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Painted as a gift for the youngest offspring. Comments and & critiques welcome

Here we go. I have about the worst combo of camera and lighting on the planet, but I figure I probably ought to get some work up so I can get some C&C. These were taken with my Droid, but I don't have another camera at the moment. Hopefully I can remedy that soon. Also, my lamp is super harsh, but it's the only one I have right now. It's great for painting; not so much for photographing. Just a couple notes. Cassie is the first mini I ever painted. My colors are flat, she looks unfinished and cartoony, but I actually think the effect is fun. As little as I knew about painting at the time, I kind of like the way she turned out. Somewhere around 7-8 years ago, I think? Sharyn is one of my most recent minis. She's a pretty fair gauge of my skill right now. I notice I need to develop shadows and highlights with her, especially when doing fair skin tones. I think my medium skin tones look better, but looking at her I think her skin lacks depth. Sylph is the same. I think she lacks depth. I like the way the wings turned out, though. Golanth was my first (only) attempt at black primer. That affected the color more than I expected. In the future I'm sure I'll use black primer again for monsters and such, but I'll stick with white for people/intelligent humanoids. Strumpet is another fairly recent one. I'm working on a set of Townsfolk, and she's actually the most colorful of the lot. My vision is for a poor town full of very "earthy" people. There will be lots of brown in the rest of them. She dreams of getting out of town and living a better life. The one nice thing she owns is the red ribbon in her bodice, but her dress is still dirty and she's not as fancy as she imagines.