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Title: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Hannibal on July 10, 2015, 10:38:22 AM

I repainted the Warlord bust painted twelve months ago, with a poor effect of chromium reflections on the helmet.  Renamed Goplit as more standard bust, altough fantasy golden figures on the helmet.

Last year as Warlord:

(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/17/41/09/92/dsc02731.jpg)

Now repainted as Goplite

(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/17/41/09/92/dsc02730.jpg)

 

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: marko on July 10, 2015, 10:59:51 AM

Michel, nicely done on the Goplite do over. It definitely is an improvement to an already nice figure.


mark  8)

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Hannibal on July 10, 2015, 11:30:46 AM

Thanks Mark!

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Nicholas Ball on July 10, 2015, 03:33:48 PM

Well, if you hadn't said anything, I would have thought that was from 2 different artists!! :o

You are getting Better and Better Michel, as we say in London   " absolutely Pukka me old mate"
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Glen on July 10, 2015, 07:23:39 PM

Well done! Oils? I especially like the armor on the second pic. Did you also change the skin tones? The first pic looks a bit orange compared to the second pic.


Pukka? Don't recall hearing that one.


Glen

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Hannibal on July 11, 2015, 02:58:40 AM

Thanks Nick !   (Pukka?  neither me, but I am not from London, but Brussels)

Glen = the tone difference comes from the light balance; these photographs were made at one year interval, and different light bulbs; at that time I used a selection of several choices of light on the camera to get a selection of colours closest to reality.  Since several months, I adjust my white with a piece of white paper to adjust t the exact temperature in ° Kelvin and have a more reproducible definition.  Indeed the lighting is sometimes with ambiant day light, or in the evening pure light bulb in Turkey or white bulk in Belgium, each having its température varying between 6000 and 6500°K. So he orange or brwon dépends much on the balance.
 
But I reworked the skin in the shadows by adding TOB (Burned Earth), mixed with Terre Verte (a dark green), to give more depth in the right side of the face and of the breast, adding also a shadow abve the eye...  Also the checkbone was too wide before and I darkened the right side by multiple glazes of TOB/Green Earhh very light, over and over ...
This is my learning curve since last year.  This rework is my 68th figure painting since started three years ago with acrylics.
(http://i18.servimg.com/u/f18/17/41/09/92/new_pi22.jpg)
 

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Charles on July 12, 2015, 05:17:20 PM

Pukka - genuine, correct, respectable. From the Indian language, one of the words incorporated into English from the days of Empire, other examples Jamboree, Jodhpurs, Gymkhana and so on.....
Helpful? Probably not!

Title: Re: Goplite - 70mm
Post by: Hannibal on July 12, 2015, 05:43:43 PM

Yes Charles, thank you, now I understand !!