New frens just dropped.
Any of you incredible mini-photographers have any advice on how to take a flattering hero image? https://mastodon.social/@Brennos80/114075211586949338
What do we reckon here, HobbyPals? Is the freehanding actually accomplishing anything, or just distracting from the initial pleasant simplicity?
/taps temple: can’t be a bog standard ork checkerboard if it’s tilted into diamonds, that’s clearly elf territory…
Another incredibly quick ‘two-tone’ test.
It’s not the tidiest highlighting job in the world, but I’m slightly irritated that this very quick two-tone ‘tester’ model is already looking nicer than the stuff I spend weeks on…
Right, enough procrastination, operation Fix The Bad Shadow begins.
I added an attempt at a cast shadow on the base, trying to emphasise that I want the scene to read as though lit from a shaft of light above, but I hated it so much that I set it aside for a full week 😅 I think it’s just far too extreme, I’ll try to soften it and lighten it to recover.
His little boots have a strap around them that I wasn’t expecting. Sudden colour paralysis.
I have, definitely intentionally, decided that he should have Very Shiny arms. Didn’t come up much in the show, but a big part of the books.
(Awkward Look Monkey Puppet dot gif)
Starting into his jerkin and only realising while taking this photo that the filigree is approximately the same width as the ridges of my fingerprints 😬
1,400 increasingly unhinged words deep now, including a plot-justified bad haiku. Might as well just ship me that first place hat now.
… and of course despite having a week, I choose to leave myself with a last day sprint.
I mean I can’t leave him without hair…
When I say ‘finish the Farseer’ first, I obviously don’t mean not putting any paint on that tiny little face.
Well… I know what I’ll be working on when I get the Farseer finished up. Can’t believe it’s even smaller. Look at that likeness though, even just primed!
Blend, blend, blend—checks to confirm that almost nothing has changed—blend, blend, blend. What even is white?
I played corpses on multiple seasons of that show and I don’t see a single STL with my face on it. I’m writing to my MP.
Well these just look irritatingly good… /hides wallet https://www.myminifactory.com/frontier/game-of-thrones-stl-files-3340
This stretch could be a long one: the Actual White bits.
Adding blue-gray over the vibrant white primer and a lesser white to the brightest white to try to make blue-gray and lesser white look like a more vibrant white (at scale). As you do.
Deep in the ugly, patchy phase of it at the moment.