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Thanks for the auction listing note…whoops. Anyway, so long as it sells and I can get my $40 back I’m fine with it. It’s just an experimenal piece. ‘Course I wouldn’t mind if it went higher. 🙂
All I can say is, get a practice piece of something before doing this on a windstone as a trial. Honestly, get yourself a sculpture somebody gave you that isn’t a cool awesome Windstone dragon (one of the “What they heck is this, a dragon?” ones) and use it on that first. I REALLY would do that if I was you…heck, I am you. I got an airbrush to try out too and I have a pig sculpture I’m going to test it on.
Something about this griffin I really like. I’m not sure yet…definately the color pattern…but something else I can’t put my finger on makes me love it.
I love the black one with the open mouth. Did you cut the mold and then sculpt with epoxy putty for that?
I have only seriously tried dry-brushing on this wolf. I have done it on other sculptures NOT windstone but painted over them. Ideally, it’s like the “lazy” way of getting the 3D details to pop out. Example, you have a black wolf but you want to show some grey to highlight all the fur but keep the black beneath. You drybrush gently over your already painted black wolf and all of the ridged details will stand out and look awesome, hense why it would look awesome on feathers and Windstone in general since they have strong detailing and 3D qualities to those details. Check this piece out and look at the wolf’s forehead…now this is what drybrushing SHOULD look like: http://cgi.ebay.com/An-American-Werewolf-in-london-Maquette-Horror_W0QQitemZ170071563342QQihZ007QQcategoryZ747QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It’s what drybrushing is all about. It’s really supposed to be a darn simple thing to do that anybody can do…which is why I’m angry I can’t get it right. I may try it again in the future but not anytime soon since I’m bummed out about this wolf right now, lol. Oh well.The donkeys were in a different photo in your photo stash, but they took up one or two shelves and they were all painted already as far as I could tell. Where did you get those?
The best drybrushed area you can see on my wolf is the front paws…the entire piece should look something like that all in drybrush…very naturalesque. Give it a shot…you may be awesome at it! I myself think now that it’s a trait you’re either born with or not, lol, since I have sat down with people who have never apinted a thing in their lives and managed it swimmingly!
You should sell some of your finished horses off…and I LOVE those donkey sculpts…where did you get those unpainted?
Oh, and this would be great if you or somebody else wanted to get started with canvas painting or something. Just an idea. I just want to move these guys out. The value is…I don’t know but I could add the price tags up, but 3 PYOs would be sufficiant for a used set like this w/canvasses I’d say.
Basically, when you drybrush you only use a little bit of paint on your brush, and have to dap most of it off so it’s not as thick or wet as usual…and not get water on your brush! Then you very lightly brush the brush over the area and all of the 3D parts of the sculpture pop out with the color…it works great for highlighting, like on feathers (although not MY feathers). Ideally, what you drybrush should look more natural and wild, not smooth.
See, all of my sculptures until this piece have been done using paint on a wet brush, and then water and more paint to ease the blending process. This gets faster coverage and better blending, especially having all your paint colors available at once so you can swap between them and blend easier. Drybrushing you have to constantly load your brush and dab it to remove access paint, and can only paint over a small area before having to do it all over again. And you have to dry your brush well because switching colors. It’s a more time-consuming process which SHOULD yield realistic results. I have seen it done very well before with folks who haven’t even tried painting before in their lives! But alas, I’ve never really mastered this technique but thought I would give it a lagitimate go this time around.
I guess I should say it came out “ok” but as an artist I beat myself up over things that don’t come out as I envision.
He won’t be scrapped completely…I’ll just repaint a different model. This one I put on ebay so at least I get my PYO money back for another sculpt. This one was very dissappointing! I just suck at drybrushing I guess.
Well, I’ll just stick to what I do best next time, lol, but trying something new doesn’t always turn out as planned.
Aw, no everyone’s PYOs are awesome, and also yours SPark. I could never copy one of yours in your style any more than someone could copy my style. Well, not unless I taught classes…lol.
But sadly I have to say I don’t like how this one came out…it just didn’t match or outdo the image I had in my head.This was a commission from December I just finished up, and I’m not happy with the end result, considering all the time I put in to fix this up. I tried not to blend other than with drybrushing, to keep it more natual and realistic, not smooth like my others. I really wanted it detailed and to look better than others I have done but to be honest I think I failed somewhere along the line, so I will be redoing this one soon for the client with something better looking. One last thing I do need to add…the cheeky moles. I keep forgettng to add that before taking the photos!
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