Unyearly wife whatever-day present

[Hard Cover]

Here is my homage to Taggi's yearly husband birthday present thread. Yes.. it's a cheap knock off.

My lady finally started taking an interest in what I was doing all the time, and as such, decided that maybe we needed to start collecting her an army. After much debating both ideas about how she would play and army estehtics we settled on Eldar. (largely because there's a female population on the table)

so starting off we're using our wedding colors to represent her exodite world. We decieded on an exodite world due to our beach wedding. :3 so most of the bases will be beach themed.

My freehanding's not nearly as impressive as taggi's but I'm starting to like it.

C&C?

 

[cheelfy]

Nice idea to do with you lady. I like your freehand, perfectly fits beach. Good luck on completing this project.

 

[No Such Agency]

Oh lucky you... my fiancee, oh-so-stereotypically, has almost no interest in my painting, and if I hadn't put my foot down, all my display cases would be in the room with the cat box.

I mean, she has a right not to be interested, but I try to at least be positive about her hobbies, and not make jokes about hiding them in the basement.

 

[Meph]

That's some nice freehand and colour scheme. looks nice and moody.

Do you want to go for a bit worn and used look or slick and new?

 

[Hard Cover]

Probably slick and new. I always figured wraithbone was grown in specific colors, not painted so chips would still be Teal, Bleached bone, or brown even if they were chipped. I probably think that way because I've never seen a chipped or skuffed eldar .... anything. 'Cept buildings but they were always bleached bone all the way through.

Also, as for the painting... she's actually trying to learn. I've been teaching her washes and a little drybrushing. she'd laid all the base colors (including washes and drybrushing) for all of the swooping hawks we've done so far. Once I feel like she's got that down without me having to do any clean-up, I'll start working with her on how to paint details and whatnot. Granted we usually spend our time together doing other things(watching movies, going out, ect) so we only sit down and paint like once a month, but when we do, she usually paints until she's falling asleep at the desk

 

[SkelettetS]

nice your lady came along :good: come hell or high water before my girl starts painting minis but oh well
really nice freehand there!

 

[Hard Cover]

A little more progress today. started painting the turret last night at my d&d night. Magnetized the shuriken cannon on the bottom too. Still debating painting most of the inert soul stones bleached bone or brown and no idea what color to paint the active ones.

 

[Tagamoga]

Hi...

I dont think, your post is "a cheap knock of", because you are painting it with your wife together! That is really great! I am suprised and honoured, that somebody is doing a "homage" to my thread.

I like your freehand. But I suggest some subtile end highlight in a light brown in the leaves of the flower to a show more three-dimensional looking.

For the soul-stones or emerald: Why dont you use the colours, you have already? start with thes darkest brown of your flower end finish in the beige you have already. Some shiny white reflections points and you will habe brown/beige emeralds, that fit in your COC.

This turns out to be a great army!

Greetings, Taggi

 

[jahminis]

cool project, man...
looks like it's gonna be a nice scheme too...

@Taggi: here's my problem with the suggestions people make about edge highlights on a graphic...
a graphic is a 2-D image...
unless it's painted on an edge, it wouldn't have a sharp highlight...
i've been told that some of my chapter symbols need more contrast on some of my Space Marines, but they are painted on flat surfaces, so wouldn't have too much contrast...
a subtle blended highlight is cool, as long as it is not trying to create a 3-D illusion on something that should be 2-D...

cheers
jah

 

[BPI]

That's interesting Jah. I guess you have to decide whether the freehand design is an emblem or a painting? As in, did an Eldar technician walk up to it with some stencils & a couple of cans of spaceship spraypaint, or was an Eldar master artist employed who decided to paint as 3-D an image as he could muster?

Your point when employed on a SM shoulderpad makes perfect sense though

Oh yes, nice project Hard Cover & Missus :good:

Cheers, B.

 

[HF Izanagi]

Very cool scheme for the Grav Tank and Hawk. As an Exodite world, are you going to go with the dino-riding theme as well? If so, you have models in mind? Whatever it is, it's lookin' good. Keep it up with you and your lady.

