Interesting little video in terms of the amount of money hobby YouTubers with millions of views actually make; and the disincentivising of positivity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=pFlvtXvnpGni4VCG&v=nVcrFMfnyyc&feature=youtu.be
T|-|E 0 \/\/ |_ SER\/ ICE EPISODE 1 PART 1Holidaying in rural Wales, Alison, mother Margaret, new stepfather Clive and his son, Roger are staying at a manor house formerly owned by Alison's uncle Ber...
I always intended to go back to this one and do a finishing pass or two before submitting to the competition on MMF, but the thought of doing so put me off any hobbying at all for several days 😅. So I’m calling this guy done. This will be the hero shot. Also the first mini photo I’ve ever removed the ‘WIP’ tag from.
Sketching in the light placement for Fancy Lad’s eventual Fancy Backside. Very rough sketch. (Please only squint while viewing 😅)
I’m determined that 2025 is the year I actually finish painting a thing. Anything. Just one will do. I’m nominating this lil guy. Still a long way to go, but I’ve stopped myself giving up in disgust and re-priming him three separate times now, so that’s progress!
Big Duvet nights. The best time of year.
I did point out that, in my defense, this would slow a person down.
I just had a friend explain to me that to ‘pull your finger out’, meaning to hurry yourself up, apparently has a military origin to do with canons. This… was not at all consistent with my own highly-specifically backside-oriented mental model.
Starts to read a little better with a strong highlight placed and a little bit of secondary colour replacing the surrounding primer.
Looking significantly less yellow the more yellow is attempted. Lo, such is the path of yellow.
No bits of house lying in the garden this morning, calling that a result.
Not sure if it’s the breaking sounds you do recognise that are worst, or the ones you can’t even place.
Very polite of my blue recycling bin to give a friendly tap on the window before trying to come into the kitchen.
Remember everyone—if anyone asks, this is definitely yellow. Not ‘mainly reds’. Ignore the wet palette.
Right, Orktober is almost upon us, absolutely zero excuse not to get back to this guy. And to painting in general. First step will unfortunately have to be reverse-engineering the ad hoc mess of paints I was using for ‘yellow?’, since of course I didn’t write it down.
Alien: Earth episode 5 is a better Alien film in its own right than half the franchise of actual films.
Varifocals for work, switching between screens at various close and middle distances; distance vision prescription for moving about in ’the human world’ and, crucially, watching TV; reading lenses for seeing small details in mini painting. Throw in the prescription sunglasses/Transitions lenses for summer.
Life is the continuing accumulation of ever less effective pairs of glasses.
Infinitesimal onward progress. The accidental boop of white paint on the forehead is making me think I may as well give skin mottling a try. Happy little accidents etc.
Gravel-on-the-window rain again as the season shifts delightfully.
Speaking of ‘yellow’ (so-called), let’s see if we can work out how to invoke that imposter again… (🥰 to @andrewroycroft for the beautiful birthday gift of a light box!)
It’s taken me three episodes of Alien: Earth to realise that’s Ade Edmondson. Weirdly, only twigged because of the way he stood In one scene.
A quick blast of Ultra Matte seems to fix the mask layers well enough to paint over (h/t @Thebratdragon). It definitely leaves some unintentional texture at the boundaries but… it’s an Ork. It’s 90% unintentional texture. As long as the face detail isn’t obscured it’ll probably be grand.
Well, chalk that one up to experience. I’d finally picked up the paints again after months only to ‘ruin’ (slightly mar, to the point of minor but strongly-held annoyance) a mini while experimenting with masking fluid.
It’s barely visible in the image but there are small patches where it’s either inaccessible to get at and peel, or where it’s adhered in a crevice and stuck. I don’t want overpaint or I’m sure it’ll flake off at an inconvenient time later.
There’s a terrifying house I sometimes own in deep, seasonal dreams. Dozens of uncurtained windows facing out into black.