12 SIGNS you are a BETTER miniature painter than you THINK

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[TheeYellowDart]

Coming from a scale model background I can say that I continue to use washes, shades, oils and dry brushing a lot. I even enjoy the heck out of my modified "slap chop" where I use my airbrush to blend the chalkiness.

I'm no artist, I don't have the eye for it like some of my friends do. But I am content with what I create. I get a lot of joy out of painting minis.

This isn't to say I won't try new things...but I am happy being with the other 95%

[soupcake]

then there's 16 year old me.
(4 base colours, no dry brushing, no highlights, no shades) "Wow that's really good, I don't think there's any way I could improve on this."
My psychological issue was struggling to feel i was improving. I didn't remember how good my old paintjobs were, just how happy i was with them, which was pretty happy. But after digging up my old models and looking at them recently i can see I've improved alot.

[Uratoh]

I hit most of these, I was surprised. I am however hopelessly addicted to nuln oil, and lately I've just been painting Dark Angels for relaxation instead of currently making my own color schemes (though I have in the past). I suppose I'm at a weird point where I could improve further but I'm not massively inclined to due to generally painting for relaxation currently. I did hit far more of these than I thought I would, though!

[cwj]

Consistency one is big, you explain well. Sometimes get really happy with a mini at 3 hours spent, other times I spend that long doing over and over and still never happy.

[asafoetidajones]

I'm easily a better mini painter than 99% of people. 99% percent of people who paint minis? Mm, not so much.

[vladimirpotrosky]

Incredible timing on this video. I just won my first painting competition award today! I was honestly stunned by how far my painting has come, and how good it looks when compared to models that AREN'T the online beast painters. It's easy to lose perspective on your own work.

But I would say I solidly have 10-11 of the things on your list! It's so exciting to hear such a great artist confirm that I'm on the right track.

[GunMaster]

me who paints for i think 3 years now still smothering everything in null oil xD but i still like my results then bc they feel way darker and kinda more fitting in to the grim dark theme atleast for me xD

[PeteOfDarkness]

Sign no.0 - you paint your minis more than 3 colors and do any basing. Also known as "Battle Ready". And you actually have fun while doing that!

You would be surprised how much people go with grey minis and how much people hate painting. If you paint and don't consider it a chore, you're already ahead.

[vandals]

This my favorite inspiration channel. You help me finish my armies!

[reflexdogtraining]

Great video - I think a lot of us needed to hear this

[Offpalettepainting]

I like your channel cause it reminds me of Bill Nye, the science guy and his energy he had on his show, with a passion to teach people, and I appreciate your videos cause it’s not always a guide to paint something but more of the day in the life of miniature painting

[soupcake]

I do still use washes for most of my models. I'm an artist before a gamer but I still paint to have armies. When I do paint a special model tho i do like to use actual shading instead.

[TheGiltanas]

I am bad painter. Pretty much all time beginer. I have little time to paint and so I progress slowly. I have finished only handful of miniatures, and many of those with speed paints (Vallejo Xpress to be precise) and all I learned from it that I want to paint by hand. It does not feel good when I am done. So I started painting by laying and even if it hasn’t come out as good as I wanted - I was happy to managed what I wanted to do. Only time I was happy with speed paints was when I base coated space marine with black gunmetal, dry brushed silver highlights and than put Xpress color over it (metalic slap chop). I loved how it came out and it was something I couldn’t achieve withe techniques I know.

To say it short. Painting the “proper” way is much slower, but it brings much more joy to me. Though its about what one needs from it. I will probably never be able to field painted army :)

[miguelcm]

Thanks a lot, Ataraxia, I really needed to hear that I'm going the good way

[Warghoul]

I have a ton of regular acrylic paints and won’t be slap chopping any time soon.

[thanasisgeronimos]

all these i already know, but many of these steps apply to people who want to go to pro painter as a full time job...for me that i already have a 10-6 job the ammount of time that these techniques are not feeasble ...there is simply not enough time to do all that...i do some of that depending on what i am painting...but usually i cut corners...then again i dont go for Golden Demon

[jorgemontero]

I am very disappointed by the mention of 'not use nuln oil', because washes are still very useful in relatively high level painting when you are in a bit of a rush. Yes, you aren't going to just be overloading a big brush and drenching the entire miniature in a wash with no control, but there's still many reasons to go fetch the shades, if just because they are already close to the consistency you want. And there are areas where they almost always win anyway: Chainmails? Furs? I ain't shading the whole thing from first principles, just start with a shade then fix it. Sometimes it even saves time in other areas, as you can go too light with the basecoat, and then treat the shade as a glaze that gives you the actual midtone you wanted in the first place.

Nuln oil itself is rarely the right one to use, because it's so boring, but something like Athonian Camoshade or Carroburg crimson will be used in parts of competition-winning entries.

[rccarguy]

Hey….I like slap chop and null oil! 😢
Actually, I use different methods for different models depending on what style I’m looking for. I even bought a set of AP speedpaints! 🙂

[joelpaultre]

The only thing I do well while painting is pick colors

[scytheme]

10 of 12. I am getting there. Fabulous vid and great for level check!