Gladiator Thraex Verlinden 120 Mm

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I started half a year with the painting of figures. As a beginner, I hope to get here some help and suggestions.

This is a Gladiatotr from Verlinden in 120 mm scale , painted in Acrylic and Oil.

It was my first attempt with oil paint for the skin, everything else was painted in acrylic

Hope for your constructive criticism .

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That's excellent work for somebody that's been painting figures for less than a year. Great job!
Personally, I would love to see some very simple groundwork on the base to compliment your great figure. Even just some churned up sand to represent the arena where these guys fought.
Again, fantastic job!
 
Just painting one year??? Then you did a great job on this figure.
As far as comments go: Your skintone is painted with oil and with so much skin I think you did the right thing. But the hard lines in the shade's; next time fade them out into the basic skintone, then they don't look so hard. Why painting only highlights on the right side of the figure? I think the left side, specially the part above the belt can use some highlight.
Much more parts of the figure such as the belt need more highlighting and some shading.

All in all you have the skills to paint a figure, it's a neat and clean painting.
Up to your next figure, and with every figure that you paint, you be better and better.
Keep painting.

Next time, do some more work on the base. As said above, this one has enough with some sandcolored base.

Marc
 
Thank you for your notes - in fact I have paint Figures only half a year but the Gladiator was of course not my first figure, but my eighth (and best so far as I think).

You are right with the groundwork, here I have to improve. I have bought a pack bird sand - so would be to make the base better .

Some of the others which I have previously painted were rather bad.

Right now I have almost finished two busts, this time completely in acrylic.
 
This was one of the first figures that I ever painted (late '90s) and I have to say that yours is better than mine was at that same early stage.

I agree with the other comments that a bit of simply sandy groundwork would make all the difference here.

- Steve
 

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