I have a question and I hope someone can help me. I'm a perfectionist and it would irk me if I made an obvious mistake painting my minis so I thought I'd ask other painters here but I'm sorely confused by whatever the hell Wendy Adams is wearing, the reference picture only shows part of he outfit and it seems different to the sculpt, and it also doesn't help that I'm red-green colour blind.
Reference:
On the picture above it looks like she's wearing a grey shirt, over that a white blouse, and over that a purple dress. On the miniature, however, that wouldn't make any sense because she also has an apron in addition to her dress and it looks like the apron and the blouse are the same piece of fabric, but at the same time from the back it looks like she's wearing a dress with a blouse over it and no sign of an apron going past her waist in the back unless it's part of the actual blouse but then is she just not wearing the apron in the picture? Or is the apron part of the purple thing she's wearing in the picture? The miniature has a what looks like an open row of buttons in the front that would match the blouse in the picture above, but there's no sign of another layer in the miniature that would suggest that she's wearing anything over the white blouse, at least nothing with a round neckline like an apron would have. So what colour is her actual dress? Is it grey like her sleeves or white like the blouse or purple like in the picture? Then what colour is that darn apron? Where does the dress start and the apron end? At first I thought it's kind of an Alice in Wonderland style apron but there's nothing in the back that would separate the apron from the blouse. I'm just sorely confused at this point. Also, whatever the miniature is wearing surely doesn't look like the's some destitute street urchin...
Idk. I know I'm overthinking it but if there's anything I hate when painting miniatures then it's when I have to guess that the hell the sculptor tried to depict because it makes no logical sense or is so mangled that you can't make out what it's supposed to be (looking at you 15mm pewter miniatures). Anyway. Hope someone has any insight that makes sense.
I know it is too late now since you re done with it but i guess this could have helped in your conundrum
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I know it is too late now since you re done with it but i guess this could have helped in your conundrum