Looks Like I'm Bill-Hooked ... Never Mind

[MaleGriffin]

Lovely figures! Great basing! Very nice work on the bowstrings! Love the different bow paint jobs!

[MaaX]

Great stuff! 

I really like your painting style, it gives a ton of character to your minis.

[Cubs]

Thanks guys, it's criminal how slow I am at painting my own stuff, I've always got commissions to be getting on with, but these guys are fairly easy to batch paint. I'm in the process of re-potting all my paints at the moment (sieving the scabs and crusts out to save the runny stuff) and topping up the homemade colour collection pots (most are 4-stages - base, 2 midtones and a highlight) which saves me money, but takes a loooong time. As I was using a colour on these guys (Euro Flesh, Rebel Grey, Olive Drab, etc..) I was re-potting each colour batch so it took much longer than usual to get them finished. I do like the dull tones and I've been painting a lot of bright colours on vintage Citadel Slann lately, so it was a welcome change of pace.

[15thpanzer]

Love your palette and the weathering. They really do look as though they've slogged through the English countryside.

[Atheling]

Love your palette and the weathering. They really do look as though they've slogged through the English countryside.

I meant to say earlier, I love your masterful sfumato painting style Cubs. This might sound like quite a high brow question but was Leonardo da Vinci's "sfumato" (light-dark/vanished or evaporated) an influence?

[Cubs]

Holy crap! I have absolutely no idea what's happening ... am I having a stroke? I wouldn't dare say sfumato, especially if I had been eating biscuits. No, no influences that I know of (but then if it was subconscious, I wouldn't know), other than just trying to colour stuff in nice. When I'm at my desk I just look at how the light is hitting the model and try to exaggerate that with the paint, concentrating on the face or anything else that I think the viewer would want to focus on.

[Atheling]

Holy crap! I have absolutely no idea what's happening ... am I having a stroke?

 

I wouldn't dare say sfumato, especially if I had been eating biscuits. No, no influences that I know of (but then if it was subconscious, I wouldn't know), other than just trying to colour stuff in nice. When I'm at my desk I just look at how the light is hitting the model and try to exaggerate that with the paint, concentrating on the face or anything else that I think the viewer would want to focus on.

Take a look at Leonardo da Vinci's paintings and you will see what I mean. Your painting has a great deal of realistic depth which is effectively what my comparison was about

[Captain Blood]

Henceforth, he shall be named Leonardo Cubbin

[Cubs]

Leonardo di Cublio!

[Atheling]

Henceforth, he shall be named Leonardo Cubbin

Leonardo di Cublio!

An honourable sobriquet 

[Captain Harlock]

I dont know how I didnt saw these earlier. They are brilliantly moody.

[Cubs]

Hot on the heels of my last post a mere 2+ years ago, a smattering more bowmen for the mighty Rhys ap Thomas contingent ... currently 13. I converted a figure to be my Vintenar: literally 20th man, essentially a platoon leader of non-noble freemen, like an NCO. I drilled a shouting mouth and built a greenstuff moustache and lower jaw, then slightly carved the left arm to hold the bow lower to his body. As you can see, he wears some heavy looted armour that is showing signs of wear and tear.

[Atheling]

Delightfully subtle work Cubs 

[Captain Blood]

Nice.
Love the conversion 

[batu]

Fantastic additions! Like the painted helmets.