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Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Erunion wrote:

What's your recipe for Thranduil's blue cloak?

Going from an earlier post I used these colours :

Basecoat - trollblood base
First highlight - menoth white highlight
Second highlight - frostbite
First shade - sanguinary base
Second shade - coal black

Well I don't have a lot of time for my own projects these days so have taken to revisiting old models.

Here's the goblin king before and after:

All I've done is add various glazes of red, purple and brown gw shades into the shadows and thinned ivory to lighten up the main skintone.

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:27 am

Looks nice and evil. Lots of character

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:27 pm

Fantastic colouring on him, I think it's the best I've seen.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 12:28 pm

Great painting, right up to your usual standard. I just have an issue on the colour scheme, there doesn't appear any life, it looks more like a statue ?!?!
I'm hoping it's the photo as they can be very deceptive if you get the wrong light.

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

Great painting, right up to your usual standard. I just have an issue on the colour scheme, there doesn't appear any life, it looks more like a statue ?!?!
I'm hoping it's the photo as they can be very deceptive if you get the wrong light.

The colours are slightly bleached. On the model there is a mottled undertone of red that the camera hasn't picked up properly.

I did these hunter orcs as part of a commission.

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:09 pm

Like I hoped, the photo hasn't picked out the detail or the true colours. The hunter orcs look the part, very sinister looking.
The best part of this being the fact it's a commission job, how's it going so far ?

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Starting a new business has been a hard learning curve but things are improving. And apart from not having much money life is pretty sweet. I get to spend a lot more time with my wife and the dog than I would otherwise if I had an office job. Along with the satisfaction of being paid for doing something I enjoy.

Gene Parmesan · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:42 pm

Would love to get that definition out of darkly painted models. What's the secret?

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:37 pm

Just checked your eBay store, fantastic, I am sure you will do well. Best of luck with it all.

Sithious · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:12 pm

The painting on the Goblin King and the Hunters is top notch. Very rich while being dark.

Lord Hurin · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:09 pm

Amazing work on the Hunter Orcs!

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:42 am

The Goblin King and the Hunter Orcs all exhibit the sine qua non of orcoidal personification: they look filthy! You can see every detail but it all has an elegant patina of whatever dirt they have been sleeping in. Wonderful work!

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Gene Parmesan wrote:

Would love to get that definition out of darkly painted models. What's the secret?

Black lining and near white spot highlights. Also, I try to incorporate both temperature and value contrast. This amounts to using glazes of 2-3 different gw shades on each area.

Dorthonion wrote:

The Goblin King and the Hunter Orcs all exhibit the sine qua non of orcoidal personification: they look filthy! You can see every detail but it all has an elegant patina of whatever dirt they have been sleeping in. Wonderful work!

Thanks. I'm a big fan of Roman Jarhead at massive voodoo - to the point of hoping to come over for a painting session this year - and I love how he puts so much detail and texture onto each model.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2014 4:15 pm

Wow. Those are amazing :yay:

they are incredibly realistic, I particularly like the faces, very well done.

-PoW

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sat Apr 12, 2014 4:34 pm

Lucky you if you get to see Roman, he is one painter I totally admire. His work is exceptional and his level of detail beggars belief. You will have to let me know if you do go, I would be very interested in hearing what he has to say.

BillFerny333 · **Posted:** Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:22 am

awesome man. just awesome!

Barrel Rider · **Posted:** Mon Apr 14, 2014 1:43 am

Those Hunter Orcs...... :yay:

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

Been a while since I really pushed myself.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:42 am

That face is sublime, brilliant brush work.

The Lost Hobbit · **Joined:** Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:58 am **Posts:** 3

Your painting is fantastic.

Do you mind explaining how you painted the Hunter Orcs. Which paints did you use for the skin?

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