A slowly growing Waaagh!
- Thread starter Tex
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JohnnyFrostbite
Member
Tex, me and other people on here are gladly looking at your 80’s Orcs more than twice. They’re stunning so I hope your latest project is going well.
Tex
Member
Johnny, that's very kind from you.
Unfortunately, despite my constant effort, during the last two months I have not made a single step ahead! I don't know exactly why, but I keep on running aground on the tunic.
It probably depends on my painting style (using a lot of nearly trasparent and thin layers of paint), but I'm having difficulties in finishing the left shoulder/sleeve properly: differently from the back of the tunic, you can observe the shoulder from many different points of view (above, front, side, back) and I always end up with a smooth shade transition from a single POV, but not from all of them: even if the part looks perfectly shaded (deep dirty blue -> turquoise -> almost pure bleached bone) from above, when I watch it from the side or the back I see irregular patches of the darkest tones showing through the highlights and any correction I make spoils the effect from the original POV, and so on.
As in the next few days I'll be off work, I hope to have some painting time and overcome the empasse.
Happy new year to all of you.
Unfortunately, despite my constant effort, during the last two months I have not made a single step ahead! I don't know exactly why, but I keep on running aground on the tunic.
It probably depends on my painting style (using a lot of nearly trasparent and thin layers of paint), but I'm having difficulties in finishing the left shoulder/sleeve properly: differently from the back of the tunic, you can observe the shoulder from many different points of view (above, front, side, back) and I always end up with a smooth shade transition from a single POV, but not from all of them: even if the part looks perfectly shaded (deep dirty blue -> turquoise -> almost pure bleached bone) from above, when I watch it from the side or the back I see irregular patches of the darkest tones showing through the highlights and any correction I make spoils the effect from the original POV, and so on.
As in the next few days I'll be off work, I hope to have some painting time and overcome the empasse.
Happy new year to all of you.
Blue in VT
Moderator
Really very impressive work
Cheers,
Blue
Cheers,
Blue
daddyorchips
Member
yeah, that is fantastic.
Tex
Member
Hello
The persisting forced quarantine definitely sped things up for me and "Tuerto" Rottin Hood (as it's unreleased, I've taken the liberty to name it freely), so I'm leaving a couple of wip shots here:
Since I took the pics, I finished the bow - which now looks not that different: I've just painted the right half and emphasized some wood blemishes - and nearly finished the fur on the quiver: in the next few days I will take on the arrows, touch up the metals, add the bow string, spread some mud on the boots and call it done, at last.
But the base will take some more time
Stay safe, guys (and gals, of course
)
The persisting forced quarantine definitely sped things up for me and "Tuerto" Rottin Hood (as it's unreleased, I've taken the liberty to name it freely), so I'm leaving a couple of wip shots here:
Since I took the pics, I finished the bow - which now looks not that different: I've just painted the right half and emphasized some wood blemishes - and nearly finished the fur on the quiver: in the next few days I will take on the arrows, touch up the metals, add the bow string, spread some mud on the boots and call it done, at last.
But the base will take some more time
Stay safe, guys (and gals, of course
)
symphonicpoet
Moderator
Oh, he's a cutie! *ducks*
Love it!
Love it!
Tex
Member
If you're willing to browse this thread, you'll find an early wip pic of the base:the bulk of it consists in bits of cork layers, which I sprinkled some real soil, little stones and some coffee on; the "large" rock which supports the tree is a piece of bark resembling a rock facade.
I tend to use as many natural elements as I can, often inspired by nature itself: I usually spend most of my holidays in the home village of my family, which is literally "buried" in the woods and this allow me to discover and test a lot of natural elements to use as basing material.
As an example, I recently found some little "things" resembling birch cones, but smaller:I'm testing if the little seeds you obtain crushing them can be a realistic substitute for dead beech leaves (I'm painting the Tuerto's tree as a beech, BTW), as to me all the ready made leaves or the ones you can obtain with the currently available punches are way too large.
I tend to use as many natural elements as I can, often inspired by nature itself: I usually spend most of my holidays in the home village of my family, which is literally "buried" in the woods and this allow me to discover and test a lot of natural elements to use as basing material.
As an example, I recently found some little "things" resembling birch cones, but smaller:I'm testing if the little seeds you obtain crushing them can be a realistic substitute for dead beech leaves (I'm painting the Tuerto's tree as a beech, BTW), as to me all the ready made leaves or the ones you can obtain with the currently available punches are way too large.
Ketil Trout
Member
Tree is looking great and the latest orc is beautiful
Ketil Trout
Member
Beautiful work indeed