Fire Sorceress

[Bren 5]

Yes, a Fire Sorceress. In a winter contest. I can't help it, it was the only Reaper mini I still had... and as it was lying around way too long already I decided to paint it in a cold color scheme. I hope it's a bit credible, all comments are welcome!

 

 

 

[bikerdrew 108]

Very nice work - the skin tones are excellent.

[DavidVC04 2]

It's beautiful work. Gorgeous job on the skin. Overall, I think it's terrific.

[Nial ap Morai 384]

Outstanding work, Bren! I like the lite/cold tones and the transitions. Very beautiful

[bleujenna 3]

She's really lovely. My favorite bits are the pouches and bottles around her waist, and her eyes. Her skin tone has such a nice cool cast to it. ~jenna

[Jabberwocky 1550]

Beautiful work as always, Bren! Those ubersmooth skintones are great. What colors did you use?

[Guest josef]

very nice work, and i love the skin tones.

[skya 18]

Coldfire is very wintery. :)

[Wilwarin 301]

Very beautiful job. I love the base and her skirt :) The blending is amazing! Good luck!!

[Bren 5]

Thanks for the kind words!

 

The colors I used for the skin: VGC Steel Grey, VGC Electric Blue, VGC White and Burgundy from Pegasus Farben (a German brand). I mixed the first three to a pale grey shade, highlighted up to white and shaded with glazes of the steel grey and burgundy.

[Thegn Beretun 25]

An interesting and different take. Very well executed. I like it a lot.

Wesley

[dks 4673]

Excellent idea to do something unexpected with the figure -- and then excellent execution of the idea! Beyond the overall smooth brushwork and the color palette, I especially like the subtle flourishes of colors in the staff, the cool treatment of the skin, and the details on the pouches/bottles.

 

I've painted this figure, and I didn't remember the little gargoyle-dragon's tail being so prominent, but then I realized that you removed the strands that trail from her sleeves to the base, so now the tail hangs by itself. Nice subtle conversion!

 

Her hands confuse me a bit, as I'm not sure whether she is wearing gloves. The color of the hands is very close to that of the rest of her skin, but the fingernails aren't delineated (while the toenails are).

 

Her hair looks a little too warm to me, compared to the rest of the figure, but the blue background might be throwing off my perception. Perhaps working more purple or blue into the shadows would cut the saturation and unify it with the skin.

 

The flame atop the staff is ambiguous, too: I see it as a flame-shaped solid object, rather than fire. I would expect a fire to be brighter than the solid object next to it, to have its lightest color at the base (not at the top) of the flames, and not have shadows in the recesses of the form.

 

Thanks for sharing, as always,

Derek

[Bren 5]

@ dks: you exactly named the things I wish I had more time to work on...

1. the hair. It is too warm indeed. I was afraid it would end as one big grey mass, but this is not as I intended either.

2. the gloves. Because of the size of the right hand I decided to paint them as gloves. IRL the gloves are more different from the skintone, but I could have done better.

3. the flames. I was a bit confused I guess with the flames on a winter themed model... so that's what I painted last. I didn't mean to paint them as a light source (didn't have the time at all to paint OSL ). Then I made a huge mistake and painted them bright green (as in really bright bile green) which was horrible, so I covered it up with blue and felt she had to be finished.

 

So all in all there are some things I quite like, but some areas could have had more attention. If only a day had 48 hours...

[Whizard Hlavaz 14]

/de-lurk

 

*Phew* Lovely. Really lovely. Nice work.

 

/lurk

[Don Rodolfo Graziani 41]

Gorgeous!

I love how cold she looks.

DRG