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was confused by new picture. thought iffy died and someone replaced her.

 Urien_Rakarth wrote:
AWESOME. Can't wait to see more!

More dot-squares?

The Dot-on-a-square is so pretentious, it changed its name from "Dot" to "Ben Affleck".

 Briancj wrote:
The Dot-on-a-square is so pretentious, it changed its name from "Dot" to "Ben Affleck".

I think I just ed my pants... you sir are awesome

 Briancj wrote:
The Dot-on-a-square is so pretentious, it changed its name from "Dot" to "Ben Affleck".

Early magma/glow lines now down, these are the absolute base so will get tidier and tidier as they are blended in with washes and then have the edges highlighted. Made a couple of mistakes on the shoulder while getting used to the size/shape I wanted but thats what base tests are for Will be tidied up as I go.

Starting to see how he is going to come together now, time to get some more work down on those cracks. Will also need re-darkening and blacklining around armor areas afterwards, but that was expected.

I reaaaaallly need to get my act together and make another light box to remove the glare that is very obvious here :( Keeping something made of tissue intact with the kitten around is harder than it sounds.

That's gonna look sweet. keep it up.

The glow lines are looking excellent iffy, are they hard to do?

They are very hard to do, but practice will help a lot with them, which is why I left the base layer so bland and easy to paint over

Oh christ... that's beautiful. That freehand bloodlightning is awesome!

lovely free hand work. Cant wait to see the effect in full bloom.

Great work on the Juggernaut Follow your work on Facebook too

Damn those glow lines look great! I'm eager to see how they look when finished!

TheChaoticJournalist wrote:Great work on the Juggernaut Follow your work on Facebook too

Woo! Glad to hear it. Facebook is great for me cause I can get super quick updates up so fast, so if people are interested in more WIP stuff they should deffo check out my page

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Oh christ... that's beautiful. That freehand bloodlightning is awesome!

cormadepanda wrote:lovely free hand work. Cant wait to see the effect in full bloom.

MrMerlin wrote:Damn those glow lines look great! I'm eager to see how they look when finished!

Really glad people like him so far, I have a great mental image for him so I'm trying to get him as close to it as I can. His metals are going to be really lustrous dark bronze and they will make a huge difference once down, but at the moment I think the biggest visable difference will be once he has a matt coat layer! He is very glossy at the moment and shouldn't be, it's just a byproduct of the inks and washes. I will try and get a lightbox sorted for tomorrow so that should really help out.

Jugger looks great so far, should be very interesting when done

Didn't you have a small fold-away light box? I'm sure I got mine on your reccomendation.

I did indeed have one, but I left it behind by accident when I moved to Galway :( The only thing I lost, and it was my poor lightbox. I made a really handy little one out of tissue and cardboard that was working extremely well, but, well, kitten.

Iff.. did you just make a juggernaut... beautiful!?!? I think you did!

Haha, he needs more pink and glitter

Thats some beautiful free hand work on the juggers armour. I'd be to sacred to try and take it any further then that. How long did it take you to paint all those little spiderwebby lines?

It's coming along quite nicely Iffy. Love the armor pattern. Are you going to make them 3-dimensional or leave them as a 2-D pattern?

Snrub wrote:Thats some beautiful free hand work on the juggers armour. I'd be to sacred to try and take it any further then that. How long did it take you to paint all those little spiderwebby lines?

Oh dude, I am seriously scared to continue, but I have to. Just gotta not panic and keep going with them, if I am as careful as I can be, it should work out fine. I would say 2 hours for the little lines he has so far, but that number will skyrocket as I go!

Gitsplitta wrote:It's coming along quite nicely Iffy. Love the armor pattern. Are you going to make them 3-dimensional or leave them as a 2-D pattern?

I won't make them 3D as in with shadow lines, but I will be adding bright points to where the cracks join together. They should look like a nice glow instead of being actual cracks if that makes sense, it would be too far out of my comfort zone to try making them look 3D on a commission model

Here is something totally different though!



Cute little Mid tabletop standard wolf pack for a very, very patient owner. These guys are very wee, those are normal sized cavalry bases. They all have different patterns but are nice and coherant as a little pack I just need to tidy the bases once they are set in the morning.

Jeez... only 2 hours for all the intricate little lines? You could have said 6 and I still would have said it was quick.

Really looking forward to more updates on that juggernaut, he looks amazing so far. Pretty sure if he was mine I'd be way too scared of screwing up that intricate work to be able to do any more to him...

Wolves look really good Iffy, its nice that you done them all different.

I like the fur on those!

Any hints on getting wolf fur to look like that, Ifalna?

I tried to keep the fur pretty simple, so it's basically a shade lighter than the final result I want as a base coat, then I painted on little pattern areas with a shade darker or lighter depending on if I wanted them to fade to a light or dark colour, then gave them a VERY heavy black wash to give dimension to the fur.

After that I very dry drybrushed them with the base colour again and painted on some shade lines with black wash. It's pretty quick to do bar the wait time for drying.

 Ifalna wrote:
I tried to keep the fur pretty simple, so it's basically a shade lighter than the final result I want as a base coat, then I painted on little pattern areas with a shade darker or lighter depending on if I wanted them to fade to a light or dark colour, then gave them a VERY heavy black wash to give dimension to the fur.

After that I very dry drybrushed them with the base colour again and painted on some shade lines with black wash. It's pretty quick to do bar the wait time for drying.

Interesting. I would have said drybrushing from a dark base coat, but not a light base coat with a dark wash. But I haven't tried painting fur yet, I shall keep that in mind. Looks good.

WHY FOR YOU HOST IMAGES ON THE TUMBLRZ.

Now I can;t see all of your beautiful work while I am at work

Can't wait to check out what you have been up to when the firewall lets me access facebook later .

P.S. You must be staying away from the pizza because you are getting the skinnies


P.P.S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye9VY3IiEKk

Love the DOT

Haha, I host WIP pics on Tumblr cause it gives better image quality than Dakka :( It's very slight but it's there, cleaner uploads for me with no colour loss. It could just be my wonky upload connection, but there ya go!

I've had a very busy week, but all very positive so thats great

Sad serious time now though.

This is the first year where I have been remotely popular for commissions, and I have made a very serious rookie mistake and over booked myself across the last month and the next few. I've only realised it now and did not know any better at the time, I said yes a few too many times when I really should have said " not right now but definitely later" :( It's totally my fault and no one elses and I feel really gak about it honestly, I don't want to rush out work and sacrifice quality so I am trying to get through everyones models asap and just putting in a LOT of painting hours. I apologise in public to any person who is still waiting on work they really should have had by now.. I am not forgetting anyone and going as fast as I can, I just want to make sure the finished models are good and not rushed.

In happier news the juggernaut (at around 12 hours paint time, yikes!) is really coming together and now looks like this -



Mouth and metals are total bases so ignore those D: Reds are about done. I might bring the orange up to a slightly lighter shade, I’m not sure yet. Will sleep on it.

The brand new red wash I bought dried cloudy in the recesses and I am FURIOUS, I am hoping it clears overnight but I doubt it will, will very likely need to blackline all over again. Also seriously need to stop procrastinating and make a lightbox to get rid of the glare, the washes left him very shiny and hard to shoot. Really happy with him so far, can’t wait to make those silvers into gorgeous dark bronzes!

I should have more tomorrow, probably another 10 hours of painting to try and catch up with everyones orders. Once again, I am so damn sorry I made this mistake, everyone.