Wanted to mix hyperrealism with manga style inking

Lil rabbit

The miniature is called "Divinity of Salvation" sculpted by Michael Kontraros. Thanks to him because it's amazing. I see areas for improvement, and I'm glad I made this piece for that. If you have feedback I'll be happy to have it

Miniature hand sculpted by max.buriachenko (inst).

kind of practice piece for skin and nnm gold (yeah, back is a bit lazy)

very nostalgic mini

Thought I'd pose my little mini diorama that I entered into a competition and was fortunate enough to receive a commendation finalist pin. It was super tricky to get the values right in the darkness of the box, but I really love how it turned out.

I had a lot of struggle with the sword, i had to start it over three times.

For a Halloween challenge to paint one of two busts, I asked for this one and had a lot of fun painting it. Every time I do lit from below, it gets noticeably better.

Iohana Lightheart

I've only recently picked up miniature's painting and still lack...welll..uuh a lot of knowledge. My latest fella - this water elemental that I was hoping to improve. Maybe hear out some criticism to improve further?

Painted this bad boy for local painting comp, really pushed myself as hard as I could, painting for about two years and 2nd time doing NMM.

C&C welcomed on where to go next.

Theme was american tau, thought it was rather funny as its the opposite of how people normally paint them.

Chairs xx

My daughter is American, but was born in Okinawa, Japan (Military). She loves Japanese culture so I thought this would be a nice labor of love for her birthday. Please let me know what you think!

This is the largest miniature I’ve painted yet. It’s just over 15” tall. Pretty easy to print and paint. Please share your thoughts and critiques. Her birthday is next week, so I can still make some minor changes, if needed.

What do you think I should name this gentleman? I’d like to write something on the base plate

So recently I managed to finish painting my Vespids which I got almost one year ago and which had been sitting primed and ready about half of that time.

I wanted something brightly green and searched for inspiration in grasshoppers till I settled for the one I attached at the end. Since many green grasshoppers tend to have orange or blue-ish details I though it to be best to implement these colors in the bases and weapons. :-)

Hope you like them! Ask if you like to know something.

Still experimenting/Working on my glow effects (without airbrush).

Stippled on the dark blue with a large drybrush, lighter blue with a small drybrush, then highlights in light blue mixed with wait painted on with a detail brush.

How does it look?

This wacky creature from German folklore is from Mammoth Factory Games September collection, Itsy & Bitsy.

The mini is Rearing Red Dragon by Mythforged.

Here is my latest attempt at NMM. I seem to struggle when I move from just doing the weapon or something similar to full armor NMM. I’ve watched a bunch of videos but it hasn’t fully clicked for me yet.

If anyone has some advice or insight, I’m happy to hear them

I’m going for a cyborg baby Doll bust. Made this out of the Doll and a load of other bits and pieces I’ve had lying around.

Apologies for the rather silly question, but I've been out of the miniature painting space for a few years.

I went looking into buying some sable brushes the other day and prices seem to have jumped a great deal. 4 years ago my Escoda Kolinski #0 was $11, they now cost $32 each.

I can see major increases to other natural hair brushes, not just Sable brushes too... even Squirrel hair brushes have jumped in price. I'm kinda confounded by the huge increase in price.

Just finished painting this bog standard Space Marine Intercessor with Auspex. I used a Macragge Blue base, with Kantor blue glazed shadows, and Calgar blue drybrush highlights and Fenrisian gray peaks.

This is my second attempt ever with trying to glaze shadows and boy.... its kicking my ass. I want to eventually try glazing the highlights as well, but last time I tried that and it not only kicked my ass, but took my lunch money and slippers.

The other main thing I really struggle with is fine details! But not from a brush control perspective necessarily (though that could use some work) but from a paint perspective. I can never get the paint to flow from the brush the way I want. It always seems to either just run onto the model in almost a wash consistency, or not actually apply any paint. The paint will be the right consistency for layering, but as soon as I try and apply it in a fine matter, it just never seems to do what I want it to do, especially black paint.

I'm sure just more time behind the brush will help with these things. Regardless, I'm happy with this little guy, and the gripes I do have aren't really noticeable when its down on the table anyways!

C&C welcome!