Privateer’s Dallas Shows Off Some Impressive Bust Painting
November 4, 2017 by brennon
Dallas from Privateer Press who does an amazing job on our painting tutorials highlighted (get it...hah) some great looking Busts in one of his latest articles and we just had to show them off too.
Leading the way we have this version of Skarre painted by Randon Gobles and we reckon she's got an awesome evil look to her with her pale blue skin contrasting nicely against her red hair. The horns also look fantastic.
This is then matched by this awesome looking take on Nemo by Anthony Rodriguez.
By contrast, he looks a lot more human and the work that has gone into the stubble around his chin and the hair looks great. The burnished bronze of the armour is a perfect clash against the bright blue of his armour.
You've got to give Anthony a pat on the back for the awesome work on those goggles too making them look slightly translucent.
Last but not least we have my favourite with Borka by Eric Swinson.
As well as some impressive painting around the face and across the fur the real highlight of this piece is the glow effect from a fire that is crackling slowly beneath his feet.
You could just imagine him standing around the fire, drinking with his Trollblood brothers and singing songs of glorious victories.
What do you think of these busts and would you attempt one yourself?
Drop your thoughts below...
"we reckon she's got an awesome evil look to her with her pale blue skin contrasting nicely against her red hair"
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Those are some great looking well painted busts.
I like an impressively painted bust ……………………………. 😀
Those are awesome
they look good is the first one hellboys mom?
That troll paintjob. Cor!
All great paint jobs, the Borka bust though is outstanding
Excellent work ! I like an artist who dares show “touche” and contrast… do I detect the influence of pointillism and impressionnisme on that warcaster ?
It is following a current trend in competition painting. They/We are all obsessed with textures right now, and there’s been a lot of really cool pieces exploring how this goes.
This has been especially good for busts, since the larger scale lends itself very well to differing textures (although it is applied to many smaller scale minis too).
For a real meta-breaker, check out Anthony Rodriguez’s bust of Van Gogh
Whoa, Eric Swinson really rocked that Borka.
I absolutely love that glow effect – talk about inspiration!