I appear to be locked into an Accidental Grimdark with this one.
The light this year seems odd. We haven’t even hit DST yet but it feels like I’m up too late or awake too early even in the middle of the day. A friend says they keep internally confusing it for September.
Random midweek experiments: I wondered if I’d be able to get a smooth blend from quite dark to quite bright going brown-to-ivories, without resorting to an airbrush. I think the answer is definitely ’no’, at least with this approach. It gives its own effect though, the scratchiness of it could probably be read as weathering? I’ll have to give stippling a try.
Slowly stumbling towards something, I think. If you squint a bit.
Eurostar disrupted by remnants of the last world war. The writing for this season is sledgehammer subtle.
The return of heavy, seasonal dreams and waking up exhausted from them. There should be a word for how fully mentally-engaged you feel inside that fever intensity.
Let’s just take this panel by panel I suppose. Mess about with the Big Guy until something starts to look vaguely appropriate, then try to mimic it on his little friend.
NMM gold experimentation as the next random diversion I think. Definitely going to be handy to have a Truly Enormous version without any fussy small details to work things out on.
/looks at the Drogon slices… /mutters something about a bigger boat…
Part of me really wants to kitbash this whole range as 40K Imperial Guard… Rogue Trader style.
New frens just dropped.
Any of you incredible mini-photographers have any advice on how to take a flattering hero image? https://mastodon.social/@Brennos80/114075211586949338
What do we reckon here, HobbyPals? Is the freehanding actually accomplishing anything, or just distracting from the initial pleasant simplicity?
/taps temple: can’t be a bog standard ork checkerboard if it’s tilted into diamonds, that’s clearly elf territory…
Another incredibly quick ‘two-tone’ test.
It’s not the tidiest highlighting job in the world, but I’m slightly irritated that this very quick two-tone ‘tester’ model is already looking nicer than the stuff I spend weeks on…
Right, enough procrastination, operation Fix The Bad Shadow begins.
I added an attempt at a cast shadow on the base, trying to emphasise that I want the scene to read as though lit from a shaft of light above, but I hated it so much that I set it aside for a full week 😅 I think it’s just far too extreme, I’ll try to soften it and lighten it to recover.
His little boots have a strap around them that I wasn’t expecting. Sudden colour paralysis.