by FourEyedMonster | Nov 25, 2016
One thing in my painting bucket list had always gnawed at my creative subconscious like a dog with a bone, refusing to let go. That bone, figuratively speaking, is to paint a realistic weathered and rusted effect on metal. While I have occasionally attempted to do...
by FourEyedMonster | Nov 17, 2016
My first step in converting the 80-mm Nocturna Models Soum 13 Moons resin figurine into a proper Suicide Squad character proxy involved painting freehand, a skull icon used to symbolise Katana in the promotional movie posters. Although I'm by no means an expert at it,...
by FourEyedMonster | Nov 10, 2016
Painting realistic skin tones is hard. Painting extremely fair skin while maintaining realism and contrast is a whole different level of hard. At least for me. Phase one of the Nocturna Models Soum 13 Moons or Suicide Squad Katana proxy's skin tone involved setting...
by FourEyedMonster | Oct 20, 2016
At last after what seems like an eternity, the House Martell Knight and Warhorse is complete. It took me a while to get over the creative block hindering its progress i.e. deciding what heraldic image I wanted on the sides of the warhorse caparison. Check out the...
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...