This is a miniature from TitanCraft’s “RPG Mini Starter Kit” on thingiverse. I painted him up just to get some practice painting minis as I’m just starting out on the small scale stuff.
Here he is from a couple of different angles:
I wish that the paint on his face came out a little better, it’s something I’ve always struggled with.
I may be preaching to the choir here, but if you haven’t already heard of it, check out TitanCraft. It’s another mini maker website, but you can actually download minis that you make for free (they have paid and free assets, but there’s a ton of free ones and you don’t have to pay anything to download an all-free model). I’m not affiliated with them in any way, but I’ve been showing it to all my DnD friends and a few of them are sending me minis to print out for them, and it costs us nothing but the $0.25 of resin.
Y’know, I’d love to take credit for it, but the crazy thing is that I actually completely skipped painting the eyes for exactly the reason you stated, deciding it would look better unpainted than painted poorly.
Then, when I was applying the final wash, some of the ink just happened to mix perfectly with the paint to create what I ended up with. I didn’t even notice until I took the first photo; if you look at the one from the side, you can see that there isn’t really any specific coloring in the eyes.
Er, I mean, I meant to do that. Thanks 😅
I don’t know, sounds like you did a great job to me 😉