princeman | 17 Aug 2012 5:26 p.m. PST |
Hi all, I have just posted pictures to my blog of my oldest sons new warrior priest for Dungeons & Dragons. Comments welcome. link |
Rrobbyrobot | 17 Aug 2012 5:35 p.m. PST |
That lad has talent. Good stuff. When I grow up will I be able to paint little guys like this? |
Mr Clean 72 | 17 Aug 2012 7:25 p.m. PST |
Thats a great PJ!!! What a proud dad you must be!!! UBBA |
Schulein | 17 Aug 2012 10:14 p.m. PST |
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uruk hai | 18 Aug 2012 4:01 a.m. PST |
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Mooseworks8 | 18 Aug 2012 4:07 a.m. PST |
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Norman D Landings | 18 Aug 2012 4:31 a.m. PST |
I did make a little >kfawf< noise when I saw the cloak. On my scale of involuntary painting-inspired noises, that's pretty good! |
Rubber Suit Theatre | 18 Aug 2012 4:35 a.m. PST |
The figure is this guy: Reaper Pathfinder Holy Vindicator link |
princeman | 18 Aug 2012 5:27 a.m. PST |
Thanks for all the very nice comments. Greg |
Snickering Imp | 18 Aug 2012 7:10 a.m. PST |
I'm said oldest son. Thanks for your positive comments, everyone. I'm also very open to criticism as it can only help me improve. As RST pointed out, this is Reaper's Holy Vindicator for Pathfinder, a recent release of theirs. I liked the sculpt and wanted a mini for the Cleric-soon-to-be-Holy-Vindicator I'm playing in a Pathfinder campaign. With the character being an Iomedae follower I wanted to bring that to the piece. I used the following source image as a visual guide for the emblem on the cloak: Emblem of Iomedae I don't have many hours of painting under my belt and am fairly new to shading. I feel I should start pushing more contrast through highlighting. I'm still a bit conservative with it. This was my first shot at freehand painting with the emblem. It was a good learning experience and a fair bit of luck that the emblem shown is mostly from the first pass. I only did a little edge touch up to fix the line thickness. The brown lining for the sunburst was an afterthought when the yellow/orange was not standing out enough against the white. A bit of slight brown lining gave it just the right contrast to bring the image out and didn't look as brown as I feared. When I first painted the emblem, the color saturation was too great and it looked stamped on. I thinned down the white for the cloak and glazed the entire emblem with a thin coat. This pulled down the saturation and made the emblem look more like it was dyed into the cloak and less like an iron-on. The biggest lessons I learned with the emblem: keep it simple, less is more, contrast is key. Also, remember to step back from the mini once in a while. It's easy to get lost in detail when the mini is inches from your face. What you see while you are painting is not what you'll see when the piece is on the table. I would have liked to try NMM but one step at a time. I'll give that a shot on a future piece. I used P3 paints almost entirely. I went with the Menoth palette for the cloak to bring in the white/red elements of Pathfinder's Iomedae and because I have a stack of Menoth in the queue so I wanted to familiarize myself with those colors before setting them to the Warmachine minis. I brought in some Vallejo metals for the silver. The silver portions were done with P3 pig iron base, P3 armor wash, and Vallejo plata silver highlighting. Golds were done in P3 solid gold, P3 brown wash (which is a very warm, ruddy brown), then solid gold highlighting. All metals were painted with gloss after the matte seal to give them a sheen. |
14Bore | 18 Aug 2012 10:02 a.m. PST |
You did a fantastic job, keep up the good work. |
popeye | 18 Aug 2012 3:33 p.m. PST |
Great job, a
looking a his paint job i think i use a catapult to paint mine keep up the great work |
Jamesonsafari | 18 Aug 2012 4:13 p.m. PST |
Well done! Very neat and tidy and good attention to detail and colour palette. And you already want to push on with shading and highlighting which will only make your figures look even better than they already are. |
firstvarty1979 | 27 Aug 2012 10:46 a.m. PST |
When I first saw the posting, I thought it was another Dad posting about how great his little son had done painting something, when in reality, from a purely objective standpoint, it was pretty bad. Everyone then politely comments that it looks great, despite their actual beliefs. Thank goodness that this one didn't turn out that way, and this is a level of work that he can be proud of and the rest of can truly admire. You're lucky to have a father who is proud of you, quite justifiably. |
Milites | 17 Sep 2012 2:51 p.m. PST |
I love the shading of the cloak and the armour effect. If I had to highlight one area for improvement, it would be the face. Spend as much time, if not more, as you would for the clothing/armour. A well painted face (and judging from your colour awareness and restrained shading you could paint a cracker) will really imbue your character with a personality. Experiment on some cast-offs and get your own style, but focus on the eyes and the various shadows and highlights. I painted up some 1/72 Vikings and was pleased with the overall job, but repainted the faces, that looked flat. Transformed the whole batch, and it was fun experimenting with different techniques. Keep up the painting. |