WIP Critique Olfo and OSL

[Bailey]

Thanks, Steve, Nick, and Derek. The Yarry and his wife figures are really nice, lot's of character, I'm sure you'll have fun working with those. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

I've been working on Olfo's back. For the unlit areas I wanted to do more of a monochromatic paint scheme instead of just dark colors. My thinking was I could push the contrast more if I did it that way but still give the impression is was dark (or moonlit). Sort of like the day for night film technique where they'd just use a blue filter to make it look like nighttime.

For the colors I used the Scale75 NMM steel paint set. I'd used some of those colors for the dagger (the neutral grey mixes) but the set also had some nice blue-greys. I obviously did not use the brightest color in the set, just stuck with the darker shades. I may still make some small adjustments but he's just about finished. Now it's to work on the base. I decided to go with a dark forest theme. I'm about 2/3rds of the way with the construction. Once I get some primer on there I'll post some photos.

 

[tiberius57]

Holy Macro! Love each square mm!
Can't wait to see this guy in his dark forest!
Awesome job! Wow!
Cheers,
Zeno

 

[John Bowery]

Just super so far.
Cheers
John

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Amazing skill and vision.

Colin

 

[tonydawe]

Wow, I've never had the courage to try painting OSL. This is crazy good. Love the skin tones and the effects achieved in the eyes.

Just wondering if the source light would be a bit more yellow in hue since it is sourced from a candle? This is not a criticism just a naïve question from an admirer.

 

[Bailey]

Thanks for the comments, guys. Tony, yeah I could have gone with a stronger yellow tone in the highlights. For almost all of the colors I used some yellow in the highlights... but clearly not enough. This is my first serious OSL attempt so it's still a learning experience. I could try to go over it with some yellow glazes but I don't want to risk screwing things up. If you were doing multiple light sources like a dim overhead light and then the lamp, the color change would help distinguish between the two lights. Here with the lamp as the sole light source I'm not sure it's as critical. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

The base is pretty much built. Here's a sneak peak at what I've done. I tried to create a relatively solid background with the placement of the trees. I also used their height to stretch the scene vertically and make Olfo look even smaller. Now I just have to paint the base using the same OSL scheme... oh dear, what have I gotten myself into?!?

 

[Bailey]

I took my first pass at painting the base. Finally decided to try out my airbrush on a real figure. I've practiced a little but I'm still very much a novice with the thing. I started with shades of the blue-grey that I used on the dark side of Olfo. First dark and then gradually lighter to create some highlights. After that I switched to my lamplight color (a mix of Polished Bone and Lemon Yellow) and blocked out the areas that will be hit with light. Then I did a quick clean up with my dark shade to replace the shadows cast by the figure. From here I'll go back to the regular brush to clean up the OSL and add some color to the lit areas on the base.

 

[tonydawe]

Did I say "crazy good"?

Bloody hell this is totally frickin' awesome.

If I may inject a personal opinion. I'd love to see some spider webs between the trees.