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Making It Your Own: A Tale of Building A Maw Krusha Part 3: There's No Such Thing As Failure

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  In this third and final installment of my "Tale of Building a Cabbage Dragon with Fists", I originally planned to just write about how I decided on a color scheme for the thing. But I realized I discussed the main points of this in the previous entries so I'll talk about something else. Which correlates with my creative process as well as general everyday philosophy. Failure. "Now Everey, what does this have to do with painting that 'roid enhanced Iguana?" Well imaginary reader, I am so glad you asked. In any artform, may it be oil painting, sculpting, sketching etc.... Mistakes are inevitable. Can't avoid it. We're all human. It's how we deal with it that matters. When I first painted the Maw Krusha I painted it red. At the time I threw the idea of standing out and just wanted to get it done. However, after the base coats were done.... It looked terrible. Like so terrible I wanted to just rage quit. But, as Sam Lenz, one of my favorite miniatu...