Hey everyone!
This week was a very productive one for Raffa, he finally managed to finish this bust started at Kirill Kanaevs painting class in the Massive Voodoo HQ!
You can find some more views on Putty & Paint!
This project is also for sale, if you are interested, contact Raffa via mail at "picster(at)massivevoodoo.com"
This week was a very productive one for Raffa, he finally managed to finish this bust started at Kirill Kanaevs painting class in the Massive Voodoo HQ!
Templar Knight
Young Miniatures, 1/10 Bust
You can find some more views on Putty & Paint!
This project is also for sale, if you are interested, contact Raffa via mail at "picster(at)massivevoodoo.com"
... there won't be the "Azog - White Orc" tutorial this week.
Why?
Well, Roman returned home from a really cool trip to Denmark yesterday evening, where he held MV's Jar's Beginners Class #52 and is still a little tired. Like he said last week when he started his journey he is off for about two weeks.
Roman will start regular blog/office/studio work next week Monday.
So far, Roman wants to say thanks for great hospitality in Hamburg and in Copenhagen and a wonderful weekend class. As always when staying in Hamburg's Wu Dao Kung Fu school there is the tradition to make a drunk Dojo photo posing stupidly. This time Roman was without Raffa, not really drunk, but found good company still:
Today Roman takes a day off and tomorrow he is heading out to his dad's place for two days of private coaching about painting oil color on canvas, a hobby his dad recently started. Last year Roman's dad turned 60 and Roman really enjoys to see his dad painting canvas. Now it is time for the son to help his dad in this matter. Dad and Son time ahead:)
It's just me, my dad and I and color :)
Roman is looking forward to next week, but now he is off with good reasons :)
Keep on happy painting everybody!
Why?
Well, Roman returned home from a really cool trip to Denmark yesterday evening, where he held MV's Jar's Beginners Class #52 and is still a little tired. Like he said last week when he started his journey he is off for about two weeks.
Roman will start regular blog/office/studio work next week Monday.
So far, Roman wants to say thanks for great hospitality in Hamburg and in Copenhagen and a wonderful weekend class. As always when staying in Hamburg's Wu Dao Kung Fu school there is the tradition to make a drunk Dojo photo posing stupidly. This time Roman was without Raffa, not really drunk, but found good company still:
Today Roman takes a day off and tomorrow he is heading out to his dad's place for two days of private coaching about painting oil color on canvas, a hobby his dad recently started. Last year Roman's dad turned 60 and Roman really enjoys to see his dad painting canvas. Now it is time for the son to help his dad in this matter. Dad and Son time ahead:)
It's just me, my dad and I and color :)
Roman is looking forward to next week, but now he is off with good reasons :)
Keep on happy painting everybody!
Good Morning Jungle!
Quite a while ago we had another proud jungle painter in the studio for two days of MV Private Coaching. Andras from Hungary was visiting us in the studio!
Andras and Raffa discussed all the topics Andras wanted to cover in the two days via mail, these were:
MV Private Coaching
Review by Andras
When I settled with this mindset I was continuously discovering a little shadow or highlight to be added, a definition or wrinkle I have missed, a small detail overlooked, etc. And this is one thing that can really push the end result. Day 1 we have mostly progressed with skin, and face, also the loincloth received some initial colors. 10 PM I left the studio with a lot of thought and excitement for day 2, as the workshop was already exceeding my expectations. Not to mention that I have also memorized the Last Samurai OST, but tht is a different story.
Day 2 we started with the usual drill of coffee and intro discussion for the day. The face, fur and horns received further love during the day and the overall color scheme of the mini was becoming visible. We have further worked on the face with subtle glazes applying facial color theory. This was really pushing me out of my comfort zone - when I see a mini I consider nicely painted, applying a technique with a result I am unsure about send the chilles down my spine...but in the end it obviously turns out that
1) there is no mistake that can not be corrected, and
2) this is the right way to go as the face becomes vivid with color and expression.
Quite a while ago we had another proud jungle painter in the studio for two days of MV Private Coaching. Andras from Hungary was visiting us in the studio!
