Bustalong - Dec - Jan

[frank ruin]

Yeah to both but.. Thats not the same thing as boosting red tones

[vapid kettle]

I mean, yeah, it boosts other colors too

if you install the lightroom app and take shots in RAW there and compare them, they're going to be a lot different

[frank ruin]

Yup for sure

[cedar shell]

I'm going to paint my bust 🤞

[molten shoal]

I don't have the sources any more, long ancient knowledge but from memory, the default camera apps aim to produce the best photos of people. So it boosts saturation, the white balance leans towards yellow, and they automatically sharpen as well as a bunch of other stuff. It's why the best pics of minis have a bunch of post processing.
They're all settings you can change in the settings or a more advanced camera app, but it's there by default.
Also, Samsung uses AI to enhance pictures of the Moon by default

Sorry, should say "produce the best photos of white people"

[frank ruin]

Yeah Thats all cool, I was just taken aback by the red boosting bit mostly because I’d never heard of it. To be clear i wasn’t really saying you’re wrong I just wanted to learn more

[molten shoal]

To be fair, it may not be that they're specifically boosting red more, but it's more noticeable on the last decade of Pixel phones. All the companies have their own special settings though.

[carmine jolt]

So, TIL that if I want to paint over oil shadows with acrylic, if I mess up and have my brush too loaded and I try to wipe off the acrylic with a wet brush, it wipes up a lot of the oil too.

Even 3 days later.

[molten shoal]

Oil curing times can be a pain in the arse

[frank ruin]

Buzz, you’re straight up not having a good time with that model mate. Feel for you.

[summer meadow]

Software in cameras is inherently not very good at understanding painted on light and shadow. Remember, you've effectively created an optical illusion.

Camera talk aside, I still really like this piece, it looks wild in the best way.

[bitter night]

did you varnish over the oils?

[carmine jolt]

Meh, it's a learning experience. I wasn't expecting it to be easy. 🙂 But I appreciate the thought 🙂

[carmine jolt]

I did not. I read to varnish over the acrylic base, but I suppose varnishing over the oils next time is important too.

I thought it would be plenty dry after 3 days.

[bitter night]

Yeah I thought it should be too, but sometimes I get surprised. I run into another issue when I don't varnish - the oils are super hydrophobic so acrylic paints don'T stick

[carmine jolt]

Good to know. Hopefully, I'll remember next time I do oils.

Thank you. 😉

[balmy vigil]

it's a start i guess

[frank ruin]

Warlock

Confirmed

[balmy vigil]

hahahaha

[frank ruin]

White highlight on the fleshy bit in the corner of the eye, one micron thin. I quit honestly 🤣 so good

[bitter night]

worked on fabric, fur, leather and metal tonight

[molten shoal]

Awesome, I hereby announce my intention to copy

[bitter night]

dang

[bitter night]

good luck! they're super fun but have their share of frustrations

[carmine jolt]

ok, I think I'm on to something. I've got a mostly fair complexion now with a hint of rose, instead of way too red.

stupid hair got embedded in her cheek though.

actually, the rosey hue doesn't seem to show up in the camera

Testing, under balanced light temperature.

Ok, don't really see a difference.

[balmy vigil]

thanks man, gotta adjust it a bit

[balmy vigil]

looking forward to your take on a similar lighting situation!

[balmy vigil]

im surprised the color of the iris can actually be seen in the photos

[balmy vigil]

yeah this is usually a problem with photos hahaha

[balmy vigil]

have you tried saturating the surface with water and using a soft brush to dislodge it?

[carmine jolt]

Not yet. Every time I do that I end up taking off a lot more than I intend.

[final umbra]

Looks great, is that acrylic and oil?

[molten shoal]

The eyes and the text are acrylic, the rest is oil

[coral goblet]

I'm thinking this one is approaching done soon. I feel like its probably as good as I can get it right now besides maybe some more smoothing things out.

[final tangle]

Yea, holy Jesus that's intense

[final tangle]

What a gorgeous skin tone. Absolutely stunning

I need to start focusing on humans and their skin tones. I do so much alien stuff it's easy for it to be funky and be considered ok

[sour locust]

progressing by inches now it feels like

another hour or 2 and not much to show for it

[mint condor]

Alright I'm ready to get this going

[coral goblet]

Let's Goooo!

[bitter night]

I think I'm nearly done! Just need to hit varnish and transfer to a non-wonky plinth

[dense girder]

Looks awesome

Making some progress. How’s the armor looking?

Not super happy with progress so far. Wings need a lot of work - supposed to be fire below her and heavenly light above but the fire lighting looks like mud lol

[final umbra]

The base coat of the cold steel looks great and can see the light placement is gonna be good once you glaze some more contrast in. I agree right now the fire is in the ‘awkward teen’ stage that a lot of osl goes though, I’d tweak the values but I can’t see the overall effect yet as it just seems to be on one wing

[molten shoal]

Calling it done. Subtle purple shadow gives it the depth I was looking for

[final umbra]

Bootiful

Looks so alive

[molten shoal]

It was either make him look alive or make him look like a puppet lol

[rain needle]

How haven't you painted that baby yet?! I'm jonesing for its cuteness 🤣

[vapid kettle]

I actually did a bit

about to work on it more rn

[rain needle]

Yay

https://tenor.com/view/cute-gif-19314242

I need a model that is just a bunch of cute weird babies

[coral goblet]

40k Cherubs 😉

[rain needle]

Are they freakish enough? 🤣

What are 40k cherubs

Omg yes

[coral goblet]

Sounds like you did a google and found what you were looking for

[rain needle]

I will accept donations of baby cherubs only

No creepy old men in suits

[bitter night]

very nice! very regurd 😄

[spice cairn]

Well, so much for taking part in this... My bust is on its way back to Spain... Cus the guy didn't try to buzz at the door.

[dense girder]

lol thanks. I can't be bothered to take two photos, so the #advent-2023 is going to have to do 😉

[dense girder]

ugh sucks. Have had that happen before.

[spice cairn]

I'm probably just gonna get my money back if they'e gonna ask me to pay for shipping again... It wasn't cheap

I hate living in an apartment building, I swear more often than not they don't even bother

[summer meadow]

They just send it straight back after a single failed delivery attempt? That's crazy!

[coral goblet]

You sure about that?

[rain needle]

Let me correct myself no creepy old men in space suits

[spice cairn]

Idk what happened, maybe I forgot the unit number but in that case they just leave a slip saying they missed me, and I go pick it up

[summer meadow]

Yeah, usually it's returned to a pick up location. Can't expect everyone to be home all the time.
Sucks either way. ☹️

[final umbra]

Just imagining someone dragging it for days and days from spain, ringing the door bell waiting 3 seconds then saying ‘welp, back to spain i go then’

‘Hmm thats weird, someone ordered this to an empty house’

[spice cairn]

With how long it took to get here, I'd be lucky to get it back by mid January

I really don't wanna pay for the shipping again either. I'm just gonna cut my losses I guess

[spice cairn]

I was so hoping to take part, but the only other un-started bust I have is the Spira Kappa one

And I just don't think I want to paint it

[dense girder]

honestly non-holiday time they may take more time to figure it out, but it seems like they're all just slammed during december

[vernal copper]

Aw that sucks with the package being sent back D:

[spice cairn]

Well I think it's just policy that if there isn't a full proper address, it's auto returned. But it seems because they knew my building, but not my specific unit, they weren't able to just leave a slip being like.

