Forge World have produced another master piece of the model. My hat is well and truly doffed to Edgar Skomorowski. Aurelian poses some very difficult challenges to the painter, chief amongst these being the gold script lining his face. A beautifully evocative image, but a nightmare for the figure painter. Forge World very sensibly painted Lorgar's skin lined with black. Gold does not show up well on skin tones nor does it give any meaningful contrast. At best it would look neat, most likely it would be a mess; so I decided to cheat. I painted Aurelian's face as if it were underlit by his suit. This gives the skin a golden tone before I start painting the Scripture, but also halos the Primarchs head quite nicely. I decided to go for yellow over a more contrasting blue to represent fire (Lorgar's head is a bright yellow, the under light is organge, his armour is red and the base is gret/ black). I also had Willaim Blake's Book of Urizen plates in my head and I couldn't escape trying to represent the damnation of the character through the painting. The image on his cloak is a nod to Blake (see image below). I'll leave the interpretation of the image in relation to Lorgar to you as I beleive there are multiple reasons why the Primarch is sometimes known as the Urizen. Myles |
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Ok, so you did a beautiful job painting an amazing model. The thing that strikes me the most about how you painted him is that I get a sense of sorrow in his face. This is exactly how I picture Lorgar. He sees the path ahead of him but he is saddened by leaving his father behind. Awesome. I love the Blake reference, one of my favorite poets.
ReplyDeletenice what colour is the face?
ReplyDeleteAmazing work. People overuse 'stunning' maybe...
ReplyDelete...except now I know what I was saving it for! I was stunned when I first saw this. Unreal nice, perfectly executed.