Raffa & Andras
Andras and Raffa discussed all the topics Andras wanted to cover in the two days via mail, these were:
1) Contrast - theory and practical application
2) In connection with the above some color theory
3) Clear painting / proper use of paint consistencies
And, if time allowed, they wanted to cover the topics:
5) Object source lightning
6) Basing
In the end, most time was spent to the first three topics. Raffa also had the feeling it was a good idea to spend more time there... the technical foundation of painting.
Let's hear about Andras' first hand experience:
MV Private Coaching
Review by Andras
This January I decided it is time for me to get some real
hands-on painting experience from the Massive Voodoo guys. Being a long
time follower of the blog and their work it was obvious choice for me
that once I make up my mind about a private coaching it should be with
the Voodoo crew. And what a good choice it was.
During
the initial email conversations we discussed that my interests will be
to understand and consciously apply techniques that make a mini "pop",
and help it come to life. The small but invaluable touches that push the
results from "this looks nice" to "wow". We have also settled on the
model, as I had a Satyr from Blacksmith Miniatures lying around that I
picked as a limited edition release, and wanted to treat it with the
proper brushstrokes.
The date approaching I became
more and more excited until the day finally arrived. I entered the MV
Studio where Raffa was already preparing some work for the day, some
great tunes in the background, minis in cabinets, all the painting,
basing, sculpting accessories on shelves...a real miniature painting
magic world. Immediate immersion!
Raffa was super nice and welcoming, we sat down with a proper black coffee and had an intro and recap of my focus areas, a check on the minis I have brough along to get real life examples, and slowly we moved into color theory, light situations and application of those onto a 3D surface.
Raffa was super nice and welcoming, we sat down with a proper black coffee and had an intro and recap of my focus areas, a check on the minis I have brough along to get real life examples, and slowly we moved into color theory, light situations and application of those onto a 3D surface.
Two days worth
of paiting seems a lot, but in such an ispiring environment where you
realize that there is so much these guys can teach you, and you want to
absorb everything, time just flies. We soon moved over from theory to
pratice, and got the minis primed. Raffa has found a Faun in the similar
vein as my model, from Studio McVey, so we could start our painting
using almost identical colors and methods, Raffa demonstrating as we
progressed while I was applying the techniques on my mini.
The
Devil is in the details, as you can often hear, and its no different in
the miniature painting world. One of the key take-aways of day one is
not to rush, but take your time with the current volume, or body section
you are working with. When you consider it is done already, put away
the brush, and start looking at the surface from every angle.
When I settled with this mindset I was continuously discovering a little shadow or highlight to be added, a definition or wrinkle I have missed, a small detail overlooked, etc. And this is one thing that can really push the end result. Day 1 we have mostly progressed with skin, and face, also the loincloth received some initial colors. 10 PM I left the studio with a lot of thought and excitement for day 2, as the workshop was already exceeding my expectations. Not to mention that I have also memorized the Last Samurai OST, but tht is a different story.
Day 2 we started with the usual drill of coffee and intro discussion for the day. The face, fur and horns received further love during the day and the overall color scheme of the mini was becoming visible. We have further worked on the face with subtle glazes applying facial color theory. This was really pushing me out of my comfort zone - when I see a mini I consider nicely painted, applying a technique with a result I am unsure about send the chilles down my spine...but in the end it obviously turns out that
1) there is no mistake that can not be corrected, and
2) this is the right way to go as the face becomes vivid with color and expression.
After this the eyes are the next step, before
we dive into a paiting techniques and tips, Raffa puts together a great
sketch for me, and demostrates it in practice on the model.The result
is astounding, and surprisingly realistic. With enought care I am close
to replicate it, which is again a great step forward for me. The mini at
this point is ~60% done with leather and metallic parts outstanding,
and these two areas will be the closing parts of the painting session.
There is a debrief in the end, and group photo!
All-in-all
awesome two days with Raffa, a whole lot of information and details
that you can only learn if you sit next to the person.
