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| By the end I really liked this model as it allowed me to experiment with painting red by using blue glazes for shadows/recess work and reverse tonal shades to try and create glowing internal parts (something I struggle with). |
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| The rock took a few experiments to finally settle on the exact colours as I wanted something that added some contrast with the red without being distracting. |
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| This one was a real journey, I started trying to do grey skin with purple shadow tones and ended up with a purple and mottles skin. really glad I did though as learned a lot through experimenting. |
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| This was the first time I had started to choose colours and designs for a model to try to tell a story or two that wasn't obvious. Once I decided I wanted a different tone for the palms, it made sense that the shields were used to cover another soft spot on the belly. The shields all seemed out of place until I muddied them and then they just fitted right in, the icons linked (mostly) to armies in the FFG miniatures game. |
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| This was one of the quickest large miniatures I have painted. Probably something to do with how thin it is, nut I have also really got into using the wet palette to try to finish one section at a time and then be able to identify what needs more detail and what can be left to just support the other features without distracting the eye. |
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| Really needed the reference material for some of the features, and even then I ended uo having to repaint parts as I finally realised what they were and that I had them as completely the wrong colour (cutlery is not the colour of straw!). |
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| I wanted to create some visual clues as to what may have animated this golem, so I made the books look a bit like spell books, the cloth on the other leg skin instead and candles a bit like a ritual circle. the leaves changed hue and tone four times as I experimented with ideas, as it runs out it meant there was the range of colours you would expect from a random assortment of foliage. Happy accident! |
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| This was the most challenging OSL work I have done and mostly happy with it, tried to view the model from the angle of each candle to work put where the light might hit. Glad I had the courage to try it, and think it works well enough not to detract from the look of the model, even if it isn't as stunning an effect as I had in my head. |