Go pick it up

They always require ID for that

Anyway, maybe I'll just take part in spirit and finish up a bust I never completed

[dense girder]

could always just cut the bottom 2/3rds off another figure and call it a bust 😉

[spice cairn]

Now we're thinking lol

I do have a decent backlog of larger display figures, just no busts I haven't started that I want to work on.

[frank ruin]

Made a bit of progress on some refinements, still have to address the hair and glowy metal bits tho..

Pah wrong photo

[mint condor]

I don't really know what I'm doing so I'll just keep glazing until it looks good

[spice cairn]

Haha that's usually the way faces go for me too at that scale

But that's the fun of it

It's low stress because it takes so long, and you can easily course correct if you don't like the direction it's going

[mint condor]

Yeah, it's cool to kinda see it taking form slowly tho

A few glazes ago she really looked like a clown lol

[carmine jolt]

Heh I've redone the right side if my face 5 times now....

And. Yeah. I have that embedded brush hair thatbi need to rub out. But I now have a decent handle on skin tones. Pale sand, salmon, light flesh and dark rust for warm tones. I still need to figure out how to get the right colors in the shade though or I'll give up on massive value difference and go with a more ambient style

[mint condor]

Alright, I'm done for tonight

[final tangle]

Kinda reminds me of like a white walker if they had a kind soul. Such a fun face

[bitter night]

I'm gonna call this puppy done

[molten shoal]

Nice work, looks great

[dense girder]

super cool - great job!

[bitter night]

thank you!!

[summer meadow]

Beautiful. Love your palette and the atmosphere it brings.

[coral goblet]

Given that i have no idea what I'm doing on this one, I do think this is starting to look quite nice if I may say so myself. Still have to do the eyebrows, and fix his ears again but hey, progress!

[final umbra]

Looks really cool

[sour locust]

getting closer

[mint condor]

I'll be away one week for the holidays so that's all I can do for now

Kinda struggling with the blue waistcoat, the highlights don't feel right

[coral goblet]

Thank you 😁

[cedar shell]

how many time I said "I'll start paint today"

damn i have to start today no matter what haha

[molten shoal]

Do it, start it now

[cedar shell]

I'll 🫡

[vapid kettle]

Just for you @rain needle

[rain needle]

Precious bb

[dense girder]

Ok so this is where I would normally leave it, but I’m pretty bad at the last bits of projects and I feel like it could use plenty of work. Would love thoughts on what to do to improve this

[molten shoal]

It's looking good, I like the green/blue colour on the wings.
I think you need to re-assess your orange glow, and your shadows.
I believe your intention was orange from the bottom, blue-white from the top?
The underglow isn't applying in a consistent manner. For example, on the wing on her right, the whole inside part of the wing is caught in the glow, suggesting that the fire is to her front and left, but that should give glow on the front of her left wing as well. In the same manner, you have the glow showing on the rear of her left wing, in which case, that glow would not show up in her front.
With the glow on her right wing, you'd see the glow on the armour as well, reflected from the wing to the metal. (The metal looks great, it's just not reflecting the glow you've created.)

[summer meadow]

Good job on the shirt pattern. Really impressed with how evenly sized you managed to make the shapes.

[dense girder]

Agreed on all points - yeah I am honestly not a fan and may just try to remove it altogether but that also sounds difficult lol. May just make it way de-emphasized

[molten shoal]

Disagree, work it more, to make it better! The contrasting glows will be really impactful.

[dense girder]

Haha ok! lol

[molten shoal]

Something you can do is shine a light on the mini, this will show exactly where the light will land.

[final umbra]

I second all this advice and would add, I think the values of the reflection on the wing of the orange light need adjusting too, I’m having a hard time imagining what kind of light could make the entire wing look like that with the rest of the model untouched. After adding orange reflections to the face and armour I’d get the top of the wing much darker

[cedar shell]

Kick-off

[bitter night]

that's going to be super fun!

[cedar shell]

lol. finger-crossed

[bitter night]

that'd be my recommendation. for the glow to hit there, it would also need to hit on all parallel/similar faces and would totally change the look of your armor. i think you could get rid of the intense orange glow and just go for a more ambient orange. Like if the floor - and not a fireplace - was orange and reflecting the light from above.

That being said, I really really like your NMM. I think reducing the orange could bring a lot of focus and consistency to your metals which are the star of the show

[molten shoal]

PUT PAINT ON IT YOU COWARD

[coral goblet]

That looks amazing. Can I ask where you got it?

[lyric pelican]

From the interwebs

[coral goblet]

That makes everything much clearer. Thanks

[cedar shell]

It's from Life miniatures

[cedar shell]

🫡 Yes sir ... (closing pron hub)

[coral goblet]

Thanks

[cedar shell]

https://www.lifeminiatures.com/product-page/복제-복제-bad-blood-90mm

[sturdy quarry]

looking very good! i belive that face should have more value and definition, now eyes are sharp and nice but face is kinda shapeless. To my mind more pronounced highlights will shift focal point from should to face a bit more

also it looks like you forgot to paint middle section of sword pommel to gold

[cedar shell]

Building up the skin tone, however found some mold lines, have to clean that up before continuous.

[lyric pelican]

That was quick

[worn mesa]

OMG, already looking great, would you mind sharing tour first steps for the skin? Love all those blueish tones.

[coral goblet]

Man now I wanna go home and paint

[cedar shell]

sure, I used orange brown (AV 70981) + blue (AV 70899) for the base / shade color. the colors aren't specified, i just pick the mid-brown & whatever blue to begin with. then use normal flesh colors to build up the skin tone - currently I'm using beige red (AK11064), and assumed sunny skin tone (AK11055) or radiant flesh (AK11053) as the highlight color.

[cedar shell]

one of improvements I needed on my list lol

[cedar shell]

the blus-ish won't last long, I'll make it look more subtle later.

[worn mesa]

Thanks a lot! So, if I understand correctly, you start by sketching the skin with orange-brown, and its shadow with blue. Then you build up some beige red (glazing? layering?). And finally the Highlights are added via progressive layering/glazing, right?

I really need to improve my skins

Do you ever 'selective shade' with some kind of red-brown? Or will you leave your shadows with skintones over blue?

[lyric pelican]

There's this cool part of Arnau's book where he just "randomly" splatters magenta and green as a base for skin. Then when he gradually builds up skin tone over them it creates complexity and a visual interest.

Really cool stuff.

I want a mostly naked model now to try that on.

[cedar shell]

the blue + red brown (shade color) paint on the recesses area , than beige red used to blend between shade color & lighter flesh color. The transition is --- shade color > shade color + beige red > beige red > beige red + flesh color > flesh color.

[vapid kettle]

Marc Masclans is a great source for skin intel too 🤙

I really like his approach

[cedar shell]

yes this is my intention to leave some blue on the skin tone. this look more dramatic. I use red-brown as of the transition color from blue to flesh.

[worn mesa]

Thanks, now time to test all these but I don't have many female skin minis at the moment...Anyway, looking forward to seeing your updates on this one!

[cedar shell]

time to buy more lol

[final umbra]

Thanks for the recommendation will check him out. I wanna make 2024 the year of nailing skin tones.

[vapid kettle]

I really like his approach, I've tried it recently a bit to some real success!

[gentle tundra]

I like Jaume Ortiz. Fits my style and he teaches in a really clear way.

