19 replies to this topic

[TheNewOne]

Well I am progressing along nicely here i think...I may have found myself a new hobby! Keep the comments coming...good or bad. And boy, do things ever look different when you take close up pics!

[Dane]

Pics are broken for me.

[dargrin]

Broken for me to.. Looks like you may need to repost.

[TheNewOne]

think I got the pic problem solved...this is obviously the bare figure...thought I would show the complete process to get more feedback on how I could improve!

[Stubbdog]

i can see the pics and will be happy to give feedback, but I would suggest waiting to post a picture til you atleast have a base coat on it...

[TheNewOne]

the base coat is on.....where to go from here? lmao

[Dane]

Where you go from here is up to you. I personally do all of one part (base, shade, highlight) before moving onward. Otyherwise, I get sidetracked and miss things.
Some folks base everything first and thn go from there.

[SilverSerpent]

From experience, as i painted the shaman not long ago, I would say if you are doing the fur with the drybrushing technique, go ahead and do most of that first. This would accomplish two things. One, minimize on spill over and touch up, and two, give you an idea how to do the rest of it. The first time i did mine, I did it the other way around, and then realized how much the fur blended into every other color i had chosen, since there is alot of fur showing. Hope that helps a little.

~kim~

[TheNewOne]

From experience, as i painted the shaman not long ago, I would say if you are doing the fur with the drybrushing technique, go ahead and do most of that first. This would accomplish two things. One, minimize on spill over and touch up, and two, give you an idea how to do the rest of it. The first time i did mine, I did it the other way around, and then realized how much the fur blended into every other color i had chosen, since there is alot of fur showing. Hope that helps a little.

~kim~

[big man on campus]

Browns and blacks need more high lights.

[TheNewOne]

the browns and blacks as they are in this pic are just my base coats. gonna build them up from there!

[mousekiller]

In the future I would suggest using a primer before starting your paint job. Paint on metal itself has a tendency to flick off very easily.

As far as the paint job so far, it looks to be coming along nicely. Nice grey coat. Definitely needs more highlights, but I think it will come together much better once more is done.

[Jabberwocky]

Welcome to the forums! I like the start of this one. As MK suggested, primering helps to 1. see the details of the mini and 2. keep the paint stuck to the mini and not rub off so easily.

I like the color choices thus far. The fur (at least on my monitor has more of a bluish tinge to it, which contrasts nicely with the browns of the leathers and loincloths. I think you could be more judicious with your placement of highlights--the near-white is great, but I would reserve it for the upper parts of the ears, top of the muzzle, tip of the tail, and ends of the facial fur. Go back over it with your thinned down base color. I would then "shade" the fur with a darker blue on the bottom side of the muzzle, on the bottom of the forearms, and the legs below the knees. Your deep shading (which looks black to me) is fine.

The armor is undercoated perfectly. Begin painting on your dark metallics or dark gray depending on whether you are going NMM or metallic. Leave a very thin line of black there for the deep recesses.

The leathers and loincloth looks good, although I can still see some brushstrokes, so I would try and go back over those areas again to get a better basecoat. Darkline those areas with either very dark brown (brown liner works great) or black. Since they are fairly similar in color, you need to try and get some contrast in there to separate the two.

I hope this helps. Looking forward to seeing the next step!

[Redhandstudios]

The other think about primers...
Light primer coat helps to brighten the colors put on top of it.

Dark primers help to darken (or suck the life out of...) colors put on it.

I almost always primer white and then black out armor and weapons.

[TheNewOne]

I did use primer actually....first I whited out the whole figuer and then put the darker colours for the fur and the armour...and yes, the fur is blue!