Kind of quick pick of the nearly finished entry. Hoping to get some eyes on it, if anyone sees anything that looks jacked up or clearly isn't working. I've been looking at it for 2 months so I can't tell anymore.
So this is a phone pic and already you can't see the high saturation purple except on the paper towel. Great. :P but hopefully you sort of get the idea. So far the most obvious thing is the desaturated yellow. I don't know if I'm 100% doing it right but it's making me make different color choices. I feel like I'm learning and I'm definitely having fun.
Painting a miniature for a competition, trying to up my composition game (or.. like.. having any at all) by trying out Gamut masking (explained here:
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/09/part-3-gamut-masking-method.html)
Part 3, Gamut Masking Method
Let’s see how the gamut masking (or "mapping") method actually works, using the example of that bright colored Las Vegas scene. This vide...
Finally, my favorite. Tried the Goobertown 'yellow over pink' technique, though it was actually a lavender because I had a sample bottle from Reaper I wanted to use. Cold yellow, too, as that was the best combo from my spoon test. Glazed some Vallejo rust wash over it to warm it back up.
This guy was another airbrush experiment- white primer, blue shadows, yellow highlights. Golden High Flow's green over all of that. Then some glazes to reinforce that lighting. Tried some 'sky earth NMM' on the leg bumps, love how that came out.
I followed Darren Latham's Youtube tutorial for painting faces for this one. Not as strong a contrast as he has but still a drastic improvement over my previous faces.
I painted the Ultramarine following Angel Giraldez's Youtube tutorial. His instructions on airbrush control for highlights feel like they're going to be a serious game changer for me.
Painted all 5 figures from Space Marine Adventures early last year and have barely painted since. Slowly, slowly trying to get back in the swing of things. Here's the Blood Angel.
ReaperCon Live is going on this weekend. I took an intro to freehand class and it was enormously helpful. This is a kind of big, banner type design about the size of a quarter. Lost steam on the moon- and it shows- but I'm happy to sit down and knock something out.
I think I've worked out my camera situation, for real this time. A test Skink for a Blood Bowl team, "The Saur Losers". My bf is from Cleveland so there is a little dig at the Browns there. Exploring some textures and practicing NMM. I love the new BB Lizardmen so much, it really was a joy. With luck I'll finish the team sometime this year... or not.
