Cerridwyn1st
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I\'ve been thinking about another \"how to\" article.
I\'ve read a lot of articles, and found that most of them are geared towards a person that already has some painting skills.
The techniques they talk about are great if you\'ve already been painting a while and have some basic brush skills.
I\'d like to present a method that helps beginners build basic skills. I\'m planning on using my teen-aged son and one of his friends as my students, and have the article show them progressing through learning to paint.
What do you guys think?
The technique, by the way, is to paint a fig black, then highlight with white, and glaze color on top of that. They will use figs for creatures instead of characters. This way, they don\'t have to worry about tiny clothing details or faces when they begin to paint.
The white-on-black technique tends to give highlights and shadows as a natural product of the technique.
It helps a person learn how to properly load and blot a brush, because he or she will use the technique over and over to paint the fig.
After all, getting the right amount of paint on a brush is THE core technique for painting minis. Until you have mastered that, all the other stuff is doomed to failure.
I\'ve read a lot of articles, and found that most of them are geared towards a person that already has some painting skills.
The techniques they talk about are great if you\'ve already been painting a while and have some basic brush skills.
I\'d like to present a method that helps beginners build basic skills. I\'m planning on using my teen-aged son and one of his friends as my students, and have the article show them progressing through learning to paint.
What do you guys think?
The technique, by the way, is to paint a fig black, then highlight with white, and glaze color on top of that. They will use figs for creatures instead of characters. This way, they don\'t have to worry about tiny clothing details or faces when they begin to paint.
The white-on-black technique tends to give highlights and shadows as a natural product of the technique.
It helps a person learn how to properly load and blot a brush, because he or she will use the technique over and over to paint the fig.
After all, getting the right amount of paint on a brush is THE core technique for painting minis. Until you have mastered that, all the other stuff is doomed to failure.
