CreganTur
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Over my decade-and-a-half long relationship with this hobby I've found myself taking some extended breaks on occasion where I rarely paint and turn to other hobbies for a time. While this is pretty normal, it does result in a certain amount of degradation in my painting skills because of lack of practice.
2015 was the highlight of my painting career as I took Bronze at the Road To Crystal Brush competition; the most prestigious award I'd ever earned for my painting.
Autumn Hunter:
After the CMON Expo that year (where the competition was held) I deepened my involvement in other areas of the hobby: I broke off from WAMP as Review Editor and started trying to build my own review site. It had some success, but a lack of growth over the year and dwindling interest/involvement from manufacturers led to the demise of this endeavor. Which is fine, but during that time I barely painted, which wasn't fine.
This led to a period of frustration when I began trying to paint again, because my vision outstripped my skills.
So, starting late last year I began learning again. Between watching old Painting Buddha videos and supporting Miniature Monthly I've been exposing myself to new techniques and ideas, but still wasn't painting very often.
However, I was beginning to see some success again. My experiment with a hybridized style of sketching (a combination of DiPietro's sketch style and Komet's "sketching lights" from one of his painting red armor videos) resulted in some success:
It was the Miniature Monthly contest that's really brought me back into the hobby. I loved the sculpt that was chosen (Dark Sword Female Elf Ranger) and had a good concept I was able to execute reasonably well.
I seem to have a thing for elves and autumnal colors:
Now I'm back to continuing an old project, but in a new way.
A good friend of mine has commissioned me to paint up his collection of Pulp style figures, and I'm using them as a foundation for learning proper Sketch Style. The current batch is a group of Oriental villians.
So far I've only attempted the technique on one of them, and only to paint the underlying light layer. I'm looking for some feedback so I can improve in this new technique before sketching the rest of the group. After that will come the challenge of coloring them.
2015 was the highlight of my painting career as I took Bronze at the Road To Crystal Brush competition; the most prestigious award I'd ever earned for my painting.
Autumn Hunter:
After the CMON Expo that year (where the competition was held) I deepened my involvement in other areas of the hobby: I broke off from WAMP as Review Editor and started trying to build my own review site. It had some success, but a lack of growth over the year and dwindling interest/involvement from manufacturers led to the demise of this endeavor. Which is fine, but during that time I barely painted, which wasn't fine.
This led to a period of frustration when I began trying to paint again, because my vision outstripped my skills.
So, starting late last year I began learning again. Between watching old Painting Buddha videos and supporting Miniature Monthly I've been exposing myself to new techniques and ideas, but still wasn't painting very often.
However, I was beginning to see some success again. My experiment with a hybridized style of sketching (a combination of DiPietro's sketch style and Komet's "sketching lights" from one of his painting red armor videos) resulted in some success:
It was the Miniature Monthly contest that's really brought me back into the hobby. I loved the sculpt that was chosen (Dark Sword Female Elf Ranger) and had a good concept I was able to execute reasonably well.
I seem to have a thing for elves and autumnal colors:
Now I'm back to continuing an old project, but in a new way.
A good friend of mine has commissioned me to paint up his collection of Pulp style figures, and I'm using them as a foundation for learning proper Sketch Style. The current batch is a group of Oriental villians.
So far I've only attempted the technique on one of them, and only to paint the underlying light layer. I'm looking for some feedback so I can improve in this new technique before sketching the rest of the group. After that will come the challenge of coloring them.
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