My first votes over 6! :) How to get higher?

[Byronic]

Finally, I\'ve managed to work my camera and take a decent picture of a model

here it is :
http://www.coolminiornot.com/188387

I\'d really appreciate some more votes, and especially comments on how I could Improve my painting, or techniques I should try out.

I\'ve been painting for pretty much 6 months now, and my work is becoming neater, I started of by buying the battle for skull pass set. Initially I was just shocked at how small the night goblins were, and had no idea how to paint them. Even though I\'ve got neater I have big problems with blending, and still haven\'t worked out an efficient way to do goblin skin.

Any advice would be great, as I\'m looking to improve as much as I can, I\'ll be posting up some more pictures of my night goblins soon, as I can now work my camera.

Thanks loads.

p.s. first forum post, yay!

 

[generulpoleaxe]

before drybrushing the stone use some washes of colours used on the model on it.
adds colour and unity then.

add more to the groundwork, grass and dirt will make it look loads better for little time spent.

lastly, push one skill at a time and always try to push one skill on a model, even if it\'s just for gaming.

 

[donga666]

You\'ve been painting for 6 months!!!

If I posted any of my early stuff (would have to fish it out of my parents attic!), it would get 3s and 4s.

Stick with it and the votes will come, so in short \'learn patients Padawan\'.

I\'ve been painting 20 years now, I have trouble getting an 8!

 

[MPJ]

Quite good really, gave it a 7 myself. It\'s good enough that it\'s difficult to put a finger on why I couldn\'t go higher. I would though have to second generulpoleaxe\'s comment about the base work. It is the weakest part of your model.

About the only other thing that comes to me after viewing it for a few minutes is the abruptness of the shade lines in the muscles, especially around the biceps where it goes from almost black to quite green rather quickly.

Keep it up.

 

[Byronic]

Thanks for all of the advice, the idea of washing the stone base (/pva\'d toilet roll) before drybrushing it to bring the model together more has never even occurred to me I wanted to put some more detail on, but it\'s such a small base there was barely room to swing a toadstool, I think I\'ll go for a little bit of flock creeping out from under the boulder.

I try to take my time on all of my models,it\'s hard with night goblins though, as I\'m going to have about a million base troops (how to save them from running in battle is going to be pretty hard ).

The idea of pushing one skill at a time/per model is great, you sure know your stuff bud, I\'ll be doing that as well

hehe, thanks, I\'m gradually learning patience donga , spent over 7 hours on this guy :S

Thanks MPJ, it was on 7.2 untill I made the post on this forum with the link, then the votes quadroupled, and it dropped to a 6.2 lol.

Yeah, I find green skin pretty hard (collecting night goblins this really presents some problems ^_^), I\'ve got to work on my colour mixing and shading, but It\'ll come.


Thanks again for all of the responses, and all of the advice, Hopefully soon I\'ll be posting up a converted night goblin big boss, made from an oldschool fanatic

(Edit, anyone know some good tutorials for NMM techniques? I\'ve attempted it once, but I think it may be out of my league)