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CCIV - Vandorendra, Demon
Wow. I can't believe that I painted this figure -- I'm so happy with it. This was the second entry that I did for the 2003 Chick Challenge IV -- if you're not familiar with it, I really encourage you to check it out at http://thewarp.net/war/believers/index.htm . Again, wow. The first thing that I did was the base, and then I painted the face -- this is one of the first times that I painted the face first and not last, and I think I'm going to paint the face first from now on. A good face really puts inspiration into the rest of your painting. And in this case, I think it's an order of magnitude better than any other figure that I've done. The metals are mixes of metallic and nonmetallic paints, which gives me a little bit of color to try some NMM techniques with metallic paint. I think the technique shows promise -- I need more practice with it to be sure. It gives the metallic luster in person and I think it photographs a little bit better. Anyway, I'd love some comments on what I think is my best figure to this date. I feel I need to thank both Jenova and Menelker for displaying their work here on CMoN; Jenova inspired the face and Menelker inspired the yellow scale work, but it might be a bit fine to show up in the photograph. This was done in November 2003. I retook the picture for this submission because in retrospect the red backdrop I used for the CCIV submission was a bit of a mistake. I did two copies of this figure at the same time; one to keep and one to sell.
Posted: 11 Dec 2003
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