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Elquin, High Elf Adventurer

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SGHawkins09    12952

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One of my friends asked me to find a druid miniature to paint up to use as his D&D character. I found some possibilities for him and he choose the metal version of Elquin.

 

Any input would be appreciated.

 

 

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ub3r_n3rd    152256

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It looks good, SG. The pics are a bit dark though, hard to make out the finer details to give you an accurate bit of critique. 

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This mini is so smoothly blended.

Its subtle, and balanced, and subdued.

Its a masterpiece in blended and subtle colors.

 

I personally (remember, I'm the dude that doesn't master blend, I like my colors

to explode)...would love to see a more pronounced highlight like what you did on the front facing scroll.

Please remember, I can also be an idiot when it comes to this.

 

I love it as it is also.

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Limey72    9700

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My input is very well done great color selection and blending;)

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I love that dark green cloak. Care to share what paints you used on it?

Not a problem. They were, from shade to highlight, the RMSP Moss triad: 9082, jungle moss; 9083,highland moss; and 9084, pale lichen. The front part was jungle moss highlighted with highland moss and shaded with black. I loved this triad as it makes a great muted green.

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ub3r_n3rd    152256

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Great shading, but the background seems too dark to me.

 

It's really not the background, it's the lighting. She needs another light or two set up in front of the figure to bring out a bit more detail.  ^_^

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SGHawkins09    12952

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Great shading, but the background seems too dark to me.

 

It's really not the background, it's the lighting. She needs another light or two set up in front of the figure to bring out a bit more detail.  ^_^

 

 

It is definitely the lighting. I have two lights set on each side and to the front but I am still working on my set up. It was a bit different this time as I had did not have the time to do my regular set up.

 

 

I could, if you would like, try and do some simple colour correction in photoshop?

 

Go right ahead, just let me know what you did so I can try it. I usually run my photos through photoshop and just do auto levels or auto contrast. The full photos looked great, it was just when I did the cropping that it got dark. I also take groups of photos at different ISO levels and then choose the best out of those but I did not have time with this guy. I might play around some more with the originals to see if I can get better results.

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