Re: DarkArtist's Creations of DOOM!
Though not the oldest guy here...
That may be Gruff
OLD Bear...
Sorry Gruff!
BUT, I ain't no spring chicken, not among you lot!...
45.
Yeah, I'd pay good money to see Josh's stuff in person. I may yet too, before too much longer.
If, one day, some mid-country set Con allows for some of us to meetup, consider it done!
As for sleep,
DD! Man! I was up til 2am myself painting on my way behind work last night too! I NEVER get days off, and am still behind. Ask Pjam or Gruff (or some other members here) if patience with me is a virtue or not. I have to commend Josh and Mikey for getting it done faster than me,
if indeed they do...because to do work like this, like Josh's, relatively fast, and of such good quality, is a blessing.
Anyway, just wait Josh, you get that camera, and GET YOU ONE OF THESE PHOTO TENTS (Ask Mikey!) and your workload will triple bro!
You're getting there on your skin tones. Don't let the criticisms get to you. Too red skin is sometimes a photo/lighting thing, or some other anomoly that you didn't account for.
My suggestion is to mix a nice midtone base skin, that you like, and that you KNOW photos well, then use it in mixes with the other shading colors. If you ever get YOUR color, some "perfect" skin base, and you need one for all race variations, then you can rock out your paints from a good, comfortable starting point. Just be careful about certain characters tans, or color variations.
Too often too, I see someone fall in love with a certain color paint, and use it over and over to their detriment. Stay with basics and with colors like Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna and other base tones so you can always shift an "incorrect" color easily with a single repair coat, rather than a total repaint.
We customizing few!
