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Ifalna wrote:...how to sit at your desk with your face on your keyboard and a bottle of whiskey lightly grasped in one hand.

Wait, wait...keyboard...whiskey...but which hand? Left or right?

The vid looks good to me, and a nice neutral background and a daylight bulb sound like just the ticket.

You can always put a white sheet or something in the background and that will stop the camera from trying to focus on other objects except the model you're working on
Great work, looking forward to some tuts

Ooh, I missed quite a bit it seems.

Chaplain on the bike--I'm rather shocked at the level of painting for something that's for fun. Wow. I would second stripping the White Scar and painting him up proper. I'm not up for archive-diving, so what was that fig in gold? (It reminds of the time I stripped a figure that had been so coated with primer that I was surprised to find it was a warrior woman with a spear and not a deformed wizard with staff.)

I'll be interested in seeing what you'll be painting for your first tutorial.

I look forward to seeing pics of the completed ship (I do want to push in and see the detail on the decks--that is a lot of cannons.

prime12357 wrote:

Ifalna wrote:...how to sit at your desk with your face on your keyboard and a bottle of whiskey lightly grasped in one hand.

Wait, wait...keyboard...whiskey...but which hand? Left or right?

The vid looks good to me, and a nice neutral background and a daylight bulb sound like just the ticket.

mmmmMmm whiskey..... mmmm I mean.... uhhh

I'm guessing which hand it's in depends on weather or not you want to run the mouse or the keyboard with the bottom of the bottle.

Sorry forthenewfound hatred of tiny seafaring vessels (and myself) look good so far though!

whalemusic360 wrote:Sorry forthenewfound hatred of tiny seafaring vessels (and myself) look good so far though!

Maybe iffy just needs to trade the whisky for some rum and get into the piratey spirit before painting little boats

prime12357 wrote:

Ifalna wrote:...how to sit at your desk with your face on your keyboard and a bottle of whiskey lightly grasped in one hand.

Wait, wait...keyboard...whiskey...but which hand? Left or right?
The vid looks good to me, and a nice neutral background and a daylight bulb sound like just the ticket.

Right hand and left hand. Two bottles. Don't do it half assed.

lipsdapips wrote:You can always put a white sheet or something in the background and that will stop the camera from trying to focus on other objects except the model you're working on
Great work, looking forward to some tuts

Yeah thats what I'm gonna do, a neutral colour sheet or something

whalemusic360 wrote:Sorry forthenewfound hatred of tiny seafaring vessels (and myself) look good so far though!

I will have loads more of it done tonight, I have very high expectations for it!

logg_frogg wrote:
Maybe iffy just needs to trade the whisky for some rum and get into the piratey spirit before painting little boats

I have no booze at all at the moment :( Can you even believe. I think I am dying.

Dicrel Seijin wrote:Ooh, I missed quite a bit it seems.
Chaplain on the bike--I'm rather shocked at the level of painting for something that's for fun. Wow. I would second stripping the White Scar and painting him up proper. I'm not up for archive-diving, so what was that fig in gold? (It reminds of the time I stripped a figure that had been so coated with primer that I was surprised to find it was a warrior woman with a spear and not a deformed wizard with staff.)
I'll be interested in seeing what you'll be painting for your first tutorial. I look forward to seeing pics of the completed ship (I do want to push in and see the detail on the decks--that is a lot of cannons.

He is an early edition captain it seems, who was used later to represent Tycho (says Dysartes, I'm just pretending to know what I am talking about) I may well paint up his friend later

First tutorial is now live, though it's not for painting, it's for editing photo's for display. Something I very rarely see people actually do.
It's super simple, super quick, and totally free. It will sort out any screwed up lighting you used, fix up colour casts, and get white balance near perfect A very good thing for anyone who often takes WIP shots quickly and then needs to adjust them ( like me)




I won't be using that screen recorder again and oh my GOD windows movie maker is so confusing, but I will persevere!

Very good info in that tutorial!! Thanks for that iffy!

Good video, Ifalna, but you did seem a touch on the quiet side, even with YouTube and my laptop's volume set to maximum.

I'd forgotten how to do the gradient backgrounds, having used them in Photoshop years back, so I might give that a go.

Half an hour later...

Tried the technique from the video on a picture of a certain drunken Goblin I took yesterday - apart from the selection being a little greedy on the head, I think it came out OK...



The original picture didn't have the best lighting, mind you.

Fantastic, very clear tutorial. GIMP seems to work very similar to Photoshop. Thanks for the tips.

Really enjoyed that GIMP tutorial. I will try and utilise some of those tips in the future.

Thanks again.

