Topless Chicks, Tiny Dragon, Experiments

[Wren]

I\'ve added what I\'ve painted for the past few months to my gallery, and would be happy for any feedback or votes people might like to offer!

Lilith of Ptolus
This is an experiment based on some classes taken with Jeremie Bonamant Teboul (bragon) at Gen Con.

Baiting the Trap - Not work safe
Treasure Chest - Not work safe
The first was my main entry to the Gen Con painting contest this year, and won best in show of the Dark Sword category.

Tiny Dragon
A little something to have a little fun with Gen Con\'s anniversary dragon category. The human figures are 10mm tall and were more fun to paint than I expected.

Nicole
Crusader Unforgiven
A couple other new things. Nicole is the last of four fox people I\'ve been working on for a while. The Unforgiven is a bit of a colour test (not sure it passes...) and more practice painting metallics.

 

[Bill]

GREAT work there Wren. I commented on that dragon diorama the other day, it\'s great!

 

[jahminis]

nice work wren...
on the crusader, if you are not happy with the light trim, why not try a burgandy...give him a little more menacing feel...he is called unforgiven after all...looks a bit french too, so a deep wine color may just do the trick...

cheers
jah

 

[Wren]

Thanks for the feedback, it\'s much appreciated.

@jah... hm, I had been stuck on going lighter for the trim, but I like your burgandy idea quite a bit. I might have to shift the leather colour a bit, but that\'s easily enough done. Thanks for the idea!

 

[Verm1s]

Stunning. Beautiful. Very characterful. and I kind of agree about the cheesecake thing.

If there\'s one thing I beg for - as a noob shuffling on his knees - it\'s hints about the colours used in your skintones.

 

[Wren]

Sure thing. Pretty much everything I paint uses Reaper Master Series paints, I usually note otherwise in the descriptions of a posted mini. I particularly like their skin paints. They put out their paints in triads, so there\'s a dark skin triad, tanned skin, golden skin, rosy skin and fair skin. I find the tanned skin a little too cold, and the rosy skin too peachy, so I usually mix them. Sometimes 50/50, sometimes 1/3 tanned to 2/3 rosy. That\'s what I used on the girl in Baiting the Trap. For highlights I usually just use fair skin. The golden skin triad works fine out of the pot and is a great warm skin tone I always get nice results with. The pirate is mostly golden skin, Morrigan and Misaki are all golden skin. I tend to start a little darker on skin than a lot of people, I think. (Of people who start mid tone and then work up and down, I mean.) I\'ve only used any of the fair skin triad for a base coat but once and it ended up a pretty pale mini.

Shading skin is where I kind of mix it up. I usually use a darkish neutral brown (Shield Brown, sometimes Woodstain Brown of the Reaper paints) for darklining, and I\'ll often mix that in and work down for a shade colour. Lately I\'ve been experimenting with adding touches of khaki green into the shade mixes. I started out just doing a light glaze for a shade (a la Jenova), but for the past year or so I\'ve been working on much more painting in of the shadows and taking that a lot darker than I had in the past. Highlights go fairly high, but in very small areas, mostly tops of the cheekbones, tip of the nose, knuckles or other flexed joints.

Hope that helps. Thanks for the feedback!

 

[Ogrebane]

All of them are very good. I especially love the way you do the hair on the first two girls.

Voted on both of them

 

[Dragonsreach]

I\'ve looked at all your work over the years Wren and I have to say that the Lillith Figure is no so much a \"step up\" but a giant leap in quality.
And quality is not something you\'ve ever really been lacking.


Voted of course.

 

[Wren]

Wow DR, that\'s quite a compliment, thank you! Honestly I\'m a bit nervous to start painting anything else cause I\'m not sure I can do it again.

 

[Verm1s]

Thanks very much, Wren. Unfortunately Reaper paints aren\'t too common over here. Maybe I can find - or mix - decent substitutes.

 

[demonherald]

Originally posted by Wren
Wow DR, that\'s quite a compliment, thank you! Honestly I\'m a bit nervous to start painting anything else cause I\'m not sure I can do it again.

course you can only difference is everyone will be expecting more now..so no pressure:beer:

love the look of all these the hair is wonderful as is the skin and those lessons really look to have paid off ..some fine fine examples of mini painting there..