated.

I am off now as I should really be in bed recovering from my grommetts operation!

 

[demonherald]

good luck with therecovery Dave and well done nice job ...looks great