The ghoul queen WIP

[Skya]

Here she is set in with the rest of her menagerie. None of the pieces are glued down yet so i can paint up each individually. Once that's done I'll glue em in and unify the base a bit with some greenstuff.

For those who have been asking about how to do the water effects I want to assuse you that it's very easy and I'll do up a fullt tutorial on it in the techniques section as soon as I get a chance. For this piece I used a fishing wire as my basis on the stuff coming out of her finger. added a little bit of pigment to my Realistic Water Effects so it'd tint blue on drying. it starts out kinda gooy and I just ran that goo along the wire letting it clump a bit. Once that dried I washed it with a dark blue-green and then superglued it to her finger. I pulled teh superglue acrross the whole thing to give it some rigidity and took a wet brush across it in places to add thw sort of white frosty effect and took a little bright green and tipped some of the bubbles with that. Once that dried I went over it with more Water Effects that this time I had left clear and made sure there were enough drips coming ff it to give it a fullness. Once it had mostly dried I twisted it a little to give it a bit of a swirl.

http://skya.shadowdragon.net/MinisFullPics/GhoulQueenDioramaWIP1.jpg

[Hinton]

That is looking really good. I have this one in my wish list over at Reaper and it's great to see someone working on it.

Looking forward to seeing the progress.

[demonherald]

sweet looking piece. A hell of a lot going on but looking absolutely awesome so far.
Looking forward to seeing progress on this beast.

[Skya]

Finally got time to take pics for an update. I've changed the tone of golds a lot and added another shadow layer to the darks in her dress. Toned down the bright shiney blue spell effects a tad to pull the focus more onto her. I may end up needing to the spell effect coming out of her hand though. It got kind of muddied while I was working on her.

Unfortunately the picture's a bit washed out. I'm looking forward to getting the photo light box I got for my birthday set up and getting some good pics without taking a million shots to do so.

http://skya.shadowdragon.net/MinisFullPics/GhoulQueenDioramaWIP3.jpg

[Hinton]

That is just amazing, Skya! It's looking great.

[Nathan Caroland]

Looking very promising. Almost too busy for me, but that's just a personal preference I think.

[Skya]

Here we go. Finished pictures at least till Reaper get their hands on her and takes their own shots. I was hoping to manage a few more work in progress shots, but decided that getting her done was more important then documenting it. I went ahead and shortened the spell effect from her fingers and added in a reason for there to be a second scabbard , creating spell chains coming out of it. I did decide to seperate them out from each other a bit as well, a bit of added space really helps reduce the overly busy feel, even if it doesnt entirely eliminate it. All in all I think I'm most happy with the scabbard and the ghoulies.



http://skya.shadowdragon.net/fullpics/R-GhoulQueen.jpg

[Sculpta the squig]

Very nice

Squig

[Hinton]

Excellent work, Skya. It looks like a very complicated piece and you did an amazing job with it. The only thing I regret is not being able to see her back since the window is in the way. However, that's the sculpt; not you.

[Duende]

Beautiful paintwork, Noel! I also don't think much of the window piece since it makes the whole thing look too "busy" and kinda clunky. I do like how you made the ghoulies coloring match the spell effects. Nice!

:thumb:

[Malebolgia]

Terrific paintjob...but the sculpts and setting are ugly as hell (no critisism to you SKya...this is blaming Reaper). Once again a big 'meh' reaper sculpt IMO.

[Nathan Caroland]

The painting is nice on this but I have to be the spoil sport and say I really don't like this piece which is mostly the sculpt itself which seems too busy and fiddly.

[thewartoad]

I'm with Frustrated Father...It's to busy for me...but that's what makes us...us. We all have our own way of doing the same miniature in different ways...that to me is miniature art!

[Wren]

Although I agree it's probably a little on the busy side, there's a theatricality to the revised arrangement of the elements that I really like. The dress is still a marvel, and I like the murky yuckiness of the ground. It's an unusual piece, and nicely painted.

[JonasD]

I really like the sculpt and the paintjob! Really great stuff!

[supervike]

Nice as always Skya. You really are uber talented!

[Skya]

I've been out of town in Hawaii for vacation and just got back, so I've been a little slow on responding. As always, I apreciate you guys taking the time to give me imput.