smithmeg
Sergeant
508 Posts
    
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| I'm really happy with how this has turned out [:)].
 
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Ridureyu
Underboss
1622 Posts
| | 06/17/2006 9:41 PM |
| | Wow - you just made the Arcanix Guard look really, really good. | |
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Darastrix Maekrix
dariustad
Warlord
6322 Posts
| | 06/17/2006 10:04 PM |
| Wow! That turned out great!
So, how do you like my suggestion to paint that one first, now? [:D][)] | |
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yack
Commander
3321 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 06/17/2006 10:45 PM |
| | Wow thats sweet... good choice in color. | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 06/17/2006 11:08 PM |
| | very nice indeed! The shield came out great! | |
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Can of the Cave Beer
Commander
2838 Posts
| | 06/17/2006 11:22 PM |
| I thought that they looked pretty good before! Wowzers...Nice work, Meg.
Just fantastic. | |
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zenthrus
Warlord
5132 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 06/18/2006 1:00 AM |
| | Very nice work, particularly the eyes [^] | |
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Aravis
Underboss
1155 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 4:18 AM |
| | wow. great workd, and great color palette choice. | |
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zanaroth
Sneak
149 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 7:05 AM |
| | very nice! | |
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Runelord151
Underboss
1203 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 7:10 AM |
| | Wow - that is really nice Meg! Well done! | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 06/18/2006 8:06 AM |
| She's awesome. Truely PC worthy now. [:)]
Just goes to show you how much potential they have. Amazing work, thanks for sharing. | | | |
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Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 9:49 AM |
| | Very awesome meg. great work! | |
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taliesin
Underboss
1113 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 12:28 PM |
| | Really nice work. She reminds me a little of Sorsha from Willow. Probably the helmet. Again, great! | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
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IHawk
Underboss
1054 Posts
Lisle, Illinois
| | 06/18/2006 1:48 PM |
| Awesome. I've always like the sculpt with the blue, but
that shade is better. | |
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Beast
Sneak
143 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 2:24 PM |
| | Very nice, I really do love the eyes and the chainmail. | |
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XenoZephyr
Underboss
1083 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 2:38 PM |
| | Wow! Great work. I love the color choice! The purple and gold is a great combo and makes her look like a royal guard. | |
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bigbadjon
Sergeant
546 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 3:29 PM |
| | Until I saw this repaint I never noticed that the arcanix guard was a female. I like your color choices. I also like how you did not do much blacklining on the eyes. I think blackling them sacrifices realism. | |
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Sean-Khan
Commander
2731 Posts
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smithmeg
Sergeant
508 Posts
| | 06/18/2006 5:00 PM |
| Thanks everyone [:I] - I'm glad you like it.
For those who have commented on the eyes .... I do them by painting the eye socket in a darker shade of the skin tone, then paint the eye white (a smaller area), then do the dot in the middle (which is dark brown in this case) - less steps gives me less chances to stuff it up [)]. (plus, I'm not a fan of dark eyeliner, whether it's on a mini or a real person). | | | |
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WakeXX
Warlord
10152 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 06/18/2006 8:12 PM |
| | Nice work Meg,really brings out the detail. | | | |
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Username
Warlord
5692 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 9:48 AM |
| WOW! That one looks great! I like the colors a lot.
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Cheddar Bearer
Warrior
298 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 10:38 AM |
| | The colour choice makes it the mini look more important/regal, I think its just that shade of red. Anyway great job it looks fantastic. | |
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Sulaco
Underboss
1605 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 11:02 AM |
| Nice. She'll make an excellent cleric of leader fo the other guards. I do have a couple of little suggestions that I think would take it even further:
First, apply a very thin line along the top of the eye. It will help her eyes look a little more natural. The more iris you see the more "shocked" the figure looks. Note how the top lid covers a bit of the iris:
Second, add some highlighting in the hair. It gets a little lost in teh tabbard cos they are in a similar colour range. | |
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Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 11:19 AM |
| | Hah, gotta love those Copy-paste proof images.... | |
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Sulaco
Underboss
1605 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 11:42 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Vash
Hah, gotta love those Copy-paste proof images...
What do you mean? | |
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Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 11:50 AM |
| The image you linked, at least on mine all it says is
"This Graphic Taken from portrait-artist.org"
So either
A)My Works Firewalls are kicking in
B)The image you linked is property of the site you took it from, and they had one of those nice little "Failsafes" to prevent people from linking to their pictures.
But we're derailing here.
Once again, great job Meg. | |
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Sulaco
Underboss
1605 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 12:04 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Vash
The image you linked, at least on mine all it says is
"This Graphic Taken from portrait-artist.org"
So either
A)My Works Firewalls are kicking in
B)The image you linked is property of the site you took it from, and they had one of those nice little "Failsafes" to prevent people from linking to their pictures.
Huh, showed up fine for me. Oh well, the new one should work.
I think I might do a repaint of this mini in a similar scheme as a unit commander. | |
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6843 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 06/19/2006 2:56 PM |
| | Wow, that is excellent. I love the color choices and details. The face, for example, is superb. It doesn't look like a common anymore. | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1553 Posts
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| | 06/19/2006 4:51 PM |
| | Cool. Well done again. | |
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smithmeg
Sergeant
508 Posts
| | 06/19/2006 6:51 PM |
| Thanks for your thoughts Sulaco, I'll have a think about the eyes, and give you a proper response tonight (from home - where I can see the pictures).
The hair is highlighted more than shows up in the photo - it's really strange, the rest of the colours are a good match for the real thing, but the top couple of highlights on the hair just disappeared.
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Hejas
Sergeant
435 Posts
Poland
| | 06/20/2006 8:22 AM |
| | She looks great, excelent repaint, I really like it. ^^ | |
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smithmeg
Sergeant
508 Posts
| | 06/20/2006 8:45 AM |
| | I can see what you are saying about the eyes Sulaco, though I'm not sure it makes much of a difference at life size (rather than the extreme close-up of the photo). I'll try to remember it for next time. | | | |
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Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 06/20/2006 8:48 AM |
| | I dunno guys, but I think Hejas like it, what do you think [)][:P] | |
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Pegasus Knight
Sergeant
896 Posts
| | 06/20/2006 11:14 PM |
| | Neat. That's a pretty good use of purple there, it looks very sharp. A good repaint for a piece that definitely deserved it. | |
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psistef
Underboss
1572 Posts
| | 06/21/2006 12:49 AM |
| | Wow. That's awesome. | |
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Underboss
1608 Posts
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True_Blue
Underboss
2386 Posts
| | 06/22/2006 4:03 AM |
| | I really like the reddish purple color, I think she looks really neat. The Gold on her is just fantastic, and the shield was really well done. I like this one a lot better than the original. If you did a few of them, they could be a towns guard for a different city/country. | |
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