D

Wow I can't see the first tutorial as it is marked as private. The second one looks great though only complain would be the volume is a bit on the low side. But that trick with the levels auto adjustment on GIMP ten thousand times worth it

*downloaded GIMP last night on his super slow work satelite connection*

I'm definitely going to download GIMP tomorrow (it's 3 in the morning, I really should get to sleep) and try it out... may have to replace everything in my gallery....

logg_frogg wrote:Very good info in that tutorial!! Thanks for that iffy!

Np! I'm glad some peoples found it useful, it is so very easy to do and not nearly as intimidating as folks think it is

Dysartes wrote:Good video, Ifalna, but you did seem a touch on the quiet side, even with YouTube and my laptop's volume set to maximum.
I'd forgotten how to do the gradient backgrounds, having used them in Photoshop years back, so I might give that a go.

The volume really confused me, it was fine as an AVI but when I converted to MPEG4 it became crappy :( I'm too new to this to know how to split audo and video ( though I tried) so after trying to fix it for about 2 hours I gave up and just uploaded it >< Hopefully as I get better at making them, there won't be more silly mistakes like that :(

Dysartes wrote:Half an hour later...

Tried the technique from the video on a picture of a certain drunken Goblin I took yesterday - apart from the selection being a little greedy on the head, I think it came out OK...
The original picture didn't have the best lighting, mind you.

AMG. Whoever painted that must be an incredibly cool person and all around winner.

Looks great I'll send you that shot of my lighting setup later, it just needed a bit more on the front I think. If the selection gets a bit greedy, you can deslect very precise areas with the lasso tool and setting it to subtract from current selection

Biohazard wrote:Fantastic, very clear tutorial. GIMP seems to work very similar to Photoshop. Thanks for the tips.

It does work very similar to PS, but it's free, and free without guilt of being a pirate. /cough cough. I use it for drawing and editing, it's brilliant.
Glad you liked it

Bacms wrote:Wow I can't see the first tutorial as it is marked as private. The second one looks great though only complain would be the volume is a bit on the low side. But that trick with the levels auto adjustment on GIMP ten thousand times worth it

The first tut was actually just me asking stupid questions and not a tut at all, hehe. Sorry about he volume again :(
Glad GIMP is getting such a positive response

logg_frogg wrote:*downloaded GIMP last night on his super slow work satelite connection*

/hifive

Dicrel Seijin wrote:I'm definitely going to download GIMP tomorrow (it's 3 in the morning, I really should get to sleep) and try it out... may have to replace everything in my gallery....

GO TO SLEEP. And I know the feeling, when I started doing this I wanted to replace everything too, but I think I am coming up on 600 images now, and that aiiiinnnt gonnnnaa happpeennnn.

I overdid it a bit yesterday and have a cracking headache today, too much trying to edit videos and then painting afterwards :( Anyway, first things first, the teeny boat.



Swordfish now at about 50% completion, and carrying its plundered booty.
What is this.. A BOAT FOR ANTS???


And I also finished off mr marine!

(click for huge)



I learned so much. I brushed on warm dirt, painted on chips and scrapes, made actual chips and scrapes by going at him with a scalpel before painting, added oil and rust dribbles, basically had a LOT of fun.

One thing I am not happy with is the attempted OSL, and I know exactly why. I decided to do it later in the models painting, so I had already painted chips etc on the top of the wheel area. I did not realise this would make the OSL look so lumpy, because it is slightly transparant and you can make out the shapes of the metal chip areas underneath :( It left it not as smooth as I hoped, but I have definitely learned from this and hope to implement stuff like this in more mini's in the future!

I threw him up as an auction here http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221094005391 as I have no real interest in keeping him. Hoping someone will like him enough to not mind his.. strange.. colouring. hahah. oh man.

Really liking the way the boat is turning out. Very happy with the coloring thus far, you've got the "style" down that I was hoping for.

That boat is completely mental.

That's all I have to say about that.

Gits is right, see! age gives you wisdom! :-)

whalemusic360 wrote:Really liking the way the boat is turning out. Very happy with the coloring thus far, you've got the "style" down that I was hoping for.

Excellent!

I was planning on having the main boat part done tonight, but that headache peaked and I've spent the last few hours horizontal on the couch with the lights turned off and a very worried cat attempting to make me feel better by standing on my head and actually making it worse.

It's about gone now though so I will be back in business tomorrow

I also set up a twitter earlier, but I have absolutely no idea what to do with it. I are newb.

From what i can tell, you spout nonsense into the void of the interwebs, and hope people listen

But isin't that what I do here?

Ummmm, yes?

One can never have to many ways to spout nonsense at people.

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Ummmm, yes?

One can never have to many ways to spout nonsense at people.

