vegel Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I had been staring at the bow string and trying to make sense of it as well... I was trying to figure out if she is pulling the string, or just released it? I guess if she is pulling you'd need to make the arrow as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Just released it, hence the missing arrow. (The box does come with an arrow one can attach, but it's horribly chunky and malproportioned. No thanks.) Again, think of a recurve bow like this one taken way past the logical extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 While waiting for the putty to set, I did this to the back of the cloak: Turns out I've been doing freehand wrong every time I've tried it: rather than trying not to screw up one thick line, I should've been laying down a bunch of really thin lines such that no single mistake ruins the piece. Anyway, I've discovered my mistake, and the results above reflect that. I started out by lightly shading the (cinder brown) cloak with nightshade purple, and highlighting it all the way with khaki shadow. The latter went on kind of chalky and needed a thin wash of cinder brown to smooth out the blends. Then I laid down the border in thin strokes of snow shadow, and once I was happy with those I reinforced them with ghost white. I did the same with all the crap on the bottom of the cloak. Finally, I added some pure white to the freehand on top of the highlights, and did another light shading pass with nightshade purple to bring down the freehand in the shadows. I am quite pleased with the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Hah -- did the bone! Well, basecoated it, at least. That's all terran khaki. It's gonna get highlighted in, oh, probably I'll go right up to linen white since there's no room to blend most of it. One comforting thing I noticed while I was going over the detail is that no-one's going to care about any given brushstroke. (This is much like my epiphany on freehand above.) All the little lines and curlicues add up to a more or less atomic whole of "zOMG that's a lot of detail", at least for a piece like this that isn't going to anything like Golden Daemon judging panels. pLylyth here is essentially a gaming piece, albeit the centrepiece of a Legion of Everblight force if I ever get everything painted up and find some other WarmaHordes players around here, so while I want to paint her to as high a level as I can I'm not too worried about living up to the model's potential. All that said, I'm glad I put this off for almost eight months. My brush control now is far and away better than it was in mid-2010. Note also the taut bowstring -- looks good, don't it? Front needs some big blues, which I think will be the highlights on the cloak interior. Might do some freehand in this vein, although that example isn't remotely balanced in light/cold between front and back. What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WizardOne Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Note also the taut bowstring -- looks good, don't it? . . . What do you think? That what I was on about... ...that does look good. Did you do the bending of the limbs scheme that you mentioned earlier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Note also the taut bowstring -- looks good, don't it? That what I was on about... ...that does look good. Did you do the bending of the limbs scheme that you mentioned earlier? Sure did. Compare the most recent photo to the first one: In the first post's photo, the upper "spikes" of the bow are at about 45deg to the bowstring axis. In the most recent. they're nearly perpendicular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 Did a whole bunch of tiptoeing around the elephant in the room -- I shaded and highlighted the red cloth, the skin, and the leather that wasn't part of the bone scrollwork. Might get to that tomorrow. So far, so good. I'm particularly happy with the way the feathers (?) on the back of her cloak came out -- shaded with nightshade purple, highlighted with rosy highlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KayBee Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 That is awesome. Love the feathers and the freehand work on the cloak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimL Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Great WIP, nice to see the progress. The freehand on the cloak really adds to it, instead of having that big area of solid color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimwolf Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I really love the way the contrast works on her back, the black and white looks really great. Excellent work on both the freehand and the feathers. Really good stuff. Keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Bone scrollwork is done. Highlighting and shading wasn't nearly as much trouble as I expected: once all the fiddly bits were picked out in a nice contrasting colour, following the base coat was pretty straightforward. Also, I'm kind of shocked by how no one step seemed to make much of a difference over the last, but once I finished it made a huge difference. Base coat, you'll recall, was terran khaki. I highlighted up through khaki highlight and linen white to a few spots of pure white, and shaded with blue liner. Somewhere in there I put a few highlights on the hair, which you can't really see in these photos. I'm planning to highlight the inner cloak with a desaturated blue, up to something like snow shadow, in order to balance the blues on the back. I think the bow would look pretty good painted up like a piece of antler, in colours not too dissimilar from the bone scrollwork. (This'll help tie the figure in with the carapace-tastic Legion of Everblight warbeasts.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 pLylyth herself is -- provisionally -- done. Highlighted the cloak in desaturated blues up to snow shadow, and did the bow in my first hack at a streaky-carapace scheme using the khaki triad and linen white. The latter was tough to pull off on such a small and fiddly surface, but it's not too bad for my first attempt. I'm using the "carapace" scheme specifically to tie the figure in with the (still unassembled) rest of my Legion of Everblight battle box, and I'll probably come back later to improve it. Either way, I'm on to the base. And the Carnivean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferox Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Up in Show Off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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