[final umbra]

I found Milan Dufek had a good tutorial that made sense to me for bust skin painting

[sour locust]

a night well spent

[molten shoal]

Looks great.

THat's a whole lotta arm that was meticulously painted before covering it with a shield

[shadow wigeon]

Made alot of progress today something feels off though

Older version for reference. I needed a better plan going in next time.

also not at yalls level

[plush ember]

Not entirely sure I’ll be able to finish by Jan but i at least started

[cunning otter]

Hey now. We run our own race here. This time last year I wasn't at my current level, and this time next year you'll have leveled up too.

and btw, she looks better than my first bust, imo

[vernal copper]

My busts are in Milan now 😄 They move closer and closer to me ❤️

[coral goblet]

It ends at the end of january, so no rush 😉

[coral goblet]

If you think everybody else in here didn't start off with stuff looking horrible, you're dead wrong my friend. It's just a matter of time and effort.

[final umbra]

I got an arrived in milan email today too!!

[sour locust]

think i just need to figure out what to put on the shield now

[frank ruin]

Freehand ‘I need a raise’

🙂 looks amazing dude. Really cool

Or ‘will fight for $’

[sour locust]

I dunno, I feel like ATM it's rather serious in tone and something like that will totally change the vibe

[molten shoal]

Do a boar, it's the best idea so far

[sour locust]

Boar or chicken

Are the current front runners

[molten shoal]

Boar, it's his heraldry

[sour locust]

True

[frank ruin]

Yeh fair fair

[vapid kettle]

I think I might call mine done

Losing steam on it hahah

[dense girder]

Still a whole month left - can always break and come back 😉

[vapid kettle]

Nah I got too much other shit to do lol

[vapid kettle]

alright we're calling this a wrap!

[cunning otter]

Excellent work Nan!

[coral goblet]

That looks amazing dude

[vapid kettle]

thanks yall

[dense girder]

Love it!

[final umbra]

Beautiful work @vapid kettle i love the scallop pattern and the hand is amazing too

[vapid kettle]

ty ty!

[carmine jolt]

You just did stippling for the beard and eyebrows?

Very believable model

[vapid kettle]

Kinda, just very short strokes

[carmine jolt]

Nice. Love the skin too.

[vapid kettle]

Thanks!

[carmine jolt]

Does the kappa even have water in its head bowl?

[vapid kettle]

Naw haha

He dry

[carmine jolt]

Koo koo.

[cunning otter]

ka chew

[carmine jolt]

If I were painting a model like that and I wanted water in its head bowl, what woiluld be best you think. Some uhu and blue ink?

[vapid kettle]

I would just use like vallejo still water or similar

[carmine jolt]

Ohh. Nice. I might need to get some of that

[lyric pelican]

@vapid kettle I was just sitting in my sofa while checking your post and I noticed something.

[vapid kettle]

nice haha

[true saddle]

After some clean up to lines and what not, studying light for this!
My girlfriend got me some brushes as some early Christmas gifts, so I can paint this 🙂

[coral goblet]

Porco Rosso?

[vapid kettle]

Yee

The ever elusive Ben Komets bust

[coral goblet]

Nice

[topaz tangle]

Hopefully I’ll make it in time 😅

[spice cairn]

Ooh is that who I think it is?

Nah nvm, not nearly enough braids haha

I thought it was meant to be Gotrek

He's got that slayer mohawk

[topaz tangle]

Not him but also I have no clue who it is

[plush ember]

Had some good hobby time over the holidays. Only using 4 paints for a zorn palette. Very difficult, I’m finding

[bitter night]

It is hard to get hue contrast but I think you’re doing a great job. The pro is you don’t have to worry about making a mess with too many different colors!

[bitter night]

This is a super cool bust

[carmine jolt]

Believable bronze

[molten shoal]

Zorn palette is one I want to try at some point, just lack the colors atm it's looking good @plush ember

[final umbra]

I wanna try it on my army of the damned bust, this guy is basically olive green right?

[summer meadow]

Update. Busted out the big antique camera, since I needed some pictures that properly shows the colour and the phone refuses to play along.

Refined the light on the skin to a place I’m finally starting to feel happy with. Changed the hue and saturation quite a bit and introduced some more colours. Only blending left on the skin at this point, I think.

[vapid kettle]

Definitely some blues in the right model

[topaz tangle]

Those eyes 😱🤯

[summer meadow]

Thanks, I think. 😊
It's really fun to do eyes at this scale, when there's so much realestate to work with.

[bitter night]

To me it looks like a lot of mid tones with low saturation mixed from an orange-brown and blue-green. There’s a lot of variation when you get up close

The shadows are a cool brown, then it goes from orange to green to blue (all very desaturated) then a white reflection

[bitter night]

There are some interesting color spots of peach/orange/turquoise

[vapid kettle]

Def not Zorn tho 😜

[lyric pelican]

This is how I imagine your camera looks

[summer meadow]

That might very well be the exact camera house I have. 😂

[lyric pelican]

I’m super jealous of your photography skills. It always looks so clean.

[coral goblet]

You have a house for your camera!? And here I though the Norwegians were rich

[summer meadow]

Thanks. Helps that I have a decent setup from when I used to shoot weddings. Though my kit is much more suited for portraits than minis.
All of my stuff is at least 15 years old, btw, so don't ever let anyone tell you the latest tech is needed for decent photos.

[vapid kettle]

Nah a photo is a photo lol

[carmine jolt]

That reminds me. I bought this fancy dslr camera that is gathering dust in my closet

[summer meadow]

That's what they do best.

[vapid kettle]

lol

[carmine jolt]

I was totally going to make videos and it just never happens

[vapid kettle]

I need to pick your brain about a good fixed length for my Sony @summer meadow

[carmine jolt]

Need to use it.

[vapid kettle]

Rather than shooting on my nifty 50

[summer meadow]

I thought you knew I know next to nothing about camera stuff released the last decade. 😂

[vapid kettle]

You still know what the numbers mean 😜

It's like a foreign goddamn language to me

[carmine jolt]

I think I spent 5-600 on the Sony a-something model

[vapid kettle]

Ah that's a mirrorless not a DSLR then

I have the A-6000

[carmine jolt]

Ahh. Welp, I thought it was dslr....showes what I know

[vapid kettle]

Sonys are sick

Though Sony brand glass is insanely spendy

[carmine jolt]

But it looked like one camera to rule them all

[vapid kettle]

They're good mid-range bodies

[summer meadow]

What don't you like about the 50mm?

[vapid kettle]

Well its 15-50mm

I think I'd just get crisper results on a fixed?

[summer meadow]

Oh yeah, for sure. "Nifty fifty" usually refers to fixed 50mm.

On a cropped sensor like yours, it's my absolute favorite lens.

[vapid kettle]

Oh I had heard it used for the 15-50 so probably just misused it 😂

[summer meadow]

50mm fixed on your camera will be equivalent to 70-80mm which is incredibly versatile.

[vapid kettle]

Ah because of the APS-C?

[summer meadow]

My personal favorite focal length.

[summer meadow]

Yes. Small sensor = cropped image.

[vapid kettle]

Very cool, I'll shop around!

[summer meadow]

What you want to make sure of is the focus distance.

Since you want to get close to your subject. That's not usually a requirement for a 50mm.

[vapid kettle]

Would that be a fixed aperture on the 50mm?

[summer meadow]

Fixed aperture is a term for a lens with variable focal range, like your 15-50mm, but SAME aperture across the range.
50mm is fixed focal length.

