now this is earlier then expected, huh? For me too, haha. A great week of music passed, really cool sound in my ears while painting and doing whatever. Again i share the Top 5 from this week with you in a mix that might be intresting... check them out:

First up is this guy... thanks to Picster for showing me, really great stuff:
KissKiss - Parov Stelar

Busta Rhymes - Dangerous

Busta Rhymes & Janet Jackson - What's it gonna be?!


It is getting a bit more quiet - (note @David: That is what i meant with demonic erotica i see in the ladies, god bless them)
Beauty Song - OST House of the Flying Daggers
Lovers - OST House of the Flying Daggers

Al Knew - Tha Bump

I hope you find some time and the one or the other song makes you enjoy... music rises the soul, you know :)
Regards Roman

MAssIVeVooDOO on youtube!

*I am doing so at the moment on the walls in the planned playground room of my 9 month old neighbour twins... really freaky happy painting, haha!

Another Workshop Review - this time from the early summer of this year in Mönchengladbach/Germany...


____________________________just quoting myself from the Avatars of War Forums:

 

We had another Beginner's Painting Class over a complete weekend with, again - great support by AoW, thank you very much, Felix (again) and i have promised to do another review on this one. We found together in Möchengladbach, next to Cologne in Germany. 24 people including me have made this weekend unforgetable. We really had a lot of fun, i had been braindead afterwards and ... ok i start from the beginning...

No one knew what we gonna paint up as the workshop model, they only knew that it will be from AoW, but no one did knew the model before the class. I have planned this because i don't want the peole think too much before the class about what they should do or don't... you know sometimes less thinking is good for working with colours - Thank you very much again for yur Big Support for the Workshop Felix, everyone went crazy as they heard about we are going to paint the Big fat ugly Goblin King ...

Also i want to say Big Thank you to Eve and Mark who mostly did the organisation before and during the Workshop.

We had an old classroom where the Workshop was placed in... I now start with some pictures and explanations about the workshop. As before i had the plan to bring the participants with a travel to art history to knowledge about colour theory and tried to combine this knowledge with the painting on miniatures as this is still a beginners workshop, everyone, equal of his experience was welcome. Thanks to everyone who allowed to use his pictures as i didn't find the time to take my own...

Here we go - this has been our classroom, that bold head in the front belongs to me:

Next Morning had been Undercoating time outside:



Saturday and Sunday have been full painting days with a lot of explanations of mine and everyone used the time for getting further on his or her goblin king. Unfortenatly it ain't easy to finish off a complete model on a weekend, especially when i am talking so much blabla about theory.

We did take the chance of the moment to take a group shot from all the goblins from the Weekend in the end, the first one way too bright:



Not really sharp:A bit better:

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

My version has got a shaved head and four arms.I mainly put my attention of shading down from a bright underground, down to the shadow parts...


Basecoat and first Shadings

I did start the Shading of the skin on a base of pure Ivory (model color) after having the model basecoated with first black and then white primer, adding a really tiny dros of Bronzed Flesh / Regal Blue (GW) ... First shadows were done with Tanned Flesh (GW) / Regal Blue / Ivory (around 60/30/10) - during the first Shadings there was more and more regal blue added to the mix ... then a touch of Warlock Purple was added...







Intense Shading using more glazes

The glazes of Warlock Purple (GW) have been repeated about 5~10 times (depending on the area) to intense them more, as far as i can remember i did use more and more pure Warlock purple.  Most attention on the claws, and also a little tip of regal blue has been added into the  purple for glazing the last shadows ... Even the base was slightly darkened, with that very same color - why? I do not know yet ... may produce a color picture of harmony at the end - we'll see :)

The armor pieces were given a delicate glaze of Chaos Black (GW) / Hawk Tourquise (GW) / Ivory (Model Color) - approximately 20/60/20 ...


Targeted shadow reinforcements / first light


The skin was in the shadows ... um, shaded. With several thin glazes of Chaos Black / Hawk Tourquise  ...

The first lights on the skin are set ... working here with thin glazes of Elf Flesh / Ivory (approx 60/40) ... between I shade down again - at the moment is quite chaotic because i can't squezze my thoughts in a text - so only colours and pictures...

The base was all done also with all the above mentioned coloures ...

Outlining / Commencement Details


The claws were given a subtle glaze with Bestial Brown (must be done before more often when you look at the pictures to make it more intense) - intresting thought here, using orange to purple, using the complementary contrast in some ranged area only ... 

