Space Marine update 23/9/2011

Worked a bit more on the Space Wolf elements of the space marine today. Not sold on the face, want a kind of viking look but it turns out I'm not that great at painting blonde hair. Red could work though, and I feel like it'd fit in with the colour theme a bit more.

SPACE MARINE!

Three WIP pictures of a Space Marine piece I decided to start on after completing Space Marine. Started out with a Crimson Fists marine then decided to start shifting it to a Space Wolf at the last minute.

Quick thing I knocked up over about one hour, two beers, and a conversation with James. Mostly to play around with a brush I'd made after I got home from work, since I hadn't really done anything with new brushes for a while. It's always fun to see what chaos you can make with a new toy.

Knocked the top two out over about seven or eight hours total, after being asked to do them for a Skavenblight Gazette issue that was technically due out something like weeks ago. Had fun with them, although I'd like to have spent a few more hours on both of them to make them feel more like something I'd be truly proud of. As always, I had trouble nailing rat heads. They're easy to draw when they're on a rats body, somehow it looks wrong when I do it on a mans body.

The second picture is four images to accompany a short story in the same issue of the SBG, I rushed them out pretty fast a few weeks ago because I thought they were all the issue was waiting on before being published. Not so! I like the figure in the lower right one, and something about the brushwork on the barely visible rat god face in the top right appeals to me. Not really at all proud of the two on the left  though, particularly the first. It doesn't match up at all with what I had in my head.