Dribble Joy
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I've been far too long away from painting in general. We started a Dark Heresy campaign so I needed a new model. I had been planning a character before and had a couple of models I wanted to use. This one (with different guns and the suit changed into a one-piece) and the trench coat version. Mostly a test of things before another model, but I still wanted to get something looking reasonable.
Anyway, it rapidly became obvious I had lost most of what little I had before. Here you go:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/305151
The biggest and most obvious problem is the shading on the suit, it looks like a drybrushing.
My method was roughly this:
Black Grey base
London Grey thinned (with Vellejo thinner medium) and built up.
Same again (small amount though) with Light Grey.
London/Black Grey mix glaze.
Aside from the actual quality of brushwork, a big problem I have is that with so many thin layers, it's easy (for me anyway) to get caking of the paint. When it came to the glaze, it was slightly too thin and pooled slightly around the lumps, creating the mottled appearance.
Should I simply try blending up to what I want in the first place?
Am I blending with too thick paint?
Do I need a wet palette? (I have found that even with the retarder, under all the lights, it was drying throughout each stage, but not a lot.)
More generally:
Is the contrast too low and/or in the right places? There's a good difference between areas and I would like to keep things quite subtle, but do I need a few selective applications of a wash in some recesses? (and if so which ones?)
I'm pretty much a n00b with human faces (mainly paint Orks). What am I missing?
Same with the hair. Where have I shaded/highlighted where I shouldn't have and vice versa?
Black areas are just Black Grey with a Badab Black wash and a Black Grey highlight. I'm having issues with painting 'black' without it looking too stark. How bright should I go? (I'm guessing this is 'how long is a piece of string' question, but as a horrible generalisation.)
Anyway, it rapidly became obvious I had lost most of what little I had before. Here you go:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/305151
The biggest and most obvious problem is the shading on the suit, it looks like a drybrushing.
My method was roughly this:
Black Grey base
London Grey thinned (with Vellejo thinner medium) and built up.
Same again (small amount though) with Light Grey.
London/Black Grey mix glaze.
Aside from the actual quality of brushwork, a big problem I have is that with so many thin layers, it's easy (for me anyway) to get caking of the paint. When it came to the glaze, it was slightly too thin and pooled slightly around the lumps, creating the mottled appearance.
Should I simply try blending up to what I want in the first place?
Am I blending with too thick paint?
Do I need a wet palette? (I have found that even with the retarder, under all the lights, it was drying throughout each stage, but not a lot.)
More generally:
Is the contrast too low and/or in the right places? There's a good difference between areas and I would like to keep things quite subtle, but do I need a few selective applications of a wash in some recesses? (and if so which ones?)
I'm pretty much a n00b with human faces (mainly paint Orks). What am I missing?
Same with the hair. Where have I shaded/highlighted where I shouldn't have and vice versa?
Black areas are just Black Grey with a Badab Black wash and a Black Grey highlight. I'm having issues with painting 'black' without it looking too stark. How bright should I go? (I'm guessing this is 'how long is a piece of string' question, but as a horrible generalisation.)