A thin black/dark line has been set to seperate different parts from eachother...

On the armor  a temporary lighting has been set of pure Mithril Silver - then black was shaded over it to reduce the attention of the bright highlights of the armour edges...



The base received little leaves (birch seeds) and long tufts of small natury stuff.

The skin was pulled up into the translucent pure Ivory over thin glazes. As an interim step, I then painted the thin veins with a fine detail brush and covered again with Ivory - so that they shine through, somehow i thought that...

The claws were given blood and fight remainings. The claw edges were strengthend in addition of Ivory in the purple tones on the wet palette...

The armor parts are shaded and again several times done brighter again (edges redrawn). Here I have worked with mixed stains of Chaos Black / Regal Blue / Green Catachan / Schorched Brown ... rather really experimental of what the shades will bring ...

The claw (bone-colored growths) were drawn with Bestial Brown towards the end, followed by Schorched Brown. As a thin, almost delicate white lines were painted on them and then have shaded again with the colours above...

now as time ran out i did decide to declare my entry for the Blood Angel Competition over at Bolter & Chainsword as finished... for the moment :)

Don't get me crazy, just sorting my hard disk and found some thoughts of mine to other Happy Painter some days ago and i thought to share them here before i clean my weirdo hard disk up - nothing special, just some thoughts:


"Hi there, my first tip: Break from the WorldofWarcraft-Claws - that can make your live somehow changing in doing everything good at a computer game while   lacking besides in every other aspect you could become better. Just my own experience, needn't give to much about that - i simply realized that it's better painting a miniature than painting a white wall with a white pen in an computer game... Stop ;)... back to the mini: Overall look is well executed and there are some good parts. Really like the hait and the face expresiion, the magic stone (crystal) is very fine, but something in the overall look i dislike from my point of view. Beginning at the choice of colours. There are mostly warm tones on that miniature, means nothing cries out for attention - all in all somehow. The skin is well done but gets no burst in popping out from the colours. Before painting make clear for yourself what is the most important part for you on a sculpt, what should get most attention. Then chose your colours. For example the skin is a warm colour as you've done here (with no blues or blue greens), the red cloak is way more effectiv in getting attention. Red is a signal colour. Use such a signal warm colour only for things you really want to get attention on. The human eye has his "feelings" for colours, warm is a well feeling, cold is something in the distance and makes you kinda freeze. Just try to imagine if that red cloak would be a blue (i would go for nothing too dark here, maybe bring in some grey in the blue to break its intensity) - the skin would get all the focus cuz of the contrast. Well done on the metallics and skins on her arms. You went for a bright and dark contrast here, you set a clear difference here between the parts with a dark/light contrast. There are a lot of contrasts working together to get to a point. Most important in my eyes is this dark/light one. Try to look at the mini from above. Now you see all the parts which a above light hit (your view is the light). Those parts shold be the brightest. Every part which lays in the line of your view is a normal tone - not too bright not too dark. Every part which is "under" the mini and hiding from your view is for the deepest shadows... Hope that helps a bit... Keep up happy painting and don't mind asking, if questions will come up..."

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On those guys here!


 "The gold parts:
Basecoat of Mithril Silver + Snakebite Leater
Inked with thinned Smoke (Vallejo)
Lights --> Mithril Silver + Bubonic Brown

The weathering has been done using real rust. Just get the rust pigments off something rusty. Then thin them with water a bit and get it on a miniature..."

Don't get me crazy, just sorting my hard disk and found some thoughts of mine to another Happy Painter some days ago and i thought to share them here before i clean my weirdo hard disk up - nothgin :

Public Enemy - He got Game


OST Fallout 3 - Way Back home


Louis Armstrong - Nobody knows the trouble i've seen

Ahh... Music - i still can't describe what it means to me... I hope you enjoy this weeks collectables... i really get the feeling of being an old bear if i look at the music some of my friends or even my younger sister are listening to, but i did walk the line :D - and bears are cool...
Have a nice rest of the weekend and Happy Painting to you all!

Read you soon...
Roman 

PS: Added to: MASSIVEVOODOO on youtube

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

After being asked several times about these strings and threads some of my models have - here you go with a short tutorial.

There will be more tutorials coming in the future - i feel real sorry not to manage all questions asked on me, but i will do it this way - for sure, please be patient...
















Roman