Step by Step Tutorial - Leo from Yedharo Models

by Roman aka jar

posted by roman, jarhead, kong



Aloa hey hey,

after browsing and cleaning up my own hard disk i found a lot of "old" tutorials i had done in german for some german painter forums. I would like to share those with you in english too - even if they are a bit older. So here we go - first up from those Oldies is a Step by Step from my first bust ever - Leo by Yedharo Models in scale 1:10 i did paint back in the end of 2008. It is also my Zodiac so i was very excited by this great bust.

The model is available in bleached bone - similar resin and had no noticeable casting defects or burrs - class quality:


After the model was washed (brush, soap and water) has been primed with the so-called 2-component priming method of first black primer, followed by white:


Getting Started


The colour I wanted him to keep was quite yellow with a brown mane. Not as typical for a natural lion fur, a little more in the direction "Fantasylionking" what he is indeed the end for me when saw him first ...

As base i did use a mix of Snakebite Leather with a tip of Bleached Bone for the brighter yellow parts in which I brought in the wet basic colour, a bit of Bestial Brown for the first soft shadows mingled down ...

... while the mane with a mix of Bestial Brown + Chaos Black was started. While it was still wet, I went with pure Bestial Brown in it to get lights in the wet ground - in the end I do think even a drop of the yellow tone jumped in ...has been very spontaneous, so I apologize if this performance gap ...



 



By now i had thoughts of highlights and shadows before my eyes on the bust. I started to develop them further, in the yellow field with Bestial Brown, Black glaze gen end up with a drop of turquoise and at the end of a mini-droplets to intensify the shadows (the darkest mixture thereof, I took the deepest recesses, such as teeth, etc. and made them dark, while I fell back to the mane on stains from a highly dilute Chaos Black + Schorched Brown Mix...



The lots, such as leather and sword I first ran out completely ... The eyes, I've started with a black base, set up a yellow and painted the black same time, the black eyeballs to determine the view:



With terracotta, translucent plotted enhanced I call the color of the face around there more attention. The mane was controlled in some of the lights and shadows again further strengthened and intensed.



The mouth was then followed with a mix of Warlock Purple, Codex Grey and  Tanned Flesh. Also the facial got some subtile attention with these colours mostly with warlock purple.





For the leather parts, I again used the technique of wet on wet painting, and thus set a baseline of several shades of brown, to the shadows out something blue in the mix, and after drying, the addition of subtle desert yellow to indicate some wear agencies ...

The metal has started very brightly with Mithril Silver and here was wet colour again made into one another on the miniature, the first step towards the shade. By adding Chaos Black (single darker) on a drop Teracotto (customize the metal) to the addition of blue (shadow in the background) bring the metal has received at the end of his appearance.


The leather on the shoulder that began with a mix of Catachan Green and Bleached Bone, which I re-together moist by adding a drop of blue / brown darkening. As with the leather strap was done also by the addition of Desert Yellow to simulatee wear ...


This whole story was then, after being dried, diluttly glazed with about 5 ~ 6 layers of  paint over smoke from Vallejo Model Colour 70939 while in the end and downward a tip of blue / turquoise in the smoke mingled to reinforce the shade. In between were a few lines of wear and even the broken edges of the cracks with a pure desert yellow done, in places also followed suit with Bleached Bone ...

After drying,  bloodstains were added randomly ...



A little play in a small image editing program made me look how the light suits on the model at the moment:




The eyes and the mouth parts were further clarified. Subtle glazes of red and blue and purple here and there enhanced the effect of deep-set eye sockets, while the eyes did get a reflex point. The right eye with the scar about 6 times stained with a highly diluted mixture of gloss varnish and light blue turquoise / (Always leave to dry) ...

The basic color of the mouth was slightly brought lighter and fine lines were drawn over the lower lip. Then I came up with the weirdo idea with lots of fine varnish on the eyes and mouth somehow bring the shine to ... Yeah, bring the shine! Stupid idea, haha:




I did take this a bit more in fading away by painting over the glossy parts again...  learning while doing, haha.

The yellowish skin was highlighted with the subtle addition of Bleached Bone cleared in the basic mix - single lines were applied to an attempt by the structure of fur ... Mane in the final lights were intensed ...



 

 

Intensified final shade with one or another glaze and also emphasizes the lights with minimal brush contact ...

Unfortunately, the final preparation is passed once again in a brainless moment on my part and precise grammar of the approach is hardly enumerable, as eigtl already so far in this entire step-by-step ... for this I apologize - I tend to work spontaneously, but I think for the one or the other, this may look very interesting.

The final bust:







 

I hope I could have given a little insight, even if the step-by-step sure sounds massivly confused again - but that's the way i am ... so please take me as i am forever ... love or so... blurrb! 

