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Pes !
@pesren.bsky.social
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Miniature painter: loves painting high-contrast & shadows, and an all-around enjoyer of art & nature! Glad to have you here~
Blog: https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/pes-paints-games
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Pes ! @pesren.bsky.social · Oct 15
Super cool to find so many great artists on #Portfolioday - I should join!
Hi - I'm Pes, a miniature painter. Whether it's superheroes, fantasy creatures, or horrors from beyond, I try to paint with lots of vibrant highlights & fake shadows. Happy to meet you! =)
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Harder to do interesting things with an all-black outfit, so tried doing different tones of comic-y highlights. From Marvel Zombies, here's Nick Fury painted!:
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #marvelzombies #nickfury
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Marvel hero Nick Fury, holding a shiny gun with a leg upon a rock, pointing at what I can only assume is dastardly villains off-screen. Painted with comic highlights and fake shadows.
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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She may not be a comic-book hero, but it doesn't mean I can't paint her like one! =) From Death May Die, here's Officer Karen Mendel painted:
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #lovecraft #horror #cdmd
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Death May Die investigator Karen Mendel, with a pistol outstretched and a club in the other hand. Painted like it's a comic-book style of highlighting with fake shadows.
November 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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A new favorite Marvel United paint for me; this model had me using 4/6 of the @flameonminiatures.bsky.social PA paints, so thank you for those~ Here's the Enchantress painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #thor #marvelunited
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Marvel villain Enchantress, with glowing runes on stone plinths in front of her, magic coming out of smoke. You should probably trust her.
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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My 100th blog post! Did non-black black coloration, and 'am pleased with the comic-like highlights & shadows I got here. From Marvel Zombies, here's the Red Skull painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #marvelzombies #redskull
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Marvel villain Red Skull, holding the Tesseract, standing in front of a cracked Captain America shield, with a fake shadow painted beneath him.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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The art was a bland flesh color, but I used this as a chance to do something tougher and freehanded some speckled skin. From Death May Die, here's the Ancient One painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #horror #lovecraft #cdmd
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Lovecraft creature Ancient One, a squid-like tall creature with human elements & scary wings on its back. Painted with squid speckles on its skin!
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Was inspired to do a TMM Gold-to-Silver transition after being inspired by her amazing Ultra X-Men art. From Marvel United, here's Lilandra painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #marvelunited #x-men #lilandra
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Marvel heroine Lilandra. She's holding her golden staff in one hand and her cape in another. Gleaming silver and gold armor painted to look like there's a comic-like highlight, and a fake shadow on the ground.
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
pesren.bsky.social
Super cool to find so many great artists on #Portfolioday - I should join!
Hi - I'm Pes, a miniature painter. Whether it's superheroes, fantasy creatures, or horrors from beyond, I try to paint with lots of vibrant highlights & fake shadows. Happy to meet you! =)
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Here's my take on painting Black Widow, trying as always to get comic-y highlights & shadows. Happy about the facial details too!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #marvel #blackwidow #cmon
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Marvel heroine Black Widow. In an action pose in front of a brick wall with an electrified baton in one hand.
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Gradually refining how intense I want the highlights & black-lining/shadows to be on simpler human models. From Death May Die, here's Buck Hall painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #horror #lovecraft #cdmd
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Cthulhu: Death May Die investigator Buck Hall. A sheriff-star-emblazoned fella with two pistols and a belt with ammo/holsters on it. Painted with a fake shadow beneath him.
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I was pretty eager to tackle this one due to the fun color scheme and liking the character, 'happy with the result! From Marvel United, here's U.S. Agent painted~
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #thunderbolts #usagent
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the marvel antihero U.S. Agent. He's vaulting through a battlefield with a tire and bags. I paint with fake shadows so it looks like one side of him is in shadows and he's casting them over the ground/tire.
October 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Boy this was an incredibly tough model overall, but he's now complete and very menacing looking! From Monster Hunter World, here's Radobaan painted:
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #monsterhunter #monhun #steamforgedgames
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Monster Hunter World monster Radobaan, a beast absolutely covered in bones & spines, with a glowing eye and face visible on the left side of the screen.
October 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Working on a bigger project now so time for a flashback post! I remember working -so- hard on this lovely lady at the time, and I still love how she looks on the shelf. From She-Ra, here's Flutterina painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #she-ra #motu
Picture of a hand-painted model of the Masters of the Universe character Flutterina, perched on a twisted tree branch with a vine running around it.
September 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Continually refining my process for flashy highlights; here's complete & in-process for a character based on Bill Nighy. From Death May Die, here's Craig painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #billnighy #lovecraft #horror #cdmd
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of hand painted models of the Cthulhu: Death May Die investigator Craig Adamson, based on Bill Nighy. He's holding a tablecloth/towel and pointing a shotgun at his foes. Four-part collage of my process painting Craig. Details of each step are discussed more in the blog entry link if you're curious!
