Birthday gift - Goblin in Love

This bust was a birthday present from my son - to be honest, I ordered a whole set of minis in the past - and he chose which to give as present and hid it in his closet.

Sounds weird but kids are so happy when handing over a “grown up present” instead of a child's painting.

Michael Kontraros Squee

The mini is from Michael Kontraros from 2016.

Quite an old style of cast obviously the recent years did huge quality improvements but the overall Figur is so cool. It's a homage on a MTG card artwork “Squee, goblin Nabob” painted by Greg Staples.

The happy and calm mood of the goblins face is superb.

Is there a plan?

For the painting, I didn't follow a specific vision. It was just about cleaning up the backlog and busts are in the majority.

But I had planned to improve on painting faces - especially bringing color in. Didn’t many bust till that day and I never have been happy, cause they looked like wax figures.

But in majority, it should be a fun piece.

So it started with a brave wet blending of a rather desaturated yellow green and a burnt umber in the shadows.

Squee bust from Michael Kontraros face painted green

Once this was set I started with variations on the face. The ears got a desaturated brown touch as well as cheekbones and nose. The shadows were intensives by more brown.

That was already a way more interesting face than the ones I've done in the past and bravery wen’t a little too high with the next step (-;

He-Man is dead

Whatever hit my brain, but I chose a artificial blond for the furry, which visually destroyed everything. It looked as if the goblin had killed He-Man and put his sculpt over the shoulder.