Ar-Ulric

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

My newest project is High Priest Ar-Ulric Emil Valgeir, the umm.. High Priest of the Cult of Ulric. Soo.. here's what's been done so far (with the usual accompanying notes)

The first thing noticed was the tab on his base, this made me chuckle. It says ULRIK not ULRIC. So I took a pic.


https://www.taranart.com/KU/Ar-Ulric5.jpg
Next after placing his axe arm I didn't like how the cloth just stopped, so with a little bit of GS work I moulded the cloth to sit better with my idea. It maybe hard to see from the pic but then I suck with pics

And this is the current High Priest's look;

https://www.taranart.com/KU/Ar-UlricWIP1.jpg

He has had codex grey base on his cloak, beard and hair. This then had fortress grey added to it and drybrushed on, the fortress grey then moved on by adding skull white. The beard got a little more attention, the white painted on after drybrushing to solidify it. Next up was the inside of the cloak. Bronzed flesh base followed by a flesh ink wash before highlighted once more with bronzed flesh. The next layers involve adding bleached bone to the base colour adding more bone with each layer.

Now, the cloak is no way near completion. The inside needs to be lighter and highlighted, the beard and cloak may need a bit more work. So this is what I have so far.

KU

[Skrit]

It's hard to judge right now as because of the early stage and the similar colours it's not easy to make out what's what...

Good luck as it's gonna be a tough job to let so much fur look good!:)

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Next pic. Note the super englarged face is a use of my camera's digital zoom, just wanted to see what it came out like. Not too bad but looks slightly odd. Anyways..

https://img446.imageshack.us/img446/3607 ... ip27hp.jpg

Right first off the cloak is done. Well maybe :S The inside has been slightly changed, it was noted that the transision from the ink wash to the main colours was sharp - too sharp. So I went back over it with a mix of bleached bone and bronzed flesh, touching up all the ink spots and trying to blend them in better. The rest was then moved onto a bleached bone layer or two before a bleached bone/skull white mix highlight. The claws and head of the wolf has been done in greys, atempting to blend them into the cloak but still look slightly different - not sure how that worked.

Next up was the flesh. From a bronzed flesh base an flesh wash was applied before I added tanned flesh to the base colour. I then moved through tanned onto dwarf and finally elf flesh tones mixing into the base colour before a highlight was created by adding skull white. It was an odd mix, and looked quite funny but now I think it has come together well. I left his eyes darker, I wanted to try and see if I could make them seem slightly aged. Don't think this worked. (Also the pics of them look off)

And finally the cloth. A midnight blue base followed by a layer of regal/midnight blue and then regal. And that's as far as I've gotten so far.

Now.. a little help;

As it has been pointed out the hair and cloak blend together too much, any ideas on how to seperate them? I was thinking of giving the cloak a light drybrush of fortress grey to see if that made any difference.

Ideas?

KU

[NAVARRO]

well if you really want the cape fur to have the same color has hair try to make grey degrade near head and becoming more white near end of cape... or you could go wild and go for other color.

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Another update and another pic.

First off I have to admit this is probably one of my worse miniatures for a while, he just doesn't seem to like my current painting abilities. But I will not be defeated and I'm not ready to strip him. I know painting has a learning curve and so this model has now become part of that, a few technique's I'd have liked to be able to do would come in handy here. But I will push on, maybe I can do something to turn him about, or I'll just complete him and redo him at a later date.

Anyways, the pic. The face pic is burry due to he waving the camera above him, sorry.

https://img265.imageshack.us/img265/4536 ... ip30zo.jpg

The fur side of the cloak was done a bit different than before. Using desert yellow and graveyard earth, mixed with a touch of bleached bone I set about adding yellow patches. These were mainly to the legs of the cloak, just to give it a different appearance. Then I gave the rest a drybrush of graveyard earth mixed with codex grey, then I progressed in layers till fortress before adding a touch of skull white. A final layer of skull white was used to give it a lighter look, this includes the yellow paw parts.

His robes were done by adding enchnted blue to regal blue and then mixing in ice blue before using skull white to lighten the mix. This is where the ability to blend would have been useful, but I suppose I could have done worse.

I have fixed his eye, it now looks a bit better but I still put alot of it down to the sculpt. I just have a blurry pic of it. Sorry.

I have now stopped for the night, more tomorrow. Any comments are welcome, I do hope to improve it but we shall see.

KU

[KingUlrikFlamebeard]

Well.. he's done, bar his base. And I'm happy to say, I'm pleased with him. So here he is..

https://img276.imageshack.us/img276/1334/arulrica4ta.jpg

Now leaving off from his robes - Which due to a suggestion I gave a wash of midnight blue and blue ink to try and blend the highlights/layers together more (thanks and it worked). I started work on his axe. The shaft is codex grey layered under a mix of codex/fortress followed by fortress and finally a fortress/skull white mix. The handle was done from a bestial brown base - for a changed. This was then mixed with bronzed flesh for the following layers before adding bleached bone to the mix, I left them darker then I usually do to give it an aged feel.

Next was the axe head. Choas black with a following mix of black/scab red + red gore + blood red to edge the weapons head, this was washed with a black ink to dull the red. It is hard to see but it's there The gold I wanted to try and give the feeling that it was aged, so from a tin bitz base I mixed in dwarf bronze, shining gold and burnished gold and over brushed it all. A touch of mithril silver added to the mix and lightly overbrushed finished it off.

The silver plates are boltgun - ink - boltgun/chainmail - + mithril silver. Plain and simple, the same way was used on the staff head. The wolfs head was slightly redone, from a graveyard eath base I mixed in various greys getting it to a nice shade before adding white for highlights. The staff ws done like the robes - midnight blue followed by a mix of midnight/regal and then enchanted added into the mix. Stopping there I then attempted a few lightining strikes along its length. Ice blue ws the first layer, skull white was mixed in and layered in the centre of the previous colour, leaving some showing before pure skull white was used as the final highlight.

The staff top was done first in a mix of shadow grey and ice blue before fortress grey was layered on. The following layers were fortress/skull white until I used pure skull white. The little bits of cloth on the staff were codex grey to fortress grey to skull white, with plenty of mixing in between. And so I believe that is the lot.

Soo... what do you all think? C&C welcome, also any ideas on the base.

KU

NB: Any suggestions on what to paint next?

[Skrit]

I like the gold and the dirtied white robe. Imho this miniature is tough to paint but I think you pulled it of quite nicely. (also, the pic isn't very good. I've seen you take better ones!;) )