Scott vs. Dire Troll Mauler

[ScottRadom]

Hello. I painted this up for a paintign challenge duel and for a entry into a local Privateer Press competition. Mixed feeling about this model, and again patience was my enemy. I simply got itchy feet and had to walk away from this one. Fire away any comments you like. Here\'s the votey link.....
http://www.coolminiornot.com/216786

Things I was able to do on this model that I hadn\'t done before....
-I started the flesh from the mid tone and shaded down then highlighted up. I had just worked darkest to lightest before. Shading was too heavy on this model I think but I do think the experience was good for learning.
-I copied the entire color scheme from the box top. Okay, maybe not anything to brag about but I know nothign about hordes fluff and I am going to eBay this sucka so I wanted to make it as mass appeal friendly as possible.

Please fire away. I do think this model was another step forward for me, but it\'s clear I got a long way to go before I get truly happy with my results. And I gotta get way more patient. This onw was probably 8-10 hrs from primer to finish. Having said that there are some real problems I didn\'t bother solving with the assembly of the model as well.

 

[squig hunter]

I like it, your contrast is getting better, the tones in it are enough for contrast (perhaps some brighter spots in places) but the main problem is not that the shading is \"too dark\", rather that the gradient isn\'t spaced that well. Sounds odd but I\'ll try to explain:

From my experience, contrast is not simply putting very dark tones right next to very light ones, although this provides a contrast, it isn\'t neccesarily the kind you want on a mini, on a mini you want a more evenly spaced contrast generally, of course depending on the shape of what you\'re painting, but even if the gradient is sudden from dark to light, it should be somehow evenly spaced.
What I see on this is some nice dark tones, a smidge of mid tone, and then far too much highlight tone, whereas they should ideally be better balanced on the mini.

To this there are, of course exeptions, and I know I\'ve not really explained this very well (needs diagrams ) but I hope you get the gist of what I\'m rambling on about

Good job generally, I can see steady improvement in your work, nice and neat too.

SQuig

 

[ScottRadom]

TY amigo, and I think the critique is sound and informative, the perfect kind. Much appreciated.

 

[squig hunter]

Glad I could be of help mate, here, have a diagram to show better what I mean:

You can see they use exactly the same shades, but the second example seems better contrasted, because the spacing is more even.
But in the first example, it doesn\'t seem as contrasted, because the balance between the shades is so off.

Hope that explains it better,
Squig

 

[ScottRadom]

Okay that makes a lot of sense. Now that you point it out I can totally see where it looks like I am in a rush to go from one extreme shade to the other extreme highlight. Makes perfect sense to space them out a little more evenly. Thanks a lot!