There is a painting guide for this miniature available here.
I painted this miniature as a bit of post golden demon fun. As usual I wanted to try something a little different from the Eavy Metal scheme and went with purple and red as the main colours, with turquoise and ochre accents.
Overall I’m reasonably pleased with how it turned out. I put the most effort into the face and although I got a nice clean finish I probably should have considered how to get a bit more menace into her expression.
Before anyone asks, it’s extremely unlikely I’ll be painting the big Morathi in this lifetime!
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Great choice of colors. The red dress has a nice velvet look to it. I also really like the marbled effect on the stone.
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Thanks very much! I had intended to do more marbling but felt that with all the sculpted cracks and detail already present there was a danger of the base getting too busy, so I went quite minimalist!
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Aww come on you have to do the snake now, you’ve only painted half the model 😀
Just kidding this looks fantastic.
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Substantially less than half by that measure! 😉
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Amazing work as usual, particularly on the NMM.
Just the snake one to go haha
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Thanks! And that is not going to happen!
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Beautiful figure! Your NMM is stunning, the technique still terrifies me.
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Thank you! No need to be terrified of a technique. Get stuck in! The worst that can happen is that it doesn’t work and you learn something. 🙂
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First time I’m downloading one of your guides from Etsy, and the quality is really there ! I’m having a lot to learn and your step by step approach really helps a lot. Thanks for this ! I will be downloading more stuff.
Now onto the comments for improvements:
– Can I suggest a recap at the beginning of all the steps you will take (basecoating down to detail highlights); a 1-pager that recaps for beginners like me all the steps you’ll go through the PDF (like a “timeline” type of thing, step 1 basecoat, step 2 wash, step 3 highlight etc.)
– Can I suggest to do more of your “paper examples”: like drawing the direction of your brush on a paper sample to finish off you highlights, I think there is a real added value to you sharing the “process of thoughts” on what you were thinking even before taking the brush in hands. Compared to others who are doing guides, this is a real added value.
– Can I finally suggest to include some “exercices” descriptions so we can improve ourselves: think about you’re giving a course as a teacher= you show us how to do it (like in your PDF’s today) and … you give us an exercice page to do on a specific technique. That we could share back to you for example on your blog or per email and as such generate a “community” effort.
It’s only a few suggestions, work done is already great!
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Great suggestions there – thank you very much!
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Hi Gareth, is there anywhere i can pick up your painting guides anymore? I only have a few of them but they’ve been a great resource
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