[vapid kettle]

Ah okay

[carmine jolt]

I'm like whoosh

[vapid kettle]

Ah yeah like this prime lens has a minimum focal of 17.8"

So I'd have to be pretty far back 😂

[coral goblet]

Just camera gear terms. Specifically lens terms

[carmine jolt]

But I'm hearing I might need another lens for closeups

[coral goblet]

Depends on what you have and what you want to accomplish

[vapid kettle]

Not need, per se

[carmine jolt]

Since that was not my intention when I bought the camera, it doesn't surprise me

Now I might want to do some mini closeups

[summer meadow]

Mine isn't made for close ups at all. I crop my photos quite a lot.

[carmine jolt]

Even my phone lens gets blurry when I get real close

[coral goblet]

Actually if you wanna take pictures of small things, another option besides getting really close, is the opposite. A large focal length and a tripod will get you real close to stuff too

[summer meadow]

Just had a look and that's the same as mine. Not ideal for minis. I would try before I buy in your case.

[vapid kettle]

I will look for something with a shorter focal length instead hahah

[carmine jolt]

Makes sense, not intuitive though. I wanna caress my mini with the camera lens

Oops, I knocked it over again

[summer meadow]

Focus distance.
Focal length is the 50mm or "zoom" of the camera.

[vapid kettle]

Ah yeah 😂

I'm hopeless

[carmine jolt]

But in January when I go home, I'll break out my camera and make use of it

[coral goblet]

That is usually what comes to mind yeah. But that creates other issues, more specifically with light and distortion.

Getting too close means you and your camera might actually block the light, and if you're close you need a wider angle (smaller focal length) and the wider the angle, the more distorted the image gets. Like fisheye lenses have really short focal lengths, but then the picture looks like bubbles

So to get a really crisp, flat image you actually need some distance. Or tons of light and really expensive lenses but I'm just going to assume most people won't go that route

[carmine jolt]

Ohhhh. Good points. So probably cheaper and better to zoom

[summer meadow]

What type of lens are you suggesting to go for? Most tele lenses that cost the same or less than say an 85mm prime are utter trash in my experience.

[coral goblet]

I would actually say an 85 wouldn't be bad. I agree cheap zooms are not much good, but a used prime somewhere between 70 and 120 would work pretty well on a tripod

[summer meadow]

For sure. 70 to 135mm prime would be ideal. The latter perhaps a little too narrow on a cropped sensor.

[coral goblet]

Yeah i love my 135, but then i also have a booster taking the crop from 1.6 to 1.1

[plush ember]

Well, I went from not being sure if I would finish to finishing in 3 days. I stopped liking parts of the model and just decided to not paint them. Ended up with something decent after trying something new - now just need to escort it home and mount it
I cheated a little on the zorn by using subtly different blacks and whites.

[molten shoal]

Nice work, it's come up well!

[bitter night]

That’s awesome! I love the shield

[lyric pelican]

Yeah the shield is super cool

[sour locust]

callin it good

[cedar shell]

it's great

[summer meadow]

Really liking this. Boar on the shield came out great.

[sour locust]

thanks

i cheated and used a stencil for the main body of it 😂

[lyric pelican]

That’s not cheating. That’s being smart.

[final umbra]

I mean medieval shield painters would have used stencils too right

Just being authetnic

[frank ruin]

It’s amazing dude. Really sick.

[molten shoal]

Yep, looks awesome.

[gentle tundra]

I’ve gotta get going on mine

[carmine jolt]

so hopefully I'll be back home on Jan 20, then I'll have about 10 days to finish. Can I do it? Dunno, but at least I tried. I definitely will have learned a lot by the time I finish.

[frank ruin]

Yea you can! 🤘🏾

[dense girder]

Looking for feedback. (Eyes need to be re-done)

Need to highlight hair some more too

[bitter night]

@dense girder Looks pretty good from far away but is missing something that draws the eye to the face.

A couple of solutions:

1. Create value contrast so the face is brighter (maybe glaze some shadows on lower parts of the minis

2. glaze a different color such as red or green into the face. This one is riskier IMO

If you just focus on the face, I think it lacks contrast and texture. Did you use a brush on it? It looks largely airbrushed. I think you could glaze some delicate shadows and glossy reflection highlights to make it more interesting

The metals are 💯tho

[dense girder]

Yeah brush was on it but went over with airbrush. Just actually added some makeup to the eyes that helps with darker contrast so will try and glaze in some higher levels too

Thanks for the input!

[bitter night]

Sure! I think you have great use of value on the torso, but the bright lower wings maybe throwing me off

[bitter night]

For the record though it’s pretty friggin rad

That’s a scary bust because of all the feathers

If you want to take it to the next level you can look up how to paint textures on feather and how to highlight hair

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PFDfe3nc55A

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnf64wQBzAc

[dense girder]

Thanks! Yeah have changed things a few times and some of the angles don’t make complete sense lol.

Hair has always been difficult lol… will need to keep practicing

[molten shoal]

@dense girder it's a big improvement I think. There's a lot more interest in the armour now which is is cool

You might want to move more towards an orange red for the glow, that will help bring down the value which will aid in making the face more of a focal point

[frank ruin]

Can I just say that armour looks dope as fuck dude

[molten shoal]

Not me trying to finish my third bust this week lol

Month! Not week

[lyric pelican]

That’s one of my favourite busts of all time

[molten shoal]

It's nice, I kind of fell out of love with it. The 75mm version is better I think.

[lyric pelican]

I like the bust since it looks sad

[molten shoal]

She does, yeah, it's a different choice than a lot that you get

[coral goblet]

Brush go Brrrrr!

[cedar shell]

update

[molten shoal]

Brush go brrrrrr

[molten shoal]

Lookin good!

[cedar shell]

Thanks 😎

[coral goblet]

Nice!

[plush ember]

Well, calling it done with this one. Not perfect by any means but a fun learning exercise.

[bitter night]

So cool

[bitter night]

Nailed it!

[plush ember]

thank you!

[dense girder]

Well, improved some areas, maybe worsened some others. But overall I think I just gotta stop on this one. So many layers of paint on this one I’m worried about adding unwanted texture at this point lol. Overall moderately happy with it so calling it done, knowing there are some areas to improve on the next one.

[summer meadow]

Looks great. Really like how you worked with the palette.
The way the half shield lines up with the background fucked with my eyes at first.

[final umbra]

Wings look so much better like this!

[molten shoal]

Okay, that is a MUCH better composition. The changes to the wings work week and the glowing eyes do great job pulling focus. Really good work.

[dense girder]

Thanks, and thanks for the advice along the way!

[molten shoal]

No problems, and good job following all the varying advice you got, I think it paid off.

[bitter night]

That looks great! The diagonal axis with the wings is super cool

[summer meadow]

Did some more work on the beard and horns. Also started redoing the belt, though I'm still unsure on the direction I want to take.

[summer meadow]

Stopping here for tonight. Lots of small adjustments and refinements at this point, that probably don't amount to much, but I'm enjoying all the detail work.

Painted all the straps. Redid the nose. Small changes to the eyes.
Cleaned everything up so I'm ready to start on the metals.

[dense girder]

Looks super good. Making me want to paint an orc bust lol

[vapid kettle]

really nice work dude

[summer meadow]

@dense girder @vapid kettle Thanks guys, glad to hear it! 🙂

[frank ruin]

It’s amazing mate. The scars and eyes are unreal

[summer meadow]

Home stretch. Received some good feedback from Red in the Godzilla™ channel and did my best to implement his suggestions.

