Saturday, May 29, 2010
NQ #30
So I got an email from the editor of No Quarter today letting me know that giant Juggie made it in. Haven't seen the edition yet, but damned cool anyway :)
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Khador
So with the release of the extreme Khador sculpts, I had absolutely no choice but to pick them up and start working on them. Consequently, I couldn't just sit them on my bench and never use them, so I've had to build an army around them as well :)
Just the giant juggie today, and what a giant he is! Its an awful lot of red to try and get depth on, but I think it was pulled off successfully. I used the same method advocated by PP - extreme highlights followed by somewhere around 20 coats of red ink, to bring it all back into line. The shoulder freehand was done similar to the guide in the NQ and I managed to fumble my way through the boiler freehand to a semblance of success.
In any case, love my big red beastie and, with him being so darned cheap, he makes it into every Khador list I have so far :) Now. I just need to get around to doing my Destroyer...
Just the giant juggie today, and what a giant he is! Its an awful lot of red to try and get depth on, but I think it was pulled off successfully. I used the same method advocated by PP - extreme highlights followed by somewhere around 20 coats of red ink, to bring it all back into line. The shoulder freehand was done similar to the guide in the NQ and I managed to fumble my way through the boiler freehand to a semblance of success.
In any case, love my big red beastie and, with him being so darned cheap, he makes it into every Khador list I have so far :) Now. I just need to get around to doing my Destroyer...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Trolls!
We all love a smattering of tough, blue, beer-guzzling giants in an army, and an entire army of them was just alot of fun.
Painting these guys taught me an awful lot and forced me to move my skills forward real fast. I went through a phase with my trolls where I wasn't actually shadowing anything - I was just building up the highlights from the darkest base colour I could pick. Quite time consuming, but I was fairly happy with the results. They led to a very natural, but subtle, effect across the whole thing.
As one would imagine, subletly started to drop by the wayside in the favour of more exaggerated highlights (and accordingly more obvious shadows). I experimented with a bit of inking and washing before settling down to a more usual technique, although mixed with a judicious amount of P3 Mixing Medium (that stuff is gold).
Don't have my trolls anymore - they weren't being played, they were finished being painted and it was time to clear out some room. I do miss them on occasion, and I've pretty well decided to stop selling stuff off in the future and just pick up another storage bag instead :)
Painting these guys taught me an awful lot and forced me to move my skills forward real fast. I went through a phase with my trolls where I wasn't actually shadowing anything - I was just building up the highlights from the darkest base colour I could pick. Quite time consuming, but I was fairly happy with the results. They led to a very natural, but subtle, effect across the whole thing.
As one would imagine, subletly started to drop by the wayside in the favour of more exaggerated highlights (and accordingly more obvious shadows). I experimented with a bit of inking and washing before settling down to a more usual technique, although mixed with a judicious amount of P3 Mixing Medium (that stuff is gold).
Don't have my trolls anymore - they weren't being played, they were finished being painted and it was time to clear out some room. I do miss them on occasion, and I've pretty well decided to stop selling stuff off in the future and just pick up another storage bag instead :)
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