AussieAusborn
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22 hours ago, snitchythedog said:
Still tempted to build a whole army of the concept.
I say do it! It's a great theme, and you're executing it really well!!!
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This is looking really neat! It's going to make a great backdrop for some photos! I look forward to seeing what you do with it :)
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Thanks! I've been experimenting with coloured rocks on other projects to get ready for this tower. By the end they'll get hammered way back from the current madness. I'm pretty confident with the dark section at the base, but the multi-coloured sections above have me a bit nervous.
I had a feeling you'd end up doing that. As they are, they make me think of Easter candy, lol. I think they'll look great, since you'll have all sorts of neat undertones playing off of each other.
And if you find you're not liking how it turns out, it should be easy enough to change the colors by using some heavier drybrushes and some washes. I've recently been working on a rather intimidating project, and I think the most valuable lesson I've learned is that, although it can be irksome, there's absolutely nothing wrong with not liking how something turned out, and to just paint it again. If anything, it ends up being a valuable learning experience!
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I'm loving the progress you've made! The multi-colored sections are particularly neat; I don't think I've seen anyone do stonework like that, so I'm excited to see how it turns out!
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This is a really cool group of models! And I especially like the water base you've done, it turned out rather well!! Since you called it a proof of concept, I'm guessing you plan on doing the same to the other two? That's gonna look super cool :)
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This is truly wonderful work, Peithetairos! Those boot laces are super clean, even though it sounds like they were frustrating to do. I'm excited to see her when you have some paint on her!
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This is really cool! I'm very excited to see how the tower comes along!
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This camouflage on the cloak is magnificent!
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Very nice job on the face, I think that soft pink does a whole heck of a lot for her! I'm going to have to keep that in mind for future flesh tones.
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Sorry for the double-post (I haven't read any rules specifically against it, but remember it as bad form from years past), I just wanted to add that the hair tone/colors are great! How did you achieve that? I have a D&D character I need to paint, and I've been putting it off partly due to his hair and not knowing how to approach it. Thanks!
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That's a good looking bird right there.
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These guys are neat, I rather like the sculpts! I wasn't expecting to see them on horses, it's almost always rams, or boars, or sometimes bears. I look forward to seeing your progress!
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Really neat model! You've mentioned how big the eyes look, I think the thickness of the eyeliner effect you have is contributing to that.
I'm looking forward to seeing your progress!
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I came here from the WIP thread, very nice work! For being hesitant to sculpt the trunk, you did a great job. Especially with paint, I can't tell it's not original!
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Fjyrrulm Awaits: Aussie's Ongoing Fantasy Mini Extravaganza
in Works in Progress: Painting
Posted · Edited by AussieAusborn
I forgot to a word
Greetings y'all!
I'm starting this thread to use as a painting blog, to help catalog my journey, and to use as a source of ongoing motivation. I have a LOT of stuff I've been putting off, that I want to get through for a homebrew campaign I'm working on, and some warbands for Frostgrave, as well. So, I'll take any extra motivation I can get
Once I actually finish pieces, I'll make sure to post them in that part of the forum.
To start things off, I have a dragon I've been working on for a couple of weeks, and just got to the point where it's "good enough for now," although definitely not finished. It's easily my favorite piece I've ever owned, so I put off doing any work on it until I was "good enough" to do the piece justice. That is, until I realized that would never happen
, so I decided to:
1) Do the darned thing
2) Do some work on it every day
3) Push myself outside my comfort zone to try new things
4) Be patient and forgiving with myself
5) To not freak out when I try something that I don't like, and just go ahead and fix it
There's still a good amount to do to it (I have a list with 15 bullet points on it, and growing!), but I'm happy enough looking at it, and want to take a break to focus on some other pieces.
I took some progress shots (though perhaps not as many as I'd have liked). So please, join me as we journey through my learning experience:
I fully assembled the mini before putting down any paint. Here's where the mini was after a couple days work, about 4-5 hrs. I used an airbrush to give it a zenithal undercoat with black and white, and then to lay in the base coats of the red and blue. I then painted the underbelly and the wing-fingers with a brush.
