The name of today's post is just the corresponding KS campaign in the World of Twilight setting. With this batch I can say I've finished the whole content I was commissioned for by my friend. I had divided it into manageable parts (which can be seen here, also here and, oh, here too). I've told before, but my main and essentially only direction was to paint them bright, alien, totally unnatural, as if they were from an Avatar movie. Along the years I've been trying to stick to that, using the most vibrant schemes I can produce, always tending to primary colours and psychedelia.
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Today was not an exception, why should it?
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I don't think I have any special, conscious process when I face projects like this. I only try to be efficient in the same way everyone is when mass painting stuff. I choose the main colour for a few minis, as you see above. I try to paint different sculpts in the same colour, so you have more variety in the end. Then I do the same with secondary colours. I choose one and apply it over different main colours, trying to get as many final patterns as possible.
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I hope the pic explains it better than me!
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This time I tried an experiment. I painted the skin of this guy in warm colours, from light yellow to dark red, and the I made irregular black spots over it.
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World's ugliest giraffe
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Or maybe weirdest chameleon ever. Something in between, I guess
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When you get this kind of mix, you end up with this colourful lot:
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You also end up with a propension to epilepsy, but that's another story
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When finished, they look like this:
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It's tricky to find the golden angle for these
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Yet they are fantastic minis
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| Trebarnii Forestguard |
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Look at them at your own risk
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Trebarnii Goaders
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You should see their cattle
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Trebarnii Howlers. Glorious mohawks
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Slayers of Twilight
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Howler Bristleback and two Seldoath
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I should have dared to paint brighter schemes for these two
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Skerrats. I've painted a bunch of them along the years
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Hunting Akitiin. The only ones I've painted the same, to match the other minis in the same KS
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Well, that's all, kind of a little swarm of minis. Have a look at all of them:
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Too much visual information for just one picture!
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The sense of closure when you finish a project such as a KS or stuff of the like is amazing, it feels really good. But there's no time for self indulgence! There are still a lot of minis to paint and the Mountain of Shame claims for work!
More stuff coming soon!
Oh,my! Lovely colorfull painting!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It sometimes gets difficult to choose colours for them, but in the end I think this kind of paintjob works!
DeleteFantastic colour palette and patterns Suber, the bold use of contrasting colours works fantastically to give them an other worldly feel to them.
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's difficult to say when it's too much, but for now I'm comfortable with the strange tones and results, so I'll keep it coming!
DeleteI love this stuff. In a world of sepia washes, your bright models really stand out. They're all great but the World's Ugliest Giraffe is fantastic: the blended yellow-red contrasts really well with the black marks. I really like the World of Twilight stuff: sooner or later I'm going to end up buying a load of them.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm always trying to make different patterns, and I've found this one interesting, so I may repeat it in the future with cold colours or whatever :)
DeleteWorld of Twilight is really refreshing. The whole ambientation is fantastic, and just the mere fact that the only thing you'll find here is lizards and creatures of the like is a bold move. No orcs, no demonic entities, no humans, no mega battles with huge weapons... This is so different, it's a breath of fresh air to me. Besides, being explicitly instructed to avoid earthy colours and go wild with it is the best thing that could happen to me :)
Very naturalistic painting schemes even if very bright! Great job, I like the effect of multi colour base colours under the spots.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I find it particularly hard when painting mammals. I mean, I can easily see colourful lizards in my mind, but it's hard to paint bright blue fur and not to lose it! :D
DeleteBonkers psychedelia! And I love it. Just fun and bright and far away from the grim darkness of current trends. I see lots of poison tree frog influences in these patterns and colour choices.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I must state that no frog or toad was licked to get any influence though...
DeleteExcellent looking deranged chameleons! Iwas expecting Khardashians from misreading the title?!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Haha, your title makes more sense than mine! XDD
DeleteWhile they do stand out individually in their own vivid, bright colors ... it all also gels together when they are seen as a whole (or as a group). Nice work Suber :)
ReplyDeleteThank you! It's a true explosion of colour, I hope they don't cause epilepsy to anyone! XD
DeleteMuy buenas.
ReplyDeleteSé que nunca escribo (entre otras cosas, porque nunca me acuerdo). La gente debe creer que soy un desagradecido, pero nada más lejos de la verdad, esto realmente contento con este trabajo (y todos los anteriores), y creo (como alguien decía por ahí arriba) que este "golpe" de luminosidad en un mundo cada vez más Grimdark, es un soplo de aires fresco.
Ya sabes que esto nunca acaba, enseguida vienen otros KS.
Gracias MY FRIEND!!!
(no sé porqué no puedo "loguearme", pero soy Tonijor)
ReplyDelete¡Jaja, muchas gracias! Los comentarios siempre se agradecen, pero no me obsesiono con esto. Te agradezco tus palabras :)
ReplyDeleteWorld of Twilight es una cosa superoriginal que me está permitiendo hacer cosas muy variadas, ¡así que yo también estoy muy, muy contento! :)