Painting Evolution

[absolutrudy]

For the more experienced painters out there: Does it get to a point where you stop using certain techniques, i.e. do you stop layering for wet-blending, or is most every technique useable in some form or another.

Just another one of my random questions.

 

[StarFyre]

I\'m not a really good painter but...

i would say the best painters use every technique at some point; either based on the situation, or whatever will give the best result.

Look at it this way, one of the best painters period...Victoria Lamb uses drybrushing for her lighting effects. Some others here shun drybrushing. Well guess what, with all her awards, slayer swords, magazine articles, etc...I\'d say she knows quite a bit about this stuff and her results, being far ahead of almost everyone else basically, has just proved my point hehe

I say try and learn all techniques (within reason) and use whatever will help you attain what effect you want.

Regards,

Sanjay

 

[Sturmhalo]

Everything is usable!

 

[Ritual]

Most techniques have it\'s uses and I use most of the techniques I have stumbled upon. You\'ll find that certain techniques are better suited for certain things while others are better in other circumstances. Some may work better with your painting style than others. Time will tell...

 

[FredrickvonCarstein]

Well I don\'t consider myself a great painter, or even a good one for that matter, but I do use most advanced techniques (still can\'t get my head around wet-blending but that\'s alright), however I don\'t think that there will ever be a time when I can give up dry-burshing chainmail (unless the links are mighty huge).

But then again, if you had asked me a year ago if I wouldve given up dry-brushing fur I would have said no and now its all hand-painted, despite the headache it creates.

 

[monolith]

I\'ve been painting pretty intensively for about a year, now, and I\'ve had some techniques drop out of my repertoire because I\'ve learned something new. I used to drybrush just about everything. I stopped doing that once I figured out how to layer. I just used to use drybrushing on metallics. Now I\'ve recently figured out how to do wet blending, I\'m not going to drybrush my metals anymore.

I\'m preparing my entries for this year\'s Australian Golden Demons, too, and there\'s some very specific effects I want to include, but can\'t do, as yet. I\'ll teach myself how to do them as I go. How hard can SE-NMM be? it\'s just emulating a mirror.

As an aside, would it be considered bad form to post my works in progress on here? I\'m not sure I want to show the world before I enter the competition. I know you\'d all give me sage advice, but still, that seems somewhat like cheating.

 

[Ritual]

As long as you do the painting yourself noone can say you\'re cheating.

 

[monolith]

I guess so, But there\'s been some changes to the australian GD this year. first, local stores run heats. Then the best entries go to a regional comp, then to the national comp at the end of october. It opens up the whole of australia to the competition, as opposed to those of us who are comitted enough to travel to sydney, which I was never comitted enough to do. It just feels like letting the cat out of the bag. I\'m only entering three maybe four, at the most five categories, but i\'d like them to stay kinda secret for the meantime.

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by monolith
As an aside, would it be considered bad form to post my works in progress on here? I\'m not sure I want to show the world before I enter the competition. I know you\'d all give me sage advice, but still, that seems somewhat like cheating.

That\'s what the WIP forum is for No man is an island, right?

 

[monolith]

Heh. I\'ll stick up some photos once I get the chance to take them.

 

[Legacy Account]

Originally posted by monolith
It just feels like letting the cat out of the bag. I\'m only entering three maybe four, at the most five categories, but i\'d like them to stay kinda secret for the meantime.

If the entries are good enough, they\'ll win.... Someone may rip your ideas, but they still have to execute it better than you if they do. Just be better

 

[StarFyre]

yeah

and in case someone does rip the idea and paints it better than you, just blame spacemunkie

Sanjay

 

[EricJ]

I\'m going to post my GD entries well early, my theory is if someone can rip off my idea and do it better than me, I better learn to paint better next time

But I think for the most part techniques get added to your set of tools for painting, not dropped as you learn. Although some are outdated and never used. For example I rarely fill my mouth with paint and spit it at the miniature in a big explosion anymore...

 

[Wolf_Fang]

not a very good painter but i find myselfe now straying away from drybrushing (unless neccisary IE chainmail) i also find myselfe straying from layering (kind of... i dont really lary i dont really wet blend im some where in between?)