A Damn Dirty APE!

[piecemaker]

I tried painting the left eye again,still not happy with it but its looking better.Lost count how many times i have redone it.I see after taking the pic where i have to touch up.(Arrrgh, one slip and i get to redo again!)

[jessica]

The eyes are the hardest, because they are so tiny. At least, that's how it is for me.

[Meule]

I'm always having trouble with the eyes too, despite Dave's tutorial

[jessica]

Sometimes it's just plain luck that I get the eyes to look in the same direction. Sometimes you can fool the eye into believing that the eyes of your figure are looking in the same direction by painting the doll dots. I know some people in the 1/6 world don't like doll dots, but I believe Megos are so tiny that you need the doll dots to breathe some life into your paint job. It's all just trickery.

[piecemaker]

Yes the eyes are definately the toughest part.The tutorial is helpful but you still have to be very steady with the brush.I get them to the last dot then slip.I'm going to try trimming a brush,making the bristles shorter,maybe i will get more control that way.

[apes3978]

You could probably get by just painting each eyeball as a black dot like MEGO did for the Soldier Ape... I repainted an AZRAK "chimp" into a gorilla and did his eyes that way too and they looked pretty good...

[piecemaker]

I have a few of these heads cast,i'm going to try a couple different paint jobs on each one.Thats a good idea,i will definately be doing one like that.It will give each ape a slightly different look also.

[piecemaker]

I'm going to call this version done Not perfect but i dont think i will get him any better this.

[Meule]

I can tell you the eyes look a helluva lot better than anything I can do, job well done

[piecemaker]

Thanks MEULE, CONGRATS ON YOUR 20K + POSTS

[piecemaker]

Heres my attempt at painting my General Ursus. I will probably paint another one,he looks alright but he dont look mean enough.And again i think that has to do with the eyes.

[piecemaker]

[jessica]

Heres my attempt at painting my General Ursus.http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file...5/7/URSUS2.jpg I will probably paint another one,he looks alright but he dont look mean enough.And again i think that has to do with the eyes.

Nothing wrong with being pensive. He looks great.

[piecemaker]

Thanks Jessica.He just looks content with all those dirty humans running around,now the soldier ape looks mad as hell,like he's ready to crack some human heads.