Odds, Sods n ……Stuffs. A Medley of Mayhem

Finally got the microarts giveaway bases all done and a few snaps taken. Think the plaster walls or maybe the brick ones are my favs…… maybe…. lol

Recently I did a big MicroArtStudio basing weekend on my Twitch stream. MAS were kind enough to send me a big ol’ medley box of their bases to use as giveaway on stream so spent the weekend painting up four different ones for viewers to win alongside a load of unpainted bases too. Here is where we are now with them. The old factory and the brickwork ones are finished but still finishing up the possessed and dark temple ones. The idea was also to show a whole pile of different workups for ruins, rubble, plaster, brick, stone and so on which I am still trying to type up and will eventually make into wee pdfs for my discord and for here too. Annnnnnyways…. here’s what they are looking like at the mo. Any questions, please feel free to ask 🙂

Was sent this bust by Iter Miniatures a wee while ago and after a bit false start where I went with a more traditional green, I dumped her to the back of my WiPping shelf for over a month. Then out of the blue (geddit?!….no ….. Bueller…..Bueller….. ok. Shup Jan ) one day I decided to go a differnt way and with a totally different palette. As soon as the green was totally erased and painted over with new base coat (Bering Blue from ScaleColour btw) I was sucked in and so much happier

I started imagining a background in my head of an Ice Gobliness from the frozen wastes to the north. North of where?? Just north….0k??!!!! The story grew and grew as I painted more. Her dress I decided would be leather with a thick fur collar. Some animal she had hunted down. Her hair pins were already bone but her ear rings I decided would be made of bone for the most part. I wanted a cool cool skin palette but then a more warm palette for her clothing. The leather is a very easy work up  – building up medium glazes over a dark lateral prehighlight.

Started working up the fur collar as well wet blending from dubai brown > iroko > birch (all Scalecolour) wet blending fur with loadsa spikey bits n textures is a pain in the…..brush 😉 The started to work some highlights into the base skin tone by adding a little mojave white into the bering blue. With that all done next came the lips (added a little fuschia into the base tone) then more skin refinement and then the eyes which by some miracle i managed to get done first go and in about 10 mins. I’m now scared to go anywherenear them in case I muck them up!

Tattoos – I wanted some tattoos on her to go with the whole theme. After a lot of googling and looking about I came across some old old pics of Inuit women from northern canada and BOOM  – the perfect tattoo designs for Zayna. So I started ‘penciling’ them i.

Which finally brings us to where i am this morning. have just done a little more skin refinement after finishing the tatts and glazing in some stronger shadows on the right side of her face to increase volume. A very thin glaze of gobi brown. veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery thin. to give her a little eye shadow and a slightly different tone to the rest of her skin and we are nearly ready to tackle the hair 🙂