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Just posting up a few images of my latest piece to get some feedback on my painting style. I've found some success offering a painting service in my local area but want to get feedback from the wider community to see what improvements I can make. So lets have it, hit me with your best criticisms! Apologies for the poor pictures!

It looks good but I think close ups would really help.

He reminds me of skeletor.

Two points of criticism:

Snow - That's the GW snow, correct? I'd try and get my hands on another brand that uses actual grains, instead of white static grass. No matter what you do to it, it will always look like white static grass. The bits that have settled outside of the main drifts make it all the more obvious. It's serviceable enough from a distance, but always irks me upon even moderately close inspection.

Contrast - The darker colors make sense for a necromancer model, but the contrast of the highlights is so low (looks like very soft drybrushing?) that they get lost, more or less. I'd suggest either taking the base darker or the highlights lighter (or both, but to a lesser degree) to make them pop a bit more. The eye will still "fill in the blanks" and assume the proper colors, even if you take the base down to a near-black, so long as the highlights are sufficiently saturated. Actually, I think darker base colors and more vivid highlights would enhance the atmosphere of the model, as well as the visual impact.

Off-topic, quickly - your bookshelf threw me for a loop. I was trying to recognize that purple book - something just felt off about it - without checking your location flag, first. There's a George Atwood (with only one "t") who teaches clinical psych at Rutgers University, my alma mater. I had no idea there was a British Atwood, too, let alone an Attwood, all in the same field.

Sorry for the delayed response, Uni has been hectic lately!

Just adding some better images, hopefully they help. I've redone the highlights at attempted to darken the main areas somewhat, what do you guys think?







@oadie, the books are actually my fiancée's, she's the psychology buff! I'm an archaeologist by trade myself but texts on the Black Death aren't quite as photogenic!

Cool stuff!