Layne ALAN WILLSON
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Soulblight Gravelords
Zenithol technique: Pre detail airbrush painting, priming with a shadow and highlight. Able to use technique with any two color tones.
Here is an example of kit-bashed Soulblight Gravelords. Using zenithol technique as a base to express potential lighting for scenic diorama photography. By using this basic technique, color filters can be applied to the scene, giving it depth and easy expressive changes in tone.
Creature concepts
Loose, imaginative sketching without the use of references. This helps me get down the general expressions and feelings that such creatures may illicit. I hope that in time, through improving my abilities with “green stuff” modeling clay in kit bashing, I will also be able to form some creatures that come to mind.
Exorcist Space Marines
Kit bashed demon-hunter chapter. A focal point are their neon chain accents, which they carry as trophies having once bound the demons they’ve subjugated. My initial Warhammer project, here are images most early on of the original figures, which later became progressively more detailed and complex through kit bashing and painting.
In summation, the visuals that come to my mind have been a part of my creative being since I was young. As depicted in the image on the right, that I sketched during a Sunday school assignment at eight years of age (sans any religious affiliation).
Needless to say, character design whether it be monsters within fantasy or sci-fi realms, is a subject that most inspires me. I have found that miniatures have been the most interesting way of bringing such visions to life. The potential for miniatures to express scale, environment, and help facilitate the characters and their various stories is the main reason I continue to work at this scale.
As for my interests in film, a larger scale form can always be explored for such purposes.