I have never herd a more true statement in my life

Hi Ifalna, your work is absolutely amazing and the arnge of skills you have is breathtaking (as in going from squigs to marines to dreadfleet and everywhere in between and keeping it all consistently brilliant). I especially like the Venerable Space Wolf Dreadnought.

I am looking forward to the tutorials and learning from you.

Ifalna doing tutorials?!? I'm eager to see some!

Do a basing tutorial! I will totally watch the cr*p out of it.

I will personally watch the crap out of anyt tutorial iffy makes .

Getting to tap into the skill sets like that is awesome!

MagickalMemories wrote:
That would be his left arm, then.


Eric

Not to be a douche but you clearly have left and right on your screen confused with left and right arms on the charc pictured.


The crest that Iffy described as being on the right shoulder of her model seems to be on the left shoulder of this picture. Silly GW...

Not to be a douche but, clearly, you're correct. LOL I was using the pic as a reference, not the model. : )

Eric

Rogue Wolves wrote:Ifalna doing tutorials?!? I'm eager to see some!

Well, there's a photo-editing one on the page your post is on...

Ifalna wrote:AMG. Whoever painted that must be an incredibly cool person and all around winner.

Looks great I'll send you that shot of my lighting setup later, it just needed a bit more on the front I think. If the selection gets a bit greedy, you can deslect very precise areas with the lasso tool and setting it to subtract from current selection

Aye, I'd used the lasso tool earlier in the process, on the feet or the base, I think - I just hadn't noticed the issue with the face.

I was only using a spot of sunlight through a window for that picture, not a lighting rig. On the upside, my lightbox thing tried to turn up today, so I should be able to collect it on Thursday.

logg_frogg wrote:

Vitruvian XVII wrote:Ummmm, yes?
One can never have to many ways to spout nonsense at people.

I have never herd a more true statement in my life

Well that depends how much time you can put into it I'm spending about 3 hours in total a day managing emails, DA, Dakka, Tumblr, Facebook, my site, and now Twitter and it's getting pretty crazy. I don't think I will be sticking with Twitter, just not enough space to get across enough info to make the tweets worthwhile, or thats what it feels like at the moment :(

dantay_xv wrote:Hi Ifalna, your work is absolutely amazing and the arnge of skills you have is breathtaking (as in going from squigs to marines to dreadfleet and everywhere in between and keeping it all consistently brilliant). I especially like the Venerable Space Wolf Dreadnought.
I am looking forward to the tutorials and learning from you.

Holy crap, thank you so much Dantay, that's really kind! I'm trying to keep what I am doing as varied as I can so I can keep trying out new things and broadening my horizons. I don't want to get stuck with just one comfortable style or not experimenting, I think that would be a bad idea

I have another Squig on the way. A Git Squig

Rogue Wolves wrote:Ifalna doing tutorials?!? I'm eager to see some!

Only one I have so far is about the basics of editing to fix up photo issues, here : ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObDfiYHUDE8

weetyskemian44 wrote:Do a basing tutorial! I will totally watch the cr*p out of it.

That's something I DO really want to do, but the mechanics of it are a bit daunting, as I would have to film multiple sections at different times, then try and put it all together, and I really don't have enough of a clue what I am doing with windows live moviemaker yet to know how I would go about doing that, hehehe.

I will deffo do one eventually though! I want the next vid to be a basic " How to paint green skin to tabletop" one as I think there are a few people who would like a simple and bright green recipe

logg_frogg wrote: I will personally watch the crap out of anyt tutorial iffy makes .
Getting to tap into the skill sets like that is awesome!

I can't guarantee they will be any good D: I'm really hoping I am going to be able to live up to expectations, feeling a bit worried I have to say!

MagickalMemories wrote:
Not to be a douche but, clearly, you're correct. LOL I was using the pic as a reference, not the model. : )
Eric

I still hold up my hands to double check left and right. For real.

Dysartes wrote:
Aye, I'd used the lasso tool earlier in the process, on the feet or the base, I think - I just hadn't noticed the issue with the face.
I was only using a spot of sunlight through a window for that picture, not a lighting rig. On the upside, my lightbox thing tried to turn up today, so I should be able to collect it on Thursday.

Yeah it's easy to miss parts, just remember that if you do miss something or make a mistake, ctrl+z will take you a step back, and you can jump to previous steps with the Undo History Dialogue
Bet you are excited for the lightbox! Gonna be lots o fun right there.


Swordfish is nearing being done now.
Sails at about 50%, need black highlighting and masts, had a nightmare with the green wash drying cloudy, but final varnish layer will sort that out.
Boat body is complete.
Tiny front sail not started yet Also need to finish the seamonsters in the water!

Click for huge pic