May Painting Challenge: Boromir

valpas · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2011 5:31 pm

Painting Challenge: Boromir!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the thread for the May Painting Challenge! I'm setting this up since Jake (Red Corsairs) hasn't been around for a while (and I shamelessly copy all his instructions too). I'm too lazy to put here a traditional photo of the character here, you all know Boromir anyway. :-)

Let's run this until June 6th so that we have one month to finish the model.

Rules

1. A miniature is decided upon before each monthly painting challenge, this months' being Boromir. It is not required that you paint this mini, however it is preferred. Here is a list of miniatures you can paint for this months' painting challenge, in order of preference:

* Boromir
* Faramir
* Any other Gondorian model, such as Warrior of Minas Tirith or Aragorn

2. To enter the painting challenge, the miniature you are painting must not be painted before starting and picture proof must be shown of the miniature 'pre-painted' (unprimed, undercoated or if you are repainting and old miniature - in its' original paint scheme).

3. You may join the painting challenge in progress at any time, but must submit photographs of the completed miniature by midnight GMT of June 6th, 2011. WIP images are welcomed and encouraged.

4. Miniatures that are completed in time will be eligible to win the challenge. The challenge winner will be decided by the vote of the OR community. The community will choose one winner and one runner-up from the completed miniatures. Votes should be cast not simply on painting skill, but on merit, including creativity, application of painting techniques, artist improvement, etc. In previous painting challenges, the winner and runner-up recieved prizes in the form of gold coins, however with the websites current situation, gold coins are not available to give as prizes, so no prize is available at the moment.

5. Winners from the previous month are able to participate in the next months painting challenge, but they are not eligible to win in consecutive months.

Good luck with those Boromirs!

Drumstick · **Joined:** Sat Sep 19, 2009 8:57 am **Posts:** 1223

ooo great I can't wait. Finally I Gondor model

Hopefully I will find some time to work on this for he's one of my favourite models.

Raukov · **Posted:** Sun May 08, 2011 4:22 pm

phone pic. i'll hopefully make the deadline on this one?! who can say

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 3:05 pm

Alright I'll give this a shot. Had this guy primed for over a year now, never got to him and I've been meaning to paint him. If I can't get this done within a month then I guess my heart isn't really into this competition thingy.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 3:37 pm

lol i really should go to the store if i ever want to enter one of these things! I do not have the models chosen , or painted them already , or have them but way to late ! :roll:

Ah well still nice to see what u guys will make of it this time. Good luck :!:

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 4:03 pm

I'll probably need the luck seeing the previous competitions, I may be out of my league, but this is all for fun and motivational to paint. That is the point, no?

General Elessar · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 7:05 pm

I'll try to enter a model. Hopefully posting this will motivate me to do so.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 8:06 pm

Sacrilege83 wrote:

but this is all for fun and motivational to paint. That is the point, no?

Yeah it would be fun to enter

Ah will still many months coming up one day i will join you guys in this

till then i keep me busy with my wip

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2011 8:46 pm

That's exactly the point sacrilege!

Good luck to all this month, looking forward to seeing those Boromirs. Thanks Pasi for taking care of this in my absence and sorry to everyone who had to wait a few days for the challenge to get going.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 10:12 pm

Alright here's my Borimir after a few days of painting. Couldn't get the flash to work properly, so the lighting is pretty poor. Would like to redo the tree but I'm too lazy to restart again and it might end up looking more horrible.

Well, can't wait to see the rest of the other Borimirs out there. I'm sure I didn't set the bar too high.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 2:06 am

I will post my proof pic within the next few days as well as the progress so far. I've actually already almost finished him, I just need to tidy up a bit and do the base.

Nice looking Borimir Sacrilege! I think the tree looks great, as does the rest of the free hand, though I personally don't really like the weird looking symbols at the beginning of the banner. His face also looks a little flat, but that might just be the camera. Great job!

-Pow

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 7:19 am

Nice freehand sacrilege, u are making me curious to more of those guys. I like freehands! maybe more will come up

nice thinking for that background to

rikker · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 8:06 am

I wonder how people paint freehand. i tried it many many many and many times. but the only thing i can get right are white hands on uruks armour.
yet your very good freehand painting work on boromir inspires my to give it a trie again.
very good paint job. well done.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 8:18 am

Well if white hands work out well for u , u can do the rest to

. I think the fingers and a correct shape of the white hand are rather hard to do well. Just start out with simple things! like dwarf runes on clothes , or triangles on capes or other basic shapes. If u make a small mistake u can always correct it!
Good luck

Raukov · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 2:49 pm

nice freehand dude! and quick work - i'd better get on with mine, eh? he's still sitting around in his undercoat.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2011 8:08 pm

Thanks for the comments guys and good luck to you who are participating. I was thinking free-hand to be more common in painting. Do you guys normally use cut-out templates when designing & painting banners? Probably that's a more effective way of getting clean and clear detail, but I'm too lazy to print or pencil a design and cut it out and paint over it.

@ PowerOfWill, Yeah the weird symbols were tedious and time consuming to paint. So much trouble for so small a thing, such a little thing...
This is the reference I used for painting Boromir: http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll28 ... oromir.jpg
So you could see why I was a bit dissapointed in the tree because it's not an accurate depiction which I was aiming for. I painted the branches too large because I misjudged the size, this is where templates come in handy over free hand!

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2011 8:19 pm

Okay, my first painting competition ever! Here is my proof pic.

Sorry it's blurry, but for those of you who can't tell, it's the Borimir from the MoM set. Here is the progress so far.

Overall I'm very happy with how he's turning out. I think I could do better on the freehand, especially on the bottom of his skirt thing. I'll probably touch it up a bit later.
Good luck to all the others competing!

-Pow

spuds4ever · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2011 10:01 pm

Like it. Nice smooth colour with nothing too fancy

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Fri May 13, 2011 11:49 pm

Looking good PoW, can't wait to see the finished product.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Sat May 14, 2011 7:32 am

I really should repaint the fellowship one day! Nice painting!

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