alex
first impression is everything when it comes to those statues,
you are killing your biggest release before it's even out the door. Should never showed those photos even though i really appreciate you giving us a look early.
Please take some professional photos and post asap, i know you know how to take stunning photos per your for sale thread.
My impression of this piece ignoring the camera flash overexposures - great sculpt but bad paint job that lacks detail and natural look (especially the skin colors). Everyone is complaining about the girl - it's not the sculpt but the way it's painted, her entire body is just a monotone spray of the skin color which made it look really flat with no depth and simple. Her face with the heavy handed bright makeup, is the same carelessness that destroyed the viking girl and vamp queen - both great sculpt as well.
The same issue was said on some of arh's recent releases - vamp queen, viking lady, etc.. was hoping arh would hire some good painters this time around, their root is sculpt not paint. The earlier piece - thor/leonidas/cleo etc.. were all painted much better, not sure if they switched artist or what after that. You really need better painters....
hoping to be surprised at nycc in person, the sculpt of this piece really does look amazing! It would be sick to see what it can look like in the hands of some top painters like silent surfer, joe dunaway or small studios etc..