Thanks guys, I was worried his face might have been too pale or not have enough tones or something.
theavenger001 wrote:
Bizarre, first off haldir's looking really great so far. But, I notice two areas that are not as good as the rest. The first is the cloak, The second thing is his hair,
Btw, is the upper part of the golden scalemail supposed to be tinged red?
Nice observations. The hair was my major concern too, I did give the cloak fine highlights of light pink but in fairness the are subtle, and that you mention it I think the light has also created false highlight's in the shade, or where I should have shaded more, interesting though I never considered that, but your right, the tones on his robe are not as sharply contrasted as the could be. perhaps he should do with more shading and highlighting then.
Yeah the hair is murky looking, I shaded using some thinned black and a little brown, then went over that with Graveyard Earth, which is probably the dirty culprit or perhaps I haven't used enough dark colours?, the blonde is after all sitting close to the dark eyes and the almost entirely black sleeve, which doesn't help the contrast on the hair either.
In my defense though, he was painted after doing three Nazgul, Radagast the Brown and inbetween 2 WOMT Guards of the Court and some Mirkwood spiders plus I painted his face, armor and robe more than once already all in three or four days, which is a bit of a record for me, and also my excuse
I don't know about the red on his scale mail though, I was kind of following the color scheme in the sbg rule book, looked red, I doubt it is though. I'll do some more on his hair and cloak, he is after all one of only three miniatures I have from Lothlorien, so.
...and I consider it constructive feedback not negativity, so cheers mate
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