Tips Improve Your Miniature Painting Now 

That taking a photo mid-project and looking at it for 'points of concern'. What program were you using on your tablet?

CONTRAST! I'm so bad at it gotta just try and improve on that.

Go bigger in contrast than you think you should.

As I’m painting an entire box of Zombicide 2nd Edition, I’m trying to implement variation between miniatures of the same sculpt by trying to show how or why each individual zombie was turned. Maybe the miniature is holding their stomach that I could imply they were shot, or maybe they have an exposed arm I could leverage into a bite mark. I got my craft knife out and carved out some of the plastic to look like a chunk of missing flesh. All to tell a story with each mini. #NotificationSquad

That is really cool! I love story in miniatures

Thank you! It can be a hard concept to grasp because people don't think about needing to add that much depth to an already 3d element

I even TRIED to get the cat hair off

@@LylaMev I thought turmeric was the spice that was impossible to get out of clothes but apparently it's cardamom!

It's always cardamom

I agree!

I'm pleased to hear that!

It means a lot!

Thank you!

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you!

I look forward to it!

Glad you liked it!

The cats are my secret weapon

Thank you for your kindness!

Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad that my videos (and cats) bring light to your painting journey.

You might be able to do pre visualization with your camera phone and subtle editing in a photo shop program?

I also think it is difficult to create more contrast when using a more realistic colour scheme. Usually, my realstic models look great when they are close to my eyes, but most of the contrast dissappears when seen from, say, three feet away. Maybe the solution would be if we studied some pictures of realistically painted models which have a level of both realism and contrast that we like and then try and replicate that look. I think I will practice it on some "test minis" that are not going to be part of an army. That way one could try out different techniques without worrying if it is too much.

Baaah, this topic came up in your video 3 seconds after I posted this :D

There are elements where a gloss is nice, like eyes or slime or guts. Matte usually works best in the majority of figure cases just because so much of a figure is not glossy or you've painted in the shine as a highlight and gloss would change it. I haven't used semi-gloss, but now I'm curious about it for armor bits. Interesting suggestion!

I go wildly dark and light. For her outfit, I went Deep deep red to baby Pastel yellow.

Vortex!

That is so sad! Perhaps you could take more time on the character models?

I’m the same way. I see the quality of some of these painters and I just feel that I shouldn’t even bother. Then they add nmm skills etc to the mix and I may as well not bother.

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@@johnbiggscr no way, dude. just paint for you. she paints for fun, you paint for fun, it's all good.

I'm going to jump in and offer the following: 'embrace the process' rather than being focused on a specific goal - or comparing yourself to someone else - chances are that you will surprise yourself from time to time at how much you have progressed along the way. While super attention to detail on armies isn't really practical - look at each technique and see if one can be replicated on a batch painting style and then every once in a while take the time on a model (leaders, specialists, characters)

RU-vid and maybe a how to learn reaper kit (there are others but reaper is definitely more budget friendly overall) for learning on how to paint but don't feel the need to follow everyone's advice, try out a few different ways and go with what works for you only hard and fast rule is thin your paints and even then depending on the paint can be optional (reaper paints I've found to be pretty thin as is ). As far as mini painting goes it's definitely a hobby all buy itself but definitely goes hand in hand with tabletop gaming (dnd or wargaming like Warhammer ) as that's why most people pick it up and what most minis are made for though it's not needed if you have no interest in playing them just be aware that it can affect the price when it comes to ones made for wargaming as it's more the cost of the mini or unit in the game rather than production cost that set the price tag. Most people don't make their own models but some do if they have the talent for sculpting though with 3d printing on the rise it's slightly less rare as it's easier to sculpt in a 3d program and then print and the added bonus of selling the stl file with little to no out of pocket production cost (the buyer is paying the production cost themselves) means more people are doing so. However while sculpting a model from nothing is rare modding a model with parts from other models or just sculpting add ones or changes with milliput is very common. It can be a very expansive hobby as a heads up. Paint, Brushes. Even models add up, go the cheap route and you can find them for around 5 bucks but still you end up buying 10 or 20 of them at a time. (Most people who paint minis have way more unpainted then they ever will have painted, alot of oh these look they would be fun to paint but then maybe get one done before others catch your eye and you pick up the new ones and start painting some of them and repeat even the whole I'll pick these up but I won't start till I finish the ones I'm on didn't help as you see some new ones before you get to the ones you just bought and end up buying more skipping some saying I'll get to them after these new new ones and repeat lol) Anything else just ask

@@duogemstone Thanks for this response! I'll definitely try to restrain myself to the trap collectors often fall into. I have existing brushes for painting that I already do. Thanks again!

Look at each element individually and add contrast to each element

@@LylaMev Ill give it a go. Thanks 😊

My favorite!

I did! 😅

Hey, even the matte varnish would be a good trick to add!

Thanks for helping with the algorithm! Commenting is a great way to show your support so I can get more attention!

Yessss

glad to see cardamom is feeling better.