My Pics!

[subZer0]

Here are a few of my pics, it's my first post in this sub-forum, I hope you guys like them. I'd love to hear what you guys think, plus, any tips you think might help me get a better finish to my pieces.

Edit: These pictures were taken on my digi-cam, which isn't brilliant, in bad light, so they don't look their best.

 

[subZer0]

A few more...

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Welcome to this forum. Unfortunately, aside from me and a small handful of others, this forum is largely dead and inactive and not many people come here or post. Me and that handful are the only ones keeping it alive, if you want to even call it that.

You really need a scanner so you can really show these pictures off at their best! I can see right away that you're definitely a really good artist. If only you had a scanner (or if you had one you could have/would have used it, though logically you would have). Its hard to make out fine details with a digi cam. I'm not knocking you though. I have a digi cam myself, and I've tried taking pictures with it, but the quality isn't so good.

I see you have some Warhammer 40k art. Do you play or collect at all? I play the fantasy version right now, but I'm looking into collecting an Imperial Guard Steel Legion army for 40k.

 

[rajee]

Great Stuff.

 

[subZer0]

Welcome to this forum. Unfortunately, aside from me and a small handful of others, this forum is largely dead and inactive and not many people come here or post. Me and that handful are the only ones keeping it alive, if you want to even call it that.

You really need a scanner so you can really show these pictures off at their best! I can see right away that you're definitely a really good artist. If only you had a scanner (or if you had one you could have/would have used it, though logically you would have). Its hard to make out fine details with a digi cam. I'm not knocking you though. I have a digi cam myself, and I've tried taking pictures with it, but the quality isn't so good.

I see you have some Warhammer 40k art. Do you play or collect at all? I play the fantasy version right now, but I'm looking into collecting an Imperial Guard Steel Legion army for 40k.

It's sad to hear this forum is largely dead, but you have an addition now! Yes, I do need a scanner! I can't afford one yet though, but when I can, I'll do them properly.

Thanks for your extremely kind comments, it's always nice to be appreciated! Yeah, I used to play 40k, but largely just collect and paint. And draw! I collected Space Wolves to begin with, but then decided to start collecting Chaos Space Marines. I love the fact that Chaos are hard as nails, but I also like the fact that the Imperium is human and that they are the good guys, so I'm still collecting Imperium (although not as much as Chaos).

It's hard to draw from miniatures and even more difficult from my memory, unless I know exactly what to draw, so I tend to draw from Codex books, and White Dwarf, so these aren't from my memory. (I never claim credit for the original pics, I'll always state they are drawn from someone else's drawings.) But all are recreated by my own hand!

EDIT: The sword was from my memory!

 

[subZer0]

Great Stuff.

Thankyou Rajee!

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

It's sad to hear this forum is largely dead, but you have an addition now! Yes, I do need a scanner! I can't afford one yet though, but when I can, I'll do them properly.

Thanks for your extremely kind comments, it's always nice to be appreciated! Yeah, I used to play 40k, but largely just collect and paint. And draw! I collected Space Wolves to begin with, but then decided to start collecting Chaos Space Marines. I love the fact that Chaos are hard as nails, but I also like the fact that the Imperium is human and that they are the good guys, so I'm still collecting Imperium (although not as much as Chaos).

It's hard to draw from miniatures and even more difficult from my memory, unless I know exactly what to draw, so I tend to draw from Codex books, and White Dwarf, so these aren't from my memory. (I never claim credit for the original pics, I'll always state they are drawn from someone else's drawings.) But all are recreated by my own hand!

EDIT: The sword was from my memory!

Yeah, I noticed some of of your chaos spacemarines were from the codex. But thats fine. Theres a difference between copying, tracing, and using something for reference. If using the codex books for reference was all you did then I personally don't qualify that as copying unless the picture is exactly the same. But, even then, you will have drawn it under your own merits, skills, and ability to do so, whereas with copying and tracing success is due to completely mimicking everything without skill being a part of the equation.

I collect a Chaos army for fantasy. Of the four Dark Gods I have to choose from, I chose Slaanesh. His backstory, his units, his spell lore, his color schemes, and his powers really suit my playing style. Its a finesse army, but with the benefit of being Chaos, so they're extremely good at fighting. I also have very fast units to get flank charges on with. Yummy daemonettes =3.
My army is mixed. The bulk of it is mortal humans (warriors, knights, marauders), and its supported by several beast units (like Minotaurs) and daemons (daemonettes).

Anyways, its good to be talking to another collector/player/painter. You should consider also taking pictures of your painted minis so I/we can see them.

 

[subZer0]

I totally agree with you on the tracing. There is absolutely no skill involved. I tend to do things like a mix of drawings on one page, as you can see; each drawing is in the codex, but not all together. That was my idea!

I would definitely like to take some pics of my army. I've got an Imperium Dreadnought, which I converted by cutting the armour of a tank to fit parts of my Dreadnought, so as to cover the Imperium symbols, I fitted a Chaos symbol to the back, got some old heads from Imperium Space Marines, Tyranids and Orcs, put a hole through and had them being held by one of its arms, and painted a cool lightning/chaosy type scheme, and even if I do say so myself; it looks good!

