Learning to paint on Termagants, Advice needed...

[BellaMilla]

Hi All,

This is the first time I've posted in the forums. I'm new to painting in general and have put a few of my efforts up for rating fetching between 4.3 and 5.9. I'm always looking to improve and so am hoping to get some tips from the more experienced painters here. Here is a termagant I've been practicing on. I have just about got the idea of progressive highlights on the carapace (i think!) and now I'm looking to the body. Any advice/creative criticism would be welcome.

Hope this works!

 

[Noddwyr]

Hi,
First off welcome to the forums. I would say its a good start and if you want to improve you need to start thinning your paints more, working on blending and pushing your highlighting and shading further. There are a ton of good tutorials on here, so if you havent read those have a read and maybe try a few of the step by steps.
But as I said you've got the idea and your painting is fairly neat so all you need to do now is practice and try to push yourself farther on each mini, trying to go for soother blends and more extreme shading and highlighting. So good start and keep practising.

Hope that helps.

EDIT: also try to make your black lining slightly more contained and smaller. Again it will come with practice but just something I thought I would point out.

 

[war0827]

The painting is actually pretty good. But like Noddwyr said, try to thin the paints down just a bit more. You should mix the paint and water to a consistency of something like milk. It is far more cleaner looking to do the coating, even the base coat in two or three passes (with drying in between of course) rather than one pass.

The carapace seems like it has about three shades of color plus the black lining. This is a really good start. Just try to do the same with the flesh areas...base color, highlight, and shadow. I started off doing it that way, then I started working on getting the highlights and shadows tighter with the base coat creating a nice transition. Just remember....practice, practice, practice.

 

[MrPickles]

what youve done there is very good table top quality man. like others have said you can use thinner paint to sort of smooth the transition from one shade to the next. but remember the more stuff you do the longer it's going to take you. for me it's all about producing the best quality possible in the shortest ammount of time. you could spend three months on a mini and make it look pretty crazy but then at the end of the day you spent three months on one model. up to you.

 

[BellaMilla]

Thank you for your advice It's good to know I'm on the right track at least. I'll try to take your advice and apply it to what I;m doing and I'll be back to post some hopefully improved pictures!