Pictish Mini Painting
I'm actually a man!
TBH, having had a right good look at the pictures in the link you provided (thanks by the way 
) I would disagree a bit in saying that my faces aren't as good, as I have often been told and by eavy metal guys at last years GD in which I got finalist my faces are actually very good and are one thing I am actually pretty good at, I am not trying to be antagonistic, just defending one of my strengths.
The painting style of spikyJames is that one thing that many feel golden demon is good and bad for, its very much to the eavy metal photograph standard, i.e. clean lines, edge highlighting and GW materials on the base. The base is very much made of gravel, grass clumps and larger gravel pieces with no features sticking out.
My base took quite a while to do and many have commented its a nice piece and ties in well with rebar, helmet, odd brickwork and the stained glass window, so to say I could have added detail and didn't is a bit unfair, unless you mean I should have stuck on grass clumps
I am not in any way taking away from SpikyJames Finalist medal, it is a nice clean piece and very much in the theme I like to paint to aswell, however it grates that after years of training yourself to paint with layered smooth transition blending, smooth highlights and making things 'Pop', to find out that I should just paint things very tidy and edge highlight to make it look like the box is a bit of a let down.
But I am starting to see in person what I knew from discussions, Golden Demon is a rather partisan voting system. Again I must stress im not saying in any way, 'I deserved it, he didn't I am just pointing out that the ages I took cleanly blending white from grey and shading the blue with thin layers was basically wasted as I could have just gone for the box art style.....and that's a bit depressing.
) I would disagree a bit in saying that my faces aren't as good, as I have often been told and by eavy metal guys at last years GD in which I got finalist my faces are actually very good and are one thing I am actually pretty good at, I am not trying to be antagonistic, just defending one of my strengths.The painting style of spikyJames is that one thing that many feel golden demon is good and bad for, its very much to the eavy metal photograph standard, i.e. clean lines, edge highlighting and GW materials on the base. The base is very much made of gravel, grass clumps and larger gravel pieces with no features sticking out.
My base took quite a while to do and many have commented its a nice piece and ties in well with rebar, helmet, odd brickwork and the stained glass window, so to say I could have added detail and didn't is a bit unfair, unless you mean I should have stuck on grass clumps
I am not in any way taking away from SpikyJames Finalist medal, it is a nice clean piece and very much in the theme I like to paint to aswell, however it grates that after years of training yourself to paint with layered smooth transition blending, smooth highlights and making things 'Pop', to find out that I should just paint things very tidy and edge highlight to make it look like the box is a bit of a let down.
But I am starting to see in person what I knew from discussions, Golden Demon is a rather partisan voting system. Again I must stress im not saying in any way, 'I deserved it, he didn't I am just pointing out that the ages I took cleanly blending white from grey and shading the blue with thin layers was basically wasted as I could have just gone for the box art style.....and that's a bit depressing.
