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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: antimatter on 11 October 2015, 03:13:24 AM
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Hi all. Just working on a Blood-maw from Mierce Minis.
This one does not have too many WIP shots but I got too overzealous in painting and did not take enough photos. It is a gaming figure commission so I have to be efficient when painting. The model itself is enormous, about four inches tall, and hyper-detailed with all sorts of skin wrinkles like a naked mole rat. With something this large and textured, it screams for painting with washes and glazes. An airbrush could have worked also but the texture would be difficult to highlight since it was basically all muscles and lots of wrinkles, and it would need washes to make shadows anyways.
The first step was to prime in white and give the skin a wash of green-gray (white + black + touch of Pthalo blue and Sap green, + Matte Medium). This was mixed with roughly 50% water so that it left light areas on the raised texture. After the base wash dried, a wash of purple-black (black + Dioxazine Purple ink + Matte Medium) was painted into the shadows. This was mixed with more water, maybe 75%, than the first wash. After that wash dried, a light glaze of Raw Sienna ink was painted in shadows and on some upper surfaces. More ink was used for the rough skin on the elbows and knees and on the hands and feet. The interior of the mouth was painted with a basic wash of flesh tone, simply a pinkish skin.
The first washes and mouth look pretty ugly (you can even see a drop of raw sienna glaze on the head that I later removed), but they are just laying the foundation. It was important to have some complexity to the skin tone, as plain gray skin is really boring.
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/bloodmaw.jpg)
The next step was to give the inside of the mouth a wash of "bloody tissue", (Burnt Sienna ink, Quinicridone crimson paint + black paint + matte medium). This was applied in two washes, one drying before the next one applied. The skin was given glaze of Turquoise ink here and there to add a bit more color, then drybrushed lightly with a mix of green-white (Sap green + Raw Sienna + white paint). To make cleaner highlights, the green-white was painted in glazes onto the uppers surfaces where light would strike most. These glazes of opaque paint helped reduce the contrast of the multiple dark washes. Finally, almost pure white was lightly painted on some of the raised edges to help them stand out.
The claws and teeth were painted with a light wash of a yellow ochre, then drybrushed lightly with bone white, then washed with Burnt Umber ink. The key was to use almost pure ink near the base and then thin with water (dip the brush in water) and paint from the tip backwards so the washes made a nice gradient. There were some light highlights with white added here and there to the teeth and the gums to help make the stand out, then some Blood for the Blood god was added for a bit of gloss (after the whole model was dullcoted).
Next comes the base, which I'll probably keep simple since this is a gaming mini.
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/bloodmaw_1.jpg)
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/bloodmaw_2.jpg)
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/bloodmaw_3.jpg)
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/bloodmaw_4.jpg)
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An interesting use of washes and a limited pallet.compliments the sculpting well.
Mark.
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:o
wow.
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That's a great result :)
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Awesome. Great use of washes.
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Great painting. Thanks for sharing
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Wonderful painting !
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That's cracking 8) 8) 8)
cheers
James
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Bloody hell!!!
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That is one seriously impressive beastie.
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"Here Kitty, Kitty" Well it just has to be some-ones beloved pet, what with it being sooooo cute.
I love it.
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Nice work, you can't beat washes for quick and simple results.
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Awesome...my only complaint being with the sculpt...thing can't close its mouth. Looks nasty though. Well done. lol
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The Big Ugly Dude is WONDROUS to behold...FANTASTICALLY WELL DONE!
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spectacular job. Really horrifying model.
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That's terrific!
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Just enough judicious spotwork. Great results.
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Thats beautiful!
well, real ugly but you get what i mean....
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Great work! :-*
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He looks exactly like me when I have to visit my dentist.
Great painting
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Indeed. Impressive beastie. Someone made the observations that it is, "quick and easy to work with washes and glazes". Is that true? ;-)
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Indeed. Impressive beastie. Someone made the observations that it is, "quick and easy to work with washes and glazes". Is that true? ;-)
It is definitely much quicker and easier than wet blending something this large and textured, at least for me.
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Cracking stuff yet again! Thanks for tutorial and tips!
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I wouldn't want to bump into one of those ever ! Superb paintjob, really captures the textures. Would you recommend this sort of technique for painting a large scaly Dragon?
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Your figure is so bad-ass.
Just super.
Love it.
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I wouldn't want to bump into one of those ever ! Superb paintjob, really captures the textures. Would you recommend this sort of technique for painting a large scaly Dragon?
That is how I would do it. I have some other examples of the methods in this PDF. http://antimatter-games.com/products-page/books/painting-guides/painting-scaly-beasts/
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There's an incredible realism to this one, which is exceptional considering it's a monster. If I saw it in the flesh, I'd expect it to glisten with the same hues as this figure! Kudos, a work to be proud of.
Thanks
n
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Awesome result and great step-by-step "manual". Love the skin, but the inner mouth makes it come truly alive. I never tried washes straight away over a white undercoat, but it's a great technique. Thanks for sharing! :)
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This is ruddy amazing, thank you for the steps! One question: when you use glazes of different colours to break up the grey, do you have a scheme for where you apply it,? or is is a random process? And how do you decide on those colours?
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Really lovely painting on an interesting model. You mention a bloody mix in your step by step - it would be interesting to read the rough proportions / what you want the mix to look like as I am always after interesting ways of painting organic wet red.
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This is ruddy amazing, thank you for the steps! One question: when you use glazes of different colours to break up the grey, do you have a scheme for where you apply it,? or is is a random process? And how do you decide on those colours?
The color choice and placement is definitely not random. In choosing the colors, I was using the basic color wheel to pick complementary shades, green and purple, with the other colors either closer to green. The purple-black shade was a wash but it was brushed more into the shadows than the highlight areas. The basic wash naturally does this, but I "wicked" some of the wsah off the upper surfaces with a dry brush or lightly brushed it into the shadows. The other glazes (Raw Umber and Turquoise) were closer to green so they were applied more to the upper surfaces so they did not muddy the shadows.
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Really lovely painting on an interesting model. You mention a bloody mix in your step by step - it would be interesting to read the rough proportions / what you want the mix to look like as I am always after interesting ways of painting organic wet red.
Tough to say since I just mix until it looks good to the eye. It was probably close to 50-50 Burnt Sienna ink and deep red paint, with a small touch of black to darken it.
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Here is the finished version with a base.
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/maw_1.jpg)
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/maw_2.jpg)
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/maw_3.jpg)
(http://antimatter-games.com/images/minis/blood_maw/maw_4.jpg)
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Still awesome.
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Still awesome.
I think you mean Maw-some? ;)
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Excellent tutorial! It can be useful to paint elephant-like skin.
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Marvelous! And thank you for the reply regarding colour choice, that really helped :)
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Nice work. Personally, I would make the teeth whiter, at the moment they are too similar to the claws for my taste. Great results for fast work though.
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I think you mean Maw-some? ;)
That pun was a mouthful ::)
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Gosh! :-*
This looks frightening realistic!
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Just incredible!! :-*
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Stunning miniature...
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EXCELLENT
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Splendid work! :-* :o