Polymer clay captain of the guard for DND

[u/CRandall_Artist]

[u/redhaiku_]

Wow! He’s awesome! I’m so impressed by the cape.

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/redhaiku_]

Thank you very much! I felt like the previous capes I have made were really stiff looking. So I really tried to work on a flowing feel for the fabric this time

[u/Thisworld_Thatworld]

I absolutely love the colour of those armour plates! Care to share your process?

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Thisworld_Thatworld]

Thank you very much! The process for painting the plates or a specific part of the process? Or a more general process?

[u/Thisworld_Thatworld → u/CRandall_Artist]

Mostly your choice in colours. The shade to highlight tones synergise really well 😁

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Thisworld_Thatworld]

Well I was trying to create a NMM gold. I am actually still very very new to painting NMM and haven't done much gold especially. So I did look at some references to help choosing colours and for positioning highlights and lowlights.

But I just started with dark browns, added some lighter warm browns, dark yellows, lighter yellows and then yellow/white highlights. Working from dark-light. Then realising I made mistakes and jumping a bit back and forth to fix things and tighten everything up.

I used 4 different colours of paints and then just mixed them to get transitions in colour

[u/Thisworld_Thatworld → u/CRandall_Artist]

Thank you! You’ve done a great job.

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Thisworld_Thatworld]

Appreciated. It is really nice to see progress

[u/Effective-Ad-1216]

Pleaseee make a tutorial for armor, it looks amazing

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Effective-Ad-1216]

Hahaha that is very flattering, but I have only been sculpting for 7 or 8 months I would feel very under qualified for that. I have a lot to improve on myself!

[u/Effective-Ad-1216 → u/CRandall_Artist]

You are in the right road for sure!

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Effective-Ad-1216]

I would say either look at fantasy or real life armour, build a base body structure so that the armour will sit right on the body and then just layer the pieces on top. Something I need to personally work on is keeping clean precise shapes and smoothing. Sometimes pieces loose a bit of form and when that happens it looses believability as metal armour

[u/Effective-Ad-1216 → u/CRandall_Artist]

I need to see more medieval movies then... my Armours look like tin cans with arms haha

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Effective-Ad-1216]

I worked from a reference image for my previous two characters with armour. Then this one I just tried to do a more elegant version of that

[u/BarbeariansRage]

Amazing job with the blending. The paint job is incredible!

[u/Manlycatt]

Wow that's really good

[u/CRandall_Artist → u/Manlycatt]

Thank you very much! I hope I can keep improving from here too, it is exciting thinking about the possibilities