by FourEyedMonster | Oct 14, 2016
Using Faber-Castell Polychromos artist-grade colour pencils to outline my freehand paintings has been a game changer for me. These are arguably the best oil-based colour pencils that you can get and more significantly they have been used on top of acrylic paints in...
by FourEyedMonster | Oct 6, 2016
Bronn - not unlike the Nocturna Models 54 mm The Crusader figurine itself - can be pretty plain. What gives Bronn character is not fancy clothing but his semi-weather-beaten facial features. And this puts a lot of pressure on a painter to do a good job on the face or...
by FourEyedMonster | Sep 30, 2016
Stage two of my Game of Thrones proxy project of Bronn the sellsword was all about painting the smaller sections of the miniature. This involved working on bits and pieces such as Bronn's leather belt and boots, scabbard, sword as well as base. Imagine them, if you...
by FourEyedMonster | Sep 25, 2016
A year is a long time without drawing; for me it is anyway. Drawing is akin to riding a bike i.e. a skill you aren't likely to forget just because you haven't been doing it regularly. That being said, realistic portrait drawing is something you get good at only with...
by FourEyedMonster | Sep 20, 2016
Surprised last week by a request from my mother-in-law to paint a figurine she had, I set about the task to - at the very least - do a half decent job that didn't elicit any major disappointment. With this not being a personal project that I could take my own sweet...
