Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Show me the green! Syl-Iriah finished!


Tonight we introduce the Heroic version of Syl-Iriah, a very spectacular figure from Raging Heroes.  This is the miniature I used for the "Painting Greens" video.  It certainly allowed me to explore a huge range of that color.

Here is a glimpse of the palette.


The concept was not just to show how many different greens we could make (which is still kinda neat!), but to explore the light and dark shades, and even high vs low saturation. 


There are 3 main areas of exploration as a result.  Color range, value range, and saturation.  All of these things help to keep a rather complex mini such as this under control.


To get an idea of size, the base is 50mm.  The base insert is a design that I sculpted for CoolMiniorNot as part of their Groundwerks line.  I have a post coming up soon that shows me painting the base. 


I also have another post that shows how this was prepped and assembled.  As you find out in that post, this was very easy to assemble.  Very surprising, given all the wings and such!!

I had a lot of fun creating the "center of interest".  That was done by having the brightest and richest colors juxtaposed near some of the darkest and lowest saturated colors.


Hopefully you will also have more fun working with green after seeing the video!


14 comments:

  1. Yet again Jim you have outdone yourself. Amazing work. Outstanding.

    I really can't wait for the videos to come out, especially the the shaded basecoat and glazing ones. Do you know when these will be available?

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    1. I think the post KS videos will be at least September. Possibly early October :-) You should have lots of fun with them!!

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    2. Question:
      Do you plan to show short snippets/teasers from the videos (i.e. actual video footage) before they become available?

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    3. I will try to do something like that. You can get a taste for the videos by watching the ones I shot for Rivet Wars. Those are shorter, but the basic structure is there :-)

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    4. I've watched both of those (I don't know if there are more than two, those were the ones which popped up on YouTube).
      Looking forward to the other ones, I think some of the techniques are easier to grasp on video than just pictures. :-)

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    5. It was many folks saying just what you said that gave us the idea to make them :-)

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  2. Superb!! You can't see me but my mouth is wide open.

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    1. Many thanks for the kind words! This one was even more of a challenge, since I had to adapt it to the painting video! Had this been for 'myself', I would have done other color tricks :-)

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    2. You could show us the other color tricks on another miniature. ;) Some different model but similar. :)

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    3. There was freehand stuff I wanted to do, but there are already videos for that :-)

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  3. Hola
    MAGNIFICA
    Gracias por las fotos
    un saludo

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  4. Beautiful painting on an amazing miniature!

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