Oz Painters

Morsi from Chest of Colours has put together a great tutorial on painting faces.

Chest of Colours Tutorial

It's extremely thorough and discusses use of differing palettes and adding depth and volume using warm and cold tones.

-Sean

Makes for very interesting reading, thanks

-Tony

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BAZINGA!!

Gotta love their tutorials.

When I skimmed this I was amazed at how good the computer-painted images actually looked.
Makes me wonder about all those minis ive seen on cmon that've made me think, "gee that almost looks like it was retouched with a computer". I would always dismiss it, thinking noone could retouch a mini with PS and have it still look as though it was painted.

From the Femme Militant website I came across Tears of Envy, a graphic design company that also does Digital Painting. If you click on Metal and then click on Digital Paint, you can see some examples and an explaination.

Or a quick example...

http://www.tearsofenvy.com/khemri.html

Holy crap. I wouldn't have known those were digitally painted had you not pointed it out. I wonder if there are any on cmon that are

Geez... I hope not Zordana.
Still put an element of competitiveness in and anything is possible
I suppose from the manufacturer's POV it'd be handy but I'd be suprised if it's much cheaper than paying a painter and in Rack or GW's case they'd not have painted models to use in their magazine articles.

True. I don't actually recall ever thinking that of any of the Rackham official paintjobs though. They tend to look painted, albeit brilliantly so.
Just a few randoms I've come across on cmon that look either too good to be true in spots or they look a tiny bit blurry, like my eyes cant focus on sections of the model properly.

One comes to mind, it was an official job for a small mini company that was very 'firey'. I won't name it because I could be wrong, but I remember wondering about some of the hotter highlights.

It's the addition of light that can make a real difference.
Your average mini doesn't glow from the inside like a computer screen
I find it a real issue in my work as a Graphic designer (paper doesn't glow either...)