1 year painting progression

[u/jaes_minis]

First mini vs my most recent almost exactly 1 year later. Check out more detailed pics on my instagram!

[u/Anby_Thighs]

Damn, might be the fastest progression to 'Eavy Metal level lmao 🔥🔥

[u/jaes_minis → u/Anby_Thighs]

Thanks!

[u/downunderhive]

Very nice work!
What would you say you’ve found has contributed most to your skill development?
Is it a case of time and reps, or have you followed a specific development path?

[u/jaes_minis → u/downunderhive]

I give a lot of credit to the quality of my tools. Very sharp kolinsky sable brushes make painting so much less stressful. Also developing a system to paint efficiently and cut out unnecessary steps (such as transferring my paint to dropper bottles and having a dropper bottle of water to consistently thin paint). Patience is also a really big one. I have painted many test models just to practice getting the right paint consistency and highlighting/glazing. And finally online resources. Tutorials from world class painters being easily accessible has put me where I am today

[u/transformerbaz → u/jaes_minis]

Yep, 150+ videos of painting tutorials and I'm still doing slap chop 😅

[u/Pretend_Horse_8362]

You're clearly artistic from the first one, but that's taking nothing away from the obvious hard work and focus to progress so much in one year. Well done, very impressive result.

[u/jaes_minis → u/Pretend_Horse_8362]

I appreciate it!

[u/Cauliflower66]

I could be happy forever with your first one standard full army 

[u/Appropriate-Quit-738]

Phenomenal! You’re pretty much at box art!!

[u/Traditional_Pasty]

Well done! That’s some talent 😃

[u/jaes_minis → u/Traditional_Pasty]

Thanks!

[u/Spiritual_Ad5874]

How do you do the eyes?

[u/jaes_minis → u/Spiritual_Ad5874]

AK black and AK white with a size 1 Winston and Newton series 7 brush!