Left to do still is the spear for his back which I also need to figure out how to best attach.

As always, happy to hear feedback if you spot something that could be improved.

[final umbra]

I like where the shield belt thing is going- is is to be metallic bronze or hide?

[summer meadow]

Well, I actually thought it was at where it was going. 🫤😂

The inspiration was copper plating with a beat up, sanded texture.

Maybe I need to put in some more work to sell that.

[worldly topaz]

I think the issue might be the scratches don’t look like what you would see on beaten copper. There would be some scratching but you would also have a lot of divots from repair work, or even just smithing in the first place

Copper is soft so it’s going to show everything and give you a ton of minor reflection points

[summer meadow]

This type of finish was my inspiration. It's not supposed to be dented.

[lyric pelican]

If you wouldn’t have said that’s copper I would have thought it was leather.

The stock photo that is

[final umbra]

Same

I think it needs a bit more of a reflection

I’d try a little ab spray where you have already placed the highlight top left. And maybe some turquoise oxidation?

And give some of the scratches some depth and dimension with your shadow colour

That’s where you add a little oxidation too

A bit like that for scratches

[summer meadow]

Thanks guys, appreciate the input, but I'll go ahead and ignore it for now. 😂

I don't want deep scratches and verdigris, that's not at all the look I'm going for.

[vapid kettle]

I like it as-is myself

[final umbra]

Yeah scratches definitely optional! I’d just add a little bit of a specular reflection to make it look a bit ‘harder’

Or don’t!

[gentle tundra]

I think it looks good. I wouldn’t change it

[frank ruin]

Looks shit hot bro. Your best piece I’ve seen for sure. Don’t bring this type of energy into our duel please

🥰

[summer meadow]

I'll dumb it down for you, don't worry.

But thanks! 😘

[lone lynx]

Those eyes. Great job!

[summer meadow]

Cheers dude. 😊

[topaz tangle]

Everything went wrong and I’m almost repriming him 😭 I really don’t have enough patience to wait inks to dry

[topaz tangle]

Ok I think it’s salvageable

[carmine jolt]

I love how he looks like he is walking out of a cave into the light.

[carmine jolt]

This. I saw the photo and thought, "What a nice leather pattern."

[carmine jolt]

[summer meadow]

Thanks buddy, I like that interpretation. I'm seeing him on a throne in a dim hall with light shining through a window, but it's awesome to hear an alternate impression. 🙂

[vernal copper]

My busts are planned to arrive today. I'm sitting here like

https://tenor.com/view/happy-early-birthday-now-gimmee-gif-15731324811646516558

[final umbra]

My mindworks stuff has arrived in the UK at the weekend - cant wait.

[vernal copper]

They arrived ^-^

[summer meadow]

Oh, those are good choicese. Love the Diner series from MW. Which one are you starting with?

[coral goblet]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-waiting-mail-gif-9967258246983803629

[vernal copper]

I'm scared to paint the Waiter, since it's limited, so I will start with the Mech^^

[vernal copper]

Yes exactly like that xD

I'm amazed, the busts look so nice. Currently still at work (Home Office) but I will post better pics this week

[cedar shell]

oh, i didn't note that bust is limited version. I'm glad I have ordered it.

[final umbra]

Would you be able to take a pic with something for scale when you get them out? I’m keen to get one of their own bust range but just not sure how small they have gone with the 1/12!

[vernal copper]

Sure! 🙂

[topaz tangle]

Progress on the skin, thinking on pushing more the contrast tho

[topaz tangle]

Ending up for the day 😮‍💨

[summer meadow]

What a difference between the last two photos. This rocks!

[cedar shell]

Discord bot don't allow me send WIP update becoz my bust is like a naked women

black bars to pass bot monitoring

[vernal copper]

Discord sometimes thinks that naked fingers are naughty

She looks great! ❤️‍🔥

[cedar shell]

oop now it passs ....

stupid bot

going to do the face tomorrow

[molten shoal]

Too realistic to be allowed! Looking good!

[cedar shell]

haha true ...

[topaz tangle]

Love her ❤️

[summer meadow]

What is a king without his weapon?
Tacked on for now. Still need to paint the straps on it and will probably not glue it on till I've switched to the final plinth.

[final umbra]

Beautiful work!

[summer meadow]

Cheers buddy. 😊

[topaz tangle]

Not very happy with the placement of the highlights for the NMM so accepting help 🥲

[final umbra]

Which way is light coming from? I agree, at the moment it looks like it is coming from four different directions on the back circle

What is the original bust?

[topaz tangle]

No idea I got it on Etsy 🫠

[topaz tangle]

From top facing his face, but then maybe there should be a back light somehow too that idk how where etc 😅

[final umbra]

terrible sketching but i’d be doing it more like that

I’m sure someone else can do better though

[topaz tangle]

I’ll try thank yooou

https://tenor.com/view/thanks-god-neil-patrick-harris-himym-how-i-met-your-mother-barney-stinson-gif-9421072

[vapid kettle]

That's a hard one cause you gotta think if you want to treat it like a milled surface or not

That's what creates that radial anisotropic effect that you see sketched up there

[topaz tangle]

Like rounded shields

Idk really, it’s my first NMM so I’m happy to experiment

[bitter night]

You’re just making up words

The ol’ RANMM

[vapid kettle]

😂

[vapid kettle]

Not necessarily rounded, but a milled surface

Basically you get those cone shapes from the way the light catches these tiny grooves left by machining

I think it's cool to use wherever though because it does a good job selling "metal!" to the observer

[cedar shell]

adjusted hair color & face's details. starting NMM parts

[summer meadow]

Stunning. Love the purple hair.

[cedar shell]

yup this's Motoko's color 🫡

[cedar shell]

no bot patrolling today btw 🙂

[lyric pelican]

Maybe if you write the word "boobs" in the same text as you post the image

[vapid kettle]

Sorry, I slept in

[cedar shell]

oh u fixed the bot? thx lol

[vapid kettle]

No hahahah

[cedar shell]

https://tenor.com/view/skeptical-futurama-fry-hmmm-i-got-my-eyes-on-you-gif-17101711

[topaz tangle]

How is it looking now?

[final umbra]

Looking good. Maybe some more shadow on his left side on his back?

Like in that back shot shadow coming from the direction of your thumb

[vernal copper]

It's so shiny, I like it ❤️

[topaz tangle]

You mean on the skin?

[final umbra]

Yes

[topaz tangle]

I think I’ll shade the skin with some purple

[vernal copper]

purple the magic color 😄

[topaz tangle]

Calling him done now after these okish eyes 😂

[balmy vigil]

might have to shift my attention to a different bust on the weekend

my attention span is that of a 3 year old and i have completely given up on the fox jupiter bust

[lyric pelican]

Nooo, it was looking so promising

[sacred orchid]

Finally got back to painting after holidays

[lament crescent]

I should really continue. I was naive and thought January is chill. Now the events want attention as well 😓

[sacred orchid]

Gotta figure out what color for the metal part of the weapon

(plus work on the rest of the teeth)

[frank ruin]

Looking stellar dude

[summer meadow]

Love the skin color.

[vernal copper]

@final umbra sorry for taking so long. Haven't assembled her yet, but this should do it for scale, right? ^-^

and oof those lines. my lamp and my camera don't like each other

6-7 cm

[final umbra]

That’s great thanks!

