great freehand.....great colors.....but.........this is soooo hard, but you need to thin your paints more. your base coat can be "normal" but as you highlight, thin your paints......like 4-10 drops of water (depending, this is a long discussion to explain this) to 1 drop of paint....experiement, try diffrent stuff out. The free hand usually has to be 1 to 1 paint:water mix for me to do right, but for highlight and shading.....thinning is the way to go....look at my gallery at my first banshees and then look at my exarch...you can truly see the difference that thinning paint does....THANKS FOR THE AWESOME COMMENT ON MY WAVESERPENT!