Spawn

[alexvez]

Hi !
so, you can see here my first painted sculpt.
And also my first complet human like sculpt.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/AlexVez/spawn/temp13.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/AlexVez/spawn/temp12.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/AlexVez/spawn/temp10.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/AlexVez/spawn/temp11.jpg

c and c are wellcome !

[Merkin]

that is a cool sculpt! I really like the material bits flying around him, they have a nice texture. I am not sure if it is the photo or not but it looks like you have just painted his body in plain black and white. If so, I reckon you should try and get some shades of grey in there to better define his muscles, maybe even add a subtle tint of blue or brown to give it some life as well. But it could be the pics - it's hard to light contrasty stuff like that.

Merkin.

[alexvez]

its sculpted in black SS,
the only paint is the white, the red and the gray of the spikes.
i didnt want to make hard paint job for now, i paint with bruches caus i cant buy an airbrush and i think its not ideal to make differnet shade of grey.
one day, i'll surely begin painting but for now, i dont want to scrap my sculpt with bad painting technique.

thanks for tne reply

[Pavel Sokov]

i believe his head is too big.
and there is something scary going on with his leg anatomy, and for some reason he looks cartoonish to me.
but u did a kick ass job on the cape man, how did u make it?

[Merkin]

i paint with bruches caus i cant buy an airbrush and i think its not ideal to make differnet shade of grey.
one day, i'll surely begin painting but for now, i dont want to scrap my sculpt with bad painting technique.

I know what you mean - I recently finished my first super sculpey sculpt and was a bit worried that when I painted it I might wreck it but I got up the courage and gave it a go. It went well for 90% of it but I did make a couple of mistakes. After the paint dried, I painted over the mistakes and it looks fine cos I wasn't puttting a thick coating of paint on.

So my advice is that you give it a go anyway. If you are really worried, try out some techniques on a bit of spare sculpey till you get it right.

On the technical side of it, you can get great results doing shading with a paintbrush - do you think Michaelangelo used an airbrush? ;o) But seriously, there are two techniques you could use:

1/ Drybrushing. This technique involves putting a little bit of paint on your brush then wiping most of it off on a rag or tissue then LIGHTLY brushing it accross the surface. This fades in the colour over time and can give really subtle shading.
2/ Highlighting. This method involves building up the shading by painting several thin coats of paint that get progressively lighter (or darker) as they are painted. You can get really good results with this technique but it takes a little longer.

Here is a link to these painting techniques:
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/pp/pp20010607a

I really hope you give it a go cos IMHO it will make you model go from good to great.

Brad

[alexvez]

wow, thank you verry much Merkin !
i'll read this and try in .... but not on a sculpture who take 20h to do !

manslauter: it was verry easy...
i just used mosquito net as armature and voila !
ho, yes, the legs is not verry good :(
and for the cartoonish ..... maby its caus spawn is a cartoon !!!

thanks again for the critic !