[vernal copper]

glad to help 😄

[balmy vigil]

this is probably going to be my new entry instead

will continue fox jupiter in the future haha

[sturdy quarry]

finally started this lady

[carmine jolt]

ohh, that is nice

[lament crescent]

Very little progress but still progress . Added some color in the back piece

[rain needle]

Low energy crazy ideas

[cedar shell]

It's close to complete, I think 🤨

[summer meadow]

This is such an interesting sculpt. Love the direction you're taking.

[summer meadow]

This looks wild!

[mint condor]

Doing camo pattern on cadians takes me a buttload of time so I hadn't had the time to do anything else

Haven't touched the bust I'm working on since last time

[summer meadow]

Beautiful dude. Inspiring work on the skin.

[cedar shell]

thanks!

[summer meadow]

My dude is done. More pics in #1194601501683892224.
This was fun! Can't wait to paint my next bust.

[lament crescent]

Some great changes you decided on here! Love it. The bit of plinth looking through looks also very interesting and fitting

[lament crescent]

Oof very impressive

[summer meadow]

Cheers dude. I'm really happy with how the plinth came out as well.

[vapid kettle]

Excellent results bud, way to really push it!

[summer meadow]

Really appreciate it. Feedback from you and Red especially helped step it up.
And I was thinking of you when I shot the photos, since I tried the black box trick and lit it by [gasp] LED. 😂

[vapid kettle]

my man, in the modern age

😎

[dense girder]

amazing work by everyone in this Paint-a-Long. Really cool stuff 🙂

[balmy vigil]

some sketching done

[final umbra]

Love the rembrandt style lighting

[lament crescent]

I will just creep slowly forward while you guys finish 😆

Some more light for the right side. Having a hard time...

I like these sides

[vernal copper]

I will need to catch up on the weekend. My bust is primed and ready to be painted, but I will first finish the cold along xd

[cedar shell]

[balmy vigil]

saint javelin

[cunning otter]

Had some time last night to do some more work on my bust. Need to go back and refine the beads

[vernal copper]

I finally started. 🙌

It's juste a base coat, but it's a start. So much space to paint 😱

[balmy vigil]

love the palette for the hair!

taking my time painting pores and doing minor corrections

[vernal copper]

thank you! and omg pores 👀 nice!

I'm so scared of skin I haven't painted skin yet

[balmy vigil]

the process is basically the same for any miniature! but the difference is you have a bigger canvas to explore. you got this!

[vernal copper]

thank you ^-^

[deep basin]

So natural. Looks awesome.

[balmy vigil]

thanks!

still in its ugly phase

but i got some basic sketching down

will tackle the cloak

[final umbra]

I can tell that sword is gonna be tasty though

[balmy vigil]

i hope so!

will study my references next sesh

time to revisit some reenactment pages

[final umbra]

Whilst we were partying, @balmy vigil studied the blade

[rigid holly]

Since I almost finished my fabric along entry, might already post I'd like to participate in this PAL with this one 🙂 Not sure if I have enough time to finish this one before the PAL ends, but wanted to try at least 😄

[coral goblet]

I feel like I'm mostly just undoing and redoing the same things, so I'm calling this dude done.

[paper harness]

My bust finished

[cedar shell]

It's done

Sorry for the spam like posting, I cant send the photos together, the bot blocked me from posting them....

[summer meadow]

Painting goals for sure. Beautiful work.

[cedar shell]

Thank you 🥰

[rigid holly]

Bloody gorgeous work there, great job!

[cedar shell]

Thanks for the like

[rigid holly]

Zenithalled the bugger

And then I remembered I wanted to try NMM on the headpiece, staff and bracers

Is a zenithal a good base for NMM? 😅 Figured it might have been easier on pure black

[lyric pelican]

Pure black and gloss varnish is an old trick to try and identify where the main reflections should be.

[final umbra]

I’d normally go black or a very dark grey and just paint it on after the zenithal

[rigid holly]

Thanks, yeah that helps 🙂

[coral goblet]

And ofc i post it in the wrong channel

[rigid holly]

Skin tone base coat and blacked out the to be NMM parts

[cedar shell]

Interesting bust 😄

[rigid holly]

Working on the headpiece NMM. It's going places, but... Meh? 🤔

[coral goblet]

Looking good so far

[rigid holly]

Some tweaking, I'm starting to like where it's going. Especially for a first ever proper attempt at NMM 😄

[rigid holly]

Roughing out the shoulder guard. Having a much harder time with this one 😅

[frank ruin]

Looks really awesome dude

[magic crow]

Starting new one.

[rigid holly]

looks awesome! getting some pre-undead sylvanas windrunner vibes

[dense girder]

oh man I've always admired this sculpt. Can't wait to see what you do with it!

[vernal copper]

Progress! but a lot is still missing ^^ (Like her arms and the bottom of the bust but pfffft details)

[magic crow]

Several difficulties for this one. First, there was no arrow shaft on the package. I don't know it was the production mistake, or not.. Created custom one using bamboo chopstick.

Underpainting is done.

Then, I accidently dropped the mini and the tip of the crown was broken and missing. I sculpted the tip with an wooden coffee stick, and positioned with CA glue, then give extra strength with epoxy glue.

Then, I attached arrow string using one of the sewing threads my wife has.

Finally, it's ready for the actual paint job but I lost all energy today. Perhaps later. 😅

[summer meadow]

Great choice for her hair color!

[sturdy quarry]

workin on face again, this eyebrows dont have a sculpt so it is up to me how to make them look good

[summer meadow]

I feel for you!

I never mentioned at the time because I got too mad at myself and discouraged, but I wasn't careful enough with where I placed my bust and knocked it over and broke three of the horns.
It took a full 24 hours for the big front horn to show up in the most unlikely of places.

Looks like you've done a good job of the repairs.

[final umbra]

Oh man it looks like it knocked most of the paint off it too and stripped it back to the basecoats

[summer meadow]

Eh?

[final umbra]

Sorry bad joke

[vernal copper]

oof hope you can fix him. maybe he will get some nice battle scars out of this D:

[summer meadow]

Just to be clear, this happened long ago, before it was finished. Everything glued up perfectly since they were clean breaks.

[vernal copper]

ahhhhhh

gotcha ^^ phew! I though you knocked him over after he was finished. glad that it was way before :3

[sturdy quarry]

hair is done too, only cleanup left

[summer meadow]

Beautiful hair dude!

[rigid holly]

Sloooowly trying to get the hang of this NMM thing

Refined and smoothed it a bit with the airbrush, got most of the roughness away I think

Was 🤏 this close to blacking out the bracer, but I'm giving it another shot, see if I can get it cleaned up a bit

[shadow wigeon]

I think I'm going to call it quits on this one, made a small amount of changes but never quite hit the level I wanted. Does feel better than earlier version.

[frank ruin]

Good job bro! That’s an intimidating model.

[summer meadow]

Really coming along nicely. Will you be keeping the gems black? Has a cool onyx look right now.

[summer meadow]

That's a lot of hair! Love the red you went with, makes it remind me a bit of Brave.

[rigid holly]

Thanks! 🙏 I was thinking of either a deep blue or jade green for the gems to be honest 😄

[summer meadow]

That will look cool as well. It just struck me when I saw them, that I haven't really seen people do black gems a lot.
Which makes sense since painting colored gems is to fantastically rewarding. 😄

[rigid holly]

Yeah indeed 😄 There's a lot of stuff on this model that's pretty shiny. Even the scarab carapaces might get some shiny effect too 🙂

[rigid holly]

Made some more progress. The NMM is as good as done, will do the touching up near the end. Quite like the blue colour with the gold

[carmine jolt]

Oh, I LOVE that.

