77187: Tiik Champion (ReaperCon Advanced Glazing Practice Mini)

[FireElemental]

I spend less than 2 hours on this guy. He was the practice mini in James Wappel's Advanced Glazing class at ReaperCon this year. The brush that is pictured is the brush used to paint him. Wappel likes using cheap craft brushes since they are affordable and since he gave one that is what I used. This fellow was based and primed whitish by Wappel before class and we spend the class mostly applying glazes or glazes mixed with some thicker colors for things like spots. It was a lot of fun.

 

 

 

 

 

For those interested in the base, Wappel has a blog post with the process. He also has two posts showing his process on the example minis that he prepainted for the class.

Edited May 10, 2015 by FireElemental

[MissMelons]

OOOOOOO Cool!!!!  This came out looking very awesome! 

[Glitterwolf]

Great result.

 

Never thought you could get that look with glazes and washes.

[Marsya]

He looks nice. I like the colors and especially love the stripes and spots.

[Painting Pyramid]

That's really an amazing result! 

 

Thanks for being part of the class... it's always very fun to hang around and paint with everyone 

[Limey72]

Great job, I have a love hate relationship with glazing. Love how it should look and hate how mine looks

[Jaws]

I use this process when painting large groups of miniatures. It's really nice when you have regiments of 40+ figures. Very well done. 

[Baugi]

This is a method that seems really fantastic for aquatic themed minis. Antimatter Games guy (forgot his name!) has used it to incredible effect in that way as well. I wonder if it's as effective, painting something with more solid colours and textures? A peasant or a wizard wearing cloth, for example?

[pcktlnt]

This is a method that seems really fantastic for aquatic themed minis. Antimatter Games guy (forgot his name!) has used it to incredible effect in that way as well. I wonder if it's as effective, painting something with more solid colours and textures? A peasant or a wizard wearing cloth, for example?

Yup! AntiMatter. A thread for reference.

http://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/51607-nautiloid-chrysalid/

Edited May 10, 2015 by pcktlnt

[FireElemental]

This is a method that seems really fantastic for aquatic themed minis. Antimatter Games guy (forgot his name!) has used it to incredible effect in that way as well. I wonder if it's as effective, painting something with more solid colours and textures? A peasant or a wizard wearing cloth, for example?

 

We started with white, so we could solely deal with glazing. For faster painting, usually you put down a wet-blended basecoat which Wappel has dubbed a Shaded Basecoat (I took that class last year, it was good too). Then use the glazes to affect colors. For a cloak, if you say have a red cloak, you might go in with a purple glaze to deepen the shadows and boost contrast. Then perhaps glaze in some yellow on brighten the highlights. It is easier to glaze things darker than lighter, but lighting up things is doable.

[Painting Pyramid]

This class was sort of a "glazing on steroids", meaning that just about all of the painting was done with them.

 

I also wanted to show how glazes can work in other non-standard ways.  That is, mixing a lighter color with your glaze, making a semi-transparent lighter color.

 

Such a color is fantastic in those 'middle tones', where you find most of your shading transitions.  Many people think I am using an airbrush because of these.

[HenryRequiem]

Nice work, guess I know which class I'll take next ReaperCon :D