Just realised you can see my delightful mousemat in that photo; are you really supported if you don’t rest your wrist on a sexy frog butt? XD

A few hours of tidying and sorting between paints, tools and cable management but the desk is more than half done. I’m not rushing on it but I wanted this weekend to at least have enough set up to do some…[Read more]

I feel it is my duty to inflict an earworm.

Choose wisely:

I think this applies to a lot of arts and crafts we do as a hobby.

It’s only a small percent of folk that get to be so good that they can post tutorial videos about their craft.
And a lot of tutorials really gloss over the very basics, because that stuff is rarely engaging enough for the clicks they need.

Folk rarely if ever show what the…[Read more]

it feels like a total 180 compared to many other YouTube videos

Indeed.  Perhaps this will signal a change in how some creators present their work, especially on YT.  We certainly need a different direction as the clickbait chasing it getting a bit silly now and it is hard to find reasonable content by genuine hobbyists.

I know I couldn’t do it…

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The great sorting begins…

Although I know that I don’t have to paint as well as the box art…

It can put me off buying the miniature if it’s expensive and I know it will look awful. I would really like the Morathi miniature by GW, but I know I couldn’t do it justice (and it was £80 last time I checked… so way above budget) and mistakes on a small mini are more…[Read more]

Don’t hold yourself to the box/promotional art. Done is better than trying to be perfect. Plus the videos are so relaxed and laid back that it feels like a total 180 compared to many other YouTube videos.

Thanks for sharing these.  I really enjoyed the approach and that so many different perspectives.  It was fascinating to me that hobbyists across a broad range of interests and experience still come to broadly the same conclusions about techniques that helped.

A key point to realise is what works best for you.  So knowing yourself is so much mo…[Read more]

Hereo’s 3 Crystal Dragon done: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1958929/

On to the painting competition entry…