Garden Ninja Studios

When I first started painting miniatures, lighting wasn’t a thing that people did with miniatures. OSL hadn’t bee invented yet, fire was painted with the deepest red at the center, and people didn’t consider a light source when they highlighted their minis. Miniatures were only painted to emphasize their shape- recesses are shaded, and highlighting ...

One of my clients shared this picture of how their wedding cake turned out with the two characters and dragon that I made for them. I think these two had a totally awesome cake, so I really wanted to show it to everyone.

The most popular theme for the wedding cake toppers that I make are still zombie survivors. Often, my clients come up with some really strange assortments of weaponry, but you really can’t go wrong with the classics. Here are a few that have chosen to go with guns. We’ll start out with the one dressed ...

The back to back couples remain the most popular of the cake toppers that I make, and the couples I work with come up with some very creative things for their weaponry. Here are a few couples with some rather powerful weapon loadouts.

One thing I’ve learned throughout the years is that there are very few things in life that cannot be improved by adding ninjas. Here are three couples who have, evidently, learned this same lesson.

Here is my rendition of the evil elf (also dark hero) for Super Dungeon Explore. Chibis like this are loads of fun to paint. My concept for her color scheme was to make her a Nyss. I used Cylena Raefyll’s colors as a starting point, and went from there. Overall, I think she looks good ...

I’ve been making zombie survivor cake toppers for brides and grooms for a while now, and somehow I feel that there’s a lot to be said about the weapons they choose. Firstly, I’d like to thank The Walking Dead for pointing out to us just how useful a crossbow is when fighting zombies. Sure, the ...

This is an adventuring party I created for the Iron Kingdoms RPG. Our group has been playing for years, but this is the first time we’ve really gotten into playing Menites (there’s an issue of them not playing well with non-humans). Our group started their own order of knights who like to emphasize that “there’s ...

While Zombie survivors have still made up the majority of the cake toppers that I do, there have definitely been a nice rise in the number of cake toppers that express the bride and groom’s love of videogames. Here are a few examples. We’ll start out with the Steampunk Halo Spartans, and move from there:

I’ve been doing custom cake toppers for a long time for lots of couples that want something less traditional, but I have always been surprised that I haven’t had very many same gender couples. It just seemed that is a fairly large group that has been ignored by more traditional cake toppers for a long ...