Posted on May 30, 2011
Meet Don Brook
Got Don painted today, after a long weekend of doing much more strenuous and drunken things. He’s another in what I suppose is going to be a long line of Jim Oliver-painted miniatures that are almost completely brown.
I didn’t really notice until I started painting the details that there’s sort of a mold line and misshapen eyebrow combination that drops the eyebrow down and sort of obliterates the one eye. It was too late to reshape it at all, so I just kind of went with it and “closed” his messed up eye to make it look like he’s taking aim to whip his returning throwing knife.
The inking worked out well on that, all the folds on the shirt work without it looking blousy.
I should buy you some primary colours for your birthday.
I don’t know if having more pots of primary colors would change the decisions I make when I’m actually sitting at the table.
I mean, for fuck’s sake… look at the scarf–that’s obviously on there to add some visual variety against the armor. I painted it gray!
There’s a couple other little touches on there that make this a little less monochromatic than Lonny was (a couple different colored pouches on the belt, light colored bow and red accents on handles…).
Turns out I just like earth tones.
I figured you were letting Marley choose the colour scheme – “He’s brown! Like a sunset!”. It actually works fairly well since you chose the Earth Domain as your Druid focus thing.
I only just noticed the red handle, so maybe I’m not the most astute critic of colour.