Girl's Rider [Work-in-Progress: White T-Shirt] - Hasegawa 1/12 scale miniature figurine

 In what technically should be the most boring post about the Girl's Rider miniature figurine's painting process, I am showcasing the whites of her form-hugging t-shirt. Even as I was typing out the preceding  sentence, I could already feel - space time continuum be damned - the boredom oozing out of the future self of you, my dear readers. But please bear with me as we get through this slight bump in my series of work-in-progress photos of the Hasegawa 1/12 scale miniature figurine.  

Girl's Rider work-in-progress: painting the whites of a tight-fitting t-shirt

Shadows were strategically placed at limited areas of the white t-shirt ...

... such as on the wrinkles around the bottom of her breasts ...

... on the small of her back as well as the spine indentation ...

... (oops, a white spot on the shadows of her back will need to be corrected) ...

... on the wrinkles found on both her shoulder region ...

... on the wrinkles located on the left half of her midriff ...

... and on the wrinkles beneath the bust area of the Girl's Rider figurine.

Photos taken at f/16, 1/60sec, ISO-1600; with a 90mm macro lens

 For quite some time now, my go-to colors for painting white has strictly followed the Vallejo Model Color formula comprising Deck Tan (70.986), German Camouflage Beige WWII (70.821), Neutral Gray (70.992), Ivory (70.918), and White (70.951). It's a color scheme I'm somewhat familiar with since I almost always choose white when I'm painting the clothes of female figurines. To me at least, white is an extremely sexy color when paired with the appropriate garments and female figurine.  

Acrylic paints that were used to create the whites of the figurine's t-shirt

 Photos of the white t-shirt were also taken against an azure-like background, purely just to showcase the t-shirt against a less stark background. I think the t-shirt looks more striking against a black background, which offers it the highest possible level of contrast. When the entire miniature figurine is finished, the best choice of background color won't be so cut and dried. For example, her jeans will be painted a dark blue, and subsequently it may perhaps look better against a lighter background. In the future I'll probably test out three types of photography background i.e. black, azure, and white. 

White t-shirt of the Girl's Rider figurine against an azure-like background

In the case of the Girl's Rider figurine, the wrinkles on her t-shirt are ...

... a result of the said clothing item being an extremely tight-fitting one ... 

... which results in the t-shirt closely hugging her form ...

... thus accentuating the natural s-curves of her upper body ...

... especially around the small of her back and back shoulder blades ...

... around her midriff, more on the right half because she is leaning inwards towards her right ... 

... and around the sides as well as the lower half of both her breasts.

DSLR camera and lens used: Canon EOS 650D with Tamron 90mm macro lens

 Next up is arguable the second hardest part of the Girl's Rider figurine to paint (after her face/skin tone) i.e. the denim jeans. As mentioned earlier, the denim will be a dark blue hue with lighter blue patches on areas such as the knees, thighs, wrinkles, and buttocks. So far I've been maintaining a fairly consistent pace of a blog post a week - the most I've done in over a year. With the Lunar New Year celebration beginning this Tuesday, it'll be a challenge to not falter pace-wise so early into the year. But que será, será, I'll just face every week as it comes and hope to continue posting regularly after the debacle that was 2021. As always, thanks for reading, stay safe, and be well.