Roman officer,1st Century Ad.

[swralph]

Another great job Ralph.......Keep up the good work.....

Wayne

Cheers Wayne.

 

[Oda]

Great painting!

Oda.

 

[swralph]

Great painting!

Oda.

Cheers Oda.

 

[pmfs]

Lovely work Ralph, each job you are improving.
Allow me a comment; some dirty on the cloak will be top notch imho.

Cheers,
Pedro.

 

[swralph]

Lovely work Ralph, each job you are improving.
Allow me a comment; some dirty on the cloak will be top notch imho.

Cheers,
Pedro.

Cheers Pedro.
You are correct about the cloak.I tried to be restrained with the dirt this time to see how it looked.
Maybe a bit more would have been better,it does look better in the flesh.

 

[DEL]

A very fine job on this popular figure
I've never quite made my mind up about this piece, having said that I've painted 3.
What I think it's got is presence, a sort of solidity with smooth flat surfaces from head to toe that lends itself to all styles and levels of painting.
This helps everone in getting a very satisfactory result and yours here is well above average....you must be pleased with the way your work is progressing.
Cheers
Derek

 

[swralph]

A very fine job on this popular figure
I've never quite made my mind up about this piece, having said that I've painted 3.
What I think it's got is presence, a sort of solidity with smooth flat surfaces from head to toe that lends itself to all styles and levels of painting.
This helps everone in getting a very satisfactory result and yours here is well above average....you must be pleased with the way your work is progressing.
Cheers
Derek

Cheers Del.
Painted 3 and not mind your mind up really made me laugh..
I know what you mean about the smooth flat surface's.

In my early years of painting figure's my painting style was quite rigid and I was too concerned with what other people thought of my work I would make small progression's but just never felt happy with what I had painted.
When my illness went really bad I left figures alone for a while and just concentrated on plastic kits cars bikes planes etc.
About 8/9 years ago when I spent a while in the hospital,the doctors finally got my medication sorted out.
Since then I very rarely leave the house and closed myself off to live in my own little world.
I then started to paint a lot more figure's and was enjoying what I was doing.
At some point I decide, f&&& what other people thought this is about me and no-one else.
This was when I became quite loose in my painting style and felt that I was improving.
I got the internet about 4 years ago and found this site and decided to join and show my work(first time anyone apart from my wife and kids had seen my work for about 7 years)see pic below which was the first I posted here.
Having joined this site I found a lot of helpful tips and techniques which I incorporated into my painting,Ive also found the constructive criticism helpful.
So all in all Del,yes I am pleased with the way my work is progressing.
All the best.
Ralph.

 

[Buckledresin]

nice work chap

 

[swralph]

nice work chap

Cheers Paul.

 

[clrsgt]

Nice work.

 

[swralph]

Nice work.

Cheers Craig.

 

[Nap]

Ralph

You is da lean mean brush swirling machine mate

Another nice figure well painted

Power to your brush

Thanks for sharing

Nap

 

[swralph]

Ralph

You is da lean mean brush swirling machine mate

Another nice figure well painted

Power to your brush

Thanks for sharing

Nap

Cheers Nap.
"You is da lean mean brush swirling machine mate"

 

[arj]

Nice work on this one Ralph.

Cheers,
Andrew

 

[swralph]

Nice work on this one Ralph.

Cheers,
Andrew

Cheers Andrew.