Thanks guys!
@Sick; I know it sounds cliche but practice and practice what ever your technique is. At the beginning I was having a hard time to pull out a tinny necron's eye!
@Hair; I don't want to disappoint you but in the flesh it almost look like stains until you get closer and squint the living hell out of your eyes. Ask BAM! Oh and yeah make sure you sit LOL.
There is 3 essential things you need to master to be able to do what I do;
First is vision (it's the easiest) obviously no humans can see that well so I use tools to enhance my vision (you need to try out many many different magnifying tools until you find something good for you) it took me a long time before I find what is good for me and it happened a bit by accident, so yeah I was lucky!
Second is steady hands, that is a bit harder then the first one you either have it or not, sure it can be getting better with practice (I use both hands as a force/counter-force devise to try to get the most stability possible, well seated in your chair with both feet flat on the ground for maximum strength/stability, you will need to dig deep for concentration (have a Pink Floyd album playing helps to get into that zone) sometimes you need to paint in between breaths and heart beats!
Third is paint consistency (this is the hardest part) that makes me swear like a lumber jack all the time!! Too thin and you ruin your work and too tick will dry out to quick, and it keeps changing all the time in your palette! I use only fluid retardant to thin my paints, about 1/1 but like I said you start let say with 4 drops of paint and 5 drops of fluid retardant, the first 5-10 minutes it's fine then it becomes to thin... Add another drop of paint, mix, then it might be just a bit to tick and on and on.
Hope this shed a bit of light on my technique.
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@Sick; I know it sounds cliche but practice and practice what ever your technique is. At the beginning I was having a hard time to pull out a tinny necron's eye!
@Hair; I don't want to disappoint you but in the flesh it almost look like stains until you get closer and squint the living hell out of your eyes. Ask BAM! Oh and yeah make sure you sit LOL.
There is 3 essential things you need to master to be able to do what I do;
First is vision (it's the easiest) obviously no humans can see that well so I use tools to enhance my vision (you need to try out many many different magnifying tools until you find something good for you) it took me a long time before I find what is good for me and it happened a bit by accident, so yeah I was lucky!
Second is steady hands, that is a bit harder then the first one you either have it or not, sure it can be getting better with practice (I use both hands as a force/counter-force devise to try to get the most stability possible, well seated in your chair with both feet flat on the ground for maximum strength/stability, you will need to dig deep for concentration (have a Pink Floyd album playing helps to get into that zone) sometimes you need to paint in between breaths and heart beats!
Third is paint consistency (this is the hardest part) that makes me swear like a lumber jack all the time!! Too thin and you ruin your work and too tick will dry out to quick, and it keeps changing all the time in your palette! I use only fluid retardant to thin my paints, about 1/1 but like I said you start let say with 4 drops of paint and 5 drops of fluid retardant, the first 5-10 minutes it's fine then it becomes to thin... Add another drop of paint, mix, then it might be just a bit to tick and on and on.
Hope this shed a bit of light on my technique.
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