Reply To: The problem with painting tutorials

[drtortenkopfMember 3145xp 1]

I absolutely agree with you. I never liked the fact that a lot of tutorials try to handle painting like a cooking recipe with specific ingredients, but don’t put enough focus on what you are supposed to do with those ingredients.

Come to think of it, the only one cookbook I regularly use and that has been most helpful to me does exactly that. Focus on the steps of food preparation as well as provide a list of ingredients and explain how and why those steps are performed. That eventually enables the readers to modify and vary the ingredients because the process becomes very clear.

That being said good tutorials on basics like putting down a clean basecoat and how to figure out where to place the highlights could be a valuable resource for beginners and intermediate painters alike.