Spring Clean Challenge Giger's Genestealers
Things I have learnt
Thank you for the comments to the previous post. Just taking stock and thinking about it logically has given me some incites into what I was doing.
First thing is do I aim for an Giger art style or go for a more Blanche look. Many be I should go for both. If I aim for a Giger look I will need to build up the colour gradually. His painting style starts with a deep block that fades as it goes along in a similar vain to watercolour. Which neatly leads me to point two.
The issues I was having painting the models after the first coat is bleeding obvious when I thought about it. Woodstain, contains varnish. No wonder I had issues with the paint. So I need to stop with my old thinking and use different techniques
I wonder whether an oil wash might achieve the type of result you want? If you don’t know anything about the technique, check out this Gerry tutorial https://www.beastsofwar.com/painting/gerry-can-show-you-how-to-shade-with-oil-paints/
That a good idea, I will give it a shot
Are you on the discord Thursday?
We could brainstorm there if yiu fancy
@avernos. Unfortunately not Jerry. I joined but the constant pinging made it unusable for me.
You can rightclick on it and mute it. Then the only notifications will be a red number when you’re mentioned by name. If that works
Considering the art for Giger’s biomechanical work and that he airbrushed in black you could go down the route of that Slap-thingy technique Gerry loves ❤️❤️❤️ (Lol).
If you go true xenomorph maybe go with a dark gray speedpaint to get the general color down for highlights. I think that hits the spot for the production still from the creature design in Alien. After that hit the models with black for the recesses and/wipe the parts you want to pop back up from “the darkness” (chiaroscuro with highlights?) You might also try a very very dark blue too.
It was more the Art style I was trying to copy than the xenomorphs, but I’ll give it a go.