Ok, not much time left in the month, but I just got home, so I'll be resuming my girl soon.

[rigid holly]

Going places

Not sure what to do with the collar though... Maybe an even darker blue? 🤔

[vapid kettle]

I might try a purple

[rigid holly]

Hmm. Gonna try that 🙂

Alright, I'm feeling it 🙂 I'm going with this, thanks @vapid kettle

[vapid kettle]

👌

[summer meadow]

Yes, this looks really nice!

[frank ruin]

It’s looking really good mate. Super sick

[rigid holly]

Tried to make the scarabs look a bit iridescent.

[sharp lava]

I didn't get time to say so but she's lovely! Congrats, catlord!

[sharp lava]

Oh wow, that's quite a story! Now she's even more unique.

Here is what was in the package for mine. The shaft is a metal pole. Your sculpting of the crown feather thingy is really good.

The original one.
Hmm, no string included though. What is it you've used? I'm wondering if cat moustache hair would work. (Some they naturally lost I mean, there's no way I'd take a live one.)

[cedar shell]

hehe, thanks!

[final umbra]

Umm, fishing line?

[sharp lava]

I don't have any at the moment. Do you know what diameter they come at?

[sturdy quarry]

working on fur, is it looking good?

[rigid holly]

Looks amazing!

[final umbra]

I’m no fisher but see them in local shops and they seem to range from pretty thick to almost invisbly thin

[sturdy quarry]

@final umbra mate, you are mighty painter, can you give a bit of feedback on this piece if you don’t mind? preping this model for competition

[final umbra]

Oh man, thanks but I’m no better than you going by this piece, it’s beautiful! I wouldn’t even know where to begin improving it without risking spoiling it (if it were my own mini)

[sturdy quarry]

now i am thinking about doll colors, i want to flex a bit and paint them as patterned cloth but i guess textures on textures will be busy considering fur

[final umbra]

I guess.. maybe… there is something around the tones in the highlights of the hair? As they are all fairly similar in hue/tone as well as value but as its quite shiny you might expect some variation? I have no idea though really! I’m just sort of giving criticism for the sake of it there since you asked.

[final umbra]

Yeah I’d try and find a good refence for something there. Like is it cotton or lace?

[sturdy quarry]

may be polka dot but it is kinda ruining composition by being focal point instead of head

[final umbra]

I’d avoid a pattern on it, as you say, it would be distracting

[sturdy quarry]

may be push a story with it a bit more making it dirty and old, like it is her old toy and it is dirty and mossy but she still likes it

i can freehand some cracs of faceplate of toy too

[final umbra]

Yeah a dirty dress would be good

So white will show that nicely

[sturdy quarry]

a bit of story telling and greenish spots may rhyme with blue hair a bit

[sturdy quarry]

i will photoshop few green blue tones there tommorow, will see. Good idea

[final umbra]

Just paint her as elsa from frozen

A faded green dress with mud at the bottom would make a nice colour scheme with the blue and orange on there now

[sturdy quarry]

that is a great idea

there are wings to paint too

[final umbra]

What is the model?

I’ve seen it around

[sturdy quarry]

here it is https://pedrofernandezworks.com/collections/frontpage/products/zoe

[midnight gale]

I finally got my bust assembled.
Gotta gapfill a little and prime now. (Little nsfw)

[rigid holly]

Working on the skin of the chest and face. Wanted it to be less blue and look more like dried crumbly skin. What do you folks think?

[summer meadow]

Skin looks dope like this. Liking the scarabs as well.

[rigid holly]

Thanks! That helps a bit as I keep on second guessing myself as I make progress 😅

[summer meadow]

Boy don't I know that feeling. I always get to a point where I really can't tell if what I'm doing is even remotely good.

[magic crow]

WOW thanks for the photo. I wasn’t sure if it comes with the shaft. For the bow strings I used a thread from assorted sewing kit, which is slightly thicker one like 0.5mm or so.

Slightly progressing..

[sharp lava]

Thanks for the diameter!

The flames already look neat!

[carmine jolt]

I might have to get that one, it looks fantastic. Maybe I'm partial to busts with extended accessories.

rain needs to stop. I can't airbrush with my window closed.

[midnight gale]

She is primed (nsfw)

[cunning otter]

She's gonna be gorgeous!

[midnight gale]

Im excited. Ive been following this mini since it was just a concept in a sense.

[rigid holly]

Weathering the cloak a bit. Not sure if I love it yet, but it better fits the "I just awoke after wearing the same clothes for two thousand years" I guess 😅

[carmine jolt]

I see this was made into a tutorial. That kind of two-fer is almost cheating. What's next, tutorial-a-long?

... actually, I was surprised it was a leather tutorial and not a skin tutorial considering how much effort and time was put in his skin.

[vapid kettle]

Not really, I don't paint that model at all in the video haha

I just used it on the thumbnail

[carmine jolt]

Ahh. That makes sense

[rigid holly]

So eh, this one might be done-ish? 😄

Still have the base/plinth to finish up, but the figure is done at least 😄

Quite happy with the result for my first ever bust

[mint condor]

I found the motivation to start working on her again

[rigid holly]

Yeah he's done now! Thought about doing NMM on the plinth as well, but I figured that might have been distracting from the bust itself. Painted it black and called it good 🙂

[vernal copper]

looks awesome! and you are so fast!

[rigid holly]

Thanks! ❤️

But am I fast? 😅 I feel like I paint super slow tbh

[vernal copper]

It feels as if you started yesterday with that bust xD

[rigid holly]

Also, I had a bit of a flu last week so I had some spare time to do some painting 😉

[vernal copper]

(but I'm really good at procrastinating my bust, so...)

[rigid holly]

Quite some hours went into this one, not sure if I want to count 🙈

[vernal copper]

ah ^^ hope you are better now (more time to paint is nice, but being sick is not)

[rigid holly]

Yeah, feeling better now, thanks 🙂

[lament crescent]

Well well well it's 7 more days to finish for bonus points 🙈. I hope I can get a lot of mileage on the weekend

[vernal copper]

Let us suffer together. I'm so far behind ...

[midnight gale]

Im primed and thats bout it... i feel i might not finish in time.

[coral goblet]

Make it an art piece and just brush on some massive lines 😉

[midnight gale]

Lol nah. I waited too long for that bust to just half ass it.

[magic crow]

Progressing..

[signal minnow]

Didn't know about the bust along, i just finished mine tho 😅

[midnight gale]

I made some progress basecoating and shes looking purple. God i hope im doing this right lol (nsfw

[carmine jolt]

a lot of people like Magenta as a skin basecoat so it is definitely workable

[midnight gale]

Thank you for your confidence boosting words. Ive onyl dont magenta basecoat once amd it didnt turn out awful but i didnt have the patience or knowledge on how to layer and glaze

[carmine jolt]

Well, each different method includes a different process, but you can look at other peoples guides that do the magenta thing. But always remember, if you hate it, some ISO and qtips is all you need to start over.

[midnight gale]

Yeah. Plus side. Its a resin mini so enlimited retries i just have to not drop it

[carmine jolt]

Even if you drop it, it can probably be fixed with milliput.

