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LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 14 Nov 2010, o 15:26

I agree with Mahon on the cloth. Right now the shading looks good, but if you can push it a little more it will look "great".

flagoon · Post by **flagoon** » 3 Dec 2010, o 09:41

Hi, this are the last photos of this ork. I finished it few days before. This is still learning miniature, so very uneven. I know that gun sucks very much, that pants needs more highlights, that boots are only basecoated and then washed with badab black, but I just wanted to paint something else. I still consider this mini as my best one. If you want to see bigger photos, please press the link under the photo.

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Maru · Post by **Maru** » 3 Dec 2010, o 15:21

sup - yup thats univen work - blue parts strongly highlighted (bos pole , scull) reds medicore , greens just started end mettaliks - diped in ink ..

well i would sey it could look better if lvl could be constant

BTW - got Dry pigments ( rust or turquse ?? ) or a Vethering acryls ??
if not adding some of the gun end clav would be fast end add somthing to them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OSyAT7 ... re_related
using thech shown in this Tutorial - but not that way - dont dip model in it just aplay on the joints end around screws , nits , ect ..

choos 1 green or rust 1 (green stands out better end according to Ork Fluf ork metal oxydyze on Green color

)

flagoon · Post by **flagoon** » 3 Dec 2010, o 16:23

The claw hand is rusted, and I'm quite happy with the effect, but you cannot see this on this photos. I forgot to make close up photos of this, and I gave away the mini to someone.
Anyway I completly failed at highlighting pants and pink rag on the pole and I surely could use some hints how to improve in that. I think that I understand how to work with reds and greens, but I will try to highlight them more next time.
As for APJ video I'm a great fan since I started painting minis (expect his Space Marines videos). I've seen this tutorial few month before, but I really don't like turquoise color on metals. And I have different ways to create brown rust color. But anyway thanks for your "review". I always appriciate it

Maru · Post by **Maru** » 3 Dec 2010, o 17:43

to be true - pink sux .... soi use it as a bacckground for bright red

but if you whana hightlight pink - you need to create shadows firs
so you mey go for Leviatan purple ink with addicion of blue paint (dark blue - )
end you will end with :
https://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14 ... zerat1.jpg
wich will reqire rehightlighning with pink + ice blue (pink + white - panty clor)
or go more nuts
end blend in pink a lot more of colors .. wich ends :
https://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14 ... zerat2.jpg
red / green , end so on 2x as messy end much harder to keep control over this )

or go for much more smoth blending - like on bag
https://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff14 ... iny3v3.jpg
wich is pink shaded with . purple (made on red + blue ) end re hightlighted by ice blue + turquse - thats about pink in cold colors a warm pink . well posible but it alvays ends as lingerie color ... at ends

failed at highlighting pants

- hym at this i would advice a EM method .. they gotthis on some tutorial ..
but first of all - make stiches on his but in other collor

Post by **mahon** » 4 Dec 2010, o 12:02

definitely your best mini so far

now how to make it better?

take the photo, desaturate.
see what it looks like now, and what it could look like if you added some more highlights...

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flagoon · Post by **flagoon** » 4 Dec 2010, o 16:58

mahon wrote:definitely your best mini so far
take the photo, desaturate.
see what it looks like now, and what it could look like if you added some more highlights...

OK, this is small WOW. How did you make this highlights in Photoshop (or other graphic program)? I think it's dodge tool, but this would helps immensly, if I can see highlight before painting... I guess more practice is needed.

Maru wrote: - hym at this i would advice a EM method .. they gotthis on some tutorial ..
but first of all - make stiches on his but in other collor

What is EM method? Hah, the stitches are my big mistake. It's a long story, but now I know that I shouldn't copy everything that I did good with other miniatures

Post by **Skrit** » 4 Dec 2010, o 17:34

I think he means Eavy Metal, the painters from GW.

Maru · Post by **Maru** » 4 Dec 2010, o 21:48

yup
download the tutorials from this topic
https://www.chestofcolors.com/forum/view ... =21&t=6908

one of thous Tutorials is a bout slightly converted Ork Boss

- so that one

(ignote SM tutorials thous are pathetic .. )
Haos lord is good 1 (bouth haos lords)
Vamp lord is good (blood is just Big NO)

rest is worthy to check on

som of them are "how to make your mini look messy"
so not do thous

Ech.. Desaturated photos - so easy so rare used

Post by **mahon** » 4 Dec 2010, o 22:24

I used an overlay layer. but that's not so very important. a quick photo taken under strong directional work usually does the job really well too, without any photoshopping

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