Here is the companion piece to Harold the Herald which was posted the other day.
To say that there were numerous tiny details would be the understatement of the millennium. It probably took me a week to glue on all the little spikes!
Just like the Herald, I enjoyed the lighter color scheme, done to fit in with the World Eaters army.
Very good painting
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words, and for checking out the blog!
DeleteI can't help but always admire your work, long time follower of the blog here!
ReplyDeletethis is one of my favorite pieces you've done. I don't quite understand how you do what you do, and i'm always struggling to recreate such marvelous work!
Could you perhaps enlighten me as to how you shade and blend so well?
Thanks for sticking with the blog... I try to make it as addictive as possible! ;-)
DeleteSince I am a watercolor/pastel painter by trade, I approach all my minis as if they were 3D paintings. I use larger brushes (8,9 or 10 rounds) and work as rapidly as possible. I don't paint one tiny part of the mini and move on. I keep getting paint on all the surfaces at once.
This lets me establish where all the shading will be. It also means that I am more likely to take advantage of wet into wet blending. The bigger brushes mean I cover that surface area more quickly.
The shading is done with lots of very controlled glazes. These are done with small brushes, usually ones that have seen beter days. All of the main colors have been worked lighter, as you have probably seen on other posts with WIP images. Glazing darker is a fun process, since it is almost like you are carving the shading into the mini!
At one point, I will try to convert the format of our hobby seminar PDF's so that I can put them up on the blog. They do offer some useful tidbits.
Sorry that was so long!!
Cheers-
Jim
Oh no the length was necessary! The hobby seminar PDF's seem like something to look forward to!
DeleteYour background as a watercolour/pastel painter seems to be really useful giving you the edge over us peasant hobbyists, look forward to the rest of your work!
What is hilarious is how long it took me to realize that I should apply that watercolor trainign to my miniatures! It was the Rackham style of painting that opened my eyes to that idea.
DeleteThey painted everything in super thin glazes. Then I went "Duh!" and said I should be doing something similar.
I do incorporate pastel techniques, however, since even my watercolors were not the classic watery paint on rough W/C papaer. :-)