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The kids did a good job, looking good as a group.

The girls are looking fantastic so far, Super is looking great, good work on the paint experiment, seems to have worked a treat.

Good job putting the kids to work.

Nice work on the ladies. Good depth to Supergirl's colours.

Catwoman is looking good as does Supergirl. Cant wait to see how Hawkman and the Harvey Dent sign turn out.

Going to remember that purple trick . Nice work!

Camkierhi wrote:The kids did a good job, looking good as a group.

The girls are looking fantastic so far, Super is looking great, good work on the paint experiment, seems to have worked a treat.

Yeah very pleased, the colours have worked well.

Dr H wrote:Good job putting the kids to work.

Nice work on the ladies. Good depth to Supergirl's colours.

Cheers mucker!

Yorkright wrote: Catwoman is looking good as does Supergirl. Cant wait to see how Hawkman and the Harvey Dent sign turn out.

Me too

CommissarKhaine wrote:Going to remember that purple trick . Nice work!

Cheers!

Colours done on catwoman



And supergirl



So, need to do the faces.
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Tiny, tiny faces.
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Very tiny tiny tiny faces.
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Any advice?!


Shelf evolves...


And next up, aquaman and landmines, and beast boy as a chicken.

On we go eh?
Cheers,
Graven

The best way I've found to do really shallow/small faces is to simply do 99% of the work with very carefully applied washes. Start out with a nice and thin sand/ivory basecoat, wash the whole thing a light brown, apply some redder wash to the cheeks, mouth and eyes and a darker wash around the hairline.

Takes some practice, but it's my go-to when the usual layering methods would need too many coats of paint and you'd loose detail.

Afraid I can't give you any advice on painting faces, still struggling with 40k faces. Can say that Supergirl looks good but I really love cat woman, that purple is very rich. Looking forward to seeing how their faces turnout.

Colours look good. I like the blue on Supergirl especially.

They look a bit shiny though or maybe its just the light.

For faces, if the main issue is that they're really small, maybe it will help if you paint them first. and paint outwards from the face. That way it is easier to tidy up as you go outwards.

Nice stuff Doc!

^Wut?

Looking great, Graven'.

You have a good base to the faces already.
Just a matter of darkening the peep'oles and highlighting the cheeks, chin and T-zone.

I can't really help on faces beyond that, I just tend to keep poking at them until they look right.

Babealiscious!

See, that's why painting guardsmen is so much easier...not speaking about faces to be painted...but these curves would distracted me no end....
Catwoman looks amazing!

I recently painted up a squad of guardsmen with my kids...and I let them start by drybrushing too...in the end they're quite decent looking...

Cheers, vik...

Girls are looking good! Is it worth doing the faces? On very small minis, I always find the effect unrealisti.c

As far as tiny faces are concerned, I recommend finding a dark version of their eye color - midnight blue or burnt sienna- and barely dotting the eyes with it. It's hardly a major detail, but the color may be enough to break the monotony of color otherwise present. As for brush size, I recommend plucking a single strand of your own knuckle hair, if you have any. Those hairs are surprisingly strong and fine.

Faces.. I'd say let Nerd paint them.. just saying!

Paradigm wrote:The best way I've found to do really shallow/small faces is to simply do 99% of the work with very carefully applied washes. Start out with a nice and thin sand/ivory basecoat, wash the whole thing a light brown, apply some redder wash to the cheeks, mouth and eyes and a darker wash around the hairline.

Takes some practice, but it's my go-to when the usual layering methods would need too many coats of paint and you'd loose detail.

Thanks Para. I love your style and I know you've faced the help of km tiny faces so much appreciated.

Yorkright wrote: Afraid I can't give you any advice on painting faces, still struggling with 40k faces. Can say that Supergirl looks good but I really love cat woman, that purple is very rich. Looking forward to seeing how their faces turnout.

ME TOO! glad you like the colours.

ckig wrote:Colours look good. I like the blue on Supergirl especially.

They look a bit shiny though or maybe its just the light.

For faces, if the main issue is that they're really small, maybe it will help if you paint them first. and paint outwards from the face. That way it is easier to tidy up as you go outwards.

Yeah, lazy rush on the lights cheers

dsteingass wrote:Nice stuff Doc!

Dr H wrote:^Wut?

Looking great, Graven'.

You have a good base to the faces already.
Just a matter of darkening the peep'oles and highlighting the cheeks, chin and T-zone.

I can't really help on faces beyond that, I just tend to keep poking at them until they look right.

I'll take what I can get, tbh....

Gitsplitta wrote:Babealiscious!

you're too kind - come on, your ruthless criticism is what made me learn wet blending in the first place

Viktor von Domm wrote:See, that's why painting guardsmen is so much easier...not speaking about faces to be painted...but these curves would distracted me no end....
Catwoman looks amazing!

I recently painted up a squad of guardsmen with my kids...and I let them start by drybrushing too...in the end they're quite decent looking...

Cheers, vik...

