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Yet another change to the website, plus a new completed mini |
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Thursday, 19 August 2010 21:11 |
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If you've visited this site in the past, you'll probably notice that the layout has changed yet again. For the past couple of months, I'd been using the b2evolution blog software, but the backend was painfully slow, so I decided to try something else. Right now I'm using the Joomla content management system. I've moved most of the relevant articles and links over from the old site, and even fixed a few dead links that were on my Cork Basing tutorials. I'm not entirely satisfied with the color scheme and layout yet, but I can live with it for now.
In the meantime, I finished a Rackham dwarf that I've done almost entirely since GenCon. It's in the gallery, but if you are lazy and don't want to go there, a small version will follow this update. I keep mentioning another figure that I've been working on for quite a while. It really is almost done -- I just need to figure out what I'm going to do on it as far as freehand goes. Seriously. Me. Freehand. Well, that's probably why it's not getting finished.
As promised, the small version of my Lithomancien de Tir-Nâ-Bor:
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:18 |
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This year marked my first trip to GenCon in Indianapolis. While I was there, I finally met a number of painters whose work I was familiar with, but didn't actually know personally, as well as getting to see old friends again. Since I didn't go to ReaperCon this year, I hadn't seen most of them for more than a year, and in some cases even longer than that. It was a good time.
I ended up taking eight painting classes from six different instructors, and learned a few new tricks. Hopefully I'll actually start showing some improvement after what I feel like has been several years of stagnation. I have a lot of new things to practice. One of the classes I took was airbrushing with Mathieu Fontaine. As a result, I now have an airbrush, so I might actually be able to tackle some of the larger scale figures I've been acquiring over the past few years. Of course, I'm sure they will be terrible, since I'd never touched an airbrush before a few days ago.
In the painting competition, I ended up entering the dwarf I completed a couple of months back. It didn't win anything, but I didn't expect it to, either. It didn't look out of place in the case with the winners, though, and that was my main goal. If I'm going to go to World Expo next year, I should start pushing the envelope a bit more, and start taking competitions more seriously. In that vein, I have a couple that I intend to enter at TactiCon in Denver next month. One that I've been working on for a couple of months now, and another that I've done in the past week. Both should be finished very soon, and will be in the gallery when they are complete.
Speaking of TactiCon, I'll be teaching a class on skintones there this year. It will be my first time teaching in over a year, and I really don't count the basic classes I taught at ReaperCon last year, so it's been even longer since I taught anything more advanced than simple a basecoat/wash/drybrush. I don't envy the people who have signed up for the class one bit. |
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Monday, 10 May 2010 12:59 |
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Over the weekend I finally got the rest of the Rackham dwarf finished. I spent an entire afternoon just painting the rock on the base, much to the amusement of my fellow painters at Attactix up in Denver. A full sized picture is in the gallery.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 11:16 |
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This past weekend I attended an intensive painting class with Mathieu Fontaine (www.akaranseth.com), so I'm a bit more motivated to paint now. I have a Rackham figure that I've been working on for the past month or so, but was stuck for a while. Hopefully I'll get it finished this weekend. It's a bit of an experiment with interference paints and colour-shaded metallics, so I'm not sure how it's going to turn out. Luckily, it's a figure that I have at least one more copy of, so if I screw it up, I still have another that I can paint later.
Since the last update, I painted a Kabuki figure for a contest over at the Wamp Forum. Considering I wasn't crazy about how it turned out, and the fact that I nearly threw it away when it was about 85% finished, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I won the contest. Their next contest is for Avatars of War, and I might enter that one as well. We shall see.
I wasn't planning on posting the Kabuki figure here on this site, but I've had a change of heart. So it's over in the gallery if you want to have a look. |
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I loves me some Rackham dwarves |
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Friday, 30 April 2010 21:42 |
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People who talk to me about painting frequently hear me lamenting the fact that Rackham no longer produces metal figures. They are by far my favorite miniatures. Since they changed to plastics, I've been hoarding Rackham pewter like mad. I have more than I'd be able to paint in several decades. But then again, since I can't get them anymore, I'm afraid to paint them. People who know my love for Rackham can also tell you about how much I hate to strip minis that I've screwed up. So I've been sitting on this pile of metal for a while.
Well, recently I got brave. I started in on prepping a pair of dwarf armourers (NASP03, to be specific), and a week or so I began putting some paint on one of them. I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along so far. Then again, my Rackham dwarves usually turn out pretty well. So here are a couple of pictures.
 
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