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| Nurglitch IX | 2nd May 2013 - 06:33 PM Post #16 |
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https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nzN_P6dl2GQ/UXZd8Z986CI/AAAAAAAAAMw/ViSs52sBylE/s512/Montage%2520Rat%2520Dart%25201.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-nzN_P6dl2GQ/UXZd8Z986CI/AAAAAAAAAMw/ViSs52sBylE/s0/Montage%2520Rat%2520Dart%25201.jpg Here's your solution: Change the Highlighted part in the text. Not sure how to do it using the GUI, and I always advise switching over to PhotoBucket, if only because I can debug issues with PhotoBucket a lot more easily. ![]()
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| hannanibal | 2nd May 2013 - 07:47 PM Post #17 |
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I can really see the detail in the picture now. Jona, that's really an amazing piece ya know. You've got an eye for detail and at this rate of improvement I'm pretty sure you'll be winning Golden Demons soon. |
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| Jona | 2nd May 2013 - 08:13 PM Post #18 |
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Haha, thanks man! I think the blur of the picture makes the blending quite a bit smoother, though. I'd really need to get a tripod, seriously considering investing in one (except that the camera isn't really mine either, so it might be a tad stupid...). As for the painting, it's not necessarily that I've improved a lot. I've just been taking the time to try the various techniques I read about in yours and other people's (GeOrc on Warseer and the Massive Voodoo blog have proven very helpful, I think) logs. Experimenting is important, but you can pick up a lot on very little time just by looking and reading as well, I find. It was the first piece I really spent major time painting on, although I didn't have the time to get the blending on the Packmaster to the level I wanted. The next one I intend to do doesn't involve much sculpting though, and I really want to focus on some more intricate painting. Looking forward to your feedback on that one. Any critical remarks on this unit, by the way? Thanks a lot for the help too, Bounty, very glad I can fix that now. I'll have a look at PhotoBucket when I have some more time to spend. |
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| hannanibal | 2nd May 2013 - 08:39 PM Post #19 |
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OK since you asked ![]() The only critical remarks would be the OSL and the reindeer moss as foliage but the moss is just personal preference so ignore that for now. The OSL doesn't *quite* look like a glow to me. It's a really good attempt but it needs to be a brighter green in general, more intense at the light source and less intense on the environment (it looks a bit powerful on the rat's body and the base underneath it). Just a hint of bright reflection would have worked better than a lot of relatively dull reflection. Another thing I think is the green moss colour clashes with the glow and confuses the piece. I tried covering the moss patches with my fingers and it looked instantly better and brighter (to me anyway). Having said that getting OSL right is probably the trickiest thing you will ever do when painting so it's a really REALLY good start. Oh, and buy a tripod. Stop reading this and buy a tripod. NOW. Edited by hannanibal, 2nd May 2013 - 08:40 PM.
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| Ratt Baron | 2nd May 2013 - 09:04 PM Post #20 |
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Jona just out of interest how did you do your warp glow and what are your techniques for building up your layers hannanibal The trick with the thumb really does work ,it looks instantly brighter |
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| hannanibal | 2nd May 2013 - 09:16 PM Post #21 |
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I'm more than just a Papier-mâché pretty face! |
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| Jona | 2nd May 2013 - 10:51 PM Post #22 |
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Thanks a lot for the remarks. I'm really having difficulty finding a good way of basing (you'll notice that in my army diary everything is just sand drybrushed for now), and the moss is just the only decent thing I had laying around. I really liked how the rocks turned out, so you might be seeing more of those in my future models, but I'll have to look for decent ways to get it more interesting than it is now. I was quite disappointed when I added the OSL. My drybrushing was not dry enough, so all my work just got covered in way too much green. Actually, it's my second attempt, and I think my first one (the Doomrocket Engineer in my diary) came out better than this one so far (I didn't find the time to finish him yet). I kept your advice in mind about brightest at the light source and never brighter than it, but as I already threw too much of this green around I couldn't go much brighter at the centre, resulting in this homogenous blob of green rather than a smooth gradient of green light. So, that more or less answers Skaven Rich's question as well, I think. Apart from that, I started with some kind of green (I think it was Moot Green from GW, judging from the pictures on their site) and gradually added a little more yellow to it and in the end some white. I think this last few steps I only used on the stone itself and maybe the lighting on the whip (especially the metal part with the bolt holding the Warpstone in place). I tend not to paint using specific strategies when trying to get quality painting (as opposed to relative quantity for my rank and file). It's mostly a mix of layering, wet-blending, washes, some drybrushing and some kind of glazing, I guess. In general I have found that just mixing your colours poorly on your wet-palette gives a more interesting model easily. Different hues of the same colour turn up automatically without having to bother with ten layers of glazing. I think no part of these models took more than basecoat, wash and two layers of highlighting, maybe with a little correction through lining in the shadows occasionally. I guess that answers your question but at the same time is completely useless. For serious painting advice I would suggest the Master Class of hannanibal, which I'm very much looking forward to. |
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