Community Print 3D Print of Fantastic Print & Paint Competition

The bone abomination emerges once more from the entrance to the ruins, The glow of screaming, corrupted souls presages her arrival. This piece was a challenge. At first glance, its a jumble of bones and spikes, Then you notice the chains. Then you see the hex bolts at the ends of the chains, and that those bolts are driven into either giant bones or pieces of wood that act like, well, like a skeleton upon which the bones of the fallen are hung. I chose wood to give a greater variety of color. Then, of course, there are the spikes, loads of skulls, taunt skin, and what I think are some bulbous blood vessels. More than once I'd be doing a highlight and see a piece of wood (I think) that i missed, and have to back up several stages. It was also a lesson in mistakes. I experimented with a variation of zenithal priming. Rather than black then white, I tried brown and skeleton bone. That.... didn't really work, and I spent a lot of time trying to fix that. Another mistake was the flesh. Where I ultimately went for a more classic flesh tone wash on the taught skin, I think I should have stuck to the bluing undercoat for de-oxygenated blood (veins). The brownish flesh wash is just too similar to the bone and its wash. The green glow was an experiment. I'm still trying to get that sort of an effect down. I wanted an eerie color to offset the otherwise blended beiges and browns. This being a PLA print, there was stringing, lots of stringing. I removed most, but there were tiny strands that I just couldn't quite get, so I tried to highlight them as sinew. Similarly, there were little blobs on the talons, which is why our girl got her nails painted, to represent gobbets of flesh not yet absorbed. The archway? Its a pretty simple piece of terrain to paint. I went with blue granite to give color and contrast to the overall piece in a way that stone grey would not. Additional scatter in the last image is from Fantastic Plants & Rocks vol 1.