I want to design miniatures!

[auralius2004]

Yep, I want to get into designing miniatures. I\'ve done some freelance illustration, but designing miniatures sounds like more fun. Some pics I\'ve done are here: http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/Auralius2004/Miniature%20design/

Can anybody here point me in the right direction? Thanks!

 

[mud duck]

Nice illustrations. Very clean. Have you tried conversions of existing models, to get the feel of working with green stuff, and the basics of miniature modeling? Imho that may be the place to start. Then start with full models, I know that Reaper has starting armatures for about a buck and a half a piece, maybe a good jumping off point.
Either way, I hope to see some of your work. You have some very nice ideas/concepts on the photobucket site,

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Design as in Draw? or Design as in sculpt them?

If its draw, contact miniature compainies and see if they are looking for concept artists..

 

[auralius2004]

I mean draw. Is there some kind of comprehensive master list of miniature companies, or should I just Google the names of the companies I find on CMON?

 

[Undave]

TMP is possibly a better place to start than CMON. They have a large selection of links to various companies.

 

[jahminis]

companies like black orc games and magnificent egos are usually holdin\' contest for illustrators...

cheers
jah

 

[Bill]

Can\'t help you I\'m afraid, but I wish you the best of luck! Very nice drawings you have there.

 

[sg2009]

theres\'s allways gw u could see the careers section of there website???


sam

 

[supervike]

TMP as mentioned above has a great listing of manufacturers...

http://theminiaturespage.com/man/

 

[Undave]

The TMP bit of my post was a link by the way, It\'s not very obvious though is it lol

 

[supervike]

Ah, your subtle geniusness betrayed you!!


Nicely done Undave!

 

[freakinacage]

good luck there. some lovely pieces

 

[Dragonsreach]

There is a lot of extremely fine artwork in your portfolio and I echo the sentiments about showing them to miniature manufacturers.

However, a word of caution, GW are very \"Tight\" about their Intellectual Property rights and have, I understand, claimed work derived from their game backgrounds as their copyright not the artists. So if you do decide to show your portfolio to GW remove any references to Sigmar, the Two Tailed Commet and anything that can be directly referenced to their IP.

Personally I think that your work is more suited to Reaper as generic figures which would suit their ability to fit into D&D and other roleplaying games rather than a specific system.

My personal favourites are the Vampyr and the \"acrobat\" Mad Hadric. I\'d love to see them cast up.

 

[auralius2004]

Thanks for the encouraging words, all.

Dragonsreach, thanks for the tip.