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.