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not sure if this is the right place to post but would anyone be interested in seeing an oil or acrylic painting of some 40k stuff my first thought is to do a servo skull here is my quick sketch up of one

Seems good enough to me. I would enjoy seeing more.

Not enough warping, bubbles and flash.

Mr Nobody wrote:Seems good enough to me. I would enjoy seeing more.

thanks i think i will do some more sketching tonight or tomorrow and get down a few more ideas before finally doing like a small canvas board painting.

TheCustomLime wrote:Not enough warping, bubbles and flash.

i want it to resemble maybe like an old Renaissance portrait in the ed maybe with some inspiration drawn from john blanche's illustrations

Pour on some shadows and a dark colored background and you may have something. 40k artwork is less about detail and more about mood.

@munga thats what i was thinking maybe like a burnt Ambur haloaround the skull faded to black

I don't know what your skill level is, but I would try painting something that looks like it exists in the 40k universe. Like a painting of a famous event.

Something like this, or other famous war paintings.


You could see a high lord hanging this in his palace.

@mr nobody: my skill level is defiantly not that high haha but it is the feel im going for


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so i did some more sketching and i think i have this down as my final idea hope to start painting soon

so i transferred the design to canvas board ready to paint. here goes lol

Nice sketch man! Wish I had talent with paper & canvass, but no such luck. There's a very strong tradition of art beyond just mini's with GW IP's. This is probably the most evocative of the 40k paintings, for me anyway.

@peter wiggin: that is one of my favirote paintings to absolutely incredible hahah just hope I can do something even Hal as good

Still perfer this image of the Horus and the Emperor;

kencotter wrote:
@peter wiggin: that is one of my favirote paintings to absolutely incredible hahah just hope I can do something even Hal as good

Absolutely man. I routinely browse through 40k galleries as well as the work of HR Giger, Zdzislaw Beksinski, and Chris Kuksi for my own inspiration on my own little plastic army men.

@ribon fox: oh my god look at the head on horus wtf is up with that hahhha

@peter wiggin: a long time ago i bought the art of warhammer 40.000 it was produced by black library years ago it is still one of my favirote books to look through

here we go guys got started on this



getting there but lots to do still

I like the shading on the metal pieces.

 Mr Nobody wrote:
I like the shading on the metal pieces.

its the same method as painting non-metallic metals on minitures pretty much

anyway here is the finished thing

Have to say that's pretty damn cool! How long did this take to actully paint?

 Paradigm wrote:
Have to say that's pretty damn cool! How long did this take to actully paint?

thanks alot. all in all around 4-5 hours but i split it over two evenings so didn't feel that long