Author: Aella13

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Afflictor

Original upload date: April 24 2014

I experimented with another one of GW’s Technical Paints on my Afflictor. Nurgle’s Rot is weird, it’s semi-clear and rubbery. I built up successive layers to simulate a drop oozing out of the stinger. Eww.

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Unfortunately, a few days later I pulled it out of my foam case and was confronted with this:

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The drip was so rubbery that it absorbed the texture from my foam and got squished. I had to get rid of it. So here’s my revised Afflictor minus the drip. I still think it was a cool idea, but sometimes experiments just don’t work out.

Afflictor

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Vayl, Consul of Everblight

Original upload date: February 16 2014

I’ve finished Vayl2. I used her as a practise model during Meg Maples’ Masterclass painting workshop.

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Meg showed us how she paints her amazing eyes. It’s quite a bit more involved than my usual minimalist approach, but basically goes:
Step 1: Black
Step 2: White leaving black outline
Step 3: Black circle in centre
Step 4: Bright colour in black circle
Step 5: Tiny black dot in top half of bright circle
Step 6: White reflection dot

It was incredible to watch her do this, and which such a large brush as well! My attempt misses out on the final step, but I’m pleased nonetheless. Here’s my attempt:

Vayl Consul of Everblight

Later on I took some pics while experimenting with a $1 lens from ebay (like these here). It sticks onto a mobile phone and acts like a macro lens.

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Her green eyes show up a little better when when taking pictures with it, but I couldn’t avoid that slight orange tint around the photo or manage to keep the lens cap out of the shot!

Vayl Consul of Everblight

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Karick-Dar, Apprentice

Original upload date: February 3 2014

Last weekend I spent 16 hours painting with the amazing Meg Maples (the artist formally known as PPS_Meg) at her Sydney Masterclass workshop. There were five members from the Siege the Hills club there (Represent!) and it was great to see all the different painters. This was actually the first time I’ve ever been taught how to paint something. Everything I know is self-taught from experimenting or searching on the internet, so I found it very strange to have a demo in front of me. I’m inspired to try out a few new things, for example I think the two-brush blending technique will really speed up my cloth highlights. Also Meg has an amazing technique for eyes which I have attempted on eVayl. Meg says I do faces really well (an amazing compliment from a painter with her skill).

Here’s the test model we did. Its one of Sebastian Archer’s Guild of Harmony sculpts. Those eyes were ridiculous! They are about half the size of PP eyes. New things I attempted were two-brush blending on the cloth, first attempt at that particular skin tone, and a quick osl effect.

Karick-Dar Apprentice

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