September 25, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Challenging to try to get flashy highlights & shading on simpler bystander models, but happy with where I landed! From Marvel Zombies, here's Maria Hill painted:
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #secretwars #marvelzombies #mariahill
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of hand painted models of the Marvel heroine Maria Hill, holding a gun on a roadway with a fake shadow painted beneath her.
September 21, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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I had to boil the model in hot water to reshape its mold, but it was worth it as I'm now very happy with the results! From Marvel United, here's Cypher painted~
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #x-men #marvelunited #cmon
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of hand painted models of the marvel/x-men hero Cypher, holding a glowing sword and kicking up a cloud of dust
September 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Back from a break! Nice to have multiple copies so I can do sillier things with one of them and play one straight. From Death May Die, here's Albino Penguins painted:
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #horror #lovecraft #deathmaydie
Blog entry: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of hand painted models of the lovecraft creatures Albino Penguins, with one painted to have Emperor Penguin colors instead.
September 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Suddenly it was morbin' time for me, and as a bonus, I took process pics (more details in blog) to illustrate my progress in coloration. From Marvel Zombies, here's Morbius painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #morbius #marvelzombies
Blog: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand painted model of Morbius, morbing all over your screen now. He's vaulting off tombstones with a crazy flowing cape, daring villains not to step to him, lest they be morbed. My god, it's full of morbs.
September 9, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Here's part two of my goblins from Bloodwork on gamefound (link in comments). I painted one "normal" in my style, and another decidedly... abnormal. Hope you enjoy my Goblin Stickers!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #fantasy #goblins
Blog: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of two hand-painted copies of Goblin Archers, loaded with leathers & cloth components over a grass & dirt terrain with rocks/fallen trees behind them.
September 4, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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This insane model comes from I Demo Games' gamefound campaign for Bloodwork (link in comments). Did my best to give him lots of menacing shadow and light. Here's Giggarat the Mad painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #fantasy #goblins
Blog: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted copy of a.. boy where to begin.. a goblin chief wearing a bloodied mask on a wooden stilt contraption holding a bow with bloodied arrows, skulls strapped to his leg, on top of a wooden-spike-laden terrain with a broken bow that has a hand still attached to it and a discarded foot. He's got armor/leathers/arrows/straps etc., it's a lot.
September 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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A zombie from the HeroQuest board game, painted in a few hours. I was inspired by (also known as “copied”) the style of Pes ! (@pesren.bsky.social). I have much practice ahead of me!
#heroquest #zombie #minipainting #miniatures #miniaturepainting #miniature #mini #boardgame
Front view of a zombie from the board game HeroQuest. Painted with light purple skin, blue pants, a wooden shield, an old sword, a brown belt, and forearm wrapping of crimson, standing on a flagstone base. Front view of a zombie from the board game HeroQuest. Painted with light purple skin, blue pants, a wooden shield, an old sword, a brown belt, and forearm wrapping of crimson, standing on a flagstone base. Rear view of a zombie from the board game HeroQuest. Painted with light purple skin, blue pants, a wooden shield, an old sword, a brown belt, and forearm wrapping of crimson, standing on a flagstone base.
September 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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omg, my wife surprised me with an absolutely gorgeous commission of our FFXIV characters from the amazingly talented @carmenfflv.bsky.social. Thank you so much Carmen, it's beautiful! =D
#art #ffxiv
A beautiful commissioned art piece of our Final Fantasy XIV characters. I'm the big dumb one in a ridiculous outfit and my wife is the pretty one =)
August 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Even though I foolishly didn't prime him white (and I went gentler on shadows), I'm still pretty pleased with how he turned out. From Marvel United, here's Spot painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #spider-man #marvelunited
Blog: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted copy of the Spider-man villain Spot, with a missile being shot into one hole and exiting out his hand.
August 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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The art was a black centipede but I went another direction and really enjoy the full completed piece. From Kingdom Rush, here's Baj'nimen the Hateful painted!
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #kingdomrush #fantasy
Blog: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted copy of the Kingdom Rush villain Baj'nimen, a dark elf with a trident riding a giant centipede.
August 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Been a while since I painted a significant amount of yellow, but I did go a bit off-script when painting my Fishers from Outside!
August 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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He looks just like a dude standing still, thus 'more challenging to do my high-contrast work, but I think it worked! From Marvel Zombies, here's Harry Osborn painted:
#bgg #miniaturepainting #minipainting #miniatures #art #marvelzombies #spider-man #cmon
Blog: boardgamegeek.com/blog/13740/b...
Picture of a hand-painted copy of the Marvel character Harry Osborn. Just the dude himself, no extra flourishes or goblinry. Did my best to make him look comic-y and painted a fake shadow beneath him.
August 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM