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Hi all,
I've painted some miniatures from one of my board games. It's the King of the Forest with two dogs and a bird, all grown out of the woods. I really enjoyed painting them, organic shapes and vibrant natural colours make me happy. Would love to hear what you think.
The whole crew together:
Some pictures of the miniatures by themselves:
AMA about painting miniatures, always happy to chat about that!
Nice minis! It makes sense that as camouflage, the creatures would all have the exact colors of their environment, but aesthetically, I might mix the base browns and greens lighter and darker for use on the base vegetation versus the creatures -- just to make the creatures stand out more.
You make a very good point (and one that I did consider), I entirely agree with you that from an aesthetic point of view, it really wasn't a good choice to have the bases and the creatures be the same colour. Thematically, though (especially how they're described in the game, you can barely see them in the forest) I think it's a great fit. So it was entirely on purpose, and whether it was a good or bad choice depends on what you find important ;)
[off topic question: I see a lot of people including image descriptions in text for accessibility purposes. Is there a benefit to doing that instead of/in addition to including alt text with the images, which - if I understand it correctly - will be picked up by screenreaders?]
Screenreader should be able to pick up any alt text and read it out loud - shame that it's not shown in the tooltip for non-screenreader users here on Lemmy. (There is a clarification for screenreader that textual description (alt text) is bound to the certain image instead of staying in a separate paragraph.)
afaik the purpose of text descriptions does tend to be for accessibility, as you’ve mentioned. i don’t believe (though i could be wrong) that there’s any other reasons for that.
That's what I figured, then unless someone comes and contradicts that I'll just leave the image description in the alt text. Thanks!
these are crazy impressive! i really love how you captured the grainy wood texture, and your use of blue across the different minis in different way- it really ties them together as a set :) really really nice work!
Thank you, especially glad you noticed the blue everywhere! I also gave them all a bit of the golden yellow (like in the sword and the bow) but the yellow eyes are too small to really be noticeable. :(
ahh the yellow is a nice touch too! just a little less noticeable i think because of how small some of the detailing is, and it’s more common in nature in a way than blue tends to be. really nice touch regardless, shows you put a lot of thought and effort into these guys :)