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What do you think? I wasn't too happy with the eyes but they are so damn small.

I am not sure what to add.


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I have no idea how to take a decent Pic. All I have is my phone...

I hate to say, but I think the biggest problem is almost certainly the color scheme. If he looks in real life like he looks on my computer screen, the green is way too bright, the brown look very orange and the jacket looks very red. Also, the yellow on the details looks a bit thin, like there may be black primer showing through. The painting techniques look basic but effective for tabletop painting. And I know I'll get cruicified for this, but I never paint eyes. I spent more time on my first mini trying to get the eyes right than I did on everything else. I'd say it's probably better off just putting a little more wash in the eyes than everywhere else and the dark spots look good enough until you take a huge digital photo. Also, the scar is very bright red. I'd think going fifty fifty fleshtone and red may be better, or maybe a mix of red, brown and flesh. Mess around a little and find a blend that's a little more subdued than that.

If the colors look alright in real life, I'd think it's a good idea to repaint the face and touch up the yellow details. If the colors look as garish as they do on screen, I'd say work out another color scheme, because bright green and orange aren't doing you any favors. Subdued colors generally look better on guardsman, and if you use a unified bright color to tie the army together, it'll help alot. I'd recomend basically doing a mockup on MS Paint and working out a color scheme there, test out how things look together. It won't replace a test model, but it will really help you try alot of ideas quickly and easily, narrow it down some and then go about painting.

I've attached a BMP file of something I use to plan out my armies and I've gotten alot of milage out of it. Just don't fill anything in with straight black, the outlines are straight black.


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I just read through my response and I think I sound a little patronizing. Sorry if that's the case, it's not how it's intended.

noneoftheabove0 wrote:I hate to say, but I think the biggest problem is almost certainly the color scheme. If he looks in real life like he looks on my computer screen, the green is way too bright, the brown look very orange and the jacket looks very red. Also, the yellow on the details looks a bit thin, like there may be black primer showing through. The painting techniques look basic but effective for tabletop painting. And I know I'll get cruicified for this, but I never paint eyes. I spent more time on my first mini trying to get the eyes right than I did on everything else. I'd say it's probably better off just putting a little more wash in the eyes than everywhere else and the dark spots look good enough until you take a huge digital photo. Also, the scar is very bright red. I'd think going fifty fifty fleshtone and red may be better, or maybe a mix of red, brown and flesh. Mess around a little and find a blend that's a little more subdued than that.

If the colors look alright in real life, I'd think it's a good idea to repaint the face and touch up the yellow details. If the colors look as garish as they do on screen, I'd say work out another color scheme, because bright green and orange aren't doing you any favors. Subdued colors generally look better on guardsman, and if you use a unified bright color to tie the army together, it'll help alot. I'd recomend basically doing a mockup on MS Paint and working out a color scheme there, test out how things look together. It won't replace a test model, but it will really help you try alot of ideas quickly and easily, narrow it down some and then go about painting.

I've attached a BMP file of something I use to plan out my armies and I've gotten alot of milage out of it. Just don't fill anything in with straight black, the outlines are straight black.


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I just read through my response and I think I sound a little patronizing. Sorry if that's the case, it's not how it's intended.

O no that's what I wanted to know about what to improve". Since then I did some highlights and based him, fixed the eyes. The yellow has black wash on it to accentuate the details and Green and brown are my Cadia colors. And here he is as well as his buddy yarrick and some others. What I did like and I did to Yarrick but not Creed was I did a black trim on the coat. I may go back and do that now that I see how it looked on the little paint shop thing. Also I am really on the fence about making his jacket camo or not.

I'd think the jacket would look better as a solid color, preferably a strong off color from the rest of the army to make him stand out better. The trouble is the bright green and orange of the remainder of the uniform makes it hard to top colorwise. It may be better to go black with it rather than the leather color you have now which looks very similar to the orange.