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Repost - Dancing Girls Reaper #02448

I am hoping that this scan of my Reaper dancing girl is better than the last photo I posted. I think I can see some more touch ups in this photo. It's amazing the detail that shows up on the scans. In the future, I am going to scan my minis before I finish them to help me see details that I may have missed. This should help to improve my painting. Any helpful comments are always welcome.

Posted: 17 Aug 2003

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Flashman14

Garnet there is mostly right. May I take that notion and twist it just a bit? After my own observation about what ranks high here it seems that the definition between colors is important but it need not be black per se. Instead it should be the darkest color on the piece you are doing. For example where flesh meets orange there then dark flesh (whatever that is) should stand it for black on the flesh... It's as if the basecolor is framed in the darker shade - know what I mean? The blackline makes things look a bit cartoony and where you have all these bold colors it just might be too much. All in all I like the color scheme here but I would have gone much more pronounced on all the highlights.

23 Jan 2004 • Vote: 6

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Rosco

You are correct about the puckered cheeks on the mini. I am not sure if it is supposed to be that way or if my mini is unique. I can really paint over it to hide it. I am going to try your suggestions with the black lining. It seems to be working well on my witch elves. I haven't had time to repost them but I will have them done sometime this week. Thanks again for the helpful comments.

20 Aug 2003 • Vote: 5

Jubilee

This pic definately looks a billion times better than the orangey one you posted before. I can see that the orange is sorta bleeding onto her leg on the left side of the mini (my left, her right) on both sides. Avoiding this problem is easiest if you black-line between the two colors. Also, I don't know whether it's the sculpt or not, but it looks like she's sucking in her cheek really far, almost as if she's making a fish-face. Is that a trick of the light? I would think about doing a dark brown wash (very thinned) on her hair to give it some depth in the grooves, and then go over it again with your lighter reddish-brown. You also need black lining between the hair and the arm on the left side, and around the bracelets. If you can, you should get some black in there between the individual bangles of her bracelets. :) in fact, just about any time two colors meet there should be some black between them. It helps define the different parts of the miniature better. Anyhow, once you start highlighting and shadowing more, your scores will probably improve.

20 Aug 2003 • Vote: 5

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