Here, I'm trying to show the work I've done (still fairly subtle, at this point) on building up the vibrancy/transitions on the red skin/scales. I was fairly happy at this point, as I could start to see that I might actually be able to paint this to the standard I want.
The next day, I did some work on the face, horns, and blocked in the body spikes. I generally liked the mouth and tongue, but felt it was a bit vibrant. I thought the blue on the horns was alright, but also wasn't completely sold on it.
Here's where it was after another `30min of work. Since I felt the tongue was too much, I did something about it! I did a very light glaze with a grey, just to knock down the saturation a bit. Looks better. I added some more blue to the horns, and still wasn't quite happy with it. Picked out the teeth, which is nice, easy bit of definition. And that eye!!! It looked much better than I expected, although that's the last time it would be that well defined...
Here it is after another couple days of progress, building up that red (it takes soooooo long on something this big!!!!), as well as more work on the mouth/face. I'd accidentally painted over the eye (which becomes a recurring theme in this tale
), so I blocked in some color, just to separate it from the face. I added a glaze of 'RMP's fair skin' to the tongue, and now I'm lovin' it. Also added some fleshy-ness to the gums on the upper jaw (though it's a little hard to tell), and that was definitely another good decision.
Here I continued to build up the red, progress is slow but steady. Not pictured (which is unfortunate, because it was a good learning experience) is my attempt to redo the horn entirely, to a scheme that was a transition of bone to brown to black at the tip...I was really unhappy with it. I had the bone starting around the eye ridges in at attempt to add more contrast and draw the viewer's eye towards the face, but it just looked awful. So I spent a good while redoing the horn and fixing the whole face. I'm glad I made that mistake, as I think the face looks much better than it did before I started on the horn. Part of that was adding in a new level of bright highlights.
Here's the mini in some soft lighting, and although the picture is kinda blurry, it better shows the transitions throughout the red. I think this was also the point where I started working on shading the red, by applying a light blue-black glaze to the shaded areas, which really helped add some contrast to the piece.
I had an accident that almost gave me a heart attack, where the figure seemingly jumped off the desk
Luckily, I caught it before it hit the ground, and it sustained no major damage. It did separate where the dragon attaches on to the base, and although that was a little frustrating, it ended up being a happy little accident, as it made it MUCH MUCH easier to work on the base. I started by putting down some paints and pigments, until it was at a place I thought was ok. Also, the rock spire that it's curled around was originally about 6 inches taller, which I cut off to better see all of the dragon. So, I started work on sculpting a new top. I started by building up thin layers of cardboard with superglue, to level it off (it had quite a slant to it). Then I mixed up some greenstuff, and tried to match the overall flow and texture of of the rocks. Although not a perfect match, it's close enough to not be distracting. Mission accomplished!! The pillars were a part of the mini.
And here's the beast in its current state. I painted the newly sculpted top to match what I'd already done, and left the pillars with a super quick drybrushing. I touched up the eye to look acceptable (it's on my 'to do' list), added some grass tufts to the base, and was happy to leave it be like this, for a time. The final pic is another attempt to 'more accurately' show the value transitions with the red, though the colors seem a tad washed out.
Thanks for taking a look at my work, and for reading my ramblings! C&C is welcome
As I said, I have a to do list for the dragon, but I'm not afraid to add more to it!!! I'll strive to make a post in here a few times a week, and eventually you'll get to see a completed dragon!
EDIT: I forgot to mention that once the dragon broke away from the base (super cleanly, luckily), I took the opportunity to redo the underbelly on the whole model, darkening it up some. And along the neck, I experimented with wet blending for the first time! I've been apprehensive to try it before, but decided this was a good spot to experiment, as it's a large enough area, but felt less...consequential, I guess, if I messed it up. And I'm pretty pleased with the result!
Next up: Frostgrave warbands for me and my brother!