Hi all,

I’ve painted some miniatures from one of my board games. It’s the King of the Forest with two dogs and a bird, all grown out of the woods. I really enjoyed painting them, organic shapes and vibrant natural colours make me happy. Would love to hear what you think.

The whole crew together:

A group of 4 miniatures that have been painted. The king is a large humanoid figure, there are 2 dogs, and a bird perched on a tree. They are painted in vibrant greens and browns.

Some pictures of the miniatures by themselves:

The Forest King holding a bow and having a glowing yellow sword on its back.

A painted forest dog, partially standing on a stone, its head lowered but looking up.

A painted forest dog, its head raised up looking out.

A bird with blue-ish feathers perched on a piece of wood. It has a wooden carapace.

AMA about painting miniatures, always happy to chat about that!

  • Foon ( Foon@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
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    3 years ago

    [off topic question: I see a lot of people including image descriptions in text for accessibility purposes. Is there a benefit to doing that instead of/in addition to including alt text with the images, which - if I understand it correctly - will be picked up by screenreaders?]

    • vintprox ( vintprox@geddit.social ) English
      1·
      3 years ago

      Screenreader should be able to pick up any alt text and read it out loud - shame that it’s not shown in the tooltip for non-screenreader users here on Lemmy. (There is a clarification for screenreader that textual description (alt text) is bound to the certain image instead of staying in a separate paragraph.)

    • thumbtack ( thumbtack@beehaw.org ) English
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      3 years ago

      afaik the purpose of text descriptions does tend to be for accessibility, as you’ve mentioned. i don’t believe (though i could be wrong) that there’s any other reasons for that.

      • Foon ( Foon@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
        2·
        3 years ago

        That’s what I figured, then unless someone comes and contradicts that I’ll just leave the image description in the alt text. Thanks!