A small note for all my imaginary friends.
Following a long leave of absence, Danish paintmeister Jenova is back online and painting. Great news, great indeed. Jenova runs now the old website, a blog, and a twitter account. The old website has good tutorials, a gallery, and a host of advice, examples, etc. Inge/Jenova paints mostly women, in a subdued, smooth style with earthly colors (greens, browns, dark reds, etc). I have always been particularly impressed by her skintones, both humans and others like the soldiers of her Dark Age army.
About 6 years ago, when I started painting again after a long hiatus, one of the first websites I found was Jenova.dk. I liked the painting style and the color palette. There was also a certain kindness in the writing that made the site very welcoming. That was refreshing after checking pages on pages of ego-shocked painting supremos or nerds with no social skills. It was a pitty to see a few years ago that she had stopped updating and obviously had withdrawn from the all painting thing. So, good to see that she took the brushes again. Go check her work, this is great stuff. And good luck to her for the coming back!
tiistai 23. kesäkuuta 2009
maanantai 8. kesäkuuta 2009
Some more random pictures of the army...
All the army on the shelf
The boss and the big robots on the shelf
The Scouts/flying bots. Big gun behind is the heavy bolter.
Big robot/dreadnought number 1. Flames need to be reworked at some point. Too much black and yellow, it seems strange. The first idea was to go for a sort of sickly green flame effect, Alien mystery gun style. In the future, maybe.
Big bot number 2 and...
... his little friend. Comment from my daughter: he must be a baby, since he has diapers. Quite so.
One of the land speeders. Extraordinary little things in game terms. Multi-melta is ace, heavy flamer useful more often than not, all that in a skimmer. I had a pinch of bad consicence because my ... constructions are slightly smaller than GW's stock models. To compensate, I tried to be generous with my opponents' lines of sight.
One of the rhinos, the one with the open hatch. This was a treat to do. works visually very well, better than what the picture gives away.
And squad 2, the red heads. Red technic was very straightforward: the ubiquitous Charred Brown, then Charred + Terracotta, then Terracotta. Done. For this like for the bone heads, I did scratches and bumps by leaving the darker color show in some places. Then you go on the edges of this darker zone with pure white or a lighter version of your highlight color. Gives the "trompe l'oeil" effect you want.
On these big pictures, you see just how quick the army was done... Everything but 4 models from the bone head squad was painted in this feverish friday afternoon and night before the tournament. I might come back to this army and, for instance, re-work the metallic areas. Sometimes...
Next time, a bit of fluff, and we will be departing for new shores.
All the army on the shelf
The boss and the big robots on the shelf
The Scouts/flying bots. Big gun behind is the heavy bolter.
Big robot/dreadnought number 1. Flames need to be reworked at some point. Too much black and yellow, it seems strange. The first idea was to go for a sort of sickly green flame effect, Alien mystery gun style. In the future, maybe.
Big bot number 2 and...
... his little friend. Comment from my daughter: he must be a baby, since he has diapers. Quite so.
One of the land speeders. Extraordinary little things in game terms. Multi-melta is ace, heavy flamer useful more often than not, all that in a skimmer. I had a pinch of bad consicence because my ... constructions are slightly smaller than GW's stock models. To compensate, I tried to be generous with my opponents' lines of sight.
One of the rhinos, the one with the open hatch. This was a treat to do. works visually very well, better than what the picture gives away.
And squad 2, the red heads. Red technic was very straightforward: the ubiquitous Charred Brown, then Charred + Terracotta, then Terracotta. Done. For this like for the bone heads, I did scratches and bumps by leaving the darker color show in some places. Then you go on the edges of this darker zone with pure white or a lighter version of your highlight color. Gives the "trompe l'oeil" effect you want.On these big pictures, you see just how quick the army was done... Everything but 4 models from the bone head squad was painted in this feverish friday afternoon and night before the tournament. I might come back to this army and, for instance, re-work the metallic areas. Sometimes...
Next time, a bit of fluff, and we will be departing for new shores.
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