Filigree

[dauber22]

Originally posted by darthfoley
Sad part is I think I\'ve added nearly 300 posts in the last week, and I don\'t think a single one of them was actually useful in any way...other than perhaps causing the occasional chuckle...

Darth! You undderestimate the usefulness of \"the occassional chuckle\". If it weren\'t for the chuckles, this would be a very dry place.

 

[Beelzebrush]

Those little filigree scrolls on Rackham minis are a pain at times.... what I\'ve done in the past, is paint them as neatly as possible, wait for them to dry... when they are dry, get a little clean water on your brush and paint this around the outside of the scroll... keep it as close as possible and it will gather tight to the scroll. While the area\'s still wet, get some thinned paint/ink of a darker colour - but try and keep the colour as strong as you can (best to have this already mixed)... and just touch it into the water you\'ve just painted on.... the colour will neatly follow the line of the water... just don\'t fill your your brush too much or it will drown the detail.

Works for me anyhoo

 

[nadine]

It\'s been eons since I\'ve actually sat down to paint but I can maybe offer a suggestion to help you. Practice drawing! I don\'t mean sit down and try to draw a picture of your pet dog, but do drawing exercises.

I\'m learning how to draw right now (or trying to at least!) and most of what I\'m practicing right now is pencil control. Hold the pencil like you would your paintbrush and just practice drawing straight lines, squares, triangles, circles, ellipses. Another exercise I do it draw squares made up of diagonal parallel lines or evenly spaced dots. It\'s just a matter of training your hand to go where your eye wants it to. Learn to focus your attention on the tip of your pencil/brush and it\'ll get easier.

You could also practice those exercises with a brush on paper.