I can’t remember who originally shared the tip, but if you struggle (like me) to get your non-metallics to actually look ‘shiny’, you can take a photo of your initial light placement on the mini and just boost the contrast to max and brightness to min. Try to match what you see with paint.
Of course, gentle reader, he would start into some non-metallic nonsense before he even has the base colours down. The boy’s a fool.
The order in which I choose to apply paint is both baffling and entirely self-inflicted.
Never painted an elf before, space or otherwise, despite falling in love with Jes Goodwin’s art back in the day. But this little sculpt is gorgeous.
Time to put this on a loop https://youtu.be/FTUxRX6cwDk?feature=shared
I just assumed David Lynch was technically immortal☹️
Snow day light! Bright white ground, dark grey skies. A sun’s eye view.
I’m determined that 2025 is the year I actually finish painting a thing. Anything. Just one will do. I’m nominating this lil guy. Still a long way to go, but I’ve stopped myself giving up in disgust and re-priming him three separate times now, so that’s progress!
Not often we have a ‘feels like’ -7C around here.
One eye sees an individual bright point of light as a randomly multiplied number of copies of that point, and the other eye the same, but with both also skewed and rotated at different angles. See that the two sets now overlap and interfere together into little snowflakes and galaxies and chains.
It is, frankly, a Good and Very Suitable time of year to have astigmatism.
The clutter has definitely just expanded so far, but on the plus side I’ve rediscovered my box of nitrile gloves for resin handling. Also three (3) unopened boxes of tissues (?). And most of a roll of aluminium foil.
Right. Today is Fully Declutter the Painting Desk day so that waves of self-disgust aren’t the reason I fail to hobby.
(There will of course be other reasons).
Wholly inspired by your good self @rollleafd
Perfect winter evening reading.
I’ve now dropped the Big Mini three separate times breaking it into twice that many pieces. It’s more metal pins and superglue than resin at this point. Probably significantly structurally more sound as a result.
Definitely the right time of year to get this back playing on a loop. https://mastodon.ie/@dmcgk/110831432550577662
Very much beginning to realise, in my days painting resin minis, that making dexterity my lifelong dump stat is going to have consequences.
Definitely time to start some regular creative stuff again and hope to carry hobby-momentum through into the new year.
Not the greatest start to day one though, I’m going to have to learn how to putty re-sculpt a resin-related-injury on the fuzzy fella.
Goal accomplished. But at what cost. What cost.
Fully intending to eat one (1) entire Lindt chocolate reindeer before 10am, and not a soul can stop me.