AMotW: The Supervike Tribute feat.Egyptian Princess By Briggsy

This week I've decided to recognize one amongst CMoN's widespread community, supervike. Last weekend supervike reached a landmark 10,000 posts, the most from any forum member on CoolMiniorNot's boards. Supervike is a dedicated moderator and regularly submits his own models to the gallery. It doesn't take a genius to see what this site means to him, which is why this week's showcase is a model chosen by supervike as his favourite figure submitted this week.

And a good selection it is, I haven't seen anything quite like this before. At first glance, the whole scene looks as if it's been composed of 3-D miniatures and a scenic base, but it is actually a 'flat'. As far as my knowledge of flats goes, a flat is basically what you would get if you squashed a 3-D figure in a compactor and raised the more defined sections of the figure. Briggsy has created something exceptional with a particularly large and elaborate flat.

The amount of depth that Briggsy has achieved with such accurately rendered shading accentuates every fold in the cloth, every tendon, every motion... essentially all of the details! In some areas, however, too much shading and highlighting looks unrealistic. This is evident on the two lions, where the outlines of the ribs are very clearly visible and the muscles appear to be badly proportioned (this may be attributed to the sculpt). Besides the apparent enormity of the muscles, this also defies the fact that lions have fur. The muscles simply would not be that defined in life, though it is more appropriate in this style of painting, which seems to be teetering in between cartoony and realistic.

The technicality of the piece is astonishing, the blending is very strong, and complements the bold layering. The princess has some of the best skin tones that I have seen in a long time. Better yet, are the princess' jewelry, and facial features. The eyes have been picked out impeccably and the translucent cloth (wherein there is the best part of the model, in my mind, some very fine freehand of her other leg). I don't think that I can honestly separate what has been painted freely and what is part of the miniature.

It is such an individual model, not just because of the sculpt, but how Briggsy embraced the sculpt, with freehand, and a skill to bring out every nook and cranny.

AMotW: (The Supervike Tribute) Egyptian Princess by Briggsy receives 9.1/10.

Thank you, Briggsy, for revealing a whole new world of miniatures to me, and thank you to supervike for years of moderation and congratulations for your 10,000 posts, I look foward to your next 10,000.

Ainu
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