I’ve spent a while experimenting with homemade speedpaints. They work okay for churning through 20 Reaper goblins or kobolds, and I liked what I got with zombies, but I was trying some of Ninjon’s sepia toned zenithal underlayer and just not liking my results. That’s more to do with my bad technique than Jon’s recipe, though. Anyway, I really felt the need for something less experimental, and among the figures I had zenithaled was this town crier type that I was really looking forward to getting to.
Opaque paints are an approach I’m much more comfortable with, and it felt great to be working within my skill set instead of outside it. And it felt great to see that “comfortably inside my skillset” now produces much better (tabletop quality) work than when I started. I think I can still move more on contrast, but my default is now, in my eyes, “okay.” And this guy was as fun to paint as I imagined. Not a lot of notes here. The red purse on red jacket isn’t great, needs more contrast obviously, but the yellow paints were no sweat and nothing here gave me stress. I did a little extra highlight on the cobblestones.
This is mostly just a happiness post of an acceptably imperfect piece.
