BloodBowl Second place prize...

[TaurenMoo]

Doing a short WIP and wanted to get some opinions...

This is gonna be a quick and dirty WIP as I find time to work on it. I don't expect the pictures to be great as I just got this camera and I need to find time to buy a nice neutral picture background.

Currently I am learning to paint using my new sable brushes, they are amazing and wonderful to use. Also using a flow extender and glazing medium and painting in extremely thin (dries in less than 30 seconds) layers. This is the first time ever using this technique for me anyways.

Here you go:













I know the pictures aren't great. The banner needs more layers I want to bring it up to a bright blood red at the highest and then hit it with a wash to bring it all together. The wood is finished I think but let me know if it needs something. Graveyard highlighted then washed with chestnut ink watered down. I plan to do the ropes along the pole next then the goblins. The banner will have freehand on it at the very end.

This is for a bloodbowl league second place prize. The banner will say "Tri Tew Suk Lez" and will give a free reroll to the owning team if its on the sidelines as the goblins scream and howl at the sucky second place winners.

 

[Avelorn]

Nice start!

Actually I would try starting out by using only regular water if it's not terrible where you are at. The additional stuff is very good at times but not essential for all painting and can mess a bit with the finish actually. Making it shiny and even oily and I'm wondering if that's what's making the banner a bit shiny. When I paint I still in 95% of the cases use plain tap water and when layering each layer dries within seconds. That's how little paint you should have on the brush when you use layering.

Instead of chestnut ink I would have gone with the newer washes as they are flat and thus look more like natural wood. Or just diluted a regular paint. I think the old GW inks have their uses (strengthening colour, making colours satin instead of matt, black ink + chaos black for example etc.) but on their own I restrict them to metals because of their shine or very very diluted glazes to enrich a certain colour.

 

[TaurenMoo]

Well for right now I expect the shine to go away from the model. Prior to the model being turned over to the second place person of our blood bowl league I will be blasting it with a hefty spray of matt varnish to take away the shine and protect the model. I use that water from the store that has all the problems with it removed (forget the name). I found that the added components do make the color spread more evenly in the paint on the canvas thus I get a more even layout of pigment on the piece. I think I need more practice using the technique and see where this pieces goes. Expect a break but once I get back next week I'll try to find time to work on it.