Both Raffa and
Roman are super-approachable nice guys, and there is no doubt that these
folks are the top of their game. My whole-hearted recommendation to
anyone who considers taking this private coaching, you will not regret
it.
Hey Jungle Painters,
Houston, we have a problem...
Raffa started this weeks tutorial voting without making sure everything was set up properly to launch the tutorial space shuttle.
The step by step of Azog isn't finished yet and Roman is still on travel to his beginner class.
So, while "Azog, the white orc" won in the tutorial voting, we have to delay the Azog tutorial by a week until Roman returns.
Oh my, this almost feels like real politics. Sorry!
Hope you still enjoy the tutorial of Thornley & Ratch!
Raffa will now take care of the article. We hope you enjoy!
You want to support us?
If you like to support or say thanks the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here or here.
In this article you will see the whole process of the pirate bust "Thornley & Ratch" that I sculpted and painted. The bust is released at Fernando Ruiz Miniatures if you are interested in getting one!
This is the final result:
I wanted to achieve a very comical, illustrative style while keeping everything relatively simple.
For the metallic parts I chose a non metallic paint style (not using paints with metallic pigments) to fit the comic style.
Let's start with the step by step!
Sculpting
I started with a sketch, this process usually takes me around 30 minutes to 1 hour.
I do it to brainstorm, for fun or to find shapes I like.
For this sculpture I used BeeS Putty Plastic Summer Xtra (whoah, what a name :D).
It is very hard and wax like, but bakeable.
After some refining and changes I started to like the face.
The face also received some smoothing using ethanol (alcohol).
I added the pirate bandana, clothing and did more refining to the face.
A first sketch of the ferret that I wanted to add. I really didn't want to go for a parrot or something typical like that... a ferret just felt like the right thing :)
The hat, this is an optional part, I prefer the bust without the hat, but I still wanted to give painters to option to play around. The hat was sculpted in two layers.
First, a "cap" was scultped on the hat using talcum to make it removable.
The rest of the shapes were also added and then the whole hat was baked.
After some carving and cutting I added the texture using BeeS Xtra dilluted with white spirit and dabbed it on with a brush.
This is the finished bust after it was baked at 130°C.
Painting
I started with a black and white basecoat to prime the bust. Unfortunately the white (new Games Workshop spraycan) gave a very dotted texture... I tried to fix it with another basecoat from the airbrush, but it wasn't perfectly even.... well, well, not a big deal ;)
Most of the base colors were applied. For the bandana I tried to use only one layer of paints.
For the yellow I used "Iyanden Darksun", it's an old color but gives a very nice covering for a yellow.
The red was mixed with "Aldebaran Red" (Scale) and "Thornwood Green" (P3).
The blue is based on Dark Sea Blue (VMC), Vest is also based on Thornwood Green and Skin is Sand Brown (VMC).
As a part of painting the basic colors I looked up some reference for the ferret and painted with those colors. You can also see that the beard was painted with a very desaturated ochre.
The other side of the ferret was painted and the leather strips on the shirt received a dark brown base color.
Shadows were added to most areas except the bandana. For the face Umbral Umber (P3) was used, for the most other colors the base color was darkened and desaturated.
Lights were painted in the face using the basecolor + white and a bit of yellow.
The shirt also got some lights using white + a bit of light brown, pure white was used for the brightest, smallest highlights.
To paint the hightlights on the bandana I first masked it and sprayed the highlight in a very dilluted white using my Harder & Steenbeck Infinity.
Using glazes of pure red and yellow (both by Scale Color) I brought back colors to the white highlight. Like this is was very easy getting a soft highlight in the different colors.
Hightlights were added to the blue vest using Trollblood Base (P3).
You can also observe that a lot of color variation was added to the skin to bring back some life into the face. I used mostly reds, terracotta and orange tones. Some greens were also introduced to the sides of the head.
First shadows were painted on the bandana using Tank Brown (Vallejo Air Color) in transparent layers.
The eyes also got some love :)
Under the eyes I also used violet.
Another view to give a better look on the shadows that were painted on the bandana.
