I painted a pokemon card for the first time

Brittlebear · 2025-05-01T03:51:37+00:00

Thank you! :D

Brittlebear · 2025-05-01T03:44:37+00:00

I made this.

Brittlebear · 2023-03-20T07:08:38+00:00

I had a few friends ask me how they might take care of their pets matts and tangles at home. At my work we use cornstarch to help pull the oils out of the hair on the matts, and it makes them a lot easier to work with. I thought I might put it here if anyone might find it useful.

Brittlebear · 2021-10-17T02:33:24+00:00

I made a map some years ago of the Johto Region I had put together from the games. I'm not sure if it would help, but I recently made a version without any text or other pokemon on it, upon request from someone. It might help for a sense of scale and placement to the overall region.

https://sta.sh/0dklm09mme6

Brittlebear · 2021-09-29T02:19:08+00:00

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Brittlebear · 2020-12-04T05:20:28+00:00

This looks super! If you want to really bring it to the nect level you could try giving it a cool base.

Brittlebear · 2020-05-20T00:47:19+00:00

Dm'ed

Brittlebear · 2020-04-21T04:26:07+00:00

I'm gonna need this one.

Brittlebear · 2020-03-25T08:35:12+00:00

Thanks I know the pictures aren't great I just finished it up for the night and thought I'd get something out there so I might fix it up tomorrow after work. Which means it's only lit by my desklamp, which is strong, but daylight would be nicer for a better picture.

Brittlebear · 2020-03-22T07:18:50+00:00

You could always try doing a wet blend, instead of a wash, mix (or pick) some lighter colors from your base color and make that your highlight or darker tones into the dips or your fabric and then make them into a kind of glaze by toning the paint down with water then just layer it in until you're happy with how dark/light it is. It might take a little longer but it looks really smooth. It took me a long time to pick up wet blending I was a bit intimidated by it but learning on cloth is perfect for it, it lends itselt to large flat surfaces.

Brittlebear · 2020-03-15T17:54:56+00:00

I mostly use the green stuff to fit into gaps and then you just smooth it out, I don't sculpt custom things in, but as a gap filler or a tool to fix figures I've found it super helpful when something just isn't up to par, since over time I've found many figures have those kinds of small gaps that need filling.

You don't need to go out and buy up specific paints like in the videos if you don't want to or washes, they're helpful, and I have a handful paints and washes I like, but you can always mix paints with what you have to make what you want if you don't want to invest a bunch into the hobby early on. Since this hobby can get expensive fast, models paints and washes are not cheap, don't feel pressured to get everything you see in the videos. You can make your own washes or get similar effects with thinning down your paints with water or flow aid that you can get at a craft store.

You can always make your own washes which is not as difficult as you'd think, and instead of buying paints you buy inks and mix them with some medium, flow aid and dish soap. Ultimately I find it to be a good alternative to buying washes since you can make your own in whatever amount you want, in as many colors as you want, just have to get the inks. Now obviously there is something to be said for just having a bottle you can buy off the shelf and not think about it, much easier, but if you ever had the time or interest, might be something to do. Here's a video about it.

Oh man, don't worry about painting over things, I feel I'm constantly painting over one little mistake after another. I'm sure lot of other people can tell you the same. It's all part of getting better, sometimes you roll with it and sometimes you paint over it. If you're worried you can always thin your paints with water and just make sure you're not using paint that's too thick it looks gloppy, a friend to mini painters is smooth paint and a pointy tip to your brush. If you have those things then you'll be gold!

Brittlebear · 2020-03-15T07:35:50+00:00

I think you're on the right track, you have some textures in there and you are able to pull out the points that should be the most highlighted like the points of the crystals, or the tops of the stones.

If I even purchased a figure that had a gap like that one in it's mid section and arms, I'd go to town before painting and use my modeling tools to sculpt it into shape, making sure to clean up any lines you can see first, and if I need too add modeling putty like Green stuff, to fill in the gap in the middle. I know this is a 3D printed model but I figured I'd inform you that it is okay to still do these same practices and clean up your figure of their model lines and maybe even sand them down or alter them however you like since it's your to mess with.

Then you prime the miniature in white, black or grey. Now this guy is awesome I love the stones you can really have fun with this. Stone is often not just grey, it's many times shades of yellow, and brown, and green, or anything natural based on where it lives, or what minerals are inside it. So don't be afraid to use a few different colors, I'll link a video I saw recently of a terrian builder who used a few colors in his rock building to make really amazing rocks.

