BDerricks
New member
Hey everyone!
I've been lurking around here for a while now trying to sponge knowledge off all the great painters, sculpters and crafters and finally got around to making an account. A little background about me: I've dabbled in all sorts of model painting over the years (planes, tanks, race cars), and finally landed on miniature painting about 6 years ago. After 6 months of fantastically chalky paint, and two-shade dry-brushing, I took a 4-year hiatus to work a job that involved living out of a suitcase. Two years ago, after finally settling into a more static career, I picked the brush back up and decided I was going to have my first fully painted Warmachine army. To avoid getting bogged down like so many projects before, I set rules upon myself to stick to tabletop quality. The endeavor was a success, and after about a year, I ended up with a reasonable-looking Cryx army. With that project done, I decided it was time to start pushing myself and expanding my skill-set, so for the past year or so I've been slowly alternating between trying to push quality, and trying to replicate the pushed quality quicker and more efficient.
Up until this point I've only ever painted 30mm miniatures, but I picked up some busts over the last couple months for when the time felt right to try something new, which brings me to here. It seemed fitting to open up a WIP thread starting with my first bust. I picked the Shennay bust from (I think) Ares Mythologic. It seemed like a good place to start for me, so her goes...
I started off with the face, followed by the rest of the skin tones. I'm fairly happy with the face, but I'm hoping that the eyebrows really pull it all together when I go back to paint them:
Thanks for looking; hopefully I'll have something new to show in the next couple days!
*(I posted something very similar yesterday morning, but it never got approved- the images may have been too large. Reading other threads it also seems that first posts sometimes disappear, so I'm resubmitting to see what happens. I'll delete one of the posts if they both come through)*
I've been lurking around here for a while now trying to sponge knowledge off all the great painters, sculpters and crafters and finally got around to making an account. A little background about me: I've dabbled in all sorts of model painting over the years (planes, tanks, race cars), and finally landed on miniature painting about 6 years ago. After 6 months of fantastically chalky paint, and two-shade dry-brushing, I took a 4-year hiatus to work a job that involved living out of a suitcase. Two years ago, after finally settling into a more static career, I picked the brush back up and decided I was going to have my first fully painted Warmachine army. To avoid getting bogged down like so many projects before, I set rules upon myself to stick to tabletop quality. The endeavor was a success, and after about a year, I ended up with a reasonable-looking Cryx army. With that project done, I decided it was time to start pushing myself and expanding my skill-set, so for the past year or so I've been slowly alternating between trying to push quality, and trying to replicate the pushed quality quicker and more efficient.
Up until this point I've only ever painted 30mm miniatures, but I picked up some busts over the last couple months for when the time felt right to try something new, which brings me to here. It seemed fitting to open up a WIP thread starting with my first bust. I picked the Shennay bust from (I think) Ares Mythologic. It seemed like a good place to start for me, so her goes...
I started off with the face, followed by the rest of the skin tones. I'm fairly happy with the face, but I'm hoping that the eyebrows really pull it all together when I go back to paint them:
Thanks for looking; hopefully I'll have something new to show in the next couple days!
*(I posted something very similar yesterday morning, but it never got approved- the images may have been too large. Reading other threads it also seems that first posts sometimes disappear, so I'm resubmitting to see what happens. I'll delete one of the posts if they both come through)*
