02370: Luther Baldwin

[CashWiley 32902]

 

WIP here

[Slendertroll 7537]

Lovely! Fantastic creams and freehand. What's the base?

[Willen 9583]

Amazing piece. Would not look out of place in a profesional magazine, Cash. Congrats.

[CashWiley 32902]

Thanks guys! I believe it's a Scibor base. I should probably hit the flora with another highlight, the varnish dulled it quite a bit. And then varnish it again to kill the glue shine on the boot :) Oh, photos, you always reveal it.

[Shogun 938]

Lllluuuthhhherrr luuuthhheerrr luuuthhheerrr .......

 

 

Nice mini + wip & love the base

[72moonglum 9612]

Followed your WIP and this turned out great! I love your metals!

[CashWiley 32902]

Thanks! I'm glad you guys are enjoying the WIPs, I enjoy doing them and really like sharing what I do to hopefully inspire other folks. I also try to attribute all the better painters I take inspiration and methods from - my nmm is all Anne Foerster L2PK3, I owe her a good bar tab. But then I take a page from Graham Kerr (the galloping gourmet) who called recipes a 'springboard'. For several projects now I've been trying to discard nmm 'recipes' and just go for the basic idea of contrast and light/shadow play on metal.

 

I encourage everyone to approach painting as a chance to learn something, to try something new or take something you've learned and stretch the technique to see where it breaks (Anval's red skin!). It adds a really fun dimension to painting and Loki approves of the mischievous nature of that approach.

 

edit - oh, and the white cloth is from Laurent Esposito's Miniature Mentor video. I think I mentioned it in the WIP, but just in case I didn't I want to give it a shout out. I purchased it when I was doing the grave digger project to learn black cloth, but I found the lesson on white cloth much more useful. And the skin tones were a mash of stuff Laurent did, stuff I read in James Gurney's Color and Light (buy this book!) and a post by Roman (jarhead).

Edited October 27, 2013 by CashWiley

[Inarah 22525]

Very nice.

[Kuro Cleanbrush 7181]

He looks excellent! I'm especially jealous of the creamy whites! Superb!!!

[Nissiana 849]

I always dig a good white! Not a lot of space to show it off on Luther, but some nice skintone work on his face, too.

[Slashhamster 1451]

Beautiful job. Your skill level is rising so dramatically so quickly. The freehand is brilliantly executed and a perfect addition to the figure.

[CashWiley 32902]

Thanks everyone!

[Maglok 4625]

Loving the NMM, the tabard is also very well done. Keep at it and stop saying you are mediocre. :)

[Maledrakh 5536]

He's doing the Hulk Hogan "i'm a real american" pose! USA! USA!

[CashWiley 32902]

Whatchagonnado when the crusades roll on over you, brother?

 

I need to match him with a Saracen doing the Macho Man pose. Oh yeah!

Edited October 28, 2013 by CashWiley