Great Painters

[mutantpotato]

I will make this thread to showcase the works of some incredible artists. I will regulary update with some great pieces of art. First I will show you some of the minis of Sebastian Archer. He has not been in the world wide mini-painting scene for too long. At first try at a GD (OZ 2005), he won the slayer sword, and that pretty much speak for itself. His word bearers dark apostle is one of my favourite minis of all time.




His word bearers dark apostle. He has captured the grim style of the 40k universe just perfect, and I think this mini is one of the greatest minis ever.





His ork nob. Gold at GD OZ 2006.






Aragorn, gold at GD OZ 2006. One of the greatest LOTR minis ever painted.

[menace]

Have to agree this guy is an awesome painter.. personally i like his new dark elf best... i'll grab an image when CMON's back up!

...and he's a LOTR fan too! Good man

A firm favourite and great painter, multiple demon winner & slayer sword winner, Andrea Ottolini aka magobaku, here's the italian wearing a norwegian flag on his jumper


slayer winning inquisitor;



chaos knight;

[Tim C]

Great stuff, and a standard that I can only ever dream of getting close too.

[mutantpotato]

Andrea is indeed a great painter. His large scale inquisitor is indeed one of the greatest miis ever. His freehands is totally awesome, and it makes the mini look so real.

[menace]

admin said:

Great stuff, and a standard that I can only ever dream of getting close too.

If you spent a little longer than a few days to make your mini masterpiece (and didn't have a half ton of other projects ) I believe you could achieve this standard.. but then that would ruin the dream!

[Tim C]

That is probably very true mate, another problem is I get bored with a mini quite quickly and want to see it finished so I can move on, stuff like this requires so much time that I would never finish it anyway lol.

[racssirt]

Then there's Darren Latham and his awesome Eldar:



I reckon you could get to some of these guys' standards if you worked on something for a while, but as you said, you get bored and that keeps you from unlocking your true potential...

/me After saying something smart like that I must hide...

[dansemacabre]

well i don't need to put images, just look at the minis of tidoco2222, menace and spacemunkie and you'll have 3 of my favourite painters
apart from those take a look at this guy:

www.coolminiornot.com/browse/page/1/submitter/emptyv

[mutantpotato]

I promised to update regulary, so here's some more photos. Here we have some pictures from the amazing Jakob Nielsen, the master of metallics. He is my favourite painter and 16 deamons, 1 open and 2 slayer swords really speak for itself.

[racssirt]

CHEATER!!

That is metal!! Not paint, not paint, it can't be paint it isn't paint... oh my god its paint!! Jeez man that's insane! Keep 'em coming Potato!

[Tim C]

Yes Mr Nielsen is a phenomenal painter of well everythng realy and an inspiration to me.

[menace]

Thanx for reminding me how crap i am at painting!!!

JRN, demi-god of miniature painting, beautiful selection M, keep them coming

[mminiatures]

I didn't know they were all by the same guy but I think I've seen all of those between white dwarf and GW online. Brilliant, I like the subtle designs on the custodians cloth--reminds me of Ottomon uniforms.

[mutantpotato]

Here's some more pictures from Darren Latham (Raccy showed his Eldar Autarch). Darren has such a smooth and crisp style, and his minis is so perfect that you would belive that it is an actual photo ;D So here they are, enjoy! ;D






Black Templars Marshall






Dark Angels Terminator Chaplain






Dark Angels Libarian Ezekiel






High Elf Hero






Kasrkin Sergeant






Dark Angels Techmarine






Black Templars Terminator Champion






Space Wolves Wolf Lord

[jamessequeira]

Darrens good, but they are always trying to compete with each other it gets boring.

[Tim C]

I like to see Darrens work he is for me the best of the studio painters, sometimes though I think that to be a great painter you do not need to necessarily produce minis of this standard, there are alot of painters out there that paint minis and get better and better in a short time, our very own dansemacabre is one of those IMO.

[charley1968]

All of the above shown minis are technically brilliant.And i will recognize none of them amongst all those pics on CMON.
Maybe it's just that this is WH40K, but to me these minis lack personality, if you know what i mean. I think for me the sculpt is as important as the paint-job, that's why i only can appreciate the
blending/metallics/freehand but not the mini as a whole.

[mutantpotato]

I know what you mean. Darren paints "by the book" and his minis may be a bit boring and lacks of personality. But I still like them nonetheless (sp?) ;D

[mutantpotato]

Long since I posted a update, but here it is. I present to you, Ignacio Pineda from Spain. He is a quite unknown painter in the online community. This guy is only 17 (or 18) years old now, and he has 3 places in the finals, 4 golden demons, and one slayer sword. This bloke won the slayer sword at GD Spain in 2004, when he was only 15 years old!






Finalist GD Spain 2001, 12 years old.







Gold Youngbloods GD Spain 2003, 14 years old.







Gold youngbloods GD UK 2003, 14 years old.






Gold and Slayer sword at GD Spain 2004, 15 years old.






Gold at GD UK 2005, 16 years old.

[razhburz]

WOW he is a great painter, and sooo young!!

[Tim C]

Nice to see this thread brought up again and also in such style. Excellent work by a very (gives a disgusted grimace) young and very talented individual.

[roguetrader]

Some really great mini's there the kd is awsome!!! ;D i really like his uk gold winner!!!!

[mutantpotato]

roguetrader said:

i really like his uk gold winner!!!!

Yeah that mini is just awesome, one of my favorites. It is a sculpted mini from some artwork in Codex deamonhunters or witchhunters.

[racssirt]

Wow, so young but so talented!