With only a few POST-CENTAUR
PAINTING-booklets left I am quite pleased about the venture. I have already recieved several
comments and bits of feedback but I thought it would be nice to have
a post reserved for feedback.
Overall, the feedback I have got so far has been quite
positive and encouraging.
However, these are some of the wishes:
- Closer looks at the miniatures. So bigger detail-shots.
- More text as an improvement was also mentioned. I wonder if I could have taken the type-size down by one or two to make room for a few sentences more?
- More sketches if possible.
- WIP-images has also been asked for.
- Also, the spiral binding does take it a bit from a ”proper” book.
Lots of great feedback. Thanks a lot.
Of course I can only show sketches for
a project if I actually made the drawings. As mentioned in the
booklet I consider sketches a kind of visual notes. For me it is a
combination of trying out a composition and planning what bits to
use. Sometimes I do a sketch, at other times I just go directly into
the conversion.
More text (and space for it) would be
great in some places. For some of the models I could easily har used more space, but
for one or two I felt like I could not add more using ”mere”
words. Instead I left it to a short presentation and let the
miniature speak by itself. But if more text is requested overall, then it is something to shoot for in the future.
The spiral-binding was a tricky one
since the small format makes it hard to glue properly. The risk was
that the pages might get loose and fall out if glued. However, a plus for the
spiral-binding solution is that you never have to bend the paper to
show a page-spread properly. I have actually come to like the spiral-binding very much, although I had my doubts about it at first.
So far it has actually been a lot of
different things that people point out as their favorite bit. Some
people like the my Mordheim gaming miniatures, some like the
inquisitor characters, others comment on the overall stylistic
journey.
But anyway, any comments on other
issues or just a repetition of some of the pointers above will be greatly
appreciated. Feedback is crucial - certainly if I am to look into
doing a second booklet. Of course, you cannot make everyone happy and the topic or theme of a publication will always create some limitation. But that is part of the game!
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For those who did not see the
POST-CENTAUR PAINTING release post back in April, the booklet can be
purchased through Runic Miniatures at the following stand-alone
site,
Happy Painting!
