I've always held the approach to painting miniatures... skin, clothes, armor, weapons, in that order.
Painting the skin is usually the first step, all other layers overlap the skin physically, so it is easier to get the skin completed.
The brush is a crude instrument, and its easy to accidentally touch any protruding parts of the mini, thus having to go back over the mini with a previous paint color.
I hate wasting time.
Drybrushing is my favorite technique, and it works better with this layering approach, you don't have to worry about over-paint, you are going to paint that with another color anyways so you can get sloppy with skin. Or in the video's case, the musculature below the armor plating.
Progressing further, I take a little more care in the plates over the musculature when drybrushing over the new color... and same again with any shoulder padding and weapons on the next stage.
No comments:
Post a Comment