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Salutations from a complete novice. What's your recommendations to get started? (kbin.social)
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Salutations from a complete novice. What's your recommendations to get started?

Note: A FLGS in town actually has a mini-painting workstation that you can use for $5/session, or as part of their monthly subscription for playing TTRPGs onsite. Since I play PF2E there several times a week I have that subscription. So I have a place to paint that's already kitted out with just about anything you could need for mini-painting. (I think they charge extra if you want to add stuff like grass, sand, etc. to the mini, but the primer, paints, sealers, etc. are all included.)

I have two awesome minis arriving soon that are unpainted, so I'm looking for online sites/videos that start from "I know nothing" and work up from there.

Thanks in advance for any and all guidance you can provide!

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[–] wwwgem@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

You're probably done with your 2 minis by now but the painting journey never ends so I'll share my personal experience as a novice too. I will second everything that others said and will not repeat all the great advise. I'll only add the 4 tools that really improved my painting (alongside with paintbrushes and wet palette):

  1. A pair of magnifying glass: something around 2.75x is usually the recommended default magnification power
  2. A cheap though quality airbrush: GSI Creos PS-270 (I let you check the reviews)
  3. A paintbrush cleaner: the one from "The Masters"
  4. A good light: it's important to have one between 5000K and 6000K because white light equals less color distortion

No need to go crazy and spend hundreds of dollars on equipment to achieve good results, especially for beginners.

As far as techniques, I've learnt a lot from squidmar's and ninjon's videos. Look at them, feel impressed, try it, and feel proud of yourself :)