Guest The_Brain Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Hey there, just got motivated so i started a new miniature. It is my first commission ever. For a company, Assasine Miniatures. So you probably know i wanna get better...I think its time for doing my painting step by step to see where i do some mistakes and where i can improve... I started with priming my miniature: First Chaos Black Spray Primer by GW, then a Shade of Skull White Spray Primer above it. Front: Back: As you can see she isnt that beautiful ^^ *are the pictures too big?* Then i went on, doing a basecoat of GW Snakebite Leather on all NMG parts. Next step, i startet to blend Parts at the front: Using thinned color, 1:2 - 1:4, of Vallejo Scrofulous Brown. Then i used Vallejo Gold Yellow and white. ( of course with steps between that, e.g. Gold Yellow + white ). Picture didn´t got that good... Going on like this painting more parts and making the blendings more smooth with glazes of different colors i used for Gold ( Gold Yellow, Snakebite Leather ). I also used Blacklining to define the Goldparts. Well this took me 1 and a half hour... So, give me some hard criticism and/or tipps which can be done better, where can i improve and so on. Greetings Brain ps: I hope it is ok to do this kind of presentation and using my Member Gallery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Caroland Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Congrats on the commission Brain and it is more than okay to use the member gallery for this sort of thing and to share your work. We may be a miniature manufacturer but we're not picky or particular that we snub everyone in the industry or hobby. Have at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supervike Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Sweet! This will be very fun and informative to follow along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wren Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 I'm very intrigued that you started with an area of trim and would be curious to know why you did that? I'm so sloppy I'd be paranoid of painting over it when I did the clothes and skin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Brain Posted March 14, 2008 Report Share Posted March 14, 2008 Well im not finished and don´t plan to finish it before i got the other stuff round it finished. But i´m so sloppy i probably paint the Gold on the Clothes aswell As the next step i will do the flame and begin to do the basecoat of the clothes. Her dress will be done blue, the flame red. So i got a nice Contrast between the red osl/flame and the blue dress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Brain Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 Ok, heres the stuff i did the last days: First of all i started to paint the Flame/Fireball, starting with a Gold Yellow Basecoat. Read some tutorials so i learned: In the middle the flame got the most energy ( Yellow, White ), At the highter Points and the Points more outside it has less energy and therefore i used orange ( Fiery Orange ). Normal flames don´t have red, but "hey, it´s magic" So i added some final "Highlights" with Gore Red ( not sure because the writing on the color vanished ). I´m not sure wether i´m done with the flame yet. Probably going to smooth it out a bit later. Additionaly i painted her dress using GW Enchanted Blue as a basecoat. For Shadows and Highlights i used Black and White. Thinned it a bit with water to apply the first steps, and then added more water to smooth it out. And i experienced that i hate blue, at least working with it It took me a very long time to get some smoothness, yet im not sattisfied. But i will go on with it when i paint the other parts which become blue. The front: The Backside: And her side: Greetings Brain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted March 16, 2008 Report Share Posted March 16, 2008 I am really enjoying watching this one progress, Brain. Keep it up! The NMM gold is great, although I think taking the shadows a bit darker would help. In the photo, the left wrist I think is best IMHO. Taking the rest of the trim to that level would help to get it to pop. Of course, take this as my opinion--I typically use metallics and have only attempted NMM once, hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Brain Posted March 24, 2008 Report Share Posted March 24, 2008 Hiho, Actually i should paint a lot because i have vacation/holidays, but im pretty ill so i sleep all day. Luckily i could paint a bit today so i started to work on the OSL. Just made some thoughts about it: The SL is NOT as bright as the Object. It´s actually just a blending like any other stuff. All those parts are covered which i can touch with, for example, a pen, starting from the Object and just move around*know what i mean?* Same works in my case with the eye, just look from different angles and you´ll see which parts you can see And there always remains at least a shade of the color of the environment, in my case her cloak, which is blue. Now my first try didn´t go that good, because it´s too yellowish. Started to mix up blue and orange. What comes out are a lot of green-tones and weird looking stuff. Well now just as any other vlendings i started to add a little of the green-blue stuff on her arm. Going on with a greenish color and then adding the last part, orange-green and orange. Of course i used some more steps between. The colors i used have been GW Enchanted Blue and Vallejo Fiery Orange. It did not look very bright so i just went on blending the orange*plus a shade of blue* with yellow*plus a shade of blue* While doing those blendings i don´t always wait till the color drys. That´s the way i do it ---------part with blue------->still wet -----------------------part with green-blue----------->still wet ---------------------------------------part in green--------------------->still wet And i just paint "in" the not dry blue part, which makes the blending easier... And here´s the latest picture of here, with a too bright OSL... Greetings, Brain Edit: The blue of her dress does not turn out very well...It actually has more shadows and more highlights than in the pictures above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Brain Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Hey there, I was yesterday on a Paint-Meeting or something, means we all went to a guy to paint together. Of course i worked on my Sorceress: I mainly worked on the OSL trying to have more blue and more flame colors, which actually means i have to blend on smaller room. At the moment i like the way it comes out... Secondly i worked on the Gold, smoothed the blendings on her front and started to work at her back. Seeing the Makroshots of her, i have to work some more on the blue, it´s still to "rough". At last i tried to turn the flame a little more orangelike using some glazes ( i used color:water, 1:8 ) of fiery orange. Then i added some yellow in the middle and worked the blendings a bit more out. And i started to catch some thoughts about the basing, but have no real clue what could turn out good. Any conclusions? What do you think of here ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazon_warrior Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 I'm very much enjoying the step-by-step osl process. Nice to hear someone's thoughts on what they're doing as they do it. One thing that I think would improve it for me would be to make the base and heart of the flame lighter, closer to white. I think this would make it look even hotter. Other than that, liking what I see so far. Looking forward to the next installment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Brain Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 (edited) Hey there, Finally could get my hands on the brushes again. Now as it´s a comission I actually can´t choose what to paint, but at the moment i enjoi painting her OSL and i gathered yet so much Experience painting her that it was a good idea to take the comission. Got her ...well whatever it is... painted. It´s that stuff in the cream-color ( GW Bleached Bone, shades with Graveyard Earth ). As for the OSL i tried it first with red, because i thought: Kind of more away than her arm, so i will use red instead of orange. But mixing Red and Creamstuff together turned out to be a bad idea . Now i could have done hours of layering to have that effect, but i thought: Shut up, it´s magic and just used my good old Fiery Orange which imho turned out very good. I also added more Blacklining using a 1:2 or even 1:1 mix of color/water. As for the next step i tried to improve the blue, but it went worse -.-. I kind of need very fast new brushes ( and new colors, want to try out painting the blue with the aquivalent of Vallejo ( atm using GW enchanted blue ) ). So yes, thats it for the moment. As for the future i will do the blue, then Blacklining, then the Gold. At least that´s the plan, don´t know wether i stick to it or not Greetings Brain Edited April 16, 2008 by The_Brain I forgot her pictures ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 I think the color you chose for the OSL on the cream portion of the robe is spot on. Looks quite convincing, IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Brain Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 Hi all, Long time since i made any progress because i had a lot of problems with the blue, since i couldnt paint it properly... The mixture that works is: Reagl Blue by GW for the shadows and Enchanted Blue by Vallejo for Highlights. Each with some more or less drops of white/black. Thats her, bad pictures because my lamp is broken atm. Its all more or less WIP, but i see at least the goal now Greetings Brain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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