WIP Critique Joachim Peiper Bust, Life Miniatures

[Tarracus]

Hello there!

Let me show you what I'm currently working on. It still needs a few hours to be finished...
All comments, as always, more than welcome!

Gerard

 

[bagelman1952]

A very nice piece

 

[pmfs]

Hi Gerard!

I like very much what you did with this wonderful bust, excellent flesh tones, nice work on the jacket, but please allow me some positive criticism:
1 - about the colour of the hair, Peiper was blond isn´t it?
2 - the SS cap have white piping without the cord that you tried to copying the wrong boxart, or I am wrong?
The red arrow is the button that you see in the cap.
I am working in the same bust right now and I would like mine stay nearly as good as yours.

Pedro

 

[arxo]

Great flesh tones and overall painting !

 

[megroot]

Flesh tones as great as is the jacket.

Marc

 

[Mike Stevens]

nicely done

 

[Sturm Grenadier]

Hello Gerard, Beautiful painting as always. The skintones are excellent, and I really like the shading and highlighting of the leather jacket, never seen it done quite like this before. Stunning work Gerard, Regards, SG

 

[Tarracus]

Many thanks guys for taking your time to comment. I'm glad you like it.

Hi Gerard!

I like very much what you did with this wonderful bust, excellent flesh tones, nice work on the jacket, but please allow me some positive criticism:
1 - about the colour of the hair, Peiper was blond isn´t it?
2 - the SS cap have white piping without the cord that you tried to copying the wrong boxart, or I am wrong?
The red arrow is the button that you see in the cap.
I am working in the same bust right now and I would like mine stay nearly as good as yours.

Pedro

Hi Pedro. about the hair I'm not sure he was so "arian blonde" as depicted in those colored B/w photographs and the tones may vary in a lot of pictures.
.
...anyway I hadn't finished with the hair Will add a lighter tone on the upper zones of the head. And about the cap piping you may be right..

 

[Mark S]

Beautiful work on this bust, Gerard.
Every detail is superb...well done.

 

[Jeff T]

Excellent work Gerard!



Cheer's,
Jeff.

 

[kaz6120]

Love it!

 

[Alex Long]

That's a fine piece of work.

Alex.

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Very nice indeed Gerard
Flesh tones ,and eyes both excellent as is the rest.

Ron

 

[DEL]

Everybodys said it all, Flesh, leather etc brilliant job.
I keep getting drawn to the wonderful job on the binoculars fantastic
Cheers
Derek

 

[Joe55]

Top notch work Gerard !!

Joe

 

[NickM]

Beautiful painting, Gerard. Great likeness too!
Cheers

 

[pmfs]

Hi Gerard!
In my pic seems to be arian but I will paint it dark blond.
Here!!!
Kepp the good work!

Un saludo,
Pedro.

 

[Lee Sang Eon]

Beautiful painting Gerard!!

One thing I should tell you is that my box art painting is wrong in the piping of SS cap. I realized it after releasing this bust..

I've attached a reference photograph which I used for box art painting. It still creats the illusion that the SS cap have two white pipings.......

Pedro is right. there should be only one white piping without the cord.

It seems that you tried to copy my box art ... I'm so sorry for giving you wrong information.

 

[Tarracus]

Hi Gerard!
In my pic seems to be arian but I will paint it dark blond.
Here!!!
Kepp the good work!

Un saludo,
Pedro.

Thanks for those links Pedro.. Definitely I will add some shiny highlights to the hair..

Gerard

 

[Tarracus]

Beautiful painting Gerard!!

One thing I should tell you is that my box art painting is wrong in the piping of SS cap. I realized it after releasing this bust..

I've attached a reference photograph which I used for box art painting. It still creats the illusion that the SS cap have two white pipings.......

Pedro is right. there should be only one white piping without the cord.

It seems that you tried to copy my box art ... I'm so sorry for giving you wrong information.

Thanks Lee. Im very glad you like it...Now i see what Pedro was telling..Will solve this.
and of course there's no need to apologize... (IMO) Copying from the masters is a great way of learning!
Many thanks again

Gerard