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Post by fallenexile on Feb 14, 2018 4:15:00 GMT
Working on painting up a Llaelese Resistance army as my first ever fully painted force. This Storm Lance is only the third model I've ever painted, the first was a Mariner and the second was Doc Killingsworth. And my first attempt at OSL. Sorry for the crappy cell phone pics. I haven't built a light box yet. Also sorry for the odd orientation of the pictures. Not sure why they're turned sideways. However, comments and suggestions most welcome.
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Post by W0lfBane on Feb 14, 2018 5:47:24 GMT
Man this makes me wish the llalese resistance was its own faction
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Post by Soul Samurai on Feb 14, 2018 6:22:31 GMT
Stormlances are somewhat challenging models to paint; there's a lot of detail and different surfaces. I hate to be discouraging but I worry that you might have bitten it off a little too early; maybe spend a bit more time perfecting your techniques on regular infantry models or warjacks first.
Anyway, feedback: your colour scheme is good. That's actually pretty good work with the OSL. Some of the steel is well shaded (but it looks like there were areas you didn't shade, or at least not as heavily?). An edge highlight would complement that shading very nicely. Your brass does not seem to have any real shading; a wash of something reddish-brown (I like Ogryn Flesh wash) could work wonders. Your white cloth areas aren't exactly working, but then white is one of the hardest colours to do well; most painters avoid doing much pure white. And to be honest I think the white doesn't quite fit the colour scheme anyway (except for the glows); I replace it with something else.
Anyway, nice work overall. I suggest focussing on washes and edge highlights for the time being.
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Post by fallenexile on Feb 14, 2018 21:34:31 GMT
Thanks for the feedback, Soul. I wanted to tackle the Storm Lances first, well... mostly because they're what I have at the moment. I've been putting off on collecting more until what I have for this army is painted. I figured the Storm Lances would give me an opportunity to work on painting metal, cloth, details, free hand work, and OSL all at the same time.
As for your critique, where could I have improved on the shading of the metal (other than washing the gold to give it more depth)? And can you elaborate a bit more about your suggestion for more edge highlighting?
I was actually kind of worried that the lance itself wasn't "glowey" enough to give the OSL a proper feel.
I'll definitely need to see if I can get some better pictures up soon.
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Post by Soul Samurai on Feb 15, 2018 2:58:56 GMT
It's mainly the right arm and shoulder I suppose that don't show as much shading as, for example, the armour on the horse's neck. I guess it just stands out a bit in the second photo because of the angle. I'm not entirely sure what you want to know about edge highlighting? Basically just paint edges of armour etc in a lighter colour. It's actually a little easier than it sounds because with practice you can use the shape of the model to do much of the work for you; basically you run the side of the brush across the edges rather than trying to paint with the tip as though it were a freehand design. The nice thing about edge highlighting is that it subtly reinforces the "shapes" of the model, so it's easier for the eye to tell what it's looking at from a slight distance. More advanced shading techniques often achieve a similar effect in a different way (eg by having different shades of the same colour delineate the boundries between surfaces such as different armour plates). To try to demonstrate what I'm talking about, I've put together an image to show how nearby surfaces can blend together from the distance, but highlighting can help make it clearer to the viewer what they are looking at: HighlightingExample.jpg (19.26 KB) The glowing effect on the lance would be stronger if you had more of a blend going on I guess, but like I said you've done a pretty good job of showing the light on the surrounding surfaces. Glows and OSL are not really things that I'm confident speaking about, but I generally maintain that if you want to make a glowing surface look brighter, you should paint the surrounding areas darker. This can mean darkening the surface just around the glow, rather than the whole surface. Note that I'm only talking about glows (you can have glows without OSL), I don't have any experience with actual OSL.
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Post by fallenexile on Feb 15, 2018 4:47:28 GMT
I see what you're saying about the right arm needing more shading. I guess I forgot to do that as I started the OSL on that arm a bit early in the painting.
As for edge highlighting, I think I kind of did that with the horse's armor but forgot to finish with the knight. More a product of me trying to rush again, I think.
Thanks a lot for your feedback. I really apreciate the help and critique so I can get better at painting. As I said, this is only the 3rd model I've ever painted so it's good to know I'm generally on the right track.
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Post by AdeptusB on Feb 15, 2018 22:13:08 GMT
Great job with the symbol on the shield!
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Post by fallenexile on Feb 16, 2018 1:55:00 GMT
Great job with the symbol on the shield! Thanks! I actually had to grind away the cygnar swan from the shield and left shoulder. But I couldn't leave the shield completely blank, so I actually etched in a dividing line between the bolts at the top of the shield and the main area I wanted to paint to make it look like a separate piece, then free-handed the Llaelese emblem on.
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