Reply To: The problem with painting tutorials

[georgesealy 2670xp 0]

This is an interesting thread. As others have said, I don’ t think there is a single way of doing things that will work for all painters, so it’s sort of a case of having to try and find tutorials / videos that work for you.

Personally the one painter that utterly changed the way i paint was James Wappel. His approach is that of a traditional artist, so he seldom talks about “the coat is red”. Instead he looks at the model as a whole and moves back and forth constantly looking to get the colour balance and contrast right. The things he offers that work for me are:

– it’s quick, so quick to get a model done.

– getting the balance / colours of a miniature right.

– it’s very forgiving and easy to fix mistakes.

– for me at least, it’s a very fun way to paint – and I don’t think I can overstate the importance of this!