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Freehand the next Falcon!

This is too amazing to do rarely!
Incorporate it into your whole army!

That's really quite a special army.

Great English, awesome freehand.

sA

Great english? My parents sure hope so, they pured a hell of a lot of money into my education XD (though, to be fair: The educational system here in germany is excellent if you're interested in languages - there's not a single person in germany unable to have at least a simple conversation spoken in english^^)


Started freehand on the next Falcon, right wing will be two phoenixs' circling around each other (as kolibris or flys for a matter of fact, when in mating season), having a trail of light / fire behind them.


Just started and used.... yellow xD Really watered down it's barely visible but allows for a kind of use of sketching techniques when using pen and paper: thin line, working over and over to get the right form and flow, really loving my yellow right now



Pics will follow as soon as the general shape is recogniseable

These are simply amazing I love the freehand and the se of brown is great I also like the oriental feel. I'd love to see the full force. Also I reckon you'll end up with a coherent looking army with similiar colours which is good.

archont wrote:

Paul Atreides wrote:The freehand runes are to die for. Do you have a special method to make them so crisp and well defined?

yep: Get them right in the first try with a single brushstroke. After every stroke / painted line: lick the brush, as to keep it really sharp on the tip, only take a little bit of carefully watered down color on the tip (too strong watered down = no good effect / the color running all over the place, not enough = the color being sticky, hard to control etc).

Why thank you.

You're more than welcome, heir to the Atreides throne


The outlines etc are not nearly as bright in reality as they are on the picture, for some reason (----> they're meant to be rather dull).
The upper (slightly bigger one, as is common for birds) is the female, flying in a straight line while the lower, smaller one tries to seduce her (swirling around her, flying on his back etc).
Basically all is good, except for the cripple-legs of the lower one, I'll have to elongate the body and redo these legs.
What you can't see on this picture is a really subtle gradient from black to red going from black (main body of the falcon) to pure red (tip of the wing), the brightest part being where these two phoenixs' came from...


pic:

wowwwwwww that falcon is amazing

Awesome stuff, definitely going to have to check back to see the next bit of freehand work

that is some amasing work

Good news everyone, I made some progress


Things I realised after last night: Both of the phoenix' were far too small, so today I started out by giving the upper one (wich will be the female) quite a resize. In the process I got rid of her legs for various reasons:

1) Being creatures of mythologie, why would they need legs?

2) I didn't get any satisfieng results when I tried to get some legs that worked.

3) They're a general burden when trying to create the illusion of a harmonic being in a kind of wave-like-motion, legs always stand out as... dunno, the third leg, the fifth wheel on the car?


So I didn't give her a leg. Got done with her main body and tail (although I might add another one of those stripe-like-tail-thingys) as well as the first of (logically) two wings.


As you might notice the male is ridiculously small and awkward looking. He'll also become bigger, in such a way that all the Space on that right winglike thing on the Falcon is covered.



Critique and Comments more than welcome, what do you think of the rather... I dunno, anime-style-feeling I tried to invoke with the new version of the phoenix?

Okay, i got done with the first phoenix and started on the second one - going for a darker / more blueish-red and having lightblue / white as highlight...

Lemme tell you this: Blending from red to blue is a bitch, because although you might have a really bright blue and a bright red, if you mix them: You get a pretty dark colour.

So I did my best to get it from lightblue to red, critque and comments most welcome!

Okay, so what did i get done in the last few days?

Firstly I did the finnishing touches on the first Falcon to the point where only the turret lacks decoration - expect that guy to be done by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow!

With the second Falcon I did get done with the Phoenixs' as well as the blending from the surrounding area of the male phoenix to blue, from the females surrounding area to red is still not done, sadly.

The other side of it will be with a big and strong yellow stripe, as you can see in the picture, decorated with either black or white runes, though I'll opt for black, since the strongest highlights no the yellow armourplates will also be done in white. The rest of that Wing will featur either red (wich will also reoccur on the turret in a way of creating a triangle of red, keeping the model together paintwise), the center will be either blue or... i dunno, I always wanted to do some extensive rose-freehands (There was a time when i was about 15 when i did nothing but drawing / sketching roses (wich got me a girl back then), and some of these sketches i just rediscovered), BUT there's still a third Falcon to go... Expect some rose-flowerlike feeling to the next one.

Jetbike, boring, added some runes, got done with the frontpart, did the fins on the rear and armour for pilot. All jetbikes will have the Saim-Hann-like-Rune on the fins as well as their Helmets, I imagine it to be a tribute to the windriders / a symbol to their dedication and love for speed.


Harlequin-Transport. That's the last one to be shown today. Simple conversion out of a Darkeldar-Raider and an Eldar Vyper inspired by the old Harlequin-dex and it's only tank, the Venom. Hopefully, someday, when my Darkeldar get a new Dex the conversion will pay and I'll be able to use that model as well as the Quins in both Darkeldar and Eldar armies So what I did with him... I did close the gap in the front of the Vyper-chassis, creating more space for me to paint on. The front as of now features two mask-like things (or images of the laughing god?) with the left one being blue and a pike for his left eye as well as a tear under his right eye (i might do that red and highlight it, though i'm not sure yet). The right one is a strong contrast to the blue, instead going from brown to yellow to almost-white with glowing red eyes and glowing red mouht (eyes and mouth are still WIP). That specific mask got inspired by this here... : http://ekaf.deviantart.com/art/Joker-28536970
On the tip of the vyper-chassis a classical joker-like-face with red cheeks (probably clownsnose but more likely the nostrils of a human skull) laughing at the onlooker, fading away into a checker-pattern wich will be complete and perfect on the right side but dissolve into single strings on the left side of the chassis (so the background will NOT stay black).