Happy Painting!
Regards
Roman



WIP-Thoughts IV

by Roman aka jar

Aloa,

quick, short and precious, because it is late at night here in Augsburg. We had a little painting meeting with Andi (noobyfied= from Graz, Raffa (Picster) and Peter (Baphomet) here at mine. Very nice and joyful evening/night - thanks my brushcomrads... 

I did start to paint up Kingha, the Amazon, which i converted a bit... i am trying to make her as a colour tribute to one of my favorite painter idol, Sebastian Archer aka automaton from Australia. I really love his style, feeling of colour and his great scenery and little and big conversions and detail accurate painting skills and his ... nah, i think you get what i mean, he is the man of harmony in everything - i love his stuff and he really is a great inspiration to me, everytime he finishs up a miniature. I took an old beloved piece of art from him for my colour inspiration... Lathiem, Oak Leaf... i really admire and adore this awesome and fantastic choice of colours here - also it is perfectly painted... ahhh... sweet and a model i could stare for hours with open King Kong mouth...


http://www.coolminiornot.com/196614 

I first thought of trying using the same colours for my tribute... but i failed somehow, but didn't know when. I guess when it came to colour choice. Made my green with goblin green and ice blue from GW, funny start but far away from sebastian's colours in the end, haha. Let's see what happens on the further way she will go. I maybe feel that i did understand seb's great harmonic style of painting by using warm and cold contrast in everything on the miniature... just a feeling and i try to bring it further in Kongha: The model is still WIP and i am planning to paint some more hours on her, even i am not sure if i can make it in time til the End of September for the CMON Contest. So here she is somewhere between start and concept:



Bigger pictures on another day... i am damm tired right now and if Mr. Roberto reads this i would ask him to call me to get up at 9:00 am, pleeeeeaaaasssseeee - i need to clean up the flat before - you know!

Gn8
Regards
Roman

Tzeentch Lord on disk finished - gaming table comission

by Roman aka jar

Aha,

now Robert left the corner of silence and is now here with us. Don't give too much about stuff he is telling about me - he completly misunderstands me some time - he didn't really get what i meant with "bake her a cake"... whatever, i am glad you are here now and finally not shy anymore.

First i didn't want to post today, because i wanted the chimp stand here on top of this blog for one day before the kong comes back, but - these paths are strange in our jungle and after calling him and telling him my thoughts and worries he allowed me to step in the arena today without a thought on a worry... so here is the Kong, screaming, shouthing and letting the bass kick again with some miniature news from his workbench - by the way Mr. Muhani, i am really, really, really, really, really looking forward to your next finished miniatures... rock on and enjoy every second of it - hear you soon, bro'...

I have finished the last mentioned Tzeentch Lord on Disk from Games Workshop which also got a wished screamer of Tzeentch on top of a base from microartstudio - painted as a comission work for the gaming table, so it is not the highest quality work i have ever done, but its always important to look at the final location the miniature will go to...



Hope you like him! It is also up to CMON, if you want to drop a line there - thanks in advance...


Keep on happy painting!

Regards
Roman

For Sale...

by Roman aka jar

lost in the warp

Muhani enters the Jungle...

by Robert aka muhani

Hello world,

after spending a very relaxed weekend hanging around in the nearby trees, eating bananas and stiring my brain on the search for some English knowledge, I'm ready to follow Roman's path through the jungle of colors, miniatures and all the other very dangerous animals this path has to offer. I am without fear - I am a chimp. And chimps eat lions for breakfast.

As Roman explained already - well, stop. Let me also explain: "Do you remember the fun you had ...." Damn f...... s... impossible for me to find words that are nearly as sticky sweet as Roman's. But what I can do, is completing the list of things we are different in. So here we go: I have hair, he has none. I am small, he is tall, I listen while he is speaking, I like coffee and red wine, ... well, we both do like coffee and red wine. But whats much more important than sharing the same vice is sharing the addiction for paint, what's less a vice than a passion. ... blablabla ... You will hardly believe me, but Roman really has much more in his weird brain than paint. Although I am 31 and he is only 27, he has much wisdom. Don't know how often he helped me out with brilliant answers for tricky problems. I guess 200 times. So if he compares me with the dark lord, it's on me to compare him with Jesus and call me an apostel.

Had a long day today, and am a bit confused and excited at the same time. The sentences, that come in my mind, do it in a very confusing way. At first in German, then they walk through an old-school-german-english-translating-engine, I have found in a grey corner of my brain, before they appear on my display, not knowing if they are grammatical correct or not. I guess not and hope you understand anyway.
By the way, Roman allowed me to write anything I want to, even banana-recipes, but I won't do so. If you asked me why not, I'd say I don't know any.

