Kith Crafts

they/them | currently: painting minis

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Pinned Post: About Kith Crafts

This is a side blog for @kithpendragon to keep my creative works separated from the other stuff.

I'll also occasionally reblog other people's stuff if I think there's something particularly interesting going on with it.

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the Hunter wears orange. so should you.

i picked this mini from the pile because "wtf is going on with his face and head??" i gave him a drybrush to bring out details, then washed him with a rusty red that kind of gave "casual spiderman". from there i proceeded to paint his blue jeans for lack of anything better to do. the rest just kind of followed step by step with the model obviously needing this one more thing to make sense; and here's where it all wound up!

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this was an experiment in painting with a limited palette. i referenced a comic book cover and picked bottles based on the main colors:

black and white are free, as is silver metallic; the rest was done with mixing!

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here's a tinker gnome for y'all. i decided he wanted a second session when i saw how his face came out, most of which was spent refining the lighting after the initial sketch i did in the first session.

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the Magus and Warlord, last of my little spectral buddies!

i learned a lot during this project – both how to take advantage of transparent elements on the mini without leaving them wholy unpainted, and also that it almost doesn't matter what colors you paint a thing.

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back to bigger tiny people, i've resumed work on understanding how to paint spectral individuals. today i painted these two figures since the goal of putting as little paint as possible on the mini means they go pretty quickly.

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finally done with the exceptionally tiny guys from Tales of the Arabian Nights (40th anniversary edition) that i've been working on for over a month now! these are about half the size of the usual minis i work on, and i gotta say that made for an Intense painting experience 😋

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for my second transparent friend, i leaned heavily on techniques that let me apply as little paint to the model as possible while still bringing out as much of this fantastic sculpt as i could. much of the "huntress" figure remains the original transparent blue, which lends her a sort of glass or jade feeling on the table.

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it's been some time since i painted up some furniture, so…

this sturdy surface is listed as a bar, but it's giving workbench or desk to me

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this spectral "gentleman" is my first experiment in painting translucent minis

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i found this Astrid Hofferson figure in a bucket of random toys and decided she could try out a goth look

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the extreme contrast on this tiefling rogue made him Very Difficult to photograph, but i got there in the end!

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finally got round to painting Fancy the Dragon from Flamecraft!

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finally got round to painting Fancy the Dragon from Flamecraft!

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Jiangshi from Horrified: World of Monsters

when i was asking around, everybody seemed to have a different idea what color the spirits would glow. so i figured spirits must glow all the colors!

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Cthulhu from Horrified: World of Monsters doesn't look fully awake yet. M̴a̸y̶b̶e̶ t̵̉͆̆̀̓̅̈́͠h̷́͆̉͋̽̔́̕͘a̷̎̃͌̈́͆̆̕t̷̛̊̌͊'̸̛̌͑̐̈́̍s̶̓̊̎̃͑̀́͘ ̶̈́͂͐̒̒a̸͌͂̅͂͝ g̶̨̺͖̳̹͉͖̹͗̀̒͋̂͂̔͜͠o̴̯̜̙̯͒̋͂̀̏ǒ̶̡͓̙̝̳̤̉͋̀̒͆d̴͔̜͚̯̟̓͂̎͆̌͒͂̕ ̴̧̘̪͓͕̖̱̽͋̈̄̏̚̕͝ţ̶̰̳̠̀̒͒̔̾̓̚h̴̫̮̬̍̋͋̈́̒͑̌͝ͅi̴͔̦͕͇̟̻̼̫̭͈͋̊̔̈́͆̅͊̌̑̃n̷̢̢̪̖̦̟͎̱͖͆̓̈́̍̂͑̓̈́͘͜g̶̢̝̞͓͔̳̤̭̀̔̾͐͌͝!

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Sphinx from Horrified: World of Monsters asks you riddles, but only because those are the rules. It doesn't really expect you to answer; it really wants this to end in a meal!