Absarokee Crow Box Art

[Bruno]

Bruno asked me to post the following sbs on his painting the box art for Pegaso's up-comming new release, Absarokee Crow, 1870, in 54mm.

Absarokee (Crow) Warrior, ca. 1870 Pegaso Models

Since years Luca Machetti of Pegaso had asked me to paint a box art for a Pegaso figurine. After I did the research for the Absarokee (Crow) warrior sculpted by Benoit Cauchies, I wanted to paint this figurine. The co-operation with Benoit was again excellent and he had a tremendous feeling to sculpt Indian figurines.
The figurine is 54 mm and will be released in November or December 2006

Photo 1
Die Pegaso Figur is primed with Citadell Primer. I never prime the face.

Photo 2
I painted the face with a thin coat of Humbrol 110. This colour works also as the base for the painting of the face with Acrylic colours.

Photo 3
The “white” of the eyes is painted with Vallejo Light Flesh. For the centre of the eye I used black - blue. The first highlights and shadows are added.

Photo 4
The first lights and shadows are painted
As basecolour for the face I use:
50 drops Vallejo Orange Brown
12 drops Bronzed Flesch, Citadel
15 drops Vallejo English Uniform
10 drops Vallejo Vermillion
8 Tropfen Vallejo Burnt Siena

Highlights:
Bronzed Flesh, Citadel.

Shadows:
Vallejo English Uniform and a bit Intensity Blue.

Photo 5
The face is painted with highlight and shadows.

Photo 6 – Photo 7
Close up photos of the finished face.

Best regards from Munich the city of the Oktoberfest.

 

[megroot]

Bruno,
Looks a great figure to me. Your start on the figure is wonderfull.
I really like it. Keep posting as you come futher in the process.

Keep the beerpumps running with the altbeer at the fest.

Marc

 

[Lubitch]

Absolutely outstanding painting job


cheers

Wojciech Lubicz-Lapinski

 

[garyjd]

Bruno, very nice. That is a beautiful figure. I'm sure it's also accurate in addition to being well sculpted.~Gary

 

[Angaliel]

Wow, nice and interesting SbS.
I definitly want this figure

JP

 

[Roc]

Hello Bruno, very good work so far, looking forward to seeing more.

Cheers
Roc.

 

[Christos]

very beautiful fleshtones Bruno,
christos

 

[Kisifer]

Great work on the flesh tones Bruno and also very good SBS. Show us more...hehehehe

Xenofon

 

[Bruno]

Hello folks,

thank you very much for your comment. The photos are a little time behinde the actual painting, so I will send the next step by step to Guy this weekend.

As I exclusively paint Indians, with the time I have developed my method for faces, tanned leather ans os on and I hope this will give a little inspiration to some of you.

My special thanks to Guy Herrick who did the posting for me... Unfortunately the sentence psychologie and technic, two worlds collide is absolutly correct for me.

Many greatings from Bavaria

Bruno

 

[slaj]

Hi Bruno. Looking very good. Great flesh tones.

Stephen Mallia

 

[Kyle]

Bruno,

This is a very helpful SBS for those of us in the beginning stages (in my case, have been painting for about 15 months). It is so very helpful to read different approaches to faces, particularly with color choices when shading, and with the painting of the ever-daunting eyes

Thanks again!

Kyle

 

[Guy]

Absaroke (Crow) Warrior Box Art
Painting Step 2

The next step was to paint the War Shirt. The War Shirts were made of brain tanned leather and I tried to paint the war shirt of the figurine locking in that way. For this work, acrylic paint is excellent, as it is flat.

Base:
80 Drops AV (Acrylics Vallejo) 913 Yellow Ochre
60 Drops AV 929 Light Brown
8 Drops AV 785 Beige Brown
a bit of AV 960 Violet

Highlights
1. and 2. Highlight: 913 Yellow Ochre
3, 4.and 5. Highlight: 913 Yellow Ochre und 911 Light Orange
6. and 7. Highlight: 948 Golden Yellow und 911 Light Orange

Shadows:
AV 785 Beige Brown
A bit of AV 960 Violet

In the next step I painted the Leggings and here I did an mistake. To get a good result for the photo for the box, I overdo the highlights of the Leggings (Photo Leggings old).

I should have remembered that on blue, less is more. So I re-paint the Leggings

Base color:
Polycolor Blue Marina
AV 966 Turquoise
APA 4 Orange

Highlights:
AV 966 Turquoise

Shadows:
APA Blue Marina
APA Blue Marina and AV 965 Light Orange
Deepest Shadows:
APA Blue Marina and AV 965 Light Orange and a bit of Black


Many greetings from Bavaria

Bruno

 

[homellop]

Beautiful!!!
I like your paintwork so much.
regards
jaume

 

[megroot]

Bruno,

the painting of the leather is awesome. Looks the real color to me.
Great work. Keep going and posting.

marc