At a crossroads in her life...

[Trevor]

Looks great, especially considering how damn small it is. It doesn\'t have to be a paint pot, could be a ruler or coin, just soemthing to show scale

Some suggestions for future improvements:

Do what Louiscypher says to get more highlights, whilst keeping the impression of dark colour. Also you could try using inks to shade with as they give deep rich colours, or glazes to recover colour intensity after highlighting (see my reply to TABs post about her dragon).

Try edgelining the signpost with a lighter brown, just to give it a little highlight.

Fill the gap between the mini and the base with some greenstuff, clay or something and then paint into the base.

Let us know when its posted so we can vote.

 

[provoke_me]

somehow...

just by seeing the title of this thread i knew IPM started itlol
looks amazing! keep up the good work!

 

[DanseMacabre]

Hello Ipaintminis, maybe you\'ll don\'t like what i\'ll write and maybe you\'ll don\'t care about it but is what i think.
In my opinion your mini technically is not worth an 8, BUT it\'s some time i monitor your gallery and i must say that you\'re one of the most original painters of the site: your minis are all so particular and off the mainstream and you have a very good personal taste in chosing them and colour schemes.
I can\'t wait to see your next pick up!
Ps: i\'ve chosed the goth road
PPS: this is a compliment reply even if i honesly said i don\'t rate the mini 8.

 

[vincegamer]

Looks like this newly popular children\'s art I saw recently. Can\'t recall what she was called:
\"Lydia the Strange?\" \"Lysa the Strange?\" something like that.
Very nice. I\'m looking forward to seeing scale to know what you call tiny. (having painted true 25 and epic)

 

[ipaintminis]

what size is epic?

i know true 25 is like meiers work...but i hadnt heard of epic....

 

[Fizl]

epic is GW 6mm figs, eeny weeny teeny tiny things!

Shaz

 

[U4-Welcome]

Message original : vincegamer
Looks like this newly popular children\'s art I saw recently. Can\'t recall what she was called:
\"Lydia the Strange?\" \"Lysa the Strange?\" something like that.
Very nice. I\'m looking forward to seeing scale to know what you call tiny. (having painted true 25 and epic)

Emily the Strange ? I bought some postcards starring the girl. They\'re cool.
\"Emily isn\'t lazy, she just enjoys doing nothing.\" lol

 

[ipaintminis]

well im guessing shes just about that tall maybe 8 mm...

 

[vincegamer]

Have a looksee at the epic Terminators I did then. I think I put them next to a penny in one shot:

Terminator

Space Hulk Game

 

[ipaintminis]

alright so the chick is proally liek a mm or 4 taller...

i figure ill have proper time on thursday to take pictures and post her up...after i change what you all said...

after my speech of course/

 

[Grumb]

nice work Becca

Good job Becca. Look forward to the final post. How is the speech coming BTW.

 

[vincegamer]

Originally posted by U4-Welcome

Message original : vincegamer
Looks like this newly popular children\'s art I saw recently. Can\'t recall what she was called:

Emily the Strange ? I bought some postcards starring the girl. They\'re cool.
\"Emily isn\'t lazy, she just enjoys doing nothing.\" lol

Yes! That\'s it. I searched and apparently she\'s a teen-girl / pre-teen girl internet chat page who has spawned some art books.
Here she is:

 

[U4-Welcome]

I just got my Halloween familiars (boy was Reaper fast on this one - I got my order in under a week when they estimated shipping time to between 2 or 3), and I can confirm that she is a small one. She\'s 18mm high, from base to the top of her hair.

 

[ipaintminis]

thanks U4

i told you the metric system effs me uplol