[midnight gale]

Thats true.

I cant wait for reds skin class tomorrow.

[midnight gale]

Thoughts on the skin? I might call it good

I ended up with a darker tone than i normally do... again.

[lament crescent]

Jeez I'm feeling lost now. I guess I will repaint the skin? It's not really working as I can't get the black dark enough for the effect.

I need some critique and outside input. I worked on the arm and cloak on the left side, blocked a purple for the bands and added some texture to the red. Bit of clean up overall.

I would like to get feedback on overall concept as I feel like it's falling apart and which areas need the most work in your guys opinion.

I also forgot that she has another shoulder

[lament crescent]

Is the shine from the lamp or painted on? If the light is coming from above I would say you can go lighter even for dark skin.

[midnight gale]

I believe a bit of both. Im struggling to gobrighter without it being too yellow

[lament crescent]

Ah I see! She still reads like a reddish Indian woman to me currently. Her stretched hand looks like a very good highlight color without lots of yellow 👀

Interested in where you will take her ☺️ maybe continue on some other area to see how the skin works in context

[midnight gale]

Shes definitly a lot brighter in the picture than in person. But yeah im excited to see where it goes

[frank ruin]

I think you’ve been looking at this too much with too critical eyes man. It’s fucking super cool to me. The added shine on the metallics made a huge difference.

If you did the same intensity on sword hilt

It’d be ace.

[signal minnow]

@lament crescent i looked thoroughly at your pictures and here's my 2 cents. I think that at this stage, rather than the concept, you lack color play. You picked up a cool and difficult idea and i think you mostly nailed the light placement (tho for instance i would shift the light on the vambrace a bit closer to the light source). Anyway since it's an overall dark ambience, you need to achieve contrast with color temperature. Here the warmest is the probably the yellow that you used to give color to you lights (assuming the pictures shows it well), while your red is definitely colder. The "black" at this point should use an even colder tone, which could be violet or even blue that you might include in your dark mix. You could help yourself selling the effect also by adding some textures on the cloth, suggesting a narrow highlight in the fart that faces the lightsource. For the face it basically goes the same way but ofc with different colors. Also there you places your highlight as a circle around the nose and mouth, while the light suggests more of a sharp cut shape. Hope this helps!

[lament crescent]

Thank you
With hilt do you mean the cross guard, blade or the star thingy at the end?

[lament crescent]

I didn't think a lot about color contrast in the blacks. Is a very good input to consider for these moody scenes when you don't want lots of highlights. The black is for sure a bit on the blue side but not super saturated. The orange light on the right is most saturated after the red fabric for sure.

Maybe I can increase the cloak texture a bit or add some stitches close to the edge of the cloak. It's supposed to be silk inside and I guess something wax coated wool or whatever outside

[midnight gale]

Am i misunderstanding the direction of lighting on it? you have highlights on one half of the hood thing but not any at all on the other half

[lament crescent]

She has a warm strongish light behind her on the lower right and a faint blueish light above and on her left

[midnight gale]

ok

[lament crescent]

There is no light in front in theory only from the sides

[midnight gale]

yeah. i see now.

[sharp lava]

I think that's what's got me lost for now. For instance the red fold (on the center slightly her left, our right) leading to the face should be darker where it faces center because no light hits it? But then it's something you'd want to highlight because it helps composition, right?

the highlights on the sword's blade tries to tell me the dominant light is coming from her top right, but it's not colored. Shouldn't the bottom-facing edge be lighter than the top-facing one?

[frank ruin]

Cross guard and star thingie

[lament crescent]

Hmm maybe difficult to see the angles I suppose or I made a mistake. These are the directions the light is coming from in theory

[frank ruin]

And it looks dope as all hell, but the sword feels like it might lack bounce light despite your directional light, metal would pick up all the bounce no ? Food for thought. I reckon it looks fkn sick either way mate:)

[lament crescent]

For sure! The Sword I can probably do whatever I want really. Bounce light is the only thing I suppose I can use to highlight some things like her face. Other than that adding some blues/purples to the shadows of the orange light will probably help as well adding some shade on the right

[magic crow]

It was like this yesterday.

And I think it's done now.

more photos in #1118193285819813960. link: https://discord.com/channels/236042005929656320/1201312176074399834

[midnight gale]

I think i mightave figured out what i did wrong?

I used the three on the right. For my highest highlight should i have swapped put the base flesh woth the reddish flesh?

[midnight gale]

More progress. Lets see if i can finish in two days.

[midnight gale]

I think im gunna get finished wohoo

[lament crescent]

I don't think I make it

[midnight gale]

Legit just have to finish the snake. Do a couple touch ups on the tentacle and paint the rim and im done.

This has been one hell of a journey.

I need ideas for whay to do with the snake.

[lyric pelican]

Paint it in black and white. Like a badger.

[midnight gale]

Maybe.

[lyric pelican]

https://tenor.com/view/badger-badger-badger-mushroom-mushroom-mushroom-iggydr-gif-18197905

A serious suggestion would be something brighter to contrast the skin

Maybe like one of those coral snakes?

[midnight gale]

Im going to try to do kingsnake. Which is close in coloration to coral snake

[lyric pelican]

Yeah that’s cool

[midnight gale]

Definitely. I tried to do that with the tentacle. The lighting plus shitty phone camera makes everything blend together. I swear it looks better in person.

I think i need to do more highlighting on the red too. Its looking a little flat

[midnight gale]

Is there anything else i should take a second look at on it?

[midnight gale]

Shes done (nsfw

[mint condor]

I finished in a bit of a rush but done!!!

I had good first impression! It was really weird to paint at this scale but I'll do it again in the future

[midnight gale]

Busts are fun

[vernal copper]

Yes! Even if I won't finish mine this month, I learnt that I like busts ^-^

[lament crescent]

Aye congrats! Interested how she looks on a dark background

[lament crescent]

Nice job also finished in time 🙌 I like the hat it reads a bit shiny to me

[midnight gale]

Thanks. I definitely need to push contrast on skin more when i have more knowledge on how to do so. I want to get a stand for her then maybe ill take pictures with my actual camera

[cedar shell]

Great work everyone, this was fun in this paintalong 🤘

[vernal copper]

I feel the same, even if I didn't finish my bust. ^-^ it was nice to see the progress on all the busts

[rigid holly]

Fully agree! Great job everyone 🙂 Liked following everyone's progress along

[summer meadow]

So lovely. That blue cloth is spectacular.

[mint condor]

Thanks! I had a few accidents before I managed to pull it off lmao

[sturdy quarry]

dont really want to push myself with competition piece with PAL timeframe, congratz everybody who made it in time!

[marsh quartz]

Where to buy it?! Gorgeous 😍

[bitter night]

It would be nice to have a compilation photo of all the finished pieces!

[midnight gale]

That would be fun

[bitter night]

@everyone if you want to be in the collage (which we will share in the general channel and here) please upload one (1) photo of your bust to this folder. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rI-WIwYzmHnYmIpKiPyIvZhCviyakA__?usp=sharing

[summer meadow]

I think only mods can tag everyone. So you'll have to go through the thread and tag individually, unfortunately.

[midnight gale]

I dont think i could have mine in it due to it showing skin

[coral goblet]

How long do we have? I need to take better pictures

[bitter night]

No rush

[summer meadow]

30 minutes starting now.

[marsh quartz]

I really really like red elements, they look super realistic: 😻

[mint condor]

Thanks!