#Advice on improving?

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So Ive just finished my latest mini. The Paladin Husky photo’d in the post. The troll was my second mini and is the one I’m happiest with. Lastly, the wizard cat is imo my worst work, and also the 3rd thing I had painted.

I am not looking for necessarily strong criticism at this time, but I was wondering if anyone more experienced than I am has any tips or advice for small ways I can improve or otherwise continue to progress in the hobby?

I’ve only begun painting recently (about 1.5 months) and I’ve been enjoying it but I feel like I’ve only gotten a teeny bit better and am having a lot of difficulty figuring out stuff like wet blending, feathering, etc. and I feel like all that’s amounting to is my work becoming boring and poor. And I’d like to get on track to just work on that.

I have some motor control function issues and so sometimes doing fine motor stuff can be a little rough, so I feel like this adds albeit not much. But with that, I can get discouraged easily and I don’t want to get further discouraged cause I’ve enjoyed the hobby and find it relaxing.

Any advice or tips or anything will be greatly appreciated.

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Honestly you did a great job painting these!
Now just comes the refining part.
Because of their size it's important that we add in the highlights and shadows to the paint so adding that variation in the fur/ skin etc.

As a side note. You can often get away with using a pale grey ( or similar colorl instead of pure white because it's impossible to highlight over it. But you can still trick your brain to believe it is white

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You could look at using a wash( which is a more diluted version of the paint with a bit of medium magic( tjat helps it get into all the recesses and dark areas.
I would be more selective of where i apply it instead of doing a model dunk. Just to help control it and be easier for you.

Overall welcome to the hobby! Don't be afraid to mix in weird colors and try different things.

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# raw forge So Ive just finished my latest mini. The Paladin Husky photo’d in the post. The ...

Like Dork said, you've got the basics right: your colors are applied to where they should, don't go over where they should not, and you have a sense of things being made of a material.
Next up would be trying to give your volumes some light. Ideally that will soon get you into blending, but before that you could just mix colors on your palette to create, from your base color, a lighter and a darker version, then a much darker and a much lighter version, and already "just" apply these over your base to get the sense of volumes started.

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Thin your paints a bit more for these lights & shadows.

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Keep on painting

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Things will happen in your brain and hands. 😉

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# rain valve Like Dork said, you've got the basics right: your colors are applied to where th...

I actually tried to do that here. I was gonna start with dark green and layer it to have different shades eventually turning into a blue-ish green. But it ended up coming out dark, and looked off putting so I kinda just covered it up with more green again for the result I got here.
I seem to be having trouble figuring out the sizing of different layers of paint to make it have shadow and such

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It just needs practice

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Do you prime black? If so, try light grey instead?

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It's really not uncommon to need a few layers to get a base colour to be what you want it to be. You still then can go ahead with volumes, no problem. It's just that you have to accept to spend more time on each mini?

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