Back to the point. Why am I here? Why don't I have my own blog? Why am I not sitting in a banana-tree? I haven't seriously thought about blogging until Roman asked me to join his. Unsure at first, thinking about pros and cons, not least my lousy English, I decided to join in. It's the geographical distance that separates us from having cool painting sessions together, or just having a good time, so this will be our party-room. Here I am a chimp. Not as loud as a gorilla, but I will try to do my best, sharing my experiences, mistakes, thoughts or whatever could be intersting or not, with you.

As it is late already here in Austria, and I have to do my regular job tomorrow, I say good-by for now, sending you a pic of my workspace:


and another one from a little fun-project:


"Ulfgar of Auldheim" from Red-Box-Games


and another one:


"Swiss Guard" from Infinity


Kind Regards
Robert

Tutorial - Making straps in the wind

by Roman aka jar

posted by Roman, Jarhead, kong

Hi there,

ahh no! Me again, did forget something and now will put in a single post to add a tiny Tutorial with it. Now you see what coffee makes to me, haha.

Making straps which move in the wind

Movement in the sculpts of miniatures always tells something. If the pose is very static i love to add some extern movement in the scene by making things move with the wind. I actual prepare a model from Enigma, which has been limited sold by CMON for the CMON-Contest Number 17, if i am not wrong there in the back of my brain.

She normally has some poodle haircut but i did not like this in the end. Just personal taste. So i did cut if off and thought about a leather cap with some straps moving in the wind. That will individualize the model very much and gives her a total different look as i hope in the end. It is not finished yet, but i will show you how i do the straps/ribbons  like one on the Eldar, which had been from green stuff before and broke, added with this technique - i talk about this piece on the eldar:


This is the actual model from Enigma - Kingha the Amazon, by the legendary Raul Garcia Latorre, cut of from her haircut (sorry about that), the shield is from the Games Workshop Chaos Knight plastic sprue, also the skulls are from GW's skeleton's box, while the base is made from Hirst Art pieces on top of a socket from Sockelmacher.de:


I did now take thin copper metal sheet and a scissor to cut it in form, then i glued (superglue) it to the places on the model i want them straps hanging:







 

Now i let it dry before moving them around like i want them taken by the wind. I also will add the leather cap with green stuff. Nothing special in this tutorial but i thought it could be intresting for some of you.

So far - keep on happy belting!

Regards
Roman



WIP-Thoughts III

by Roman aka jar

Aloa,

i hope you all have a good start in this week. As you can see the MASSIVE VOODOO changes didn't activate anything yet. I promise Robert is not only an imagined friend he is there, somewhere out there in the jungle and preparing his first posting... i am really looking forward, but he always should know that there will never be pressure in the jungle to climb that palm tree... take your time and do it from the heart.

I can tell you that we are trying to improve the comfort of MASSIVE VOODOO navigation sooner or later so that there will be somethings on a left sidebar too. The right sidebar is very long and i don't get this as comfort for you... stay tuned to that point.

As i am painting full time, there is no break for me at all. The week starts wonderful, with a painter guy from Graz (noobyfied from CMON) tomorrow who visits me for some Happy painting time! Also Raffa (Picster) and Peter (Baphomet) will be there too i hope.

I really have to say that i enjoy this blog a lot, surely your feedback here is one reason - thank you very much for your intrest, surely, also it seems to get some passion diary for me and maybe also for Robert someday, harhar - no pressure my friend. What has happened on my workbench at the weekend, which mostly has been a chilling time with my girlfriend and the neighbour baby twins and parents - blabla - what has happened on the workbench:

Denise - she is ready for adding something i want to add with green stuff. More to come soon about that idea - oh dear how i love this sculpt from Pegaso:




Went a bit further on the sniper and tried to catch him on photo in front of a dark background. Sorry that the pictures are a bit blurry and as i see on the photo i have to go at the rifle again carefully - it is so thin, it easily moves:




I have also started a comission piece for the gaming table - a Tzeentch Lord on disk. More soon from this model, also bigger pictures - but be easy with me, he will be for gaming purposes in the end.






Some moments on the Gheisa, including some further steps on the skin, flower and cloth. Sure this will be a hard work to get her finished, but i only take her under the brush in a quiet moment for an hour more or less... it is not her time at the moment, but she grows step by step...





 

 


 Also the Daemonette took her last steps. She is now finished from my side, but as some critical feedback, which i am very thankful of over on Maxpaint.de showed some more areas where i can go at for the final finishing. It took me hours to achieve a good looking, natural photo quality of her... still the dots look a bit too strong on the photos, but i wasn't able to get this fixed - here she is - i would be very intrested in your oppinions or also a critical eagle view to help me finish her:







 


 

 


 






 

So far from my WIP-Thoughts and actual Work in Progress Models. Read you soon and keep on happy painting!

Regards
Roman