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Originally Posted by Lord Tirian Okay... these are basically my first attempts at painting |
Not bad really for the first attempt. I notice the first mini has a fairly accurate eye, (you might not think so, but if you see good eyes they are typically done in the exact opposite way you might think they were done) and that's good. We can go into a number of techniques and stuff and ideas, but really the first step is good brush control.
I guess I would be remiss if I didn't add the mantra "thin your paints." (Yea but I thinned my paints so much it started eating through the primer!) It all dpends on the paint of course, but if you really really thin your paint you can create a "wash" which you can apply after the regular paint. Basically you can over highlight and over shadow and tone the whole thing down with a neutral wash.
Another thing is that detail on a mini really helps you in painting. Look at the first mini on the left. The details on the light blue are on the borderline of being observable to a casual observer. Here is where a light highlight and shadow can do a world of good.
Always remember that the odds are if there are 10 things on a mini, you will only see 9 of them. On the red guy with quarterstaff, there should be some "wood" where his hand is as there appears to be two wraps not one where his hand is.
The skeletal guy is very good by the way.
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