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This was my entry to Wyrd Miniatures contest Something Wyrd, in which only minis manufactured by Wyrd could be entered. There are a lot of great creative entries there, it's well worth a look.
My goal with this paint job was to try to push the level of contrast I work with a little higher - shading darker and highlighting brighter than I usually do. I think I managed to do that, there's a silky sheen to the cloth that I quite like. I have had some trouble with darker hair colours, and decided to try the blue highlight style for this. I also pushed myself to do some freehand. The frog is from Reaper familiar pack III, and is based on a real frog, the Chinese gliding frog.
The lilypads on my original entry did not have veins. Numerous viewers commented on this, so I went back in and added some in, and did a little more highlighting on the leaves themselves. So hopefully this version will better match people's ideas of what a lilypad should look like. :-> The water is Future Floor Polish. I had used Woodland Scenics Realistic Water on a previous mini. The product required several reapplications at the time due to shrinkage, and has continued to shrink slowly over time. A year later the water is a slimy layer over the rocks at the bottom of the base. Future was recommended for small areas of water in an historical diorama book, and so far I'm much happier with it.
I had a bit of a breakthrough in photography around this time also. The main change I made was simply to move from a white background to a neutral gray one. I'm really astonished at how much of a difference that one change makes, although the image still looks a little faded and diffuse straight out of the camera. I also had a clever friend explain a few simple photo editing steps I could use to help the image appear more as it does in the hand. I have been using PaintShopPro, and then tried PhotoShop Elements, but although all three programs have the same adjustment commands, I wasn't truly able to duplicate what my friend did until I downloaded a trial version of PhotoShop. The changes I made were to decrease the brightness and increase the contrast and saturation. Slight changes in all cases, with settings between +/- 8 to 12.
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Viewer comments:
TheDark
18-Jan-08
#247710 |  | Rating: 10
Perfect!
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Redfink
25-Oct-06
#200658 |  | Rating: 10
Great paintjob (especially on the blues and the freehand dragons) and a lovely basing! |
lchc13
23-Oct-06
#200404 |  | Rating: 10
Wow, this is amazing. You did a flawless job on this one. The hair looks great, the clothing is great esp. the freehand dragons. The base is great too, I like the frog, it is a nice touch. |
treide
18-Oct-06
#199760 |  | Rating: 10
Awesome. The hair braid is gorgeous. Love the frog & lily pads (although a lily pad with a flower would be icing on the cake)! Something to aspire to! |
generulpoleaxe
10-Oct-06
#198758 |  | Rating: 10
fantastic work wren. the freehand on the sleeves is great, the base is way cool as well. very simple yet realy effective.and as for the hair, i am going to have to steel your hair painting genes  realy nice work wren. chris  |
wrestlerguy21
26-Sep-06
#196930 |  | Rating: 9
Very cool mini. One the sculpt is great. I like your use of orange vs blue really works here. I agree with the other comment that its a very smooth paint job. Nice work. |
Vhaidra
26-Sep-06
#196850 |  | Rating: 10
What an impressive paintjob!!! Wow! I think that you reached your goal to give her clothes that silky shine, I also like the colours and the highlighting of the hair. Very clean and smooth paintjob too. Don't worry about the Lilypads because who will care about that Lilypads if one see THIS MINI! | |
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