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I feel like there have been many renditions of Medusa in miniatures. She's even become a species according to some of the older Dungeons and Dragons stuff I have around here. They even had pictures of child medusas (and it isn't like I haven't painted a medusa before).
Well, Arena Rex has some brilliant artwork and sculpting behind their line, so I was very happy to get to paint up their wonderful Medusa. The client really let me make the decisions on this one, so I got to create the pallet as I see her.
Especially the see-through part is nicely done. Lovely model too.
The bronze shield (reminds me of the Roman empire) is quite on point too!
9/10 from me.
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Koreg wrote: How do you do the see through parts? That's amazing.
I'm trying to remember exactly how I did it on her (I didn't keep track of all the color recipes).
The general technique goes like this- when you paint the skin, also paint all of the places where the fabric is touching the skin- all of it gets painted just like the skin. After you're finished with the skin and places where the skin will show through, make sure you're lining between the cloth and exposed skin is nice and defined, then start painting the other areas of the cloth, and use the cloth colors to glaze the 'skin' areas.
I love the soft tones and blending with the skin (other guys above have pointed out the see-through fabric, which looks just right!) - the metal looks lovely as well, is that NMM technique you have used?
Incredible work esp on the veil.
