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Really enjoy seeing part of your workflow Jan. Pencilling in the diamonds is a great idea.

It really is helpful to see the process you take. Just so bleeding hard to emulate!

That's the background colour pretty much started. Just simple wet in wet. The bike will be tilting to the left so the left side is much darker. Start on the motley tomoro. The fun part

Love seeing this process come together Jan, looking forward to the next update.

I'll give the faring/canopy (whatever the hell is the name of that part of a jetbike?!) another layer of wet-in-wet again today. Only really takes but 5 mins when you do wet-in-wet and gives a lovely smooth transition. I'l do the same on the bike's body but going from turquoise to white/grey there.

Nothing fancy, just sketched in the motley for the front hood thingy. I'll shadow and highlight then next so they appear to overlap in place. Very cathartic this motley business

Nothing fancy I would lose my mind doing that! Another benefit of your blog is I now know what motley means in this context.

That looks fantastic Jan. I really want to try painting diamonds like that now. It looks like a lot of fun.

The motley is looking great on the bonnet. I look forward to seeing the motley crew added.

Cheers folks. It's halfday Wednesday once again so hopefully will get the bike canopy finished later today. Do have 4 genestealers to try and get finished as well and......a lot more - lol

September!! Still having finished that sky-weaver but will hopefully get it done this month along with this berobed laddie!

Lost him and then found him again. Really is a wee git!! Been busy painting termies so only progress I've made on Eldrad was getting a start on his head then he disappeared for two days ><

I can see the "lost head" posters:

Have you seen this head, often attached to a really old space elf with psychic powers. Reward - him not annihilating you

Looking sweeeeet though

Lol. Cheers. Still needs glazes and then though huge delicious spiritstones to do

I'm using the GW gem paints due to a bit of laziness and also I think they come out well. They worked a treat in my opinion on the Nephilim

Good progress on his head.

Nice design on the jetbike. I like how the diamonds go across the face in particular.

Cheers Dr H. I love doing Motley but wanting to make it a bit more interesting with a nod towards their holo-fields. Think it works well enough.

@TP - I'll do the spiritstones the old way I reckon. Still not convinced about those new tech paints for jewels and stones. Not enough contrast or punch I think

Nice progress on Eldrad's head and the Canopy.

Cheers Az. Been pushing on to get the termies down but hopefully get more done on Eldrad and the sky weaver this week. Hopefully

Top work Jan, really digging the jet bike fronts.

EDC

That's Eldrad's head done. And off to bed!

 Januine wrote:
That's Eldrad's head done. And off to bed!

Januine,

The head is beautiful, looking forward to seeing the rest of the Eldar Seer.

Cheers,

CB

Wow Jan, the grey spiritstone looks incredible. Seems like you're raising your game with this one!

Where did you find the head btw? :p

Cheers lads. He's a gorgeous model so he's getting the treatment. The head took me a stupid amount of time. No short cuts but happy happy. Haven't done grey spiritstones before but suits his character I think. Lotta lotta layers and glazes for them. 'Just' the body and staff still to do
Oh - head had got pushed under my middle painting rack somehow. Sneaky sneaky Eldrad!

Jan your work never ceases to amaze. That Eldrad head is just gorgeous. Love it. Can't wait to see more.

Wait no longer then!!! - made a start on his (many many ) robes

And the next step involves these guys

Oh the blue tint to those robes is lovely, so sublte yet so striking. Very nice. Does the next part involve you sitting us down around a campfire and playing songs with those spoons while we sing songs?

Not quite!!! They're for me getting the night bit tight before I do it on Eldrad. Very handy things plastic spoons

 Januine wrote:
Not quite!!! They're for me getting the night bit tight before I do it on Eldrad. Very handy things plastic spoons

Umm.... there is no spoon? Lol.