Completed Michael Wittmann , 120mm bust

[Ferris]

That is brilliant painting! Like Brian I particularly like it is a bit different in colours, placement of lights and shadows, etc. Very original and utterly impressive.

Just curious, have you had artistic training, or are you self-taught? I seem to note an influence from portrait painting...

Cheers
Adrian

 

[EricChan]

Lovely piece of work Eric,the painting on the face is beautifully done,I have a copy of this bust I picked up many years ago at Euro when mike good was attending the show,great work

Wow， that's really great experience , Smudger . I’m envious of you . I hope some day I could join the party too.

 

[EricChan]

Wow Eric, you echo my thoughts exactly, except I use a different primer and also Reaper paints in addition to the VJ and GW. Great minds think alike.

Some people love an airbrush and do fantastic things with it, but I'm an old fashioned brush man myself.

Keep up the good work,
Ken

Hi , Ken

Yes, you are right, work with airbrush is an efficient way . Especially if you need to paint or blend a large area with yellow paint .

I painted this space wolf many years before . In this case , I painted the yellow part of the shoulder armor with brush and airbrush combination .

but most of time , i wouldn't choose the airbrush .

 

[EricChan]

Hi Eric,
What great timing .I have the same Kirin bust and have been really struggling with it.So I'll pinch a couple of ideas of yours if that's ok?
A couple of questions Do you have any in progress photos of thee the steps you used for correcting the eyes? if not could you let me how you did it ? I've ruined a couple of othe busts trying to redo the eyes and the scar below the lower lip did you add that?

Hope this all makes sense.

TIA

Chris

Hi Chris ,

Any comments would be welcome . Sorry I didn't took progress photo when I painted the eyes . but I have one large size picture of when I finished then, I hope that would helpful.

I believe that you could clear see the eyeballs in this picture. and you could see what colors I used in this case also .

first of all , I have to declare , because English is not my mother tongue , maybe I can't use the correct diction , maybe i need you use your ability of imagination to catch me ，please forgive me of that.

1, how to correcting the eyes.
there have a ' formula ' of how to painting eyes . the first , we need to know, if you observe people in front , the face could be equant as 5 parts in broad , as the pink line of the picture above . so that ， in perfect condition , we could know how wide the eyes it is . but , most of time , our sculpturer of the model busts neither from the ancient Greece nor Renaissance , so that you will find the shape of the face may be doesn't accurate .
the green lines show us , the eyelid and the wing of nose should be aligned , the pupil and the corner of the mouth should be aligned .
if you observe the David of Michelangelo , you will find this formula is work.

2, about the battle scar.
simply, the color of scars is more like flew， because there are so many minute vessel in it . if you still could not make sure what color you need , I suggest that you could blend the scar part as other skin of the face , glazing some pink or deep pink paint in the end , you could repeat step many times until you feel satisfied.

Ok, that's all , I hope I had have understood your questions.

 

[EricChan]

Hi Eric

That's so much better , like the work you did on the face it does make him look younger , love the black uniform and tge reflection in the peak .

Thanks for sharing

Nap

Why not put an entry into FOTM feature as well ?

Hi , Nap,

I'm so glad that you have got me. let this Wittmann looks more younger is what I want to try. after all , He dead in 30 yrs old , for that he won't looks too old

 

[EricChan]

Great to hear you use only brushes.I'm one of the " elegant" oldies you speak of.I use exclusively oils,but your work with the acrylics is superb.
Brian

Haha , greetings from the generation which "not so much elegant" . Actually I believe the miniatures is one kind of tradition , so I'd like have drawn my inspiration from the experience of elder . in fact , I read the book < how to build dioramas > written by Sheoend Paine when I was a teenager , and I follow his guild , try to paint my first figure with oil . in the next few years I painted many 1/35 figures and large scale figures with the oil . that's really a great experience. but unfortunately， my home city is too dusty, even in summer , so that it's very hard to keep clean during the work , and as you know that would be terrible. so I give up to use the traditional color .

This HJ member may be is my last time to use the oil color , in 2008.

 

[EricChan]

That is brilliant painting! Like Brian I particularly like it is a bit different in colours, placement of lights and shadows, etc. Very original and utterly impressive.

Just curious, have you had artistic training, or are you self-taught? I seem to note an influence from portrait painting...

Cheers
Adrian

Hi Adrian ,
so glad that you could like my work , actually I had have studied in art school. in this case i try to studied and inspired of the portrait painting of Rembrandt , one of my favorite artist.

 

[John Bowery]

That is definately a different style of painting and works very well. Your English is very good and thanks for the art lesson, very interesting. I thought that the eyes make him look very tired and and that fits very well with the time period.
Cheers
John

 

[EricChan]

That is definately a different style of painting and works very well. Your English is very good and thanks for the art lesson, very interesting. I thought that the eyes make him look very tired and and that fits very well with the time period.
Cheers
John

Thank you for your kind words , John .