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"Growing Flames" - Dragon Eclipse - Young Emberling - Part 2

Their origin land is said to be eastern deserts although Emberlings can now be found almost anywhere.   - Dragon Eclipse Gamefound Hello again! Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! Oh me, oh my! I've gotten all confused and mixed up! This post was (obviously) supposed to follow my work-in-progress post about this guy a few weeks ago, but instead I jumped right ahead to the Iceling! Oh well, better late than never.  Today I finally bring you some of the atmospheric shots of the Young Emberling from Dragon Eclipse.  I have mentioned before that, with my set-up, I find it a bit tricky to photograph very warm models (those comprising of lots of red, oranges and yellows). Enter today's model! Despite my efforts of re-balancing the colours and exposure a bit in post-production, it still looks a little blown-out. Ah well, c'est la vie! Thank you once again for joining me on my weekly meanderings around a model. I'll see you next week for more, right here on The Art of Caesura! ...
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"Freeze!" - Dragon Eclipse - Young Iceling - Part 2

Icelings who leave the snowy mountaintops  are some of the bravest and most outgoing creatures. - Dragon Eclipse Gamefound Welcome back to another Friday on The Art of Caesura! Today we're looking at the atmospheric photos of the model I was painting in the last post: the Young Iceling! I mentioned last week that this will be my starting Mystling when my wife and I get around to playing Dragon Eclipse. Maybe by the time we get around to it, my daughters will be old enough to play too! I'm really happy with how this guy turned out. I especially love the contrast between his eye and the rest of his body. Also I think the separation between his skin and icy, crystalline components worked well.  I thoroughly enjoyed painting these two Mystlings! I really had planned to paint a whole bunch of them...but other models caught my attention... Tune in next Friday on The Art of Caesura! Reading: New Black Templars Codex Next Week: Back to the fire...

"Ice Cold!" - Dragon Eclipse - Young Iceling - Part 1

Icelings are predominantly reclusive creatures,  but some of them cultivate curiosity that springs in their hearts.  - Dragon Eclipse Gamefound Welcome back to The Art of Caesura! First off, I'm sending loads of positive vibes your way, especially if you need them today!  Second off, I'm so sorry, avid readers; this post is a bit late (one of the first times in the blog's history). And the more annoying this is that I actually had it done, I just forgot actually hit "post". Anyway, it's here now, no harm no foul.  For the past two weeks we've been looking at one of the starter Mystlings for the new game Dragon Eclipse. This week we're looking at the other one: Young Iceling! I mentioned before, that my wife would be taming Young Emberling for her starter Mystling, so this one is mine! From an Electric Blue base coat, I painted his skin with Nighthaunt Gloom. I then gave more definition to the crystalline bits (nose, head frill, wings, belly) with Contr...

"Scalding Breath" - Dragon Eclipse - Young Emberling - Part 1

Overly protective of their incubating siblings, Emberlings are caring and fierce creatures. - Dragon Eclipse Gamefound Hello again friends and welcome to the five hundred and first post on The Art of Caesura! That's right, last week we celebrated the blog's 500th post, so pop back and check it out if you haven't had the chance to already! Today, we're looking at minis from a game that has yet to have made an appearance on the blog: Dragon Eclipse .  Now, I must really take efforts to reign myself in, because I would be very liable to spin off in the direction of just gushing about this game (which I will do in a future post). Instead, today I just want to focus on the first little dragon that I've painted for the game: the Young Emberling.  Dragon Eclipse is the first Awaken Realms game that I have bought. They are a seriously heavy hitter in the board game world and are known for the high quality of all of their components (Nemesis and Tainted Grail would probabl...

500th Post!!!!!

Wow wow WOW!! FIVE HUNDRED POSTS!!!  How incredible! For those of you just joining us - Welcome to The Art of Caesura! And for the rest of you, welcome back! And for all of us: newbies, oldies and my future self, I'm sending loads of positivity your way - especially if you need it today! It's fun that the 500th post falls within six months of the blog's 10th anniversary (which is when we'll have the proper nostalgic celebrations) but today we shall celebrate as we celebrate each and every centennial on the blog, by looking back at 100 photos since the 400th post . As always, the eagle-eyed among you might spot upcoming projects too...shhhhh... A lot has happened in the past 100 weeks, both on the blog and in "real life", let's take a look at some of those happenings: Thank you, dear readers, for joining me for any fraction of the past 500 posts. I'm so humbled that people find my inane ramblings worth checking out.  I'll see you next week as we sta...