And the back was also done. Some shadows were intensified using a little bit of black + Tank Brown.
More detail lights were added in the face.
The little leather straps on his shirt got a highlight and the beard was also highlighted with a mix of the basecolor + Birch (Scale Color).
If you look closely you can also observe that some more colors were introduced in different materials. Slight yellows and browns were glazed onto the blue vest and bright shirt to make it look more interesting.
The metallic parts were painted with a Non Metallic Metal style:
Here are two enlarged photo crops of the metal parts with the color palettes next to it.
I am not a big fan of recipes, I try to imagine what things surround the miniature in it's world.
I tried to give the effect of a bright floor reflection, maybe the ships deck?
Try to play with colors and don't stay in one color. Metal is not grey!
Here's another photo with the color variation being more visible. Some more small changes were made before calling the project done:
You can see I used some browns to create the effect of the clothing being dirty.
To do this you can paint pools of dilluted color on your mini and let it dry for some seconds. When you see the edge is starting to dry, pull away the rest of the pool with a wet brush leaving only a tiny edge of the pool.
Try it, it's very easy :)
I really hope you enjoyed this Step by Step!
If you want to create your own version of this Pirate Ogre, you can get a copy of the bust at Fernando Ruiz Miniatures!
Houston, we have a problem...
Raffa started this weeks tutorial voting without making sure everything was set up properly to launch the tutorial space shuttle.
The step by step of Azog isn't finished yet and Roman is still on travel to his beginner class.
So, while "Azog, the white orc" won in the tutorial voting, we have to delay the Azog tutorial by a week until Roman returns.
Oh my, this almost feels like real politics. Sorry!
Hope you still enjoy the tutorial of Thornley & Ratch!
Raffa will now take care of the article. We hope you enjoy!
You want to support us?
If you like to support or say thanks the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here or here.
In this article you will see the whole process of the pirate bust "Thornley & Ratch" that I sculpted and painted. The bust is released at Fernando Ruiz Miniatures if you are interested in getting one!
This is the final result:
I wanted to achieve a very comical, illustrative style while keeping everything relatively simple.
For the metallic parts I chose a non metallic paint style (not using paints with metallic pigments) to fit the comic style.
Let's start with the step by step!
Sculpting
I do it to brainstorm, for fun or to find shapes I like.
For this sculpture I used BeeS Putty Plastic Summer Xtra (whoah, what a name :D).
It is very hard and wax like, but bakeable.
The face also received some smoothing using ethanol (alcohol).
First, a "cap" was scultped on the hat using talcum to make it removable.
The rest of the shapes were also added and then the whole hat was baked.
After some carving and cutting I added the texture using BeeS Xtra dilluted with white spirit and dabbed it on with a brush.
Painting
For the yellow I used "Iyanden Darksun", it's an old color but gives a very nice covering for a yellow.
The red was mixed with "Aldebaran Red" (Scale) and "Thornwood Green" (P3).
The blue is based on Dark Sea Blue (VMC), Vest is also based on Thornwood Green and Skin is Sand Brown (VMC).
You can also observe that a lot of color variation was added to the skin to bring back some life into the face. I used mostly reds, terracotta and orange tones. Some greens were also introduced to the sides of the head.
First shadows were painted on the bandana using Tank Brown (Vallejo Air Color) in transparent layers.
The eyes also got some love :)
If you look closely you can also observe that some more colors were introduced in different materials. Slight yellows and browns were glazed onto the blue vest and bright shirt to make it look more interesting.
The metallic parts were painted with a Non Metallic Metal style:
I am not a big fan of recipes, I try to imagine what things surround the miniature in it's world.
I tried to give the effect of a bright floor reflection, maybe the ships deck?
Try to play with colors and don't stay in one color. Metal is not grey!
To do this you can paint pools of dilluted color on your mini and let it dry for some seconds. When you see the edge is starting to dry, pull away the rest of the pool with a wet brush leaving only a tiny edge of the pool.
Try it, it's very easy :)
I really hope you enjoyed this Step by Step!
