Tuesday, March 01, 2011

The Renegade "Captain Gaga", Painting Stage #1

Here's some first painting WIP shots from the Captain Gaga.



I decided to paint her skin very pale and use dark make-up as a contrasting effect. I'm not sure if the make-up is strong enough, so suggestions are more than welcome. After all, this is the first female character that I'm painting, as far as I can remember.

The skin still needs some work with shadows and small details. I thought to paint some impurities here and there just to break otherwise smooth skin and make it look more humane.

I'm quite satisfied by the way red corset looks so far. It still needs quite a lot of work, for instance I'm planning to decorate the center piece with some nice freehand pattern. But the colour is just what I was looking for...



After good one and a half hour painting session the little snotling decided that it was time for me to have a break from my todays work, by waking up from his day nap, occupying my painting station's seat and threateningly handling wire cutters with a wicked blink in his eye corner. Yeah, it was time to close the table lid and shut down the lights.

12 comments:

  1. eye make up - dark's good but add a yellow transparent ink wash and then a number of transparent orange ink washes building up depth of glowing red colour - inks with shellac as part of their make up - winsor and newton artists inks - they are glossy but have real depth in a very similar
    way that oil paint glaizes have ......

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  2. oh and yup thats how the reds in the paintings behind your man cub were done - printing ink does not give the real glow tho ....

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  3. Thank you J. B. for the tips, they are much appreciated! I must say, I'm a bit too cautious with the gloss effects in general, don't really know why. Maybe I'm afraid that I'll overuse it and ruin the whole paint job...

    I've heard that the real paintings are very small, around A4 or something? Are there any of your works on display in Nottingham, e.g. in Warhammer World? I would love to see some of them in real life, because, as you said, the prints do not show all the details and charms there are in the real pieces.

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  4. get to games day and ill show you originals - i do matt varnish miniatures ......

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  5. Looking forward to your progress on this one izeColt, keep up the momentum!

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  6. Good job so far, yet there is one fault that I find worth mentioning. Its the lack of cotrast and bright colours. I think it would serve the purpose well to add some brighter colours to go with the black make up and hat, since it might add to the pirate's Gaga-look. You might have noticed her multicoloured appearance in some occasions(when not wearing black and silver or almost nothing at all, eh).

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  7. limited palette for me - inspiration is just that but minis have their own solutions but do not have to be followed to such extents - there can be no right or wrong when expressing ones own creativity .......

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  8. I would like to point out, that this character is NOT Lady Gaga, she is "Pirato Captain Gaga"
    Real Gaga was only used for inspiration when i created this Space Pirate. The other half came from The Inquisitor Scetchbook=)

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  9. J. B.: Sounds like a plan then! By the way, when is this year's Games Day going to be arranged?

    steve: Cheers! Glad to hear this project arouses interest.

    Veli: Thank you for another point of view! Multicolour palettes rarely fit in to my projects. In most cases I choose two, max three main colours, which will then be used to make the certain feeling for the project.

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  10. im the last to know because im so disorganised when it comes to real life - however i think its at the end of september maybe the last sunday ....... its a good place to be - new models and games - loads of nice peopel to talk to from all over - jakob was there last year as was steve ........

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  11. This is insanely cool. I took a slightly tongue-in cheek look at Gaga 40k whilst musing on Kaleb Daarks haircut in a blog-post, here. Really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

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  12. Read and loved your Kaleb Daark post! These kind of cross references are just the things we at the Spiky Rat pack love.

    It's a shame that they (GW) are no longer doing this kind of stuff and are maybe more or less only intrested in developing their current IP.

    We, the "fan-boyz", however, can make all the difference by mixing our own weird visions with their current presentations and have our own pseudo-pop-fantasy-mixtures, the kinds that flourished during the Golden era of GW.

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