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I've just got back into painting after a 20 year gap and have discovered all sorts of new paints and brushes and techniques. I've been trying to learn to use shades and layer paints, practicing on some old 90s GW stuff I still had. This is the Advanced Heroquest Elf. I'm quite pleased with it in real life though I hate the way it looks when I zoom in. The face in particular is DREADFUL. I can see a few spots that need tidying up and I still have to base it

But I'm proud enough of it to (nervously) share it. I'd love to hear what people think of it

Two things in particular I'd like to know are:

1. Is it humanly possible to get to a standard where you can zoom in on an iPhone photo and not find it looks blotchy?

2. Faces, and in particular eyes - does anybody have any tips to help me improve. I'm wondering if a magnifying glass might help. Does anybody use one?
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On the eyes i have found this trick.First the model must be stable, i.e. not in your hands. Then paint the orb of the eye white. Add a dot of your preferred color using a pin.
Good luck!

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The elf look really nice. Really hit the nostalgic spot.

The trick with painting eyes is first to have a brush with a sharp point (not neccicarily the smallest brush because they cant hold as much paint and make precicion work harder).

Second, its better to make big white blotches for eyes first, and then try to frame them (paint around them) with skin colour until you get the size you want. This is much easier than trying to get both eyes to line up with a one-shot perfect stroke of white.

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Made in nl
Regular Dakkanaut





Thanks for the replies. I'm glad that somebody liked my effort. And thanks both for the tips about the eyes. One of the frustrating things is that I always end up doing them last when I'm already pretty happy with the model and then getting the eyes wrong can just ruin everything!
   
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 Fayric wrote:
The elf look really nice. Really hit the nostalgic spot.

The trick with painting eyes is first to have a brush with a sharp point (not neccicarily the smallest brush because they cant hold as much paint and make precicion work harder).

Second, its better to make big white blotches for eyes first, and then try to frame them (paint around them) with skin colour until you get the size you want. This is much easier than trying to get both eyes to line up with a one-shot perfect stroke of white.



Yep. Eyes and then faces are the first thing I do on any mini. If I screw up, stripping the paint off the face won't screw up the paint anywhere else.

White first, across the whole eye. Just keep it thin enough to prevent the eye detail from disappearing. Then a vertical stripe of black or dark brown down the middle - people generally don't have their eyes wide open to show much of a curve to the iris, especially at mini scales.

From there, use a dark flesh tone to shape the eyes and provide deep shadows for the face. Hightlight up from there, leaving as thin an outline of the base color around the eyes as you can as 'eyelashes'.

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