Directly behind the vyper-front is where my Haemonculus / Farseer or a Harlequinmodel will be standing in games, as a display of what is transported, with a glowing rune on the floor. Sadly, I am in no way content with the outcome of this one, but due to the surrounding railings and all that stuff it was a pain to paint... well, I'll see.

The back has the passenger-floor with a mixed colour (blue, red, green and yellow) on the left side of the Venom and black-and-white checkerpattern on the right. In the back, where usually the Raiders-driver is seated, will be the turret of the vyper with 2 brightlances, though that one is not attached right now.


I sure hope that I'll get some responses / critiques this time

Last shot at getting some feedback, hopefully, won't be going through the process of taking pics, cropping and resizing + uploading just for the heck of it.


Yellow is still my arch-nemesis, however, I somehow always end up doing something yellow. Something big in yellow. Blending from brown through yellow to white is pretty much the way to go, I stopped caring about undercoating since nothing will ever cover and just go through the blending / layering process... furthest right yellow area is not done yet, the spaces in-between the armourplates have to be redone in black since I was a little bit sloppy while doing the damned yellow.

The blue on the other hand I enjoyed doing, a mix out of blending, layering, using inks / very thin colors and a little bit drybrushing finally gave me the desired effect - although one strange thing definitely shows: For drybrushing I used a brush that had a little bit of oil soaked in it, wich is basically the strange shimmering lines you see running over the blue area in the first picture. A little bit of soap and warm water took care of that XDDDDDDDD

Second Picture is a full-view of the Falcon as of now, next thing to be tackled is the area between the yellow and blue color-blocks. Most likely I'll use some kind of redish color. To-do for tomorrow is also adding black glyphs / runes / whatever ornamental decoration to the yellow areas.


mfg


archont

look very awsome.

how did you get the white runes to pop so much was it just normal white on a black background surrounded by blue or did you do something special to get the effect?

thx kharndude^^

tortuga: What I basically did was first do simple white lines where i wanted the runes to be. Subsequently I blended from white to blue in a pretty fast way with very few steps. When I reached blue I blended to black. After all that I simply went over the original runes creating a thin white line as to make it look like glowing

These are probably my favorite eldar i've ever seen painted, and the use of that Lion shoulder pad is great on the guardian.

Honestly, I DESPISE the yellow.... But, despite that, you have done fantastic work! Keep it up!

I really love the phoenixes on that falcon, lovely stuff.

The yellow on the Falcon is really amazing. The way you have shaded it makes it look like it is raised above the blue. Really great. Of course the phoenixes are excellent. Really clean work.

I wasn't too sure about the yellow stripe from your wip shot, but now that you have added shading it looks awesome. I like the overall balance of the entire tank now ... at first it looked unbalanced with the pheonix pair on one side, but the detail fo you shading has fixed that.

Great freehand work! That is something that I am trying to work into my own figs, so this is quite inspiring!

Meph

That yellow and blue are amazing. I'd really like to see that in real life. I especially love the yellow, to tell the truth. It has a huge amount of depth to it. keep at this while I go check your other gallery images.

I was initially not liking the yellow, however now I must admit it looks absolutely stunning. Very sharp work mate. Keep it up!

It's things like this that make me want to do an Eldar army... awesome stuff!

Thanks alot for the good responses everyone!


I'll definitely upload some newer pictures later today, but before I can get back in the garden and painting I need some breakfast ^^


Thanks a whole lot, really, that means alot to me, see you all later with new pictures^^

Very nice work indeed. Love the glowing effect on the glyphs.

I hate you.... hate you with a vengence! Damn your painting hand to hell......

Grumble grumble... tallented painters.... grumble, not bloody fair that's what it is....... showing us their skills, embarassing us poor mortals.... not fair....

Thanks for all the replies, they really work wonders on the motivation to do some painting^^

What I did today were 3 things: One, I got done with the black-to-red gradient on the wing with the phoenix-pair, so that wing is done now. Two, I started working on the tribal that will run over the other wing and the hull of the Falcon. Three: I started doing the large area of red that will be in the middle of the Hull.

The Tribal will be a dragon (You should already be able to make him out ) and run over the whole wing. Color will be simple and plain white for all the parts on the bule wing, while those parts running over the yellow area will be black. I basically make up the shapes as I go along, adding another stroke and another stroke, trying to keep some variety.

The red thing... well I'm tinkering with the thought of extending the tribal even further, having it be white lines again that stretch over the red area in the center. I'll see about that tomorrow, when I (hopefully) get done with the tribal.


Best wishes and thanks for all the comments!



archont

Wow, just WOW!

I have done some Eldar of my own, no pics as of yet but soon to come, and let me just say yours are GREAT! You can tell you really put in a lot of time and effort and it pays off. Make sure to do as good a job on all your mini's and all parts (don't skimp on things like guns ans sensor arrays).

Nice conversions on the guardians, makes me wish I'd had put lion cloaks on my dire avengers, the effect is just awesome!

Keep up the good work man

All of your Eldar really look fantastic. Once done, you should make a really fantastic case/base for it. Something that you can remove it from and still use it in games. But I'd be willing to bet once done, you could win some awards for that. Please keep posting pics. Stop sleeping, so you can paint more, and we can see it. Very inspiring. Huzzzaah!