Paladins of Alahan - 2. Confrontation.

Griffin Templars.Confrontation.

 

Learning is a light... Part 2.

    Let's continue a theme about my self-improvement in painting (you can read part 1 here).

    About two months ago I finished another painting course "Basics of painting".  I can explain my silence by an attempting to finish some unfinished works. But ... apparently it will be delayed for some time. So I want to show what I've done.
     On the drawing course we learned about form proportions, light and shade, perspective, texture, and other things. Now we learned about color, contrast, wholeness of composition. Also, we've tried various techniques and different materials: acrylics, pastel, watercolor, oil, gouache.

     And, of course, many thanks to my teacher, Vyacheslav Ashikhin for his patience and professional work with our group.
     In general, here are some of me best works at this level.
    
   Acrylic, paintig from nature:

 Mono palette, acrylic, paintig from nature:

This sample was done in a "pointillism"style (we call it "dotting" :)), acrylic, paintig from nature:

This sample was done by watercolor from a picture on a A3 format sheet. And, frankly speaking, I  gave up at  the lavender field :). To my mind, watercolor was seemed to me the most difficult of all materials because it's almost impossible to correct something.

And this is my first attempt at pastels (pastel pencils), also done from picture. 

But I did not finish the most interesting - oil work . Maybe one day I'll sit down  ...

White Dwarf miniature 2012

  This is my little work, created during relaxing after a strong competitive pressure. The goal was to play with light, color, texture, and, most importantly, don't strive for perfection. So here is some simplified transitions on this work, a metal was left with little or no attention. But in general I have a result -  I have a painted miniature!  
   This dwarf was attached to the White Dwarf 2012 annual subscription. Now I will try to find some time for two others guys - 2010 and 2011.

Goblin Clan: The Skimmers of the Ocean. Confrontation.

   What's a pleasure to sit down and open a new page of my blog :). It was a really long break, filled with all sorts of  daily cares, Diablo3 and other distractions. Of course, a painting was going on, but not so quickly as I wanted.
    And now, here is my finished work during this period: a gang of green-skin goblin sailors from Confrontation. I tried to maintain a style of my previous work  from this series.

And now, each guy separately: 

Griffin Exorcist. Confrontation.

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It was very interesting but difficult work.

My first trying to paint OSL was done two years ago:  it was Infinity's Jeanne D'Arc.

I heard that the main mistake here is a wrong light intensity: a basic lighting  must be darker than a torch lighting.  So I really wanted to repeat this experiment.
And when I opened a blister with exorcist and found two crosses there instead of one - I decided to use them as two candles. Now, it was necessary to put him in a dark place to make a "right" lighting.
The main difficulty for me was to place non-standard lighted areas because of:  first, two candles, and, second, they are pretty low.
But I tried to deal with that :)

Eldar Harlequin

This is a pilot Harlequin of my Eldar squad. I didn't dare to paint these miniatures for a long time because of a lot of diamonds and cells, but I need to do it some day or other. I've made some small conversion and formed a group of 8 units: jester, shadow seer, troop master and 5 usual harlequins. And now, after painting first one, I've decided that this squad will be painted in other color scheme. I can not say that I'm not satisfied with the result, but I want somethind else from this squad - I don't know what, but I'll find. Let's see what will happen.
Well, and now here is only the one: