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Title: Inspirational sites
Post by: gi6ers on January 28, 2007, 04:50:34 PM
Sites that make you grab for the brushes, mine are:


Joe Videki (http://www.geocities.com/jvideki/TMWOJV-Index.html)

Witchhunter (http://www.witchhunter.net/)

JRN (http://www.jrn-works.dk/index.html)
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Bodhi on January 28, 2007, 04:59:31 PM
Joe Videki was new to me. Thanks! website seems a bit messy though... Or maybe I'm missing something?
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: gi6ers on January 28, 2007, 05:02:23 PM
no it's messy, links at the top show more of his stuff - he helps when I get hung up on painting eyes too - he doesn't often bother  :icon_wink:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Custom_Hobby on January 28, 2007, 05:15:51 PM
It was new to me too, but I like it. Thanks Matt!
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: cheddarmonger on January 28, 2007, 11:15:13 PM
Nifty; new stuff to look at, and drive me to drink...
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Perv on January 29, 2007, 09:04:44 AM
Hmmm inspirational website.....Playboy.com......

purely to learn the way light reflects off of flesh :-)
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Fabian on January 29, 2007, 09:13:33 AM
Joe Videki makes me want to throw in the paintbrush  :icon_tears:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: gi6ers on January 29, 2007, 09:46:00 AM
Feel free to post painterly sites of your own.....

The reason I like Joe's site is because you can see his technique..his choice of colour is very impressive and that's really where I struggle a lot with painting..I don't look at his site and think I couldn't acheive the results he gets with practice..


Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Bodhi on January 29, 2007, 01:38:48 PM
Quote from: Perv on January 29, 2007, 09:04:44 AM
Hmmm inspirational website.....Playboy.com......

purely to learn the way light reflects off of flesh :-)

Or more like - how to make a figure look as if he has been through some havy picture editing  ;)
Don't like those magazines for the simple fact that the photoediting is often so heavyhanded that the ladies are more computerpainted than photographed these days.
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Perv on January 29, 2007, 01:55:32 PM
lol I know what u mean but ugly women cost less to photograph :-)

I dont find Cool Mini or Not site inspirational, it just depresses me !!!!  I do like the fact that you can bid on pieces though.

Can anyone tell me where theres a good NMM guide please?  I really like some of the end results.
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Fabian on January 29, 2007, 01:58:40 PM
NMM - http://www.blackmoor.ca/ - she provides colours but no real tutorial to speak of, which is her right I suppose...  :icon_nottalkingtoyou:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: gi6ers on January 29, 2007, 02:05:36 PM
The Darkson Designs book has some good NMM tutorials. :offtopic:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Perv on January 29, 2007, 02:08:26 PM
thats lovely cheers mate

its not really off topic, that NMM site will inspire me to learn that technique
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: gi6ers on March 23, 2007, 06:26:18 AM
http://www.otherworld.me.uk/ (http://www.otherworld.me.uk/) retro coolness.

Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Perv on March 23, 2007, 07:39:35 AM
Cheers gi6ers, he has a Dwarf I want and have emailed him  :icon_razz:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: geronimo on July 01, 2007, 02:03:41 PM
Jeremie Bonamant Teboul's stuff is pretty inspirational, and he has a fair range of "tutorial" and stage-by-stage stuff on his site :

http://www.jeremiebt.com/index.php?page=siteuk
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Perv on July 01, 2007, 02:13:28 PM
His fat bloke on elephant is probably the joint best miniature I have ever seen.  I have so many faves its hard to pick one but thats definately a contender.  That man is a true artist !!! 
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: geronimo on July 28, 2007, 09:39:53 AM
Maybe not new to you guys, but just found these while trawling through the Internerd. Some seriously time-consuming NMM golds on these, and the freehand on the cloaks is eye-boggling...

http://www.chestofcolors.com/cofc-postnuke/index.php?full=1&set_albumName=benathai_custodes&id=custodes_002&name=gallery&include=view_photo.php
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Custom_Hobby on July 28, 2007, 12:31:04 PM
Damn how did they pull off those golds?
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Keeper on July 29, 2007, 05:02:33 AM
Now that has got to take more than an hour per mini!  :icon_w00t:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: Perv on July 30, 2007, 05:13:42 AM
Excellent paintjobs but I dont like them as they are too goldy.  I would love to be able to paint like that but he needs a bit of help with colour schemes IMHO  I think I'd prefer to be that good at painting and working on my colour schemes than the other way round though  :icon_w00t:
Title: Re: Inspirational sites
Post by: geronimo on July 30, 2007, 07:09:30 AM
Quote from: Perv on July 30, 2007, 05:13:42 AM
Excellent paintjobs but I dont like them as they are too goldy.  I would love to be able to paint like that but he needs a bit of help with colour schemes IMHO  I think I'd prefer to be that good at painting and working on my colour schemes than the other way round though  :icon_w00t:

I know what you mean - but those colours are part of GW canon, mate. Which tells us all we need to know about their "official" designs  :icon_wink: