#painted figurines

[realitysperception]

I present to you the scourge of the highlands, lowlands, and the kitchen, a warlord who grew so powerful and conquered so much that he decided to retire and fight on a completely different battlefield and flourish there...

Gorthax the destroyer!

[ranger-26]

More painted D&D figurines, this time for a Dragonborn Fighter!

I really wanted to make a snowy/seasonal model and loved the idea of covering his armor and cloak in frost. The other figurine was fun because I got to work with fading two colors together and adding darker colors around the musculature to exaggerate the dimensions.

I ended up also buying some bugbears for default baddies when I eventually start my DM campaign, and I also have a half-elf bard and wood elf ranger set that needs painting, so I’m waiting this week to get better brushes before I start up again.  

[realitysperception]

His name is Thwak.

And he's very unhappy with the sun.

Horribly sunburnt and scarred, Thwak is almost completely unable to be reasoned with. Most of his scars come from hitting on one of his party companions, another ogre named Shunk, and her just plain hitting him back with her shovel. I accidentally took the first photo with the flash on and I couldn't decide which one was better/worse.

[realitysperception]

We back painting on the dnd grind with a displacer beast for our druid! Who still is keeping the plant theme so I painted this to be textured like vines, venus flytraps, and specifically requested feywood purple limbs.

AND

Bonus cow:

[tyrannoninja]

Painted Artist's Mannequins & a Dinosaur Diorama

Today I decided to indulge in a different type of creative expression in the form of painting figurines and making a diorama.

I’ve had a couple of small and poseable artist’s mannequins from Amazon for a few years now. Out of a desire to experiment with a different form of creative expression from my usual, I decided to give them both coats of paint to make them look more human-like (by default they are gray). Afterward, with the help of modeling clay, toothpicks, and a sheet of bristol paper, I turned the male mannequin into an ancient Egyptian spearman (inspired by the painted wooden models from the tomb of Mesehti) and his female counterpart into a prehistoric huntress.

I admit that I was quite clumsy with both the clay and the paint job, but I’m nonetheless glad to have breathed more life into these mannequins.

I made this Cretaceous diorama using an old shoebox, a printed copy of one of my jungle artworks, some brown modeling clay with green paint applied to the top, various plastic palm trees and plants, and a couple of my old toy dinosaurs.

The Papo dinosaur toy line these figures come from is interesting because they started out with designs faithfully adapting the Jurassic Park style (as you can see in their classic T. rex and Triceratops models), but then moved on to somewhat more accurate depictions of the animals’ anatomy. Still, they’ve always been gorgeous, even if photos of them have long been overused as stock images of dinosaurs.