British Officer - Completed Peer Critique

[Nobunaga]

I just finished this 75 mm figure from Pegaso Models and I thought to post it on the Planet to hear your honest opinions.
It's painted with acrilics as base colors and oils for the modulation. It was primed with Tamiya grey primer.

 

[megroot]

Not a bad job at all.
But i believe you have not alot off contrast in your painting. Maybe some more high and shading.
It's also possible that your photolight washed out your colors.

Marc

 

[tonydawe]

Hi Calin,

I think you've done a very good job, but I agree with Marc that you could increase the contrast levels by deepening the shadows and lightening the highlights. This will make the smaller details of the uniform "pop". Having said that, I really like what you've done.

 

[Nobunaga]

Thank you for the kind words and also for your observations.
I think the photo is ok and is not to blame for the aparent lack of accentuated shadows and highlights.
The fact is that I tried to keep those effects to a minimum low. My ideea or if you want aproach, is to replicate more the nature of the texture and less to aply rules of figure painting.
The boots are painted with semigloss acrilics, rather than puting lights and shadows from colors.
Anyway I will keep in mind to accentuate the shadows on this one.

 

[pmfs]

Very nice, Calin

 

[Jamie Stokes]

Can understand your desire to keep things like shadows and highlights to a minimum low.

It is sometimes better to under do a thing. It can be too easy to push a contrast too far.

However, studying some art of the others, they can have very strong contrasts, they also have very smooth transitions.

Plus, the general rule of thumb that the smaller a figure, the greater the highlights and shadows tend to be, and the larger the figure, the opposite tend to hold true.

One fun little thing to do is to grab some fabric of a single colour (like a jacket, or a towel, a pillowcase, etc) and drape them with crinkles, wrinkles and folds. Observe how the while everything is the same colour, the tones of the colour will vary. Learning from real life!


Still, good work, and you seem to have grasped both shadows, highlights, and being subtle!

Cheers