@No Such Agency- I feel your pain. The wife gives me hell for the hobby too, even if I try the positive stuff with her interests. Let me know when you figure out a solution to that- I'm going with the "Ignore" action for now.

 

[Tagamoga]

@Jahminis:

I am sorry, but I did not get your point. I think it is my english problem.... But I try to answer, like I think I have understood it.

To paint on a 2-D surface a 3-D looking picture is nothing wreid to me. Like every painting in a galery the surfaces of a canvas is 2-D, but the picture on this canvases are aming like you look on a 3-D scenery. Same on television or cinema. 2-D canvas, but your eyes understand, which parts of the movies are near to the observer, which are away. With the proper technique you can simulate this illusion. This was my suggestion.

Greetings, Taggi

 

[jahminis]

@BPI: correct, it's all a matter of what the painter is trying to achieve...
this is one reason why i always try and put a detailed description of the things i was going for with a paintjob...
it helps to put the viewer into the painter's perspective, making it easier to decide it the work is successful or not...

art is so subjective, and everyone has a different opinion...
if we don't know what the painter's intention is, we will just subject the work to our own criteria...
we may be 180 degrees off from where the painter is coming from (i hope that makes sense)...

@Taggi: for me, the designs on a tank would be more like stencils, not paintings...
like the symbols on tanks and planes in the real world, not like the painterly style of the pin-up girls on a bomber's nose...
this Eldar flower design could go either way...

sorry to highjack your thread, Hard Cover...
hopefully this little debate is good food for thought...

cheers
jah

 

[Tagamoga]

Well, and I though about the stuff with the pinup, because the flower is nothing like the number of the Unit, or some things like that.

But that is the best thing in art! everybody interprates the issue with his own eyes! That is the beautiful thing... in my opinion.

Greetings, Taggi

 

[PegaZus]

This is my third attempt at a post. Not that CMON is eating it. I just keep deleting it.

I think that there could be some shading to the art work, no problem. But it would need to be a large scale shading and highlight, similar to what one would do for a large scale graphic for a sign or logo. So large, hard edged shapes. It would be pretty flat, just one color for shade, one for highlights, which would then need to get the appropriate shading and highlight that would result from geometry.

Just my opinion. And my words finally survived.

 

[Hard Cover]

Jahmini, I don't consider it a hijacking. It's a somewhat on-topic debate on whether I should continue to push the 3-dimensional aspect of the painting. I don't think I will. I think maybe these pictures will clear it up a bit. The flower was drawn with hash marks.(which I need to clean up a little) As for the gems, I decided to kind of cut the middle with the debate. Half of them will be red(as a contrast to both the blue and browns) Half of them will be inert with no souls in them and beleached bone. I need to hilight the red ones still.

As for dinosaurs... yes. For jetbikes. I have 5 in front of me that I've started converting. I can't decide on a seer council or shining spears though.

 

[Brother Captain]

From what I've seen so far it'll be a great looking army. I really like the paintscheme and the freehand design. And since summer is approasching fast It's even more fitting.

My only criticism will be about the gems which I believe would benefit from a more classic approach where one part is shaded, one is highlighted and a reflection spot is added. On the other hand there are so many of them it's understandable you may not want to spend too much time on each individual gem. Oh one last thing. There are some vissible mold lines. Nothing too pronounced but I'm quite obsessive about mold lines.

 

[Hard Cover]

Time for a little update

Been a little busy.

that's the new GW fire prism, that I got earlier this week(Yeah still like what 2 weeks till release?) The turret is magnetised so I can remove the canons and swap it out to a night spinner. No easy task, I promise. I'll take pictures of that part of assembly next time. Also I've been trying to work on speed painting(which I just can't seem to grasp) Both the farseer and avatar are a little bit from being finished. I stopped on both of them at exactly 2 hours.

 

[cheelfy]

The farseer is looking good, do you have any closer pics of it?

 

[Hard Cover]

Needs some cleanup, but it was speed painted.