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Saturday 15 October 2011

Painting faces the Dick Higgs way

Dick Higgs, Miniature Figurine's principal designer, provided this guide as part 3 of his series Painting for Beginners in Minimag Magazine, appearing in 1971.

The beginning of a slippery slope, as far as I am concerned... I won't even mention deacls for eyes and kilts on 28mm figures....



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3 comments:

  1. Paul´s Bods15 October 2011 at 20:32

    Eyes are tricky things ..especially in 20mm..I once spent over an hour trying to get the expression of the eyes right on one figure...can be done but it costs a lot of patience.
    Cheers
    paul

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  2. MSFoy15 October 2011 at 22:28

    I'm sure this is a correct approach, but my soldiers are lucky to get a pink splodge in the right area, never mind scary eyeballs.

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  3. mekelnborg16 October 2011 at 09:13

    I saw a face on Peter's Cave the other day that looked like a photograph of a real person, on a 1/72 plastic fig, but it was just a sepia shade over flesh on part of the face.

    It is possible that the enlarged photo and the look on a table are not the same thing, also, but this photo looked good. No eyeballs except that you could see the sculpt inside the shadow.

    I don't see eyeballs until very very close to people on the street, way too close actually, the point when I wonder if they are robbers, and tense muscles for it, the last two steps.

    I see some shadow, as a grey, especially in sunlight, and not much more at even 10-20 yards let alone further away, especially when they have a hat with visor on.

    Could be just me, but those google-eyes I see around are garish and off-putting. Looks bad to me.

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