Joanna "Daeris" Efenberger

Since I can't find all of my pictures I took through this process, I'll put some of them here as one post. Finall submission stays the same.

[Reloaded 25.10.26] Finally, done. Only 13 hours of constant work to finish. I got stupid last moment idea to add rim light, but I'm quite pleased with the result. My wrist hurts, my back hurts, but it's done. Good luck everyone!

Equipment used:
Airbrush Evolution
AK + Vallejo acrylic paints
AK oil paints

Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra for resin print

[Reloaded 25.10.26] I'm hoping to post finished piece tomorrow. Only thing left is hair, plinth and some clean up and touch ups.

Have a great week everyone!

[Reloaded 25.10.26] The speedrun to finish this piece begins. Here's some oil paint magic to smooth blending on skin, slightly increase saturation. Cons for this method are: drying time (two days before putting matt varnish on to dim down the gloss), wet paint picks up all the hair and dust in the room, not suitable method for smaller projects (at least I haven't got much luck with that). Last image is comparison between acrylics and oils. Next step - varnish and speedrun through metallic details and hair.

Have a great week, cheers everyone!

I don't remember what I wrote here before. Anyway, here's pictures of arms attached with putty to fill the gaps

I did some more skin refinment and took pictures with proper camera.

Cheers everyone!

Slowly progress, for now the face is somehow refined, I've also blocked hair color and shading.

Great week everyone, cheers!

[Reloaded 25.10.26] I thought about it, and decided to switch light source from right to left. Unfortunately not much more happened...

Have a great week everyone, cheers!

[Reloaded 25.10.26] First of all, thank you all for your kind comments. Strict diet solved some issues for now, and I have scheduled procedure at the end of August, so everything will be fine.

I have some little more time to work on this girl, I chose to continue with purple and dark turquoise/ teal color scheme for clothing, antique gold for metallic details and red for spiders and gems. Everything is now very roughly painted, next step would be to fix the light for consistency. I am also aiming for the purple material to be velvet and teal one to be satin. I've also fixed the light and saturation in photoshop to be more accurate than what my phone camera picks up.

Color palette is still the same mostly, with some additions:
TEAL MATERIAL: Scale75 Deep Sea, Vallejo Abyssal Turquoise
ANTIQUE GOLD: V Medium Brown, AK Reddish Grey, AK Green Ochre
EYES: V Red, AK Scarlett Red

I have plans to paint a little more this week.

Cheers everyone! Have a wonderful week!

[Reloaded 25.10.26] Unfortunately at this moment it's very slow progress since I need to balance work and taking care of my health (stupid diet and stupid gallstones...)

Anyway this is a rough 30 minutes sketch for color scheme and light placement on face. I'm aiming for Rembrandt Light style, light coming from top right forming quite hard shadows on the nose and left cheek, with characteristic light rectangle (not yet there ^^").

Colors used so far, from left:
EYES: Vallejo Flat Brown, AK Violet, AK Warm Grey

SKIN: AK Black Purple, Scale75 Black Leather, AK Amethyst Blue, AK Grey Blue (for toning down purples), AK Lilac, AK Pastel Violet

Btw, I'm sure my phone dulls down the colors a little bit, I'll try to make better pictures in future

Cheers everyone! Have a wonderful week!