The Goddess of Spring - Chapter 1

Hi Folks,

I am happy to share my latest box art with you:

It´s the goddess of spring from Nordlys Miniatures.

https://nordlysminiatures.com/product/spring/

She is really quite a special model, fantastically detailed, calm, beautiful, mysterious, and powerful at the same time. 

She is sculpted by Romain van de Boegart, and as most of you know I love Romain's sculptures... but this one has something quite different to it.

It's very refined and detailed, even more than his usual work.

It´s still recognizable his style, yet the bust speaks her own language.

I wanted to mimic this uniqueness with a different approach with a strongly tinted atmospheric light.

A light that creates an individual moment and tells a story.

I wanted to create the look as if she gets kissed by the first rays of sunlight after a long and cold winter, with the cool light of the winter still hitting her from the distant left.

We are starting by introducing a dark inky blue as our shadow color and 

a warm apricot highlight color, sprayed from a very low angle from the right.

After that, we are working with our almost monochrome setup, and we are refining the whole model. Defining the materials and controlling and adjusting the value. We are using the direction of light from the airbrush as a guide.

You will see that I wanted to show plenty of the process and to not bore you folks I will show a lot of the refinement steps speeded up a little.

This way you can see a lot of the process without spending four hours in front of the screen.

In the second half of this video, we will start to lay in colors. This is a very exciting moment after working monochrome on here for quite a while...

I wanted to create a gradient from cool green tones on the left,  to warm green tones on the right side of the model. This transports the idea of the change in seasons and temperatures quite well, and we create an interesting focal point where her hands are touching the flowers and everything starts to bloom.

This video series will only have two chapters, in the second one we will do the final tweaks on here and balance the last bits of color and contrast.

If you want to approach a paint job like this make sure to be consistent with your direction of light and that you use the same shadow and highlight color for ALL the materials, this might feel off at first...

but the more parts are painted to more it will come together...

Alright now enjoy the video, and thas for your support!!