BloodyDrake's Workbench

[bloodydrake]

awesome! thanks for the tip, I'll definitely get a gloss cote on first before messing with attaching him to a base

 

and thx! I'm glad you guys like him :) they have a couple of living Holmes figures I just didn't get the bakers street gang with the kickstarter

 

I'm not sure if i can pull off the gore well..I've never tried to do it before..I'll work on finish painting the cobblestone base and mull it over if I dare try :)

[bloodydrake]

So got Zombie Holmes finished up and started on his partner in undeath Zombie Watson .
Got most of the basecoating done..went with soft blue for the suit basecolor..gonna try and bring up the highlights onto that towards grey
I didn't realize he had a stethoscope around his neck at first but once I get some metallics done it will stand out better

[MonkeySloth]

The Holmes is quite nice. Also those Wyrd bases you're using are nice. I actually am cheap and press mold extras to save on money but once I get my Happy Seppuku stuff I'll probably no longer have a need for it.

[bloodydrake]

thx monkeysloth i like the cobblestone it suits the EoD stuff quite well...but that happy seppuku stuff looks great..i don't know how i missed that kickstarter :(

[MonkeySloth]

I can't believe you've got 44 pages and I've never commented here before. There's so much stuff posted in the WIP board that it's easy to loose things I guess.

[bloodydrake]

So Rocksmith 2014 might be sucking up a lot of my paint time LOL..its a blast..much better then the original which is one of the only video games I still play..

Getting some painting in I decided to try abit more olive green in the flesh mix for Zombie Watson..to mix it up abit and see how it works out..as well applied abit of white to the mix for the final highlights..I think it turned out ok.

Watons eyes,very tiny! I think the dots will do tho they're abit lopsided.

I applied a mix of blackend brown and soft blue to make a wash and applied to the suit then applied one layer of softblue to buildup the midtone again. Might have to go back and apply one more layer...
so here he is so far.

 

 

 

[CashWiley]

So Rocksmith 2014 might be sucking up a lot of my paint time

I hear ya man...I have to be real careful, though. I play classical and fingerpick, so when the last one came out I threw out my wrist. Several times. Muscle memory from being in a metal band in the 80s and 90s, but the muscles for picking aren't used anymore. I can play pretty much anything but the wrist basically sprains itself if I play too long!

[bloodydrake]

its so nice to be able to flag songs as favourites..finally..I well I'm about as good a guitarist as I am a painter...so good enough to knock out some campfire songs and easy songs like Mean woof and High and Dry..but I won't be quitting my day job ;-)

 

I just bought some guitars after the guitar hero era @ the age of 37 and figured eh why not..but got easily distracted..Rocksmith at least gets me to have fun while learning some songs.

 

stuffty about the wrist..definitely don't want to over do it, but hopefully you can get your moneys worth out of it....I'm at that..."Cough...Cough.." hmm I got some sick days coming to me don't I ? stage LOL

Edited October 24, 2013 by bloodydrake

[CashWiley]

I'm a big fan of the game and it's effect on guitar playing. I know several gamers that have picked up the guitar because of it.

 

I've been playing since I was 14, coming up on 30 years of playing!

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3667682/Music/Maggot%20Brain.mp3

 

Takes a minute to get going :) That was when I was still playing electric regularly, back in 06 (it's a Funkadelic track, Eddie Hazel is the man).

[bloodydrake]

man thats pretty wicked ...that..I couldn't play if my life depended on it :)

[ShadowRaven]

Damn Cash, you rock at painting, and rock the guitar. I am all kinds of green man

[bloodydrake]

Spent some more time working on Watson. I've tried to blend the soft blue midtone color up to mostly ashen blue for the highlights on the suit..I think it looks ok..but i'm not sure if I need to add one more very slight brighter highlight on the tips of peaks..being a suit I'm not sure if that will make it look to shiny but could always do a midtown glaze after to smooth it out

Here he is so far. Overall its coming together..

 

[bloodydrake]

so i decided to keep going with the suit and applied another layer of highlights to the suit and highlighted the tie and metal bits

as well as painting the buttons..the top 2 i put a slight reflective highlight ..but not sure it looks right. and washed the doctot bag..I'll work on highlighting the bag and hat and shoes tomorrow.

 

i think its better now..I tend to hold back abit and need to break out of that.

 

[CashWiley]

Highlight 'em all the way down. Or even just cutting the highlight a wee bit with the mid-tone for the lower buttons. They could use a little more pop, either way.

 

Good call on bumping up the suit's contrast, looks great. Especially the lapels, they needed it most.

[bloodydrake]

zombie watson has a gloss cote drying and should be based tomorrow in the meantime I figured might as well keep this ball rolling and get a real villian done. Jack the Ripper suits the bill!

So cleaned him up and cut off the slot base and glued in the pins
Its raining here so used some brush on primer and a thinned down black wash to try and bring out the details for basecoating.
I'm kinda torn on the colors to use. Alot of figures in this series will have alot of black so was thinking of doing a deep purple suit color and just use black for the cloak thing and hat..maybe red for the bandanna..

Or..it could be that dudes wearing tails,its gotta be black..not sure..thoughts?