Books Patterson is Boss McCoy's accountant. Whoever paints for the Pulp Figures website gave this guy a pinstriped suit--far too ambitious for me! I'm happy I managed eyebrows.
I looked at that pinstripe suit. That's where madness lies. If you can do that, you have no more levels to level up towards. Still: I guess patience, thin paint, and a steady hand is all it takes. Do one line at a time and allow each line to dry completely before committing to the next so that you can erase mistakes without obliterating your previous good lines.
I think somewhere along the way I gave you a practice sheet of shapes and lines to paint to allow you to do warm-ups and gain xp. I need that sheet for myself, I have it around somewhere. No matter what, spending time practising that fine line work in a sheet of paper or primed yoghurt container or whatever pays off in the future.
I'm looking at the website. It makes me think that your primer is clogging with paint. Maybe you need a better priming technique, but it's hard to say without watching you paint. The Pulp Figures painter is using underpainting, which I don't see much in your figures. Their underpainting is very thin paint. The primer would soak that up so that the effect is like coloured primer.
Clogged primer makes paint go lumpy, you've overloaded it with pigment. It should soak the pigment in evenly and leave a pristine surface for the next coat.
After colouring the primer with the underpainting, the artist put on a base coat and then they are dry-brushing a complementary colour on top, just a shade darker or lighter than the base coat. The complementary colour doesn't take up all the space that the base coat does, so the base coat shows through.
I know how to do this in 2D, but not so much in 3D. Someday, I will have to buy some miniatures and try it for myself, no doubt that will be humbling. But that's the theory.
I'm using spray cans to prime, typically in matte black, white, dark silver, or pale grey. It's possible I'm using too much primer, because sometimes I see that I've missed spots and I turn the miniatures around to spray them from another angle, hoping to catch the un-primed spots. Is that a possibility?
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I looked at that pinstripe suit. That's where madness lies. If you can do that, you have no more levels to level up towards. Still: I guess patience, thin paint, and a steady hand is all it takes. Do one line at a time and allow each line to dry completely before committing to the next so that you can erase mistakes without obliterating your previous good lines.
I think somewhere along the way I gave you a practice sheet of shapes and lines to paint to allow you to do warm-ups and gain xp. I need that sheet for myself, I have it around somewhere. No matter what, spending time practising that fine line work in a sheet of paper or primed yoghurt container or whatever pays off in the future.
I'm looking at the website. It makes me think that your primer is clogging with paint. Maybe you need a better priming technique, but it's hard to say without watching you paint. The Pulp Figures painter is using underpainting, which I don't see much in your figures. Their underpainting is very thin paint. The primer would soak that up so that the effect is like coloured primer.
Clogged primer makes paint go lumpy, you've overloaded it with pigment. It should soak the pigment in evenly and leave a pristine surface for the next coat.
After colouring the primer with the underpainting, the artist put on a base coat and then they are dry-brushing a complementary colour on top, just a shade darker or lighter than the base coat. The complementary colour doesn't take up all the space that the base coat does, so the base coat shows through.
I know how to do this in 2D, but not so much in 3D. Someday, I will have to buy some miniatures and try it for myself, no doubt that will be humbling. But that's the theory.
I'm using spray cans to prime, typically in matte black, white, dark silver, or pale grey. It's possible I'm using too much primer, because sometimes I see that I've missed spots and I turn the miniatures around to spray them from another angle, hoping to catch the un-primed spots. Is that a possibility?
That was me, Earl J. Woods.
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