Voting for Painting Challenge: Glorfindel

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:19 pm

Welcome to the voting thread for the Glorfindel Painting Challenge (October).

Voting in this challenge should be based not just on painting skill, but also for application of different painting techniques, individual artist improvement, creativity and originality etc.

Voting will be open for 7 days and will close at 12:19pm GMT on 11th November.

The Entries are:

General Elessar's Elrond:

Chris' Elrond:

Dead Marsh Spectre's Glorfindel:

Bizzare Warstar's Haldir (not elligible for voting due to winning last month):

WayUnderTheMountain's Elf Archer Captain:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower's Glorfindel:

Minimal Monkey Saddle's Glorfindel:

Bartelomeus' Elrond:

PowerofWill's Gil-Galad:

Sacrilege83's Glorfindel:

IsleStaggerholm's Glorfindel:

Haldir_pl's Arwen:

Ares B's Glorfindel:

Good luck to all!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:24 pm

A couple of the images need resizing as the whole thing does not fit on the page. I'm currently working on having them resized so that they fit on the page however my Photobucket image resize isn't working at the moment so I'll have to manually do it if it doesn't work this time. If you want to wait until image sizes are fixed to vote, feel free to do so.

I think we'll have an image size restriction for future challenges, probably 640 pixels length, height is not so much of a problem as it doesn't cut parts of the image off, but after about 640 pixels wide, the remainder of the image is cut off. At least it is on my screen. I've resized them myself in previous challenges, but a size restriction would make it easier.

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:43 pm

All images that needed resizing have now been edited so there should be no problem in voting now (other than deciding which of all of the brilliant entries to choose).

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:11 pm

My vote this month goes to Islestaggerholm ..... for pushing through the pain barrier buddy and achieving a fantastic result... Well done!!!

General Elessar · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 2:50 pm

It was a tough call between Dead Marsh Spectre, Minimal Monkey Saddle, PowerofWill, and Haldir_pl. I had to be very critical, but in the end I went for MMS. I chose his because, in my opinion, his model fits best into the real Middle-Earth, and that's most important for me.

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 4:50 pm

My vote had to go with Dead Marsh Spectree because the entire model was exectuted perfectly.

The painting is of the highest standard, thje scenic base was very nice,a nd the freehand writing was an excellent touch well done.

Also, well done to all the others, Haldir.pl and Minimal Monkey saddle would take 2 and 3 for me. Well done to all.

Ares B · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:20 pm

I adjusted the contrast of my Glorfindel photo, cos it turned out rather bad. Especially next to the crisp clear pics of my worthy competitors. If you still can substitute the above pic with this, I'd be grateful.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:23 pm

A lot of nicely painted elves, good job to everyone.

edit: Hey I think we're missing Jobu's entry...

theavenger001 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:28 pm

Well, I had to go with Haldir's arwen, such a stunning model. The base was also very well done, only rivaled by DMs's base. Wow, you two can really make a hero stand out with your basing (and painting) skills! :yay:

Dorthonion · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:35 pm

There are 3 really excellent examples here (the rest are pretty good but not quite in the same class) so I found it a tough and tight decision. Which I am not disclosing

Very well done folks!

Draugluin · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:40 pm

Had to go for Spectre's Glorfindel. The other Glorfindels (except Bilbo's. just not liking the red cloak) were amazing, but the base really set him apart as from the book. He looks like he's charging at the Nazgul to free up the bridge. PoW's Gil-Galad was great, but I don't reall like the model that much. As a king of the elves, he could have been in a better pose.

orkdom · **Joined:** Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:26 am **Posts:** 32

Tough choice. There's a lot of really great stuff there. 3 clear front runners but a lot of really nice stuff. Bizarre's Haldir looks so much like the movie character!

Red Corsairs · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:00 pm

Ares B wrote:

I adjusted the contrast of my Glorfindel photo, cos it turned out rather bad. Especially next to the crisp clear pics of my worthy competitors. If you still can substitute the above pic with this, I'd be grateful.

Done as you asked

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:00 pm

Man, I thought I might actually have a chance of getting a vote in this one, which I guess I still could, but I doubt it at this point. Oh well, maybe the next time.

I still have no idea who I'm going to vote for though, everyone has done an incredible job, so I might be a while with my vote. Goodjob everyone!

-Pow

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:07 pm

This was a very tough decision. :shock:

It was a three-way tie between PowerofWill's Gil-Galad, Dead Marsh Spectre's Glorfindel, and Haldir_pl's Arwen.
PoW has some great use of highlights and some fantastic free hand.
DMS, your base is absolutely superb and the paint job is outstanding!
Haldir_pl. This is an amazing first-time paint challenge entry! The blending is smooth and the choice of colours suits her well!

In the end, I chose Haldir_pl's Arwen. The first-time entry tipped the scale for me.
Are's B was very close as well. The amount of details you had to paint onto the model was worth the effort. Great work!

Everyone else did a tremendous job on their entries! :yay:

Sadly, I couldn't join the ranks as I had no eligible model to paint. But I will be joining the Nov. Challenge!

WayUnderTheMountain · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:21 pm

My my, what did I get myself into. I thought I'd stand a chance in this one. Nope. :roll:

Well, it looks like a bit of a wait before the next challenge I enter as November is Orc Shaman month. Maybe December.

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:39 pm

PowerofWill wrote:

Man, I thought I might actually have a chance of getting a vote in this one, which I guess I still could, but I doubt it at this point. Oh well, maybe the next time.

I still have no idea who I'm going to vote for though, everyone has done an incredible job, so I might be a while with my vote. Goodjob everyone!

-Pow

If it's any consolation for you, I was very closely considering to vote for your model. In the end I had to go for DMS though. And apparently I'm not the only one here who has considered you as the runner up by reading other people's posts.

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 2:51 am

Ares B and DMS...DMS and Ares B?!?!

Ares, you did an outstanding job on such a detail lean model...he really is excellent!!

DMS, brother, that is a tough model to beat...I had to vote for you.

Bastion.HUN · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:24 am

Good job everyone!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 8:16 am

WOW!!!! This is exciting!!! Thanks for your votes guys.... I don't think I can handle the tension of another 6 days

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