Tango with Evil

 "Tango with Evil" is a commission work I did ending 2022 but collector wanted to keep it in secret a while. It's a very limited piece with only a few copies I think sculpted by Joaquin Palacios (not sure).

75 mm scaled

Eternus, blade of the first prince

 I recently finished this Games workshop miniature painted as commission to fit with my old Magmatrax tribute (painted for the same customer).

It was a bit harder to finish as it has many parts that have to be glued together as it's common on the new GW's plastic kits, but that makes harder to flip the brush inside, anyway it was a pleasure to paint a mini like this and with this style again. Hope you like it.

Geralt

 Hi all. I want to introduce to all of you the painting work on this small bust (about 45 mm) I digitally sculpted some years ago and never painted before.

It represents a custom image of Geral the witcher based more on the games and my vision of him in the books than in Netflix version. Hope you like it.

For sale. Contact me if you are interested.

Asuna

 During last month I was painting this 75 mm miniature based on Asuna's color scheme from Sword Art Online, an anime I used to watch with my daughter before sleep. The mini is great to it and it was a real pleasure to paint.

This miniature was for my personal collection and it's on sale if you are interested.

Underwater Diver WIP - PART 2: Miniature

 Hello readers.  If you saw my Underwater diver previously, you know how hard it was to accomplish and where it failed. But maybe, remembering every step can be usefull to somebody, so In this series of posts I'll write a simple step by step on my process. 

This one is the second and it's focused on painting the miniature

Hola lectores. Si habéis visto mi buzo submarino antes sabréis lo difícil que ha sido de completar y donde fallé. Aún así, recordar cada paso puede ser útil para algunos, así que en esta serie de post voy a escribir un sencillo paso a paso de las etapas que he seguido yo.

Este es el segundo y esta centrado en pintar la miniatura.

First step was to prime it with grisaille (a combo of black and cenital white primer). After that I sketched some lightpoints using pure white and a couple of shadow lines using some dark turquoise blue, and blend all of them with airbrush in a pale turquoise color.

El primer paso fue imprimar en grisalla (una combinación de negro y blanco en cenital). Después aboceté algunos puntos de luz con blanco puro y algunos planos de sombra rudos usando un azul turquesa oscuro, y lo fundí todo con aerógrafo usando un turquesa pálido.

I added some slighty tones of yellow on lights and purple on shadows before testing color scheme. I painted a couple of parts in a flat orange brown to test and I liked it

Añadí algunos tonos sutiles de amarillo en las luces y purpura en las sombras antes de testear el esquema de color. Para ello pinté con color plano algunas bases de color en un marrón anaranjado y me gustó.

As I'm looking for a clasic 60's steampunk look, I painted face and hair in an epoque style, also painting lights and shadows on the orange-brown leather with pastel tones, adding later some magenta on shadows to create more constrat and add a bit more of intensity.

Como estoy buscando un look steampunk tipo años 60, pinté la cara y el pelo en un estilo de época, pintando además las luces y sombras del curo marón anaranjado con tonos pastel, añadiendo después algo de magenta a las sombras para acentuar el contraste y añadir algo de intensidad.

I painted belts and bags in a old leather brown effect, adding a subtle point texture. Also boots and globes were painted in the same way. I'm not working too much on smooth transitions as the whole mini will be underwater, instead I focused more on contrast and definition with outlines.

Also used some purple to paint knee and hip details as rupture color.

Pinté los cinturones y bolsas en un efecto cuero viejo con marrones neutros añadiendo un sutil efecto de textura con punteado. Los guantes y zapatos se pintaron de la misma forma, pero debo decir que no me esforcé en exceso en obtener transiciones limpias ya que la mini va a estar completamente sumergida y pienso que no es tan necesario como el trabajo de contraste y definición, por lo que me centré en los perfilados.

También pinté los detalles del cuello y cadera en un tono purpura de ruptura.

Lately, knowing where the green and red leds are on the base, I painted some light effects on the mini to increase the reflections the leds are going to create, Both are on the back and below parts of the minis, so I do not worked so much on smoothing them as they are going to be hard to see directly.

posteriormente, sabiendo dónde están situados en la peana los leds verde y rojo, pinté algunos efectos de luz en la mini para acentuar el efecto que los leds van a crear. Ambos están en zonas poco visibles como la espada y por abajo, por lo que no dedique mucho esfuerzo a crear transiciones suaves ya que va a ser complicado verlos directamente.

Finally I glued the mini levitating on the base that is going to be explained in the 3rd and last step of this series.

Por último pegué la mini a la peana levitando, que será lo que explique en el tercer paso a paso de esta serie.