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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Jan 29, 2014 4:58:26 GMT
I made this little guy this afternoon. I used DM Scotty's contruction ideas from his fire marker video! I TRIED to use AJ's fire techniques on the paint job but I dont know if Im really happy with it. Any hints would be very appreciated.
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Post by grym247 on Jan 29, 2014 7:03:33 GMT
looks pretty cool...i mean hot... i mean good lol, nice work dude
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Jan 29, 2014 7:11:46 GMT
Looks pretty darn good to me..... perhaps a bit more white needed at the base and part way up to indicate the uber hawtness erm heat (forgot what I was commenting on for a sec as I was distracted by..... well...erm.... nevermind) contained in the central core of the elemental. I like it!!!
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Post by DMNate on Jan 29, 2014 7:20:18 GMT
I think it looks great. :^) The top portion (though this may just be a lighting or camera issue) came out a little pink. Try using a more orange tone of red. Don't get me wrong, though. I like it. Fire is super tricky. Are you going to be entering this into the world of craftwar this month?
Sent from my SGH-T679 using proboards
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Post by onethatwas on Jan 29, 2014 7:58:23 GMT
Its good to try to stick to 3 to 5 colors of paint when doing anything that varies in shade. As an example, DMG pretty much uses 3 colors (the blending of white and black to make gray counts here) when he demonstrates the crafting of dungeon tiles. DM scotty tends to follow this rule too, inadvertently perhaps...the flecks of paint sprayed out of the can tend to be white and gray, and the base coat of black gives you the third color. In any case, for fire, obviously yellow and orange, and then red. You can cheat/shortcut by mixing orange with red and yellow of course. But in any case, as you move up the elemental, where the fire cools (red being the cold color), you would want to gradually mix more red color and less yellow. Once you are happy with the result, you can highlight select areas of the flame with a lighter shade than exists in that area. So on the red area, you can highlight some areas (can be accomplished via dry brushing lightly in those areas) with orange. In the orangish areas, you can highlight yellow, and in the yellow areas...well, I wouldn't recomend "highlighting" with white. Rather I would suggest base coating the bottom with white and building your color in that area up to a vivid yellow, leaving the recesses white at the base. Techniques for painting are difficult to get the hang of, especially for something as complex as fire. It amounts to building color up to a lighter shade (often used for miniatures and most objects, thus why we often base coat black for tiles, so we can paint up the scale of colors) or building down to a darker shade (a bit trickier to do, as is the case with fire). But I would say that Fire Elemental is really good even without all the technique. Definitely an excellent first try
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Jan 29, 2014 8:04:56 GMT
I think it looks great. :^) The top portion (though this may just be a lighting or camera issue) came out a little pink. Try using a more orange tone of red. Don't get me wrong, though. I like it. Fire is super tricky. Are you going to be entering this into the war of craftwar this month? Sent from my SGH-T679 using proboards I noticed the color issue and was a bit confused becuz under certain lighting it seemed pinkish and other lighting orange-red. I really read and reread AJ's fire article and everything he showed in it made so much sense. I think the fact that it was so irregular and rough on its surface that I sort of got off track when I started painting it. I have done other fire type painting on store bought models but total hot glue creation is brand new to me. As far as the contest goes I actually wont have the time this month but I will evenyually get into one. Thank you for your feedback! I will take these lessons forward.
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Post by darkslayer on Jan 29, 2014 8:06:18 GMT
Looks very COOL lol.....(he waits for an aplause)
Love the sculpting and painting, although i would make the eyes a blue flame kind of color, even so its great! Envious of this work
Sent from my DROID RAZR using proboards
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Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Jan 29, 2014 8:20:05 GMT
Looks very COOL lol.....(he waits for an aplause) Love the sculpting and painting, although i would make the eyes a blue flame kind of color, even so its great! Envious of this work Sent from my DROID RAZR using proboards Well its just my test run so I hope better things will come next!Plus he is only 2 and a half inches tall! So maybe a bit bigger LOLOL
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Post by DMNate on Jan 29, 2014 8:36:29 GMT
I think it looks great. :^) The top portion (though this may just be a lighting or camera issue) came out a little pink. Try using a more orange tone of red. Don't get me wrong, though. I like it. Fire is super tricky. Are you going to be entering this into the war of craftwar this month? Sent from my SGH-T679 using proboards I noticed the color issue and was a bit confused becuz under certain lighting it seemed pinkish and other lighting orange-red. I really read and reread AJ's fire article and everything he showed in it made so much sense. I think the fact that it was so irregular and rough on its surface that I sort of got off track when I started painting it. I have done other fire type painting on store bought models but total hot glue creation is brand new to me. As far as the contest goes I actually wont have the time this month but I will evenyually get into one. Thank you for your feedback! I will take these lessons forward. One possibility might be the specific yellow or red you are using. Make they neither have white tones in them, as this will end up with a pink-ish orange in the end. The yellow can be mixed with white paint, but the red cannot. Make sure you kep all the red pigment away from the whites to keep the orange a nice deep color. Perhaps you got over zealous and didn't let the white base coat dry before applying the other layers. Who knows... Keep painting though. fire is tricky, and one never completely gets it. We just get better at fixing the mistakes that always happen.
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Post by Muze on Feb 1, 2014 14:42:06 GMT
i like it ... keep up the good work
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Post by sgtslag on Feb 2, 2014 14:09:39 GMT
Nice piece! Reminds me of a Ral Partha(?) Fire Elemental from around 20 years ago. I think the paint looks far better than I could achieve -- no issues from my vantage point. Cheers, and thanks for posting!
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Post by kasinfl on Feb 2, 2014 18:27:45 GMT
I love it. He is a cool lil dude. (If you can call a fire creature dude or not. Well, really I guess you can and if he doesn't burn you he is cool with it.)
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