Hi, thanks for looking.
This is the first time I've used oil paints, and I'm not entirely certain what I'm doing or how to achieve some of the awesome affects I've seen from so many others here. I look forward to hearing back from everyone, and hopefully getting some great feedback and constructive criticism.
I attempted to wet blend the cloak a few weeks ago and didn’t like how it turned out, I’m pretty sure I didn’t thin the paint enough, and well you can see how it looks.
So last night I figured I would just put a base coat on and once dried I would try glazing, and possibly attempt wet blending again once I’m more comfortable with the oil paints.
Here is the primed model to start with, it’s got some nice details, I’ve cleaned the mold lines, and glued it on the base, but I left the arm off, because I thought it would be easier to paint his chest without it. I plan on trying some NMM on this guy, then pick out a lot of detail in gold, because he’s kind of important. I’m going to attempt some freehand plaid or argyle on his cloak. I’m thinking it might be easier to do with acrylics, I just seem to have better control of acrylic paint, but that might change.
I wanted him to have a red/orange beard... ginger I guess so I mixed what turned out to be more of a blood red, but I figured it would make for a good shadow/base color. I used the same color on the second figure, but I went ahead and used it on the flesh as well to hopefully tie it all together, the second fig will have his own post in a few mins.
Next I used a grayish color for the metal, I just covered all of the metal that I wanted to look steel or similar, and I'm going to try to differentiate them with successive coats of different colors, hopefully this serves to tie the whole thing together. I'm a little upset, for some reason photobucket refuses to save the cropped image, it appears cropped to me but once i link it here it shows the old pic. I plan on sharing the other guy in another post later.
Finally I used a light brown color for well anything that’s going to be brown, belts, boots, leather, and gold stuff. I saw someone at my LFGS do it once with acrylic so I’m hoping it will be effective with oil glazing as well.
Well there it is. It looks pretty sloppy, but I think it’ll start looking better after a couple layers, and touchups. Please let me know what you think, and if you have any tips or advice. Thanks!
-Random Extra-