discussion The Choice

[PaulinKendal]

And start again...

 

[PaulinKendal]

This looks promising - much easier painting the paler shapes rather than trying to paint the darker bits in between, of course. At this stage, the dots are brighter than they'll finish.

 

[PaulinKendal]

 

[Tim Marlow]

I like that. The turquoise contrasts nicely with his skin tones.

 

[PaulinKendal]

Now I'm going to try to blend, smooth and tone down the spots, especially in creases in the skin. Without mucking it all up...

 

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Paul. Nice work.
I think I’d be tempted to make up a test piece to try the glazes on…..and start with dark colours as they tend to make better, more transparent, glazes….and of course use glaze medium as the diluent…..

 

[scottie3158]

Paul,
That is looking the nuts mate.

 

[PaulinKendal]

Instead of making a test piece, I started carefully with a very dilute dark green glaze and went from there. (Actually I started by diluting ink with isopropanol and promptly wiped out several dots. I repainted the dots, varnished, then started again using glaze medium!) The skulls still need work.

 

[Allen Dewire]

Paul, words kind of escape me at the moment. Not being a figgie builder and knowing little about fantasy subjects, this beast is fascinating, most ugly, scary and sooooo cool!!!...Great work and color choice. If the others come out like this one, it's going to be an epic scene...

Prost
Allen

 

[Jim R]

That is coming on superbly. You've really cracked the colouring.

 

[PaulinKendal]

I've been storming through this one. It's basically finished apart from the axe head, which is a rather groovy shade of purple. It needs distressing, and I'm hesitating. I'm thinking some very minimal airbrushing of dark inks - any suggestions? Don't really want more rust.

 

[Tim Marlow]

The axe already looks distressed to me Paul. Have you thought about just darkening the nicks and dents with something like a gunmetal shade, then highlighting the edges with your brightest silver to make them more visible?

 

[Guest]

If you go for lizard skin (pretty damn big lizard, but hey Ho ) best advice I can give is find a picture of one you like and copy it…..

Could say its an Anaconda Snake skin .

 

[Guest]

Looks perfectly acceptable as it is Paul as Tim says.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Could say its an Anaconda Snake skin .

I was thinking Gila monster John….but then, being fantasy it could be dinosaur or such like….

 

[PaulinKendal]

I was thinking Gila monster John….but then, being fantasy it could be dinosaur or such like….

That's on the money - I was thinking dinosaur too.

 

[simontie]

Looks amazing not much else to say
simon :thumb2:

 

[PaulinKendal]

The axe already looks distressed to me Paul. Have you thought about just darkening the nicks and dents with something like a gunmetal shade, then highlighting the edges with your brightest silver to make them more visible?

I've certainly considered breaking out the Molotow chrome. But it makes all the gold look too subdued. If the metallics are to match, I think the chrome needs handling with extreme caution. I was thinking verdigris might give me the variation I'm after without boosting the glitter out of balance with the gold.

Since I rejected (petulantly, perhaps) NMM, I've increasingly found that, with TMM, the less actual bright metallic paint visible, the brighter the item appears. So taking tones right down (without losing a subdued hint of metal), then popping it right back up with a few highlights looks great.

The main face of the blade is a big slab of metallic purple - it needs breaking up, I reckon.

 

[scottie3158]

Paul,
the axe looks fine to me and sets off a great piece of figure work.

 

[PaulinKendal]

I've started on it with oil washes. First time I've used oil and it's an instant revelation - no stress, plenty of time for consideration and correction. The axe blade is already looking better!