Haven't finished painting anything new in awhile, but i did have this lovely lady I painted awhile ago back on my desk, and while I'm sure she wouldn't win any awards, I'm still quite happy with how she turned out. this sculpt is also very expressive which made it a lot of fun to paint as well.
As for the reason for having her back on the desk, the one thing I wasn't happy with at the time was the base, originally I put her on a 25mm round base with a very boring and flat looking stone texture, so I finally decided to re-base her. this time i went with a 20mm square base, to me the model has a somewhat classic warhammer fantasy feel, so I wanted to use a base that better matched that era. starting the new base I used card of various thicknesses, going for an uneven flagstone look, then applied texture paste to the crevices, I painted the stones a myriad of greys, browns, and tans, gave the whole thing a brown then black wash, and was absolutely loving the look, everything was pulling together just right.
But now's when the headline comes in, I added green to the cracks and some of the stones corners, touched up with a bit of the original base coats, then threw on some pigment powders of various shades of grey, brown, and green, and before I knew it, the wonderful individually defined yet cohesive flagstone base was no more, in its stead I had a blurry mess. Now I'm not sure where exactly it went wrong, but in my excitement to try and push it even further I had lost sight of my original goal and overworked the base until it was muddied and far from what I'd intended.
In the end I managed salvage it, cleaning off some of the pigment, adding moss, grass, and leaves, all helping bring it back to a point I can still happily sit her on my shelf, but it still made for a good reminder, sometimes less is more, and I just need to sit down my damn brush.