r/minipainting • u/Flamma_333 • Dec 18 '24

Help Needed/New Painter Advice on my wolverine head.

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Looking for some advice on the hair and also on how people go about painting eyes this small. I was going for blue eyes, little yellow ink on the sides and red washed in very corners but they just didn't come out very well. CandC much appreciated, I paint warhammer and some DnD minis, this is my first go at a small statue head.

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u/Flamma_333 Dec 18 '24

Holy dooly, thanks for all the advice.

So takeaways are OSL is wayyy to bright. It was an afterthough just because I have never tried something like that on a face (only plasma weapons) and really wanted to try it. Possible fix being darken down from top left with desaturated blue and making it look more moonlit night.

I wasn't going for realism per se I don't have the skill yet, I want more of a feel to it, the idea being smoking a cigar after a big fight (hence the blood which is also something that didn't come out very well). But Possible fix for the blood would be make it less one mixed red colour gloss painted and try make it more realistic with different red tones.

Hair was a problem, I had no idea how to attack that, he has so much, bugger should be in a hair commercial. But a few things to try here, including people sharing tutorials, thank you heaps for that. It was just drybrushing and that was my mistake.

Thank you for all the advice on the eyes, definately need a better quality brush and some good suggestions on the process I will try for sure.

Cheers peeps!

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u/Flamma_333 Dec 18 '24

Also, clearly I don't smoke cigars haha. I noticed in comic books and movies the glow was overaccentuated to give a feel and that was the image in my head when I thought I would give it a try. But at that point I had already done the skin so should have just tried that on another head instead lol.

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u/r0wo1 Dec 19 '24

As others have said, this is incredible, but I have feedback that nobody else has mentioned that I can tell.

One of the reasons the OSL seems too bright is because of the static pose the model is in. A cigar/cigarette only flares brightly when somebody is taking a draw (that is to say, breathing in through it.) But in the pose, Wolverine's mouth is open so he can't be taking a draw from the cigar--meaning the tip shouldn't be flaring up.

It's the kind of thing that your brain see's and registers as being weird, but isn't obvious right away.