Dark Sword Female Ranger w/ Bow (Oils & Acrylics)

[Al Capwn 1476]

This miniature will be roughly my third or fourth venture into the realm of oil paints. Everything, with exception to the metallics, eyeballs, and some skin highlights were done in oils. This is also my first attempt in basing in the style of James Wappel (wappellious) using Green Stuff World texture rollers, sculpey, and Vallejo texture paste.

 

No black paint was used in this exercise. I still can't take great photographs, but eventually I will get there!

 

 

WIP Shots:

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A hodge-podge of sculpey, cork, gravel and vallejo texture paste. Adding in a extra weapon bit on the ground to add some interest.

 

Primed.

 

Initial oil coats...

Nearing completion; gloves, quiver and other final touches to do.

 

Edited September 18, 2020 by Al Capwn

[GBPrime 294]

Oils?     Nicely done on the details!
And did you say a texture roller?  Are the broken flagstones greenstuff?

[Al Capwn 1476]

3 minutes ago, GBPrime said:

Oils?     Nicely done on the details!
And did you say a texture roller?  Are the broken flagstones greenstuff?

 

Yep, all done with oil paints (Winsor and Newton and Williamsburg brands to be specific).

 

The bits of flagstone are made out of Sculpey clay (Gray, Firm) with the Greenstuff World 'Temple' texture roller applied. I then simply broke some pieces from the sheet of sculpey and applied them to the base. They gray sculpey tends to stick less into the rollers compared to green stuff or the softer white sculpey.

[GBPrime 294]

16 minutes ago, Al Capwn said:

The bits of flagstone are made out of Sculpey clay (Gray, Firm) with the Greenstuff World 'Temple' texture roller applied. I then simply broke some pieces from the sheet of sculpey and applied them to the base. They gray sculpey tends to stick less into the rollers compared to green stuff or the softer white sculpey.

 

Well!  I know what's on my holiday shopping list, then.  Thanks for helping me notice these!

[Iridil 6292]

Beautiful painting! 

[Glitterwolf 201766]

[Kangaroorex 35942]

nice work!  Can you share your paint recipe for flesh in oils?  that is one of the hardest things for me to manage.

[Al Capwn 1476]

7 minutes ago, Kangaroorex said:

nice work!  Can you share your paint recipe for flesh in oils?  that is one of the hardest things for me to manage.

 

Thank you - and certainly! For the shadows of the skin I started mixed a deep purple-red on my pallet, close to Reaper's Burgundy Wine. I used Ultramarine Blue, Quinacridone Magenta, and maybe a touch of Titanium White.

 

The midtone was Raw Sienna (Yellow Ochre).

 

The highlight I mixed was Raw Sienna (Yellow Ochre), Cadmium Yellow, and Titanium White.

 

The resulted in somewhat of a pale-tanned skin color. Afterwards once that was dry, I thinned down some Quinacridone Magenta and applied a glaze over the top to give it more pinkish warmth.

 

I essentially blocked in the sections where I wanted shadow/midtone/highlights, and then took a small dry brush and gently stippled the borders there those colors meet to get them to make a gradient.

[Rigel 10106]

Really lovely smooth work! Amazing shadows.