Yeah, its great to talk to another with similar interests! I hope to see your army too!

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

You do conversions too, huh?

I recently made a giant snake that will serve as my giant (because snakes are a big slaaneshi theme it fits right in). I made it completely from scratch with just epoxy putty, though, so its not technically a conversion since I didn't use models from the GW range to make it (with the exception of a few small bits). I'd love to take pictures of it and my army to share, but I don't have a camera. I tried once taking pictures with my digicam but they were pretty crappy.

What I can share with you is my art, though. Theres a couple threads in this forum that I recently created about the same time you made this one. One of them has the link to my deviantart page. Do you have a deviantart account or other art site account? If so I'd like to have your SN so I can check you out there too.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Even if you are taking inspiration from the Codex, that is fine work! Warhammer is just cool. 😀

And I like the sword, although I have a soft spot for them. HDS, back when he doodled, took to drawing swords of various sorts for a few months. It is probably a factor of my lack of skill, but they were hard, so I salute any who can do it right. 😀 *Thumbs up*

 

[subZer0]

You do conversions too, huh?

I recently made a giant snake that will serve as my giant (because snakes are a big slaaneshi theme it fits right in). I made it completely from scratch with just epoxy putty, though, so its not technically a conversion since I didn't use models from the GW range to make it (with the exception of a few small bits). I'd love to take pictures of it and my army to share, but I don't have a camera. I tried once taking pictures with my digicam but they were pretty crappy.

What I can share with you is my art, though. Theres a couple threads in this forum that I recently created about the same time you made this one. One of them has the link to my deviantart page. Do you have a deviantart account or other art site account? If so I'd like to have your SN so I can check you out there too.

Yeah, conversions are great! I use a lot of Green Stuff to mould into shapes, I think thats the same as epoxy putty. Chaos is great stuff to convert because you can get some really great 'manifestations', and the level of creativity you can reach with it is really something.

I'll take a look for your threads now! I'm afraid I don't have a DeviantArt account, but if you have one I'll chech you out!

 

[subZer0]

Even if you are taking inspiration from the Codex, that is fine work! Warhammer is just cool. 😀

And I like the sword, although I have a soft spot for them. HDS, back when he doodled, took to drawing swords of various sorts for a few months. It is probably a factor of my lack of skill, but they were hard, so I salute any who can do it right. 😀 *Thumbs up*

I'm glad you like the sword. It was my first attempt at drawing something entirely from my imagination. Somehow, if I can't see what I'm drawing with my eyes, it's really difficult to put it onto paper. So I'm really quite proud of it. I'll keep drawing swords, hell, I'll even dedicate some to you, good sir!

Thanks for your kind words!

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Yeah, conversions are great! I use a lot of Green Stuff to mould into shapes, I think thats the same as epoxy putty. Chaos is great stuff to convert because you can get some really great 'manifestations', and the level of creativity you can reach with it is really something.

I'll take a look for your threads now! I'm afraid I don't have a DeviantArt account, but if you have one I'll chech you out!

Green Stuff IS exoxy putty, these just call it green stuff because thats what color it changes into when you mix both sides of the putty to harden it. As you know, one side (the yellow) is for sculpting and the other (the blue) is for hardening. Mixed together they give you some play before it sets. Sometimes, its not blue or yellow. I've seen epoxy putty in black and white, but its the same thing.

Yes, Chaos is a good army for conversions because you can do all sorts of cool, twisted things with it and really use your imagination. Others armies its harder to do that with.

As for my DA account, do note that theres not much there right now as that account was created mid last year after I had moved from a previous account I had. Also, some of the stuff at the bottom of the gallery is old. The newer stuff is at the top.

You should create an account there. Its free, though there is also a subscriber service you can get (which is what I have).

 

[subZer0]

I only knew 'Green Stuff' as that name! Bit silly, really, not knowing it's epoxy putty. Duh!

I did take a look at your DA, it was very good. I particularly like the one entitled 'Memento'. Great background, and I like the way the character is enveloped in a kind of aura; differentiating between the foreground and background, while at the same time binding both the character and the background. Very nice stuff.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

I only knew 'Green Stuff' as that name! Bit silly, really, not knowing it's epoxy putty. Duh!

I did take a look at your DA, it was very good. I particularly like the one entitled 'Memento'. Great background, and I like the way the character is enveloped in a kind of aura; differentiating between the foreground and background, while at the same time binding both the character and the background. Very nice stuff.

I don't know if you already do this or not, but don't buy your hobby supplies from GW if you can help it. They're overcharging for everything they sell and alot of it is cheap in quality, especially their new black primer, and if you go to a hobby store you can often get everything (even the models if they them) at lower prices.

Thanks for the compliment.

 

[subZer0]

Across the pond, the models tend to be the same price in hobby shops as they do in GW. I know they're expensive, but it is the only place that sells such a big range of colours, but the black and white primers I have always bought from spray shops; same quality, lower price!

 

[isabeau]

damn that first drawing was so real, it is downright scary...fantastic artwork..keep up the good work..the details are amazing..