Kong's WIP Thoughts Nov04

Mkay... another run on my WIP-Thoughts... i guess there is no other way than writing about it, before i forget all the colours and whatever i have used... but first i go to take a shower :)

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ok, i go now take my hairy head to wash under the falls of the great ... ähm, Falls of my shower - read you soon...

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ok... now i got back. I love cold showers at night - nope, just kidding, i did take the shower warm and wonderful, i am not such a cowboy, i also had to search for my socks... so you see every day normal guy, but i love a warm shower at night and a glass of ... no this time a cup of coffee to finish this here... oh yeah how i could have work better with my time letting all this blabla away :)

Here we go - first up the Ancient Hero Maulg. Painted a bit further, the metallics are in Progress and the skin gets more defined, still shadows are needed. Not much happened but i show you, next Step will be doing the shield i guess... but who knows... more to come, here it is at the moment, still a hell of work to do:

Ok...

Now the different part. When accepting to paint a comission it is always something different to do a complete step by step tutorial to it. Why? Because your comissioner can see every step - that is why. He can see the starts, which won't look that rich like a finished miniature. I am at this point now with my work on the Arkvenger. Yeah i did start him... cool stuff, really, hell of a fun to paint.

To the comissioner- the one and only RWW - and all the other readers who might appear here - this is the beginning. A start. I am really working my way into this miniature, finding my way you may also say, so please be patient with me as this will not go fast.

I never had a miniature before which did touch my brain that much, as this guy did until now, even before painting. I was thinking about the great version from rusto and Andrea while getting to know and preparing the miniature. As the comissioner left everything up to my vision of the model it was born to become something personal in the end and i am not sure if it will be liked or disliked but to have total freedom of painting you have to ban such thoughts of darkness from your mind.

A bit different i guess then the versions seen before, not dark... i wanted to make him bright, powerful angelic energy forced in his movement and with the light to smash down the dark side... this now becomes really something personal. The dark side to me means something like... uhm, dark, yeah... not good, soul destroying... like the thing i have learned in the past few months/years of being burnt out by stress, such bad things, such negative things surrounding us all, but ever knowing that the light is down under that crawling skin... i have managed to get myself out of this and this is what the Arky here will stand for i guess... a rebirth, send from elsewhere to wash away the fears of the future, to set it all clear, simply to enjoy lightness... ok, i stop now, really personal in here this time, guess this must have been the shower before :)

I did start with these colours on my wet Palette:

After some relaxed painting hours my wet palette looked like this:

What has happened?

I mostly start painting a model with bringing on some basic colours to find the colours i want on her. Lately i am mixing the colour on the miniature itself to set some first lights and shadows in the early state of progress. So i did on the Arkvenger. It is the simple joy of mixing the colours like painting on a flat canvas. Using the colours in a non-thinking way, bringing them on the miniature with a not too small brush, i use a long, sharp Windsor & Newton Series 7 / Seize 2 for this task. Pure joy of painting...

... but not easy to tell how i did. But i try. I start with a basic colour (not too dark / not too bright) of the chosen area where i soon bring in some touches for the shadows and the lights. On the skin for example i have used ... nah at this point while looking at my own picture above i won't tell you, because i can't and it would sound stupid written here. Just take a look in the picture above and you see the colours i have used on the model itself til this point.

Here are the first steps into my vision of the Arky:

Really early shots of the process of painting. Don't be mad at me not telling it here step by step as i think you can see it better without reading my words to it. Sure i will change this when it is getting a bit further. Here you can see the colours used beside the miniature:

I now go get my brush and hope the coffee will last some more moments...
 I hope you like him so far, even this is not very far...

Keep on happy painting!

Regards

Roman