Well, today after my piano lesson I went (first to the bank and then) to the art store, Island Blue… great store. I needed a sketchbook, as I may have mentioned earlier. I bought two; one for pencil stuff, black cover, smooth pages, coil binding, and one for pen/marker stuff, also coil binding. I will need to do something about the cover of that one, though, as it has some idiot marker manga rollerblading doke on it and I don’t like him. I also randomly bought some little decorative brad thingies (like the binding things you find in duotangs, just not attached to a book) and I think they might go either on the Zela costume or in something Warhammer-y. Then I passed by the paper section, but I didn’t get anything, even though that Japanese stuff is soooo seductive. There was a little bag about 8″x5″x1″ for only $10 and the first sheet in it was this gorgeous blue with white cranes on it. So pretty. But, y’know, what am I going to do with it? …I should have bought it. : P
Then I went to the art book section, and I found two books there: Dragonart by someone with a website named NeonDragonArt, which I’ve actually been to before, and John Howe’s “How to Paint Like Me It’s a Cinch Anyone Can Do It” - ahem, I mean, “Fantasy Art Workshop”. The previous title was what he “wanted” to call it, according to him in the introduction. I have the idea that he’s a jokey kind of person. : D It’s a great book. But I think I’m most excited about the sketchbooks. Heeheehee.
My mom got a fashion magazine last night. I’m horrified. o_O7
Played a Warhammer battle today. My skirmishing White Lions + AwesomeCommanderDude (played by Penlod) took on my brother’s Bretonnian pleasant peasants in their castle.
Flairé: You so wanted an excuse to say ‘pleasant peasants’, didn’t you?
Yup. Anyway, I won, due to the fact that my guys have massive strength and hitting capability. 60% losses, including the commander, but 100% enemy losses, so that’s… pretty darn amazing. I managed to sidestep the boiling oil, so I’m very lucky, actually. I think maybe he should have taken rocks after all. Oil causes major damage, but only if you’re dumb enough to stand under it. Still, wasn’t expecting to win that crushingly. It did come down to the very last turn, but I was rolling great hitting and wounding dice. His archers didn’t do too badly with their shooting, either. Here’s a shot of melee two turns after I got up the walls.
Penlod attacks
It’s Tuor! Remember how long I was remarking on him over the past year or whatever? Well, here’s the finished result. Tuor is a conversion of a Swordmaster body with Phoenix Guard head, and foil cloak. If I had thought about it a bit more, I would have probably gone with a plain old Phoenix Guard. But Tuor still looks pretty good, and the foil cloak is thinner and perhaps more real except where I messed up on it. Like that wierd jig on the left shoulder. I shined the axe with sandpaper, as usual with my metal minis. Deciding what to freehand (he is a showpiece, after all!) was difficult, but I’m happy with it… the inside of the cloak (so much agony!) and the triangular leather things on his hips and the shading on the helmet swan wings.
This is Dad’s other completely finished Orc, and he is equally cute and scary.
This is an example of very poor posture. If you look like this, chiropractor isn’t the word. Not to mention tooth-brushing.
Okay, this dude is a generic Bretonnian archer that Kevin has way too much of to paint, so I made hiim nice and shiny. I’m pleased with this model. I just wish I could find my Bretonnian-on-vacation-in-Hawaii model.