WIP Critique El Greco Greek Hoplite Bust UPDATED*****

[Tommi]

Managed to find some time to make a start on this real beauty. Greek Hoplite sculpted by Matt Grech.

Just laying the dark and light colours in oils on top of acrylics, still a long way to go but its good to start something so nice

Cheers
Tommi

 

[Meehan34]

when I saw your review I hoped you would paint this bust. I will be ordering this soon so yours will be a good reference. If this turns out anything like the Yury bust it will be a stunner. Looking forward to step two.

 

[housecarl]

Great start Tommi.
Carl.

 

[gordy]

Cool

 

[sarouman]

Hi Tommy,
Very good start and enough beautiful tones of the face, waiting for the next step ...

Alexandros

 

[megroot]

Great skintones.
What oilmix are you using.

marc

 

[unknown01]

Excellent start Tommi.
The face tone is Superb！
I'm looking forward to future's progress.

　　Mitsutaka

 

[jimias]

Nice start.Waiting for more.

 

[Theodoros]

Nice start on a great bust.

 

[smudger1960]

lovely work tommi,i picked up the spartan bust from matt at euro and will hopefully be starting this soon,they are such lovely pieces,looking forward to seeing the finished bust,i may buy this one as well and have them as a pair,happy painting mate!

 

[clubcat]

Looking good so far Tommi

Melanie

 

[Tommi]

Thanks guys for your comments. Took another look at it yesterdayday and was not happy with any aspect of of my painting so stripped it back and started again.

I have been playing with acrylics a little latley so decided to have another shot using just acrylics, I will post up some images later this evening. Starting to get to grips a little with these paints but dont think I will give up on the oils.

Cheers
Tommi

 

[Tommi]

Greek Hoplite UPDATE

Well here are some pictures of new progress. I started over agin this time using acrylics for the skin tones, took me longer than using oils. Still some work to do on the highlights and eyes. The hair and beard are just undercoated.

Cheers
Tommi

 

[housecarl]

Nice smooth transitions Tommi. Are you going to stick with the acrylics, or over paint in oils?
Carl.

 

[Tommi]

Think I will stay with the acrylics for this one as I started again

Tommi

 

[RFL]

The acrylic flesh tones look very good and very smooth.

 

[John Bowery]

Tommi,
Looks good.
Cheers
John

 

[Meehan34]

nice work with those pesky acrylics.

 

[megroot]

This is so f&^%ing good. Wish i good manage the acrylic's also.
But i'm trying at the moment to do some small parts with acrylic.
Yours are so tarrific..

arMarc

 

[Tommi]

This is so f&^%ing good. Wish i good manage the acrylic's also.
But i'm trying at the moment to do some small parts with acrylic.
Yours are so tarrific..

arMarc

Hi Marc


The acrylics need a lot more patience and a different technique from oils, you can’t push the paints around the same as oils, I am relying on washes of colour built up in layers starting from the outside working inwards building up more layers towards the centre of the area, getting the viscosity of the diluted mixture correct is a problem for me in itself, just keep going at it and experiment, it’s better to add to little than too much, at least you can add to it but you can’t take it away if you add to much.


Cheers


Tommi