Hello!
This figure was built OOB. All the uniforms and life-jacket were painted by airbrush as well as the hands, boots and head and ofcourse all the highlights and shadows were airbrushed as well. other details were painted with a 000 brush.
I would like to hear what you think, and any comment will be appriciated.
slightly differnt angle then the first one…
Without the life-jacket (made it removale)
WOW!.. 40 views so far, and not a single comment…
This is realy sad folks. I came here to hear responeses and (especialy) comments about my work. If you wil not comment how can I learn? So far I had commented about your works around the forums, not getting a single response is not very nice. Even if you think it’s a bad looking figure I think you shoul’d point it out. Criticising will always help, unless you are not intersted in helping…
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At first glance he looks real you did a outstanding job. Now if only i could get up the nerve to buy my first figure.
Don’t take it personally. I’ve posted many times with little or no response. Sometimes that’s the way it goes. It’s not personal.
Your figure looks pretty good. Overall it’s really a very nice figure.
My suggestions (and I mean suggestions, in the spirit of learning) are as follows:
I would have worked the seam on the head a little more. It should be gone. It’s hard to do without damaging the hair detail, but ya just gotta do it.
It looks like you have some broad shading on the wider, shallow folds on the arms and such, and if that’s what they are, and not just natural shadow, they look pretty good. Your outline shading, however, is a little too strong. It should blend a little more. I’d have used a lighter shadow color and blended it in a little, then came back with a deep shade color, sparingly, where needed.
The stark shade contrast is particularly too strong on the white shirt. Black is never the antithesis of white in figure painting. Whites come in warm and cool hues, and need to be shaded accordingly. If it’s cool, use blues and cool grays for shading. If it’s warm, use tans, browns and warm grays. You really never need to use straight black. Also, your base color should never be straight white. It should be an off white, but, again, the hue depends on whether it’s warm or cool. You’ll want a mid shade tone and a deep shade tone, your base color and then straight white for your highlights.
Your skin tone doesn’t look too bad, though I can’t tell if I’m seeing natural shadow or painted shadow. Either way, I will say that the skin looks a tad jaundiced, but it’s really not too bad. I’d add a touch, and I do mean a touch, of red and then some white. That will lighten it and then pull it away from tan and into pink. A little red goes a very long way though, which is why I say to add just a touch.
The hairline is too stark as well. It looks painted, in fact it looks masked, which I’m sure it was, since you’re using an airbrush. Military cuts usually are pretty stark, but they still do blend.
For the metalics, try adding black to silver for a gunmetal gray as your base, run a light wash of black or dark blue, or maybe even brown into the details, and then dry brush with straight silver. The Iron Cross ribbon looks like the pic below, and should be painted accordingly.
All criticism aside though, it really is a nice figure, and my critique is simply because you asked and want to learn. They are suggestions, so don’t feel you have to take them. Enjoy your work, however you do it. That’s all that matters in the end.
