Showing my newest works before I get into things!

Sionid

Sionid

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Yeesh, your painting output makes me feel like such a lazybones. Those Nurgley colors definitely work for this guy, the purple-green is a striking (and suitably gross) combo that suits him and picks out his wrinkles really well. Dunno what your plans are, but I'd love to see some more of that purple glazed in around his eyes.
 
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Ill def admit I was gonna put some coal black its the equivilant of incubi darkness it's a navy blue black color..but if you think the purple is better than ..I'm on it!!! Dankashane
 
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Okay so after all the highlighting /shadowing we come to glazing in some evil suns scarlet on portions of the face. Adding tone variations is something team France does alot of you see alot of these techniques used on rackham miniatures . It's basically adding in diff colors aside the other colors involved . It's very aesthetically pleasing to the eye. In this Case I've added red as a compliment to portions of the face the cheeks upper lower lips the ears nose and a few other places. It takes many layers like everything else buit up over time.
 
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And yes sionid I went with the coal black basically 1) to show the steepness of the eye sockets and 2) it brings in another color for its more pleasing at least to my eye that a third color was brought in . So instead if greens/ reds(purples) I chose now a lighter more primary red for the tone variants and the blue now added adds a little more realism at least from my perspective of how I have it pictured in my head. But thanks again for the input def needed more shading round the eye socket area. Just couldn't break away from that wonderful rich navy blue color. I have to admit my two favorite colors are now coal black and sanguine red. By .. Well IDE hate to admit it but by p3. Very good colors to work with. Yes it's true your hearing it from me .. Yes.. Something other than GW. And the bust itself is from leben models.. Benoit meynard!! Excellent sculptor he also pus out a few Orc busts and a model called knightmare.
 
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Another thing for everybody's info : I've always added punk times to green when it comes to giving my orks1) tone variation/ : VIBRANCY !!! In this weeks white dwarf there was a ? Asked to "grimbrindal" under "ask grimbrindal" it states " PINK IS THE NEW GREEN" and goes into ask how they get thier effect of punk ears lips and noses I. The studio eavy metal teams orks. Lets just say I e BEEN DOUNG THIS TECHNICAL TRADE SECRET for the last 3 years since I've learned it by 1 of the members if team Australia. So again I feel like I belong in the US hobby team . I pride myself on painting close to the eavy metal team at least the USA hobby team. But I'm glad cause due to this article you'll start seeing people look more for those using this trick which is no longer a trade secret anymore.
 
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Darthmarsh

Darthmarsh

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He's looking great BAM. Have a look on massive voodoo tutorial section about painting black. It goes into adding red or blue or other colours into your black to create warm or cold variants that look far more realistic. I reckon if you added a little red or purple to the shadows of the eye, It would help emphasise the puffiness of the bags.
 
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Actually guys thanks for all the feedback but there have been many ways to go and what I really need to do is wait for the model to be far more along to make any alterations . Everybody has so many ways to go with. I think I'm pretty confident where I want the shades to be . This is going to score well on cmin and in putty and paint. The busts I do Im very confident in how they're gonna look. You'll all get a better look once it's more complete.but thanks again guys for the feedback. Being that everyone has their own ways. It's kinda hard and please don't take offense after all your my boys all of you. But like I said I gotta stay clear where I'm at however added a coal black glaze to the bags as a tip I agreed with from sionid. It's not that I feel her advice is better . It's really that it was in agreement. And lets not forget these recipes have scored me 5 silver medals on putty and paint. So after the coal black that's about it the face cannot be improved from where I envisioning it its exactly where I want it to be. But guys thanks again I value all your opinions. So please always let me know what you might've gone different if I agree with it by all means ill embellish on it. If not its probably because its dead onto where my image in my minds eye is. Again darth if you think bout it addig red to black for earth is kinda along the lines of adding a dark brown. Just diff ways of saying it. Stay tuned.
 
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View attachment 31564Ok really I'm really going to sleep now. Some great man said sleep is boring when it gets in the way of painting.. :/ or was it work .. :/. Or was it anything/ everything .. Yeah that was it..
Btw it's not even close to being finished. Subtlety gentlemen.., subtlety !!! The eavy metal teams way.
tomorrow ill get up round. 7 am and by the end of the day hopefully finish up my death guard squad and get a Lil more done on capt barbosa.
 
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Dragonsreach

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Looking good John.
But you've missed a bit of braiding on the waistcoat collar.

Now a suggestion or two;
Edges and scarring on figures often look better with a contrast highlight on one (or both) edges. The split on the top lip is strong adding edging highlights would reduce the "impact" yet add subtlety to the face.
Ffor the bottom lip perhaps a tiny irregular highlight line would give a stronger view to the face as would glazing with the main colour mixed with a tiny amount of gloss to give a 'wet' effect.

The braiding on the jacket does need a lot of work to pull the effect off, BTDTPITA, so don't be tempted to not think about the highlight structures on the way the cloth lies.
Also just as with the face edges cuts an nicks on the jacket need to be highlighted. Talking to one of the judges at Euro (Paul Blaber) a lot of advice about bust is that the brightness needs to fade away into the bottom 1/4 to get a more effective result... Apparently something I need to take on board more demonstrably.

M
 
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Thanks DR for the tips all I really did with the cloak is put on a base color d then wash it quickly. To tell me where the shades would be. Okay gonna address these issues today . Starting Roth the face then I'm onto painting the cloak. Then ill do the weathering and nicks and scrathches. Ill be repeating it here and there.thanks DR. Your still the one I listen to man.
 
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I actually added the "coal black" (a navy blue version of incubi darkness) into the eye sockets again Ther was a debate about sionids purple /darth marshes black with red in it to make a warm effect. Or my navy blue. I've chose my color for two reasons 1) AS I said I would wait until the coat and hat were a little further along to make this decision and 1) blue (the same color of the jacket overcoat) ties the clothes and face together. Cohesion if you will. And 2) the clash of warm and cool colors actually give more vibrancy to one another of the respective cool/ warm colors. Another tip from Benoit meynard and some other artists of team France as well. Like I said folks there is MUCH MUCH MORE TO DO ON THE MODEL :).
 
KruleBear

KruleBear

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Been sporadic on my thread watch recently, but i like the bust. Those eyes are perfection. What i really enjoyed was watching your process on the face. Looks like blobs of sloppy color and then a couple of posts later it comes together in a face with loads of character. Keep up the lovely progress.

-Mike
 
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AHhhhwww yes I'm so glad you see it mike. All my minis and me we have an understanding a pact if you will. 1)If its coming sloppy ' then I'm on the right track and 2) never e Dr feel it's not coming out the way you want ask yourself when it's finally done "does it look that bad or is the final piece grandeur " like you see here m8. Thank you and meph.
 
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