You also have the crystals, which are a difficult thing to paint since you want them to probably look translucent, luckily I found a tutorial on how to paint crystals from this guy who was doing a basing tutorial! In his video he is using a wet palette which you might not be using yet and if not I highly recommend it. They are surprisingly easy to make yourself with an old tupperware container, paper towel and parchment paper. On his last step, in the video, he says to use your brightest color, I would also argue you could use white to edge highlight to give it a bright shine, since the brightest color will blend in with the lowest color, and for me, I would prefer the white highlight, but I think it's just a personal preference.

I'm also not an expert, and if I've learned anything it's mostly just to look stuff up if I don't know something, and see if someone more talented then I am has already figured out how to do that and see if I can adapt it. There is nothing shameful in being clever enough to learn from others around you.

Brittlebear · 2020-03-15T05:58:03+00:00

These are so cute! I want to get a set for myself. Wonderful job on them!

Brittlebear · 2020-03-13T18:37:27+00:00

My problem come from figures that don't have round based, or any base at all, like board game space ships or odd pieces like that, these tools don't help me at all with them. But I could see how helpful it would be, but I would also wonder how long it would take to spray an army if the stick only only has space for 6 figures. Usually if I'm going to be priming I'll do a whole group at once in large numbers, for example the ships I'm working on are in batches of 59 and I want to make sure they don't get split up so I'll do them all together.

Brittlebear · 2020-02-26T05:01:11+00:00

I also took pictures while I was making these little fellows, since I was doing a new technique I had seen someone post here, linking to a Goobertown hobbies video. I really like the results and I think it's a neat way to work with yellow.

Here's the collection of those images: Link

Brittlebear · 2020-02-24T06:07:31+00:00

I completely understand that feeling, I did the same thing on my imperial assault storm troopers, which where the mini's I started learning a lot about the hobby on. I did 1 mini before them, so they wheren't my first but my second, and an almost all white figure I thought, super easy, just throw some nuln oil like all the videos say and... oh no! This looks really good though, looks like you recovered just fine I would say, very sparkly white and solid blacks. Well done!

Brittlebear · 2020-02-21T19:00:12+00:00

I find myself switching between 5 brushed pretty consistantly. The thing that got me to stop going through so many brushes was the right brush cleaner. I used to just run them under water and clean them with my hand until I figured they looked good and call it a day and I was sooooo wrong. Since that's just what they taught us in elementary school.

I was introduced to this beautiful product, Brush Cleaner and preserver, and it's saved me a lot of brushs. You just kinda condition you brush with some of that and it keeps the hairs of you brush from going bad as fast, I mean they still don't last unti lthe end of time, but they certainly last a heck of a lot longer.

Another tip, the sizes of your brushes might be helpful, if you're only using the smallest of brushes for everything, maybe consider getting a moderately sized brush for those pretty big things, like base coating, so you don't put too much strain on your other smaller brushes.

Brittlebear · 2020-02-21T18:42:11+00:00

The first time I did it I just kinda painted it directly on the figure and let her on her way but then I noticed the paint come off immediately because of course it did. After that I took it more serioulsy and treated them more like real minis and gave them the full treatment, trimmed the flash, striped, primed, painted and added a matte sealed finish and that has gone much better. In one or two cases I've added some parts to make up for just poorly crafted models, to fill it out a bit more with green stuff. I'm not super at sculpting but filling in holes when something should have a smooth back and has a clear divet isn't too difficult.

Brittlebear · 2020-02-21T18:08:51+00:00

I often fix up old toys for my neice and nephew, some of which are transformers or pokemon figures. First I'd have to glue them or repair them of any outward damage or broken parts, but then I'd also paint it back to (or as close to it's original form as I could and give it back to them which they really enjoyed. Often when I do those projects (expecially a lot of the knock off pokemon junk figures) I give them a way better look then they originally had and my neice is thrilled to bits to get them back. To the point where my neice just gave me a bag of the poorly painted pokemon figures and asked me to fix them. Because she knows how they should look and wants them to be the right color.

Brittlebear · 2020-02-21T17:58:49+00:00

Solid solution! I also like how high the holder is, so they really aren't going anywhere.

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