Thanks buddy. Great to have you back

CommissarKhaine wrote:Girls are looking good! Is it worth doing the faces? On very small minis, I always find the effect unrealisti.c

Yeah, well, I spend too much time on other peoples' galleries...ta!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:As far as tiny faces are concerned, I recommend finding a dark version of their eye color - midnight blue or burnt sienna- and barely dotting the eyes with it. It's hardly a major detail, but the color may be enough to break the monotony of color otherwise present. As for brush size, I recommend plucking a single strand of your own knuckle hair, if you have any. Those hairs are surprisingly strong and fine.

Ooya! ...
Hope, I am not hairy enough.

Solar_lion wrote:Faces.. I'd say let Nerd paint them.. just saying!

very wise.

Well, progress, following advices:

Dunno if they're there yet, but certainly better.
Cheers gang, really appreciate the input.


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Meanwhile, basic colours all blocked in. Where there's a lot of grey (eg bottom half of Clementine, the girl with the red cap), only washes/shades being used, though that may change of course.

since i never had a DC mini in hand i cant tell if the current state of eyes is sufficient...it is certainly a step into the right direction...

as for the last pic...basic colours done by the kids?

The ladies look amazing to me, purely personal, I would have gone for larger black pupils on Catwoman, and probably gone all glowy red on Supergirl, like she is powering up ready to blast. But I'm a bit late to the party on that one. As it is I think you have done a spectacular job and they look brilliant.

Oh and just remembered a bit of advice from Gits I think, use a cocktail stick to do the pupils, could even shave the point finer if needed. Really works.

Faces are why my marines all wear helmets . Not very Heroic, but easier by far.

They look great now with the work you've done on them.

Calling social services since your putting children to work.....unless it's not too hot in there. Sweat shops are fine if there's air conditioning .

Viktor von Domm wrote:since i never had a DC mini in hand i cant tell if the current state of eyes is sufficient...it is certainly a step into the right direction...

as for the last pic...basic colours done by the kids?

yeah, though I've finished them off. Boys are going to do jersey barriers and their own models next. Dan was proudly explaining it all to his best mate today

Camkierhi wrote:The ladies look amazing to me, purely personal, I would have gone for larger black pupils on Catwoman, and probably gone all glowy red on Supergirl, like she is powering up ready to blast. But I'm a bit late to the party on that one. As it is I think you have done a spectacular job and they look brilliant.

Oh and just remembered a bit of advice from Gits I think, use a cocktail stick to do the pupils, could even shave the point finer if needed. Really works.

You're very kind amigo. And great tip!

Theophony wrote:Faces are why my marines all wear helmets . Not very Heroic, but easier by far.

They look great now with the work you've done on them.

Calling social services since your putting children to work.....unless it's not too hot in there. Sweat shops are fine if there's air conditioning .

I'm a teacher. Child labour is mandatory, it's called fostering independence

Bit more on Aquaman today:

Again, steady and cartoony.

And finished up the walkers and survivors

Not worrying about their eyes, frankly was spurred on by reading some more TWD for the first time in ages (not since Lori died, for those of you that follow the comic), enjoyed it having had a good break, plus also all excited for new stuff in the game now. May have to make a michonne as her card is coming out as a promo in one of the UK gaming magazines over the summer. (Though I'll need to make a katana somehow).

Feeling pretty good. Joe's birthday, complete with Pokemon and baby groot cakes, was a big success. Wife has finished dissertation, and I'm about to start exam marking, which is a dull way to make money but passes the time of an evening... pays for holiday, crucially (woo! Tank museum!) Pretty sanguine about work generally, actually, timetable for next year is pretty decent too. Only a month left this term, 39th birthday in at the end so at least there's toys at the end of the tunnel, eh? Got to count one's blessing with all the horror in this world, especially so close to home.
Later y'all
Graven

Brains, braaaains brains braiiiins.
Brains!
Brainnnns brains, brains.

Good luck to the wife. Something scientific isn't it?

Aquaman's a keeper. Nicely done graven.

 Dr H wrote:
Brains, braaaains brains braiiiins.
Brains!
Brainnnns brains, brains.

Good luck to the wife. Something scientific isn't it?

Their the reason why we don't have a Brain-iac Sorry.

Nice job on all the super folk and zombies. Great looking stuff all around.

EDC

Poor Aquaman, the butt of every DC joke He looks good though!

^

So true

He's nearly there, though. Left eye needs fixed, not sure about the foam either:


Thanks for all the tips gang, I am quite enjoying this more cartoony style.


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Addendum - fixed?

And with light auto adjusted

Never quite sure about auto adjusting :/
Pretty happy, all in all, though

His right eye is still a tad wonky....but the pants look awesome!

Very nice Aquaman.. I sure there will be another version once the JL movies is out.

Our hearts go out to you Brits, Sad times indeed.

He is looking excellent . I always thought some of the uglier suits heros and villains wore were due to costs of ink colors back in the day .

Artist. "we have a new reoccurring hero in this issue, I envision him wearing dark blue with black accents."
Producer "sorry, we can't afford more blue ink this month, and since he's reoccurring how about we use some of the orange and green we have a ton of?"
Artist. "But he's called the Blue Marlin!"
Producer "Its cheaper to change his name in the text than to recolor him in the blue ink, so call him the Tuna king or something"
Janitor "How about water man"
Producer "how do you say that in Spanish? We need to draw in more of our Latino Homies."

This is also the reason why artists changed around so much.