03135: B'thuhl, Bathalian Pirate

[Pingo]

These are two octopus-headed psychic baddies, one Reaper's "03135: B'thuhl, Bathalian Pirate", and one a classic "Brain Slayer" from Ral Partha, showing a little of the scale creep of the last twenty years.

 

Their mauve-green complexion comes from mixing Phthalo Green with Quinacricone Magenta. Adjusting the mix can give you anything from purple to a surprising deep blue to blue-green.

 

Privately I think of them as "Fred" and "Charley."

 

 

EDIT: Oh fruitbats, I forgot to reduce the size of one of the photos. Is that going to be a problem, mods?

 

(And weird, editing added all sorts of annoying font tags which I had to remove manually.)

Edited February 16, 2014 by Pingo

[Jasonator]

Holy Snikes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU should make a color tutorial... !!!

Your colors and mixes on these mini's are ASTONISHING !

Dang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[malefactus]

SPLENDID WORK! The colors are dazzling, AND perfectly suited to the subjects.

[spencerjohn]

Ack they want my brain! Ha silly flayers according to my wife I don't have one!

 

Very pretty for such ugly critters! Excellent job!

[CashWiley]

Eeeeexcellent! *steeples fingers*

[brushforhire]

Everything is better with tentacles.

[Grimreaper71]

Very nicely done

[Baugi]

Pingo, I am stealing this palette for my Bones bathalian. It is amazing. What did you mix in for highlights?

 

Edit: I was so focused on the skin that I didn't even notice that fantastic green OSL. God it's a pleasure to look at your work.

Edited February 16, 2014 by Baugi

[mangochutnee]

Nice continuation of the snake theme onto Charley's (or is that Freds?) sash. Agree with everyone that the skin tones rock!

Edited February 16, 2014 by mangochutnee

[Metalchaos]

Very well done. I like these black robe and jacket.

Edited February 16, 2014 by Metalchaos

[Bruunwald]

Still, the scale creep doesn't seem too bad in this case. I have a couple Ral Partha elves that look seriously like halflings when compared to the models from the Warlord Elf faction.

[Corporea]

Oh yeah!  That's a fantastic purple!  You know, you're wearing me down- I'm eventually going to break down and get some golden liquid acrylics! I even went to the website and put a few in my cart just to check prices the other day...

 

Great blending!  I love the striped... corset? Doublet?  Anyway- nice stripes!

[Pingo]

Thanks!  Here are a couple of detail pictures of the green bottle.

 

 

(And now you can see how sloppy my painting is up close.)

 

The skin is a series of mixes of Phthalo Green and Quinacridone Magenta, as I mentioned, in varying percentages (which is why some areas look bluer and some more purple).  I lightened it with pure Titanium White.

 

At times I glazed a bit of the purple mix over paler to keep things from looking chalky.  That's also how I got the green of the bottle so vivid: an intense transparent yellow-green glaze over spots shaded from green and pale green.

 

[Baugi]

The remarkable thing about your work is that up close, it looks like the sorts of textures and blends that you'd see on a canvas painting. Most of us don't have that training, so we don't default to that mode of thinking, which is why your work is so, SO interesting and impressive for those of us that are perhaps more "hobbyists" than "artists".

[Pingo]

I'm going to link to tbroadwater's lovely Sea Captain here because it's the same figure with a completely different approach but it doesn't have any tags and wouldn't be searchable by its name or SKU.

 

I love seeing how other people paint the same minis I've painted.