September Painting Challenge: Monsters

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 6:58 pm

theavenger001 - thanks for the info about that troll, sounds like a great idea, only thing is I'm stumped as to how it can have legs. And thanks for the encouragement too.

draked · **Joined:** Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:17 am **Posts:** 266

Hey guys. This week has been hectic with me packing and what not. It appears I won't be able to finish my troll. I was nearly finished with his skin but I lack the time I need to bring him up to my standards. The work here looks great and I'll be sure to vote. I'm excited to get back to painting for a week or so come November. Best of luck to all.

Alan, that wing is gorgeous.

Drake

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 7:59 pm

Great work everyone so far! These are already all looking great. That eagles looking brilliant so far Alan, love it :yay:

edge67 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:56 pm

Alan - your eagle looks stunning. The shades of brown are amazing.

General Elessar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:57 pm

I've done so progress on my fell-beast, but I'm not very pleased with how it's turned out. I may start over again...

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 4:00 pm

What's wrong with it?

General Elessar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:33 pm

It just looks pretty bad and the paint is messy. On a more positive side, my Witchking rider is turning out quite well.

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:05 am

Here's a wip shot of the ent I'm sculpting, hopefully I can get it finished (and painted

) before the deadline....

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:57 am

I love the 8-foot tall bottle of paint you have with him.

Sir Richard · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:39 am

Beowulf03809 wrote:

I love the 8-foot tall bottle of paint you have with him.

LOL!
Nice ent though, looking forward to seeing him painted.

BizzareWarstar · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:10 am

Nice work on the Ent theavenger001!, I like how certain features such as the knee's and stomach form seamlessly out of the bark and those little indent details are a nice textural touch too. Any ideas for his face ? I always find that part the most troublesome.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:08 am

seems like there are some nice entries coming up. I really like the sculpts! I should get some more practise

Jobu · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 12:08 pm

Okay, I am pretty busy this month but I will give this a try. Doing the cave drake.
Primerd

Basecoat of necron abyss, washed with purple GW wash, drybrushed with purple from Vallejo MC and eyed painted mechrite red.

Hmmm, looks like I might have to hit it with some brighter colors. Anyway, i always liked blue dragons so that is why I went with the blue theme.

Beowulf03809 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:35 pm

Liking the Deep Purple of that drake!

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:48 pm

Thanks for the comments everyone, I am planning on having a craggy face with deep set eye's. Probably not a beard though as I see this as a 'younger' (lol) ent. I have to decide how much texture to put on the face, I don't want to have to little and make it look too wierd, but too much and it's not a face anymore....

@Jobu That's a really good start so far. I definitely think you need 2/3 more highlights on the scales, but you have a good start. Also, really good job with the eye, I like the very tiny white reflection dot. It makes eye's so much more realistic, but is so hard to do well. :yay:

Are you planning on going for the normal bone colour for the claws/spikes, or are you going to do something more exotic. (Maybe a red to match the eye's?)

Jobu · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:29 pm

Thanks, I have painted the spikes/claws/random stick poking out of it's leg thing a more bone type color. Planning on painting the tongue with a white to blue transition at the moment. The underbelly may be whiteish or greenish, have no decided yet. I put another dry brush of the purple on the scales this morning and it helped bring out the purple a little more.

Ares B · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:50 pm

Ok, by Bilbo's request, I'm doing this old Ral Partha beast.

According to the Tolkien Gateway: "In the late Third Age the dragons bred in the Northern Waste and Withered Heath north of the Ered Mithrin, stirred by the return of Evil, and began to make war with the Dwarves around year 2570 (Dáin I and Frór of Durin's folk were killed by a great cold-drake in 2589). It was perhaps in these wars that dragons swallowed four of the Seven Dwarf-rings." This beast is one of them. I think I'll make him a red one, Smaug's third cousin twice removed. A vain one, since he likes wearing a pendant on his neck and a ring on his horn.

He had next to no base of his own, so I glued him on an ancient, weird shaped Reflection X CD I pilfered from work. :oops:

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:45 pm

I sculpted the face. Here's some shots:

and some more detail shots of the rest of him:

garmenhord · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:49 pm

nice sculpting

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:13 am

Keep up the great work guys. I like it how Jobu straightened out the "tenticles" from the Cave Drake's head. Interesting choice of Dragon Ares B, hope it turns out well. And cool sculpt of an ent Avenger.

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