Sid's Tally Ho

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:57 am

I may as well say as I've found a flaw in my plan... It was going to be a rabbit. 'Coneys for Christmas'. But now I've just noticed as the tree is deciduous it'll have no leaves to cover my mediocre sculpting and tree structuring... I'll make it spring instead... easter perhaps...

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2014 5:16 pm

Hi Folks

Let's hope this'll be a proper return, not another fluke hobby spasm :rofl:

I painted up Glorfindel, whos been sitting on my shelf for ages... rather pleased with the look

More on my Blog

Thanks for looking, comments-a-welcome!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2014 6:31 pm

Your hitting a good standard with this Sid. Great application of the paint scheme.
What screams out to me now is for you to start learning glazing and slowly increasing the colours and contrast.
For example the eye, just beneath it some light glazes of dark brown and red will start to add depth to the face.

Harfoot · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2014 6:50 pm

Hi Sid, nice to see you painting again

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:02 pm

Gandlaf the Grey wrote:

Your hitting a good standard with this Sid. Great application of the paint scheme.
What screams out to me now is for you to start learning glazing and slowly increasing the colours and contrast.
For example the eye, just beneath it some light glazes of dark brown and red will start to add depth to the face.

Okey dokes I'll attempt a glaze on the next appropriate model

iirc it's like a thick wash kinda thing right? I honestly can't remember, it's been ages since I did some proper painting.

Harfoot wrote:

Hi Sid, nice to see you painting again

Thanks Harfoot, it's good to be back although it does seem quite a bit quieter than when I left this place...

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:07 pm

Thin paint and have next to nothing on your brush. As you do the stroke you should see the paint dry instantly and just give the slightest chage in colour. Just I crease the number of glazes to make the colour stronger.
Use the side of the brush to push a light colour from dark to light so the paint is pushed to the lightest point.
For dark colours your stroke is from light to dark, pushing the colour I to the darkest area.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:28 pm

Awesome, thanks Gandlaf! You give most excellent tips

garmenhord · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2014 7:31 am

Just keep on painting till ur out of unpainted ones :-)

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:39 pm

Hahah ok Garmy :rofl:

will do

@Gandlaf: if the glaze dries almost instantly what's to stop it drying while on the brush?

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:24 pm

Ironically it doesn't, you get a bit of life out of the brush. It's probably due to there being more on the brush than you realise.
I can do quiet a few glazing strokes before I need to re load. I haven't actually counted but I would estimate toward 20.

abcdefg · **Joined:** Mon May 28, 2012 3:52 pm **Posts:** 273

When you're doing glazes do you effectively finish the area with highlights and whatever else is being done first and then do the glazes as a final level of detail to add colour or subtle shadow? Essentially, are glazes a last step thing?

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Nov 11, 2014 12:34 pm

Glazes are another step to create the finish, contrast, whatever you call it. For me they are not a last step. I start glazing when, for example, I have light and dark colours in an area, say a cloak.
Now I will the blend by glazing the mid tones, from dark to light. Once this is done and the blend smooth I will check the contrast. It may be I nor require to push light or dark, even both, so further glazing will push the extremes.
Hope this helps.

Eaothen-the-brave · **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2014 3:41 pm

You have come a long way since I saw your first models, Sid. You have improved a lot! Well done on Glorfindel!

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:19 pm

Thanks Eothen

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 10:49 am

My PC's been bust for ages but I have a rather exciting (imo) Gandalf conversion to show when its fixed. I think I might even make an article out of it if I have time. I'm not dead, just slow. Very very slow (currently at a painting rate of a model a month)

Harfoot · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:21 pm

Always good to hear from you Sid, look forward to your Gandalf article

Monotone_Matt · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:06 pm

Looking good, Sid. Nice to see you're back, too.

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:23 pm

Well it's unlikely my PC is gonna be fixed so I'm going to get a laptop instead... in the meantime I'm trying out phone pics... [edit: they didnt work]
unfortunately the pics for the gandalf article were corrupted so that wont be happening

SouthernDunedain · **Posted:** Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:30 pm

I can't see the pictures Sid, can you check the links?

SidTheSloth · **Posted:** Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:17 am

Eh, cant get the pics to work sorry :/
This thread's becoming a mess...
I'm gonna go back to my other idea which is doing a super big pic-only post much less often...

Till then I guess...

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