Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Trying Something New (Painting Style)

I'm playing about with a different painting style (with gratitude to 'Graymouse65' of the excellent 'Wooden Warriors' blog for the inspiration), it's a lot looser and brash than my usual 'tight' technique that I've been using for my peg soldiers thus far.

I begin with flat colour blocks, just like my other peg figures.

I guess you might say that it's a little cartoony, but this is a fantasy figure for a D&D game so I guess this style is in keeping with the spirit of the game...

Anyway, it's taking be time to 'loosen up' and get the 'deliberately sloppy' look with my brush. I don't want straight and even lines and I don't want evenly spaced patterns. This is hard work for me!

By the way, the button will be the warrior's shield!

I reckon it will take me three or four practise figures to get into this style (and to work out how to shade and highlight things properly).
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  1. Springinsfeld20 June 2018 at 10:16

    I like him....he has a real 11th-12th century manuscript look about it. Well done.

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  2. GrayMouser6521 June 2018 at 16:14

    Thanks for the shout out, by the way!

    I agree with Springinsfeld! He looks like he walked right off the famous tapestry! Also, I think the "shading" done on the face really works well for him.

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