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Blend, blend, blend—checks to confirm that almost nothing has changed—blend, blend, blend. What even is white?

The little man’s hat is a little less stark, maybe? Turns out white is trickier to smooth than yellow. This seems unfair, somehow.
The little man’s hat is a little less stark, maybe? Turns out white is trickier to smooth than yellow. This seems unfair, somehow.

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A tiny lil guy, possibly true 28mm scale unlike most modern minis from The Company. His adorable little hand is raised as though to reach out and softly, softly brush the hair from your face… wait, what was I saying? Eldar Farseer with a spear. That’s what I meant.
The tabard… smock?… of the tiny man has a variety of Reds applied, in a manner that suggests that many, many hours of blending lie ahead, all for an area approximately the size of one (1) human thumbnail.
A little bit of green for his pouches, a little bit of yellow for his t-shirt. Really the perfect set of colours for a painter with partial _red-green colour blindness_ who has self-imposed smooth blending on himself.
A crop of the little man’s funky ‘metal’ t-shirt with the sliders adjusted per the toot. The artificial increase in contrast shifts the effect closer to what an actual reflective surface might look like.
It’s not exactly shiny yet, but I think the ‘metallic’ area at least looks like it’s reflecting light a little differently from the ‘cloth’.
Front view of the lil guy with the remaining fabric elements now red instead of primer white.
_Rear_ view of the same lil guy showing the folds in his flappy red cape/overcoat. Definitely more blending needed, but shadow and highlights are now picked out in Actual Colour.
The little man now has some little bags and little gems. Also: is headless (ideally temporarily).
A front view of the mini showing that the only remaining white primer is the helmet, 80’s shoulder pads, and spear tip. Lots of tidy up still needed.
A rear view of the mini showing work started on some dangly gems and broaches.
A sketchy start to trying to make a contrasty scale-appropriate pearlescent white on the shoulder-pads and Big Hat. All the more dispiriting as the zenithal underpainting was a lovely smooth white. But not an _appropriate_ smooth white.
The little man’s hat is a little less stark, maybe? Turns out white is trickier to smooth than yellow. This seems unfair, somehow.