This is my friend’s character for a campaign that we are in. He used AI to create the general look of his character, then designed a mini based on the outcome. I printed it out for him and used the AI image as a color reference.
Here are a few other angles:
And here is the AI generated image that the mini is based off of:
(The small girl is the character’s sister.)
What a fun project. I like the greens mixed into the blue skin.
He was pretty fun! I’m hoping my friend enjoys using him.
Thanks for noticing the greens. I was showing someone a dragonborn I’d painted, complaining that it looked plain and boring. His suggestion was to highlight his red skin with shades of orange and yellow to make the huge patches of red more interesting. The dragonborn already had his top coat applied, so it was too late for him, but I carried the suggestion over here, and I think it turned out pretty good.
I’ve got a couple dozen orcs that need paint, I want to try doing a few different themes for each army and play around with the skin tones/ highlights. The campaign I’m running is set primarily in the snow, and traditional forest-green orcs with leather armor feels out of place; the first set I want to do will have blue to gray skin, with a dark colored armor. I also want some red to yellow skinned orcs, maybe some have purple in their armor…
Sounds great! I love painting skin because it can be so varied in hue. Even human skin has greens and blues in it even though it’s usually looks more brown, red or yellow.
I have been… not great with human skin. Haha. I hear it’s something a lot of people struggle with. My aim is to practice the techniques on something a little more forgiving like the orcs where unnatural skin tones won’t be so obvious, then bring those over to the elves and humans.