If you want to create your own version of this Pirate Ogre, you can get a copy of the bust at Fernando Ruiz Miniatures!
Hey Jungle painters,
Tuesday Thursday again and time for tutorial voting via MV's year of the painter 2.
Wait a second you may say?! It's not Tuesday!
Let's just say Thursday is now Thuersday and forget about rules for a moment :)
This week's voting result will be revealed on Saturday.
As Roman is on his travel to Copenhagen for his #52 Beginner Class, Raffa will take care of the blog ;)
If you want to keep track with an overview on what has happened so far
please check this link!
Support Massive Voodoo!
If you like to support the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here and here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
#01
SBS - Azog the White Orc
A step by step by Roman. With it you are enterin his mind through the process of a very big bust he recently did: Azog. A brutal paintjob delivered to the bust. Finish version can be seen here! Expect a brutal step by step.
#02
Step by Step: Thornley & Ratch
In this article you can follow Raffa through one of his recently finished projects. The ogre pirate Thornley and his, not-so-trustworthy ferret, Ratch. In this article he will guide you through his process of sculpting and painting the model.
Happy Voting!
Wait a second you may say?! It's not Tuesday!
Let's just say Thursday is now Thuersday and forget about rules for a moment :)
This week's voting result will be revealed on Saturday.
As Roman is on his travel to Copenhagen for his #52 Beginner Class, Raffa will take care of the blog ;)
If you want to keep track with an overview on what has happened so far
please check this link!
Support Massive Voodoo!
If you like to support the monkeys of Massive Voodoo in what they do, please feel invited to drop a jungle donation in their direction via paypal or check their miniatures they got on sale here and here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
#01
SBS - Azog the White Orc
A step by step by Roman. With it you are enterin his mind through the process of a very big bust he recently did: Azog. A brutal paintjob delivered to the bust. Finish version can be seen here! Expect a brutal step by step.
#02
Step by Step: Thornley & Ratch
In this article you can follow Raffa through one of his recently finished projects. The ogre pirate Thornley and his, not-so-trustworthy ferret, Ratch. In this article he will guide you through his process of sculpting and painting the model.
Happy Voting!
Hey Jungle,
this week's wednesday (tomorrow) Roman is heading out to travel to Copenhagen for his #52 of his MV's Jar's Beginners class and his first painting class in Denmark. He is mucho looking forward to it and a full class with 26 students.
Thanks to Jakob and Peter for doing such great organisations, now it is soon time for happy painting! As Roman is doing final travel and class preparations he just wants to tell - right here, right now - he will be offline for a while, here in da Jungle, mails and on everywhere else too. There might be travel and class updates, but definatly with a big maybe. When he returns home next week tuesday he will take one day off and then is up to a private coaching with his dad about painting on canvas with oil color. So all in all, you can say Roman is off for two weeks now :)
As romours said there might be really cool activity by some of the other MV monkeys!
Stay tuned! Roman says goodbye for a while and musica!
If you want to a have a good read through a Mad Max Car Step by Step, follow this link to see how Jeanette did build up her car! german language
Keep on happy painting!
this week's wednesday (tomorrow) Roman is heading out to travel to Copenhagen for his #52 of his MV's Jar's Beginners class and his first painting class in Denmark. He is mucho looking forward to it and a full class with 26 students.
Thanks to Jakob and Peter for doing such great organisations, now it is soon time for happy painting! As Roman is doing final travel and class preparations he just wants to tell - right here, right now - he will be offline for a while, here in da Jungle, mails and on everywhere else too. There might be travel and class updates, but definatly with a big maybe. When he returns home next week tuesday he will take one day off and then is up to a private coaching with his dad about painting on canvas with oil color. So all in all, you can say Roman is off for two weeks now :)
As romours said there might be really cool activity by some of the other MV monkeys!
Stay tuned! Roman says goodbye for a while and musica!
If you want to a have a good read through a Mad Max Car Step by Step, follow this link to see how Jeanette did build up her car! german language
Keep on happy painting!
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