Ryggrad82

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Eldritch Demon

Fantasy

Reaper Miniatures

28mm

I am still trying to learn the basics of painting tabletop quality miniatures, please be gentle. :)

Posted: 6 Apr 2016

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Ryggrad82

One of the things that I did with this mini may have been a bad idea. I decided that this demon came out of the water, from the depths below, where it's murky and muddy. As such, I took some brown paint and thinned it down a lot, and went over the whole figure, to make him look as though he is covered in various amounts of muck. So, if the paint looks "muddy", it was intentional.

8 Apr 2016 • Vote: 10

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I wouldn't say it is poorly done, the feeling of that paint ain't bad. There is no typical beginner mistakes like too heavy coat or inaccurate brush strokes. It is actually quite smooth. However the paint is very hard to "read" for me, there are parts that I am not even sure if they are painted at all, like the legs or parts of the wings. A contrasting base of different color would enhance the overall feeling quite a lot. It would make the grey areas look intentionaly gray rather than just missing the paint.

7 Apr 2016 • Vote: 6

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SteFanden

I was more giving an advise for future models, than commenting on this one. If you want to stick to old-school layering(dark basecolour and then successive higlights), I think you should try going for one or two more highlights. At a tabletop you want to be able to see the contrasts, from about 2-3 feet of distance and for that, I as such I think this one is too dark in colour... From what I can see, you have good brush control, I just think you should give it some more contrast/depth in the colours chosen.

7 Apr 2016 • Vote: 5

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