03155: Vandora Waverunner, Pirate

[Pingo]

Yet another of the Conga Line of half-finished minis, finished.

 

This is Reaper 03155, Vandora Waverunner, Pirate.  She's painted up for a player who wanted a female pirate figure who was sensibly dressed. 

 

The character comes from an area of the world with hyperbolic geometry -- basically a like an M. C. Escher lithograph.  There are a few clues to this on the figure.

 

For one, her hat is impossible.  No fault of the sculptor for not knowing, but that's a shape based on a relatively recent misunderstanding of an old 2-D image of a plain old three-cornered hat seen from an odd angle, which has been propagated and exaggerated through visual tropes until people don't see anything weird about it.

 

It is, therefore, very useful as a visual clue to the bent space of the character's origins.

 

The other clue is her map, which is a graph of hyperbolic geometry.  All the angles are right angles, and yet they form regular hexagons instead of squares.

 

I played some with reflections on her too, in the sword and the shading on the hat trim, both of which reflect her scarlet coat in different ways.

 

 

 

Original WIP here.

[Glitterwolf]

Pretty Pirate!

 

Well done!

[BLZeebub]

Great work on her face.

[Chris Palmer]

Wow, that face is amazing! That close-up looks like an oil-painting portrait!

[Limey72]

Great work cool map

[Pingo]

Wow, that face is amazing! That close-up looks like an oil-painting portrait!

That is my background.

[72moonglum]

Loved going through your WIP to see how you got to where you ended up!

[72moonglum]

Oh, and by the way, the eyes are beautiful!

[Pingo]

When I was in college there was a girl in my dorm from India who had beautiful dark shading around her eyes. It was a striking look, and I was aiming for something a little like that here.

[Pochi]

Love the pants and jacket and the face is exquisite! She is gorgeous!

[Chaoswolf]

She's beautiful; very nicely done!

[Wikkidcrow]

Ay Ay captain...nice job