October Painting Challenge: Glorfindel

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:55 pm

Heres my entry ... sorry the pics are quite large.

Chris · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:23 pm

wow it looks realy awsome

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:37 pm

@General Elessar: Nice one, I think he actually looks very like Hugo Weaving, more so than other Elrond's I've seen. good stuff.

@Chris: I like the colours you've chosen for the cloth, the brown on the front and is that purple on his robe ? its just a tad bit dark to see clearly enough, nice basing too, a strong start to your first painting challenge

@D.M.S: Outstanding!. Is that NMM on his shin guards ? looks like it, looks very impressive. Is that free hand on the bottom of his cloak or is it on the mini?, excellent painting and astonishing attention to the base, its savage!.

Well, I went back over the robe and touched his hair up with more highlights and shading, also done the eye brows which has made a considerable difference and finally darkened some of the armour above the scale mail with a little Brown Ink.

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:41 pm

Bizarre, its amazing how much of a difference the eyebrows make to the face I agree. Outstanding job. I'm tempted to have a go at this miniature next.
The elven script on the bottom of Glorfindels cloak is freehanded on, theres a translation in my WIP thread. Thanks for your comments.

Chris · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:52 pm

lol thanks BizzareWarstar, its a light purple blue yes, but the pictures sux, i realy need a better camera... your mini is awsome! it looks like it is only pro painters here >.<

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:24 pm

DMS, Yeah the eyebrows have really tidied the face up, I'm glad I was given the incentive to go back touch him up. Savage stuff though on the free hand, masterfully done, I've yet to attempt it.

Chris, The purple works really well, its different. Your camera looks more than capable of taking a good picture. The light seems to be focused on the left hand side of the miniature and your photographs are focusing on the partially shaded areas in the middle and right, this is perhaps causing it to look a little dark.
If you could get good lighting on the side of the miniature your photographing, I doubt you'll need a new camera....you could buy more mini's instead then.

Chris · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:35 pm

ok thanks, I'll try to take better pictures, get more light

lol thats for sure, i realy need more mini's, i only have good mini's mostly, lots of them, but evil one's only lurtz, saruman and grima :s , for november competition i only have saruman :s im going to try ebay for some minis....

edge67 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:48 am

Wow - the entries are coming in thick and fast. Chris - great job for your first challenge. The purple on the cloak looks nicely done. Maybe take some pics outside in the sunlight so we can see the details better. Also, maybe try a different background. A light background is OK, but pure white might result in the model appearing darker if the camera compensates for the light reflecting off a white background.
BW - the little touches have really improved things - but I thought it was a fantastic paint job anyway.
DMS - wow, wow, wow!!!!! The white horse is amazing - but so is the rest of the model. Would you be able to tell us how you did the freehand on the bottom of the cloak? That probably sounds like a stupid question, but I don't really know where to start with freehand. I imagine you would have to plan things out a bit?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:10 am

The freehand on the cloak - all i did is write the sentence down in elvish on a piece of paper and then copy it onto the cloak.. I didn't plan it as well as I might have done tho... see my WIP thread

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:33 am

BizzareWarstar wrote:

Is that NMM on his shin guards ? looks like it, looks very impressive.

Sorry Bizzare - didn't see that question ... yes I've been trying out NMM a little.. I tried painting the sword using NMM too but couldn't get it to a point I was happy with it.. the only metallic paint on Glorfindel is the gold and the sword, the arm pads and shin pads are NMM

I will try painting NMM swords again sometime in the future but struggle to see where the highlights would be... Do you think you need an eye for it or is it something that comes with practice?

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:43 am

I had the same happen to me when I tried NMM swords too but what you've done so far I think is very effective, like you have the NMM right next to grey cloth and it still stands out as a metallic so your definitely doing something right.

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

Do you think you need an eye for it or is it something that comes with practice?

A lot does come with practice it seems. The more you practice anything the more unconscious the act becomes, your hand, eye and mind are recognising the patterns of painting and adapting to become more efficient at it by working together to reach the standard your eye has set or seen. That's why I'd say you repainted the sword, your eye wasn't pleased at all.

I'm just wondering what you mean by 'need an eye' ? do you mean something to do with looking at other painting or when painting yourself ?

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:20 am

When I say "need an eye" I just mean that some people can look at a sword and know instinctively where the light and dark highlights/ shading would go ... when I look at one I have absolutely no idea ... its all trial and error with me. I agree tho I think its something that will improve the more you practice it to the point where it will become instinctive.

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:22 pm

Oh yeah, sorry, I haven't a clue about painting traditional NMM either, would need to see the NMM already done on the miniature before trying.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:13 pm

I'm almost finished with Gil-Galad, just have a bit more to do. I'll try and get some pics up later today. I've been experimenting with freehand a bit, and it's driving me crazy! :shock:

Nice work everyone else, looks like it'll be another good competition.

-Pow

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:23 am

Here's my High Elf Archer Captain, just finished converting him today. His first paint job was by my younger sister almost 5 years ago so I'm going to see if I can do better now that I have some tricks up my sleeve.

Chris · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 7:57 pm

an interesting conversion

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:26 pm

I am hating how mine is coming along...

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:29 pm

BilboOfTheWhiteTower wrote:

I am hating how mine is coming along...

foresight foresight it'll be alright in the end :wink:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:34 pm

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower wrote:

I am hating how mine is coming along...

foresight foresight it'll be alright in the end :wink:

LOL, I keep telling myself that, but I won't hear it!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:07 am

Ok, gave it a little more work tonight and here is where I am stuck...

Right now the broad stole is still painted grey...what color would you guys suggest at this point?

October Painting Challenge: Glorfindel

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