Drawing Blood

This Ultraforge demon was featured in one of the later videos created for the Painting Pyramid Kickstarter.  The idea was that it would utilize many of the techniques learned from the 'earlier' videos, or those know as the core set.

That video was called "The Blood Demon", and man was it a challenge!  This was mostly due to the truncated painting time.  I believe there was about 88 minutes set aside for the painting, once you factored in opening and closing credits, discussion of brushes, the palette, etc.

It had been sitting around for quite a while, and I decided to add a few more touches to it.  I focused on some of the new things which I had learned in the time since this one was painted.  There were also some new materials which I didn't have available during filming, such as the Reaper clear paints.

He's also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/221894757204?

Making it Nurgly, one glaze at a time...

We have returned to Cathy's fun fest with the Ultraforge demon.  As you saw in the original post, she did her take on the Shaded Basecoat technique, and then began defining areas with glazes.

Once she had made those initial washes into the open sores and other crevices, it was time to work on what 'skin' there was.  She tried out a new glaze color I had picked up months ago, but had not tried out myself... the Waywatcher green.

Now she is getting that second type of contrast.  First there is value contrast, the difference between light and dark.  Now she establishes color contrast by juxtaposing the greens and reds directly opposite of each other.

She wanted to hit the bandages and other items that needed weathering.  Since red and green together make brown, you only need to add in a touch of yellow to get something nice and icky!!!

You can see how she is making maximum use of the palette, presenting a whole array of colors for her to choose from right away, instead of having to stop and mix a new color over and over.

He's really starting to take shape, even at this relatively early stage.

You can see just how quickly she can establish even more contrast in critical areas with the supplemental applications of washes and glazes.  Very targeted, very controlled.

Looking nice and nasty so far!  I wonder what she has in mind as a base...

Similar but different... Cathy's Shaded Basecoat technique

Yes, Cathy wielding brushes... with bad intentions!  

With the recent bombardment of Shaded Basecoat posts lately, I thought I would hit you with some more, but this time from Cathy's perspective!

The essentials are the same, work globally, rapidly, with large brushes, and lighter.

As you can see, she got things started off with those lighter midtone shades, making some classic Nurgle Pastel shades!

While this all looks 'white', you can see by the previous image of the palette that it certainly is not.  The idea is, as always, to get a sense of where you want basic direction of colors to be headed.

Now comes the fun part!  Cathy sets out some washes, including those Secret Weapon washes.  The purple and ruby are something you have not see me use very much.  I did work with them on some of the videos, but it was nice to see them being splashed about again!

Here is that example of the 'watercolor' style again of the "negative painting".  That is, defining edges by the use of darker shading with the washes.  She is preserving her lights, and concentrating the washes on the other side of the edge where she wants the contrast.

An interesting look at the palette.  You can see her original colors of the shaded basecoat, and then her washes.  Obviously it is far less chaotic (see less messy!) than my typical mayhem.

A look at the demon, which is an Ultraforge piece, by the way.

Stay tuned for the next dramatic episode of Fifty Shaded Basecoats of Cathy.

There will be new dragons...

I believe these images are from the first time I painted the Ultraforge Dragon.  I really loved this one, since it was not only a spectacular sculpt, it was engineered quite well.

The wings were magnetized, and could be removed.  Once removed, this piece took up very little room in a case!  The pose was also very workable in a game of D & D or WFB, since the head and tail will both stay out of the way for figures making base to base contact.

As you can see, it is at once very delicate, but also solid.  It was not hard to prep and assemble at all.

The incredibly talented artist who sculpted this has since started his own company, and launched a very successful kickstarter.  Why not?  He is amazing!

The new sculpts are even more wondrous than this... so I look forward to painting those!

The personality is still there, but the concepts and the sculpting are even more advanced... if that's possible!

The armor on this was a dream to paint.  Lots of fine detail, and the shapes were very easy to render in the NMM technique.  That's amazing, given the complexity of the pose and the angles needed for coverage.

I believe this is still available from Ultraforge, and for a very reasonable price.

All for a good cause

Well, here are the last photos of the Ultraforge Pleasure Demon.

She was sold on ebay a few days ago as a fund raiser for an additional (and much needed!) rendering machine.

Many thanks to Michael, and all those who have delved into this first round of auctions.  Also, a big thank you to Ultraforge, who allowed me to use several of their wonderful demons and large critters.

Because of their design, they made very good subjects for a number of the painting  videos, as well as great practice for others, such as the Glazing video.

I am always sad to see minis go out the door, but this was expected before the project even got started.  I knew that a big set of auctions would come at some point to bring in extra funds for shipping, packaging, printing, and so on.

So she flies away, off to a good home!

No more wings...

This was the last of the Big Beastie videos that needed to be done.  I did a little color swatch exercise to begin...

And the dove right in to the Shaded Basecoat.

Lots of big brushes and colors on the palette.

Looks like he might sneeze!

Working the armor...

Must be time to glaze!

One wing glazed, one not.

A different set of shades on the other sides of the wings.

Glazing the armor.

And then there were two!

Dancing along.

Many thanks to Ultraforge for letting me use their big Demons!

Group Hug...

As I mentioned yesterday, one of the things I was trying to do with the Ultraforge Demon was show how you can transfer a color scheme between two similar, but yet radically different, figures.

In this case, it was using the same color scheme as the Raging Heroes Mantis Warriors.  Obviously, the little gals did not have wings, but there were enough surfaces that could be repeated.

I did the armor in a similar set of colors as the claw/hoof sections of the Mantis warriors.

The spots on the wings were a lot of fun.  On the little 28mm figures, all I could do was the much smaller set of spots and such...

There they are!  More pics of the finished Pleasure Demon from Ultraforge when I can add in the final details!