Dave's WIP

Post by **Skrit** » 11 Mar 2009, o 12:48

Looking at your source material Ia gree it's not your fault!

As long as it looks good (and it does!) right!

Wraithlord · Post by **Wraithlord** » 11 Mar 2009, o 19:23

As far as the hair goes, white will look fine as will black. You could also try slightly anime/manga influenced colours and give the hair a purple tint or something similar. And I would say a further highlight or two wouldn't be amiss on the armour.

LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 12 Mar 2009, o 03:26

Went with ye olde base white, color tinted anime hair. I would have to say it's my favorite part.

I have one that's "finished", but still having problems taking a good picture. I think it may be the lighting.

LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 15 Mar 2009, o 23:24

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Quick update before work. Haven't had much time this week to get these finished.

At first I was fairly pleased, but the photos made me realize I'll probably need to add more contrast and clean up a couple spots. Comments welcome as always.

arctica · Post by **arctica** » 16 Mar 2009, o 02:03

the hair is a nice touch and the different shades are a really nice touch

i think you're right about the contrast, a little more and it'll look great. I think with your metallic bronze you could possibly highlight the edges with mithril silver and use an orange or brown wash to colourise? it . Drill the holes in your gun too

.

Mahon suggested to me a while ago to try using bleached bone to highlight my reds for more contrast and one other thing is if you have a steady hand is to get some brown ink and black (brown

) line the darkest areas that'll give you some extra shading.

LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 16 Mar 2009, o 04:28

I'll keep your suggestion in mind for the bronze, although I'm leaning towards more shading rather than attempting to highlight it further. The coloring itself was a dwarf bronze base coat, couple layers of red ink/wash, followed by burnished gold highlights.

I honestly hate using pure metallics (have I said that already?

)

When you mention bleached bone highlights are you talking about pure bleached bone? Seems like that may be a bit too strong, perhaps a red/bone mixture or straight bone with a red wash over the top?

arctica · Post by **arctica** » 16 Mar 2009, o 10:35

Ah i used the bleached bone as an additive, although in some cases i did take it up to the extremes.

My example of using bleached bone https://img366.imageshack.us/img366/2230/pict0564ig6.jpg

You can always give it a red wash over the top anyway to help the transition look smoother but as it stands i think it looks quite smooth. You know it could just be the photo anyway.

LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 16 Mar 2009, o 23:50

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Today's WIP; Inquisitor henchmen and lil' buddy. Time for my 4pm breakfast.

Post by **mahon** » 16 Mar 2009, o 23:51

the little one is very nice. will there be more of them?

LittleDave · Post by **LittleDave** » 17 Mar 2009, o 01:22

I have one more to paint. They're familiars for my inquisitor retinue since I don't like those cherub thingies.