WIP Critique 2nd effort, 200MM Knights Templar

[Jomo]

As a York Rite Mason working my way towards the order of the Templar, I thought I would try to triack down whichever 200MM Templar busts I could, and mix them with the WWII stuff I am doing for my wife.
Made a tactical error by trying to insert the face AFTER all the painting was done.
Comments welcome and appreciated.

 

[Steve]

Hello Jo. More shadow and highlight would work wonders on this bust. You have gotten every color neatly into place and the ever difficult eyes appear to be done nicely. I would start with the face around the eyes and nose and once those are done move on to the cloth. Your ring mail looks good too. Pushing the envelope for shadow and highlight often requires a lot of faith and ignoring what your eye tells you about how people really look. Emphasis and controlled exaggeration are the name of the game. I hope this helps.

 

[Jomo]

Thanks the comments "controlled exaggeration" is an interesting concept, which I will work into the next attempt


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[megroot]

You did a good start. But Steve has wrote all the remarks. More shading and more highlighting.

Marc

 

[Mirofsoft]

Nice start; as they already said , just more highlights . Needs guts to begin with a 200mm . Bravo
But is the shield made of old cracked Saxon porcelai,n or enamels, or paint cracked by exposure to the sun ? Because if this is what you wanted to do , it's amazing
Best

 

[Jomo]

Nice start; as they already said , just more highlights . Needs guts to begin with a 200mm . Bravo
But is the shield made of old cracked Saxon porcelai,n or enamels, or paint cracked by exposure to the sun ? Because if this is what you wanted to do , it's amazing
Best

I was trying to get something to approximate this look

 

[Mirofsoft]

Well my congratulation, you reached the target . It realy looks like
I had a look on google images " tempalr shield ", and in fact you see lot of shields with the " cracked paint version", those are replicas
I'm not sure that the real ones were other than plain white with a red cross but I can be mistaken
Nowadays the job is good and the rendering of the shield as seen on the picture is more than adequate .
Continue that way .
Best

 

[Tarracus]

about that kind of replicas: the shield depicted on the bust has the typical shape of 13th century shields carried by mounted knights. On the other hand, the shield from google is in fact an actual "replica" with tons of fantasy on it. Its shape it's taken more from ornamental designs of family crests and coats of arms than from real shields shape designs. and about the cracking: How could a piece of unpainted (white tinted) fabric crack that way??..just fantasy

 

[Jomo]

Thanks for all the input, I was using this attempt to experiment on many things I had never done, as was not really cognizant if I had done anything not accurate or realistic.
I have spent hours looking at the work on the forum, and watching you tube videos for tips, and well use them on my next attempt. The work displayed on these pages is amazing, and again I appreciate the comments and suggestions.


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[Helm]

As a rule of thumb I usually paint as they would dress ie flesh first the under garments and so on to belts etc last, but theres no hard or fast rule