Spooky King and Queen

 This is kind of a matter of opportunity post. This very week I've received my parcel from the most amazing Forest King by Ana Polanšćak Kickstarter Campaign run by Andrew May at Meridian Miniatures. You can easily tell those names are quite a guarantee of good work and quality, and I simply couldn't resist.

If you have a look at the link above, you'll see how the original model was conceived. But I had a different approach for such a creature. I had some deer skulls (in fact... can they come from a previous Kickstarter by Ana Polanšćak too? I think so...). Whatever. I cut the original face out and replaced it with the skull. It gave the mini a different vibe, kind of darker, I think:

It looks scary to me!

I considered using a black palette, but on a second thought, the contrast with the white skull would make it look pretty much like No-Face from Spirited Away. So I went for natural colours, in all kind of browns. They look pretty much darker and deeper in the pic. Anyway, it's spooky, and that's what I wanted!

This beast is huge

I used the KS to get a treat myself, I purchased the Vampire Queen as an add-on. What a scary creature indeed.

Boo

Its slenderness, proportions... everything is so uneasy about this mini! I love it. I thought of adding some kind of crown or raggedy clothes... but in the end I decided she's perfect just as she is. The only variation is that I didn't add the tail. This way she resembles more a human-like shape. I wanted the model to look scary and creepy. It is indeed! 

And huge too!!

I simply had to paint both creatures, I was hypnotized by them, and scary and spooky as they are, I thought these quite appropiate days to post them both!

King and Queen

 Here you have them. Quite an impulse, but I'm happy I painted them! I don't know what will be next, but for sure it won't be as eerie and scary... These are difficult to challenge!