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Post by dogfacedboyuk1 on Jun 19, 2007 21:49:38 GMT
First mate of my Ogre Pirate Army Project  |
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Post by roguetrader on Jun 19, 2007 22:44:07 GMT
cool idea, in all honesty, im not keen on the skin or the base, but personal taste aside, a good job, perhaps some more highlight on the skin though
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Post by dogfacedboyuk1 on Jun 19, 2007 23:16:05 GMT
Yeah, the base is crazy - going for a caribbean kind of colourful look. The skin is dark in the photo and the highlights are probably too subtle to see in a photo you have to see it in real life. I probably won't do much more to it. Tidy the lines on the base, the eyes and I will leave it at that. I did the skin by washing black over a dark brown which had highlighted areas painted on and repeated the process many times.
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Post by hinton on Jun 20, 2007 12:07:47 GMT
Very cool. The pants are great and I like the weathered look of the metals. Great work.
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Post by roguetrader on Jun 20, 2007 15:41:35 GMT
i see dfb, i sometimes have trouble trying to get a true picture of mini's, i think photography is just hard as being a good painter lol
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Post by bruenor on Jun 20, 2007 19:52:34 GMT
I like it all apart from the pattern aroud the base, it detracts from what is a great mini!!
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Post by dogfacedboyuk1 on Jun 20, 2007 20:03:18 GMT
Ok, well one other idea for a base decoration would be to do a skull decoration around the edges, maybe some sea shells, barnacles etc to give it a dark Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones crew style look. and cast it. What do you think??
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Post by demi on Jun 22, 2007 18:36:15 GMT
good idea  but imho if You'd like to achieve better execution You should've add pink/purple for highlighting fleshtone; check Bragon's magnificent elephant: the rider has skin painted that way I'd also like to see pic of base from above; brushthralls made great tutorial for making ship-deck bases (personally check & confirmed: works  ) overall - nice and original idea, that's what counts! |
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Post by dogfacedboyuk1 on Jun 23, 2007 0:09:02 GMT
Thanks for the tips demi. That elephant is in my top ten favourite pieces on cmon, makes me shudder with eye candy overload!
This was the first dark skin I have ever painted so I wasn't too sure it would be good, I just knew it would look nice with the trousers. It was a standard flesh tone to start with and then I changed it. Getting some good highlighting and shading is something I will try and work on for the next one. I'll try your tip!
The base is made from greenstuff with sculpted wood grain and knots, with even planks. I did a rickety wooden base with uneven and irregular planks but chose not to use it. Looks pretty good. Check out my ogre pirate standard bearer in my wip section I think that photo might show the base a little better. I'll take a look at that tutorial you mentioned.
I will be getting some good photos of this one soon anyway with some luck, as I need to update my cmon gallery with some new stuff!
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