Orcs and Goblins: Old School Nouveau style

[Nicklas P]

Hello everyone,

I painted one of the Orcs from the recent Greenskin Wars kickstarter over the weekend. I wanted to paint him with more natural skin tones than the Orc I posted in the painting party. I also tried to be a bit more painterly, not fussing too much over smoothness.



edit:

Adding this "family photo" to the opening post

[Hobgoblin]

That's superb! The contrast between the pale, greenish skin and the dark armour and base works really well.

[Earther]

Whoah! 

[m4jumbo]

Nice work!

[Timotl]

That’s just plain gorgeous. I’d love to see more!

[Daeothar]

Both skin- and metal tones are gorgeous and the overall effect is simply perfect.

I especially love the pale skin with all the subtle color variations; great work!

[Dr. Moebius]

Wow, that's really a fantastic looking orc. Love the effects on the armour and weapon.

[Spooktalker]

You've achieved very nice effects with the metals and flesh. Great figure, too.

[Nicklas P]

Many thanks all.

I started another Orc from the same set today. My aim was to finish him in one sitting, took roughly 6½ hours. Some areas are a bit rough and he's obviously lacking a base but I felt he's good enough to post.

[Tungdil]

Cool figure, i like his face. Terrific brushwork.

[Hobgoblin]

Another - ahem - beauty!

The face is very reminiscent of Kev Adam's very first range of Citadel Orcs - and the paintwork brings it out tremendously.

[Cubs]

Hot damn, what amazing skin tones!

[von Lucky]

Agree - love the skin tones and his eyes.

[Bloggard]

when you say painterly you're not kidding.
that second face is so frazetta - ish. Fantastic.

it would be nice to see these showing at something closer to their real size as well as the close-ups.

[Andrew Rae]

That's beautiful. Is the texture in the face all painted on?