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John Wayne · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:54 pm

A brill entry into the warbands comp. Photography looking great too. Posted in the wrong section sorry

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:22 pm

rediculously good
i feel beaten already

Telchar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:35 pm

SidTheSloth wrote:

rediculously good
i feel beaten already

You echo my feelings exactly...

If i could highlight even a little, little bit like you do, I'd be content for the rest of my life...

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:30 am

Excellent work!

edge67 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:22 am

Amazing work as always. The 2nd photo is definitely the better one - more light shows off your brilliant highlighting better. They look so realistic. One day, when I have nothing else to do I am going to learn how to paint!

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

I've started on my Gandalf.

Still lots to do including smoothing out that horrible highlight along the lower half.

garmenhord · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:13 pm

it's almost the real one

stunning work again

edge67 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:37 pm

That is unbelievably good.

One of your best ever - and that's saying something. Can you please, please tell us how you painted the face? I can't get over how awesome that looks.

PowerofWill · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:10 am

Okay, that is by far one of the best faces I have ever seen! There's so much detail on it, it's incredible.I can't wait to see you finish this guy. :yay:

-PoW

fritskuhntm · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:17 am

gandalf looks amazing! especially on the face: the detail is stunning. :yay:

TheBucklandBrewer · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:52 am

Fantastic work! Love the colours and the shadings of the robe and belt! Great work on his face and beard! And the blue turns out very nice for the scabbard and grip of the sword!
THat makes a complete awesome Gandalf!! :yay:

rheodon · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:04 pm **Posts:** 97

Wow his face looks very well! You can really see his emotion

Ukfreddybear · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 12:17 pm

That is ridiculously good.

Crucium Giger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:05 pm

Superb Gandalf :yay:

Telchar · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:55 pm

UKFB said the exact words I was going to say.

Minimal Monkey Saddle · **Joined:** Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:55 pm **Posts:** 463

edge67 wrote:

That is unbelievably good.

One of your best ever - and that's saying something. Can you please, please tell us how you painted the face? I can't get over how awesome that looks.

I used a basic triad of khardic flesh, midlund flesh and idrian flesh all p3 paints along with vallejo light flesh for the extreme highlights and regal blue to mix into the shadows. I added 2 drops of thinning medium and a drop of water to all.

To start I applied several gentle washes of khardic. I say gentle as I don't want to flood the face. I normally with the brush against a piece of kitchen roll and then wipe it on my hand to remove the excess. I then applied a couple layers of idrian pulling the paint into the eye sockets and temples. For the final shadows I mixed idrian and regal blue and glazed the areas I wanted to be darkest.

For the highlights I layered first midlund and then pure light flesh. I think I thinned these a little more as it took a lot of layers.

And that's it! Nothing too complex really just a matter being patient. Admittedly I did practice painting skin a lot this year with loads of gw ogres so I don't need to think much about what I'm doing.

Erurainon the Trombonist · **Posted:** Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:09 pm

Minimal Monkey Saddle wrote:

Still lots to do including smoothing out that horrible highlight along the lower half.

It's not even finished and it looks utterly incredible!!!! :shock:

edge67 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:19 am

Minimal Monkey Saddle wrote:

edge67 wrote:

That is unbelievably good.

One of your best ever - and that's saying something. Can you please, please tell us how you painted the face? I can't get over how awesome that looks.

I used a basic triad of khardic flesh, midlund flesh and idrian flesh all p3 paints along with vallejo light flesh for the extreme highlights and regal blue to mix into the shadows. I added 2 drops of thinning medium and a drop of water to all.

To start I applied several gentle washes of khardic. I say gentle as I don't want to flood the face. I normally with the brush against a piece of kitchen roll and then wipe it on my hand to remove the excess. I then applied a couple layers of idrian pulling the paint into the eye sockets and temples. For the final shadows I mixed idrian and regal blue and glazed the areas I wanted to be darkest.

For the highlights I layered first midlund and then pure light flesh. I think I thinned these a little more as it took a lot of layers.

And that's it! Nothing too complex really just a matter being patient. Admittedly I did practice painting skin a lot this year with loads of gw ogres so I don't need to think much about what I'm doing.

Thanks so much for posting this. I'll try something similar next time I put some effort into my painting. The end result was spectacular.

Wah Wing · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 5:32 am

Fantastic work on Gandalf!

Hopefully mine can look just as good.

tomogui · **Posted:** Thu Oct 18, 2012 6:50 am

Your Gandalf. Just wow.

Now I understand. I shall not pass.

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