Darkness Elemental with Light Source

[DragonPaint]

At least I have uploaded it:
http://www.coolminiornot.com/57783

It takes a little more time for the finishing touches and for the clear resin on the base.

This was my first approach to the \"lighting effects\" as described in the excellent tutorial by Victoria (http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/106) and it was really hard.
The hard part is to select the parts directly hit to the light and paint them with a different color as well as recreate a good transition effect where the light shade in the dark parts.

Hope you like it, if you have some question I will answer in the best way I can


Paolo

 

[El Guardian]

WOW really nice. personally dont like the painted borders on the base but thats just a matter of taste

a solid 8.5 me thinks

 

[El Guardian]

sooooooooooooooooooooo you are the one that over me in the ranking im #200

just needed to say it jejeje

 

[Trevor]

Nice work

 

[U4-Welcome]

I think that in order to make the light effect more obvious, you should have one big picture which shows both the mini and the source (as it is, you have two shots of the mini and one tiny shot that shows the source). Maybe take one pic from slightly above, at an angle, so that you can have both the glowing water and the elemental appearing... Right now, a casual viewer just browsing & voting at a glance could just mistake the green for a sickly skin tone.

Other than that, great job on the light effects.

 

[Gypsy]

Mmh yeah, there\'s not enough of the brown skin shining through, in my opinion a little less would have been more, that is imagining a light source with a little less Watts. Right now, as U4 said, it just looks like it\'s green skin.

 

[DragonPaint]

Thank you all for the comments :0)

- El Guardian: probably the best choice for the base will be to cover everything with green stuff and shape it like the other parts. The lining effect looks better in real life than in picture.
I have added a couple of good votes to your miniatures so maybe now you are back in front of me with your ranking

Trevor: thank you

U4-Welcome: thank you for the suggestion, I\'m working on a couple of new pictures from a different angle.

Gypsy: maybe I have exaggerated with the light
Hope the new pictures will help but probably a little more shadows will help.
I have to learn by my mistakes )

Paolo

 

[DragonPaint]

I have uploaded a 4-views picture so the miniature can be seen better:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/57917

Paolo

 

[U4-Welcome]

Erm, maybe I wasn\'t clear in my explanations, but I still can\'t see one pic where both the glowing water and the light effects clearly appear... I think a shot like the top left pic, but taken from a slightly higher point would do it. :flip::bouncy:

Hey, nice swirls on that wing btw !

 

[Gypsy]

Still not a perfect angle but the lower left one does a lot to help discerning what\'s going on here.

 

[DragonPaint]

U4-Welcome:
it\'s almost impossible to take a picture with the light source and the miniature because I have carved the base so the light source come from a hole in it (under the water/clear resin.
Also the miniature position make this difficult because the body of the darkness elemental is bent over the hole, that\'s why I have used the same amount of light for the body/face/wings.

In this case the picture does not help...

Paolo (already thinking to the next one)

 

[Taer]

Originally posted by U4-Welcome
Erm, maybe I wasn\'t clear in my explanations, but I still can\'t see one pic where both the glowing water and the light effects clearly appear... I think a shot like the top left pic, but taken from a slightly higher point would do it. :flip::bouncy:

Hey, nice swirls on that wing btw !

Naw, just switch the bottom pictures with the top ones and everything will be fine.
Better than fine actually, it is a reallly nice mini.:flip::bouncy: