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X posting from the Wh40k thread:Shoehead posted:
I finished this guy today, I ended up getting a way better head in the Hive Scum box so now he gets to have NVGs    
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I found an old, unpainted eldar ranger and decided to spend an evening finally giving him some paint after two decades in a box   Wish I'd gone with a sand colour on the robe instead of green, though
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Sort of a crosspost but I was looking back at one of my very first minis today July 25, 2021:  November 8, 2023:  I feel like I've improved, but also feel like I haven't. I still feel like there's a mountain between me and other painters 
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Nov 9, 2023 18:38
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Well, figure out what you could do better and then focus on that for your next one. That's how you improve
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Nov 9, 2023 18:47
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right now I think my focus is understanding glazing/blending better, every time i try it feels like a frustrating struggle of not understanding how to do any of it, and it takes so much time
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Nov 9, 2023 18:50
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Glazing takes time and brush control. Yes Edit: of the steps for the heavy metal style it's one of the most boring and tedious ones for the way they use it. There's better uses that are much simpler and less annoying Spanish Manlove fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Nov 9, 2023 |
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Nov 9, 2023 18:53
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GreenBuckanneer posted:November 8, 2023: Holy moly, look at all those little details. My hands are already shaking even before I ruin this model.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:right now I think my focus is understanding glazing/blending better, every time i try it feels like a frustrating struggle of not understanding how to do any of it, and it takes so much time If you want the smoothest blends, yes. But also look at classical paintings or any 2d art like comic books. You don't need to have ultra smooth blends, heck I sometimes find that more boring than interesting texture. What you want is visual contrast from the brightest to darkest and I can see that in the face of the second marine you've painted. The white portion can be good or bad depending on the effect you're going for, but it can definitely be used well if you're trying to make it look like a comic book drawing.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:right now I think my focus is understanding glazing/blending better, every time i try it feels like a frustrating struggle of not understanding how to do any of it, and it takes so much time I think it looks great, the only things that really jump out at me are some parts where the highlights are too harsh on non-edge parts of the armour.  The jump between this highlight and the below is too stark for curved surfaces and looks more like lines painted on than raised areas. Just need those to be closer to the previous coat and it would look a lot better. EDIT: another option would be to partially cover them with a shade that's a step down, leaving a small sliver of the lighter shade. This is also a way to get thin edge highlights Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Nov 9, 2023 |
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Nov 9, 2023 19:56
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Ironically, this is me following the official guide, which doesn't really have you blending at all, otherwise I would probably have mixed Calgary blue with mccragge blue to do the highlights that way and then top it off with Calgary blue
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Nov 9, 2023 20:33
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At this point it may be detrimental to strictly follow guides like that and instead use the knowledge from them to do your own thing
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Marneus Calgary.
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he's not a separatist, he just thinks the dark imperium would be better off handling their own pensions
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The entire realm of Ultramar spent the last 10,000 years propping up his planet with transfer payments but now that half the realm has been eaten by Tyranids sending money back is a step too far
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I painted an Eldar ranger.  Edit: 
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Nov 9, 2023 22:43
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:I painted an Eldar ranger. Great work! I love those colors.
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:I painted an Eldar ranger. Love it, where's the model from? I know it's not their new kit (unless you heavily converted it).
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Nov 9, 2023 22:49
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tangy yet delightful posted:Love it, where's the model from? I know it's not their new kit (unless you heavily converted it). It's an old 54mm mini for the Inquisitor game from early 2000s.
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I’m trying to pick between, or blend both, of these Tau schemes:  What could I do to get that red brown color?
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Nov 9, 2023 22:52
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It says in the picture - Scorched Brown and Red Gore. Looks like it's a base of brown and drybrushed/highlighted red gore.
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Nov 9, 2023 22:59
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with a rebel yell she QQd posted:It's an old 54mm mini for the Inquisitor game from early 2000s. oooo nice I might have to keep an eye out for one and see if I can get one for a good price
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Nov 9, 2023 23:03
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chin up everything sucks posted:It says in the picture - Scorched Brown and Red Gore. Looks like it's a base of brown and drybrushed/highlighted red gore. Scorched Brown and Red Gore are both discontinued paints, and that dakkadakka chart everyone likes to point to is extremely wrong about what color replaced Scorched Brown (don't know about Red Gore for sure). I assumed they were asking for equivalents.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:03
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Watch the "how to match any color" video I posted a while back. That's how you match that color.
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Nov 9, 2023 23:08
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The scorched brown looks pretty close to Coat D'Arms Brick Red, but I reckon use any reddish brown and drybrush/highlight a mid-to-bright red and you'll get close enough to that scheme.
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i have had good luck matching newer citadel paints but anything they don't sell today is a complete crapshoot the only thing i haven't had any luck with is orruk green, partially because it's newer (from the AOS dominion release) and partially because it's loving impossible dark magic. how do you have a warm olive green, how is that even possible
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Gal Vorbak Red looks like it would do the trick, followed by some Khorne, Wazdakka, and Squig?
