Reply To: [unofficial Weekender] Was it worth it?

[limburger 22396xp 0]

Has anyone ever tried using their airbrush for 2d art ?

I think there’s a lot more training material for that sort of stuff, whereas airbrusing miniatures appears to be “just do it” with little to no advice on how to actually hold the thing and actual technique.

Heck, this kind of applies to painting miniatures in general as well. So many assume you ‘know’ the basics, but they never explain how they got there.

And I’d argue that there is a real gap between beginner and high end artist. The mid-level is rarely addressed and always assumed to be a mere stopping point between beginner and golden demon winner. I don’t feel the need to be competitive at anything, but I do want to know how to get better other than practicing more.

I’d say the scariest part of painting minis isn’t the tech, but the choice of colours. How do I pick them and why ?
All I know is that in art class we had to paint blobs in primary colours and then mix them to get additional colours.

Maybe that’s why historical miniatures are ‘easy’ as all the heavy lifting in colour choice is done.
OTOH … discovering that in WW 2 the Germans had many different colour uniforms is not fun either …
(I used to wonder about this when I was into building scale models as a kid. One box would have Germans in grey and another would have them in dark green … )