3 Colours Up: Speed Painting Your Miniatures
November 29, 2018 by elromanozo
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Seriously going to have to attempt this…..got so many minis to paint and I love the gritty style that this produces.
Thanks ! At home without a set or a tutorial to teach, I’ve chain-painted to that level for the low low time of 20 minutes per figure. It’s excellent if you’re chain-painting skeletons and zombies, in which case it may take even less time per figure.
sweet ! I like when you show stuff in such a simple matter that looks so easy, its all to brush control in speed painting. ( but not only )
Good to see the master at work again Romain great work.
Nice work. The style reminds me of the painting tutorials you saw in magazines in the 80’s
Thank you ! I could do worse than that… lol.
The dry-brushing and the edging for highlights are directly lifted from those olden days, but glazing over pre-shading is shamelessly stolen from Thomas David.
Romain your usual videos are superb, but … a little aspirational for a painter like me. This is very relevant to my need to paint more, and quicker.
Nothing wrong with aspiration, I’m very flattered…
This video is just a very simple example of what I always do on other miniatures : crude pre-shading, glazing, edge highlighting. When you decompose the painting in simple steps and individual techniques, and when you practice, you get results. There’s no secret ! 🙂
Very nice. I appreciate different approaches to achieve good results in a timely fashion. Nice mix of old and new techniques.
great tutorial 🙂 ty!
To add some further contrast couldn’t you do a lighter drybrush of white instead of using the small detail brush? I imagine that would speed up the process that much more.
I have heard of similar techniques where people have thinned the paints to an ink like level and just applying the one layer of color on top of the gray scale model. It is a very helpful technique for speed painting.
It would then ruin the previous colours and make the whole miniature powedery and chalky, I tried it. It’s also not really faster than brushing on light touches, you just think you can be less careful… If you don’t want to be careful and don’t want to ruin your mini, just don’t do a dry brush and don’t do anything else, just leave the miniature as is, it’ll look better.
That thinning of paint over a grayscale model is exactly what I did there, and in several other tutorials… you got the gist of it ! 🙂
Never thought about the chalky effect. That would make sense!
Thank you for the tips!