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I reckon you might be able to get that blue with Kantor Blue or Night Lords Blue over a black undercoat, with edge highlights towards Macragge Blue. The red, maybe a base of Doombull Brown or Rhinox Hide and highlighted towards whatever red you have lying around.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I reckon you might be able to get that blue with Kantor Blue or Night Lords Blue over a black undercoat, with edge highlights towards Macragge Blue. The red, maybe a base of Doombull Brown or Rhinox Hide and highlighted towards whatever red you have lying around. Blue: Yeah, I planned on using Kantor and the other blues I have Brown red: I found this guide that looks pretty spot on that uses both Rhinox and Doombull, so I think it should do the trick! Edit: how do I keeping messing up urls? Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Iphone adds a space in front of pasted urls for some reason, and that breaks the [url] tag.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Ironically, this is me following the official guide, which doesn't really have you blending at all, otherwise I would probably have mixed Calgary blue with mccragge blue to do the highlights that way and then top it off with Calgary blue GW's official painting guides seem to lean away from mentioning the concept of blending, which I have to assume is an attempt to sell more different shades of paint rather than giving their customers the idea that they can mix their own.
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Professor Shark posted:Blue: Yeah, I planned on using Kantor and the other blues I have The scorched brown is literally just Hull Red from either Vallejo or AK. It's a versatile base coat and worth getting a bottle of
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GreenBuckanneer posted:right now I think my focus is understanding glazing/blending better, every time i try it feels like a frustrating struggle of not understanding how to do any of it, and it takes so much time Something that helped me immensely with glazing (which I still rarely do because effort) was discovering vallejos glaze medium. It took the guesswork out of getting the right consistency for me and made the process much easier. Its also pretty cheap for a big bottle.
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I got bored of minis and I've been learning oil painting (like on a canvas not on minis) and it's wild how different the two things are. I felt it would be like a video game where if you level your axe skill high enough you get partial points in your sword skill or something. It's so different. Oil painting: hold brush far away from you, leave brush strokes intentionally, thick textures and heavy paint intentionally, poo poo never dries, blending too much is considered amateur Minis: so close I'm going cross-eyed, brush stroke look like trash, thin your paints, battle to keep paint wet but not too wet, blending is everything I was wondering if anyone has gone the other way from traditional painting and was like "wtf is this". I imagine if I was also painting acrylic on canvas it would be a bit more transferable of a skill. I have so many artist friends that have said artists tend to change lanes all the time and rarely stick to one thing, just found it interesting that with WH that doesn't seem to be the case... I don't see many people in the hobby branch out to different kinds of painting and drawing. Modeling maybe? Maybe because it's painting for a purpose.
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despite painting thousands of miniatures, i actually hate painting. i do it for the love of tha game. i will never paint again once full colour 3d printing is cheap enough for the consumer
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:despite painting thousands of miniatures, i actually hate painting. i do it for the love of tha game. i will never paint again once full colour 3d printing is cheap enough for the consumer You painted that nice eagle "just for display"! It was very pretty.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Sort of a crosspost but I was looking back at one of my very first minis today Stab in the dark but you might benefit from some new, nicer brushes. Getting a new brush with an actual tip is like night and day compared to battering away with ol’reliable that you’ve been beating up for years, especially for fine line highlights.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I got bored of minis and I've been learning oil painting (like on a canvas not on minis) and it's wild how different the two things are. I felt it would be like a video game where if you level your axe skill high enough you get partial points in your sword skill or something. It's so different. I was doing watercolor landscape painting and figure drawing before picking up minis two years ago. The most valuable things traditional art brings to mini panting are color mixing (esp. water color, because you can't help but mix), color theory (applied), and a focus on value. It's what makes my amateurish minis seem much better than they actually are! Having picked up oil paints for my minis, I'm planning on doing some oil painting as well, and exploring the Zorn pallet as a way to improve my all-around color mixing and theory skills. Speaking of oil paints, here's a WIP of a fell beast proxy for MESBG done with them. Lumpy fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Mr Teatime posted:Stab in the dark but you might benefit from some new, nicer brushes. Getting a new brush with an actual tip is like night and day compared to battering away with ol’reliable that you’ve been beating up for years, especially for fine line highlights. I used those wolf bristle brushes and sable brushes actually, almost exclusively for that model, the one from the Kickstarter? https://chroniclecards.shop/products/wolf-bristle-brush-set-2 hot cocoa on the couch posted:despite painting thousands of miniatures, i actually hate painting. i do it for the love of tha game. i will never paint again once full colour 3d printing is cheap enough for the consumer Not gonna lie, I can't wait to be caught up to do digital or traditional painting instead lol Edit: it's not that I don't like mini painting, but I am very interested in doing something that isn't coloring someone else's artwork GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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Harvey Mantaco posted:You painted that nice eagle "just for display"! thanks. the inspiration strikes me every now and then. but ultimately most of what i paint is for games and those are mostly a chore
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Lumpy posted:Watch the "how to match any color" video I posted a while back. That's how you match that color. Lumpy posted:Everyone should watch this video, even if you don't want to mix everything, as it's instructive on how the process works at least, plus you can then match any color! Like anything, it takes practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYFoPYrxV8
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