Svetlana, Native American Giant

[Evilhalfling]

Well either she is a giant or she is carrying a collection of children's skulls. 

Painted for a Trio with @Pochi and @Kuroneko

The base seemed to take forever, the first one I have put on a slant, previously I built up a hill rather than tilting the base, and using park ledges for a horizontal plane.

The tree is made from twigs and flocking.   One of these days ill figure out trees. 

 

the painted backdrop  is a Bob Ross inspired mountain on canvas that I did last year. They work pretty well together but not enough for me to  tie in the colors of the grass and match the tree more carefully.  Next time I do this with a landscape I will choose one that is less busy, or at least focuses the eye toward the mini. 

 

 

[Iridil]

Wow - that a great base, well worth the work! And the giantess - great coloring and natural look with just the right amount of red.

[Adrift]

That’s a Michael Proctor base if I’ve ever seen one. Nice work all around!

[Glitterwolf]

Super!!!

Great job and a great base!

[Pochi]

Beautiful! I love how she looks in the scene, so free!

[Chaoswolf]

That's a great paint job, I like that you went outside the box and painted her in the color scheme that you chose!

[Thoramel]

Wow, that's a great idea. 

[Kuroneko]

Absolutely stunning! I love it 

[dks]

Wow!  Very nice.  I had never imagined her in warm tones like this, and she looks great.

(Right, the skulls she carries are smaller than the skull in her head ... so she's a 30mm-scale giant with human skulls or a 54mm-scale human with kids' skulls.  Take your pick of degree of creepiness.)

The background colors work well with the figure.  As you said, the scene is a little confusing visually, in part because the figure and the background have similar contrast and color saturation, whereas a real scene would become probably lower-contrast and bluer in the distance.  Maybe on the next figure, you could mute the background by putting a layer of tracing paper or vellum over it, or manipulating it digitally.

Thanks again for choosing her, thanks for sharing, and congrats on your RCL points!

Derek

[Evilhalfling]

On 3/26/2021 at 10:23 PM, dks said:

The background colors work well with the figure.  As you said, the scene is a little confusing visually, in part because the figure and the background have similar contrast and color saturation, whereas a real scene would become probably lower-contrast and bluer in the distance.  Maybe on the next figure, you could mute the background by putting a layer of tracing paper or vellum over it, or manipulating it digitally.

 

Derek

 

Thanks for the feedback! 

these are good things to keep in mind, it will likely be another canvas, because I like doing them and I should really do more than 2 a year. 

 

On 3/26/2021 at 5:23 PM, Chaoswolf said:

That's a great paint job, I like that you went outside the box and painted her in the color scheme that you chose!

 

The fact that we do it as a trio brings out the more unusual color choices, as we try and separate them visually. 

I based these colors on a single rough long shirt that had white/tan on the cuffs and red around the collar.  I found it on a google image search and it didn't specify what tribe it was from, but the level of decoration and crafting was similar to the model. 

 

Between the red mask and the skulls, I assume she is formally dressed as a human hunter.   the tribe likely only has one at a time, and the hunts and kills are part ritual.   

if she is collecting kid skulls she is more like an insane ritual serial killer, (KDM Butcher for instance) 

and I don't think they lasted long in the kind of low tech tribe that would produce her clothing. 

 

Edited March 29, 2021 by Evilhalfling

[Metalchaos]

Great work. I really like the arrangement you did.