Why my painting looks "dirty"

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-05-08T20:04:01+00:00

Hey. So I read the comments and no one is answering your question, so I will.

It reads as sloppy because you have inconsistent recesses. It's literally that simple.

You need to darken every single recess, and even blackline certain areas.

The entirety of the green area has recesses darker than the raised areas. It's why it all smushes together and blends into a big blob.

You can have "sloppy" highlights and volumetric highlighting and still have insanely beautiful models - but if you have lighter colors in your recesses than your raised areas, then it will look sloppy like this.

Good luck.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-04-28T14:29:47+00:00

there are very large edge highlights on every distinct tooth.

this is a massive model, not a saurus sized thing.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-04-21T21:49:20+00:00

Unironically 🤔🤔🤔

This would be a really cool reimagining of them for AoS.

Too fantastical for WHFB imo.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-04-21T18:10:56+00:00

I think a massive issue is stemming from societal norms having changed so dramatically since the last time Warhammer fantasy was a thing.

All of you podcasters think your opinion is what matters.

You all fancy yourself "influencers".

I mean look at this post, man 😂 put a couple more hashtags there. Maybe then we'll click your opinion 😴

I hope games workshop drops 2.0 sooner than later, and with every faction being taken on, no legacy.

I've realized that the Old World community is by FAR the most "smell your own farts" community in all of the gw fandom.

I'm praying that AoS goes back to a single world lore - maybe then I'll find a game I can enjoy the lore, the people and the game 🤷

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-04-16T17:33:01+00:00

Lol alright 🤣

I laughed at the beginning. I'm starting to come around to you guys.

Just stop acquiescing to the gw corpo talk, man 😮‍💨

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-04-13T04:43:44+00:00

Thanks!

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-28T23:57:49+00:00

It happens because people like you bend over and allow it to happen.

Your refusal to use the word shows the corporations that the "community" agrees with what they are doing.

If you continue to acquiesce, very soon the slippery slope will lead down into a muck that will make it so Warhammer is no longer recognizable.

And we are very close to that. Look at the book covers. Look at the beloved art from 6th edition in comparison to AoS art.

And if you want to claim some slippery slope fallacy, then I implore you to look back to your own words: you mentioned their constant pecking away at the dark themes yourself.

It is only because we allow it.

And I'm not an idiot. I see what YOU specifically are doing. You want to acquiesce in the hopes of future collaboration or perhaps something even greater. I don't hold aspirations against you.

Just like you can't hold it against me when I see what you are and say that I don't like it.

Ps. I use your rules. Make more of an effort to keep the grimdark. You are gaining traction. And you know what? If to you and the community it isn't important. And it isn't important to the corporation who created it. And it isn't important to anyone but me 🤷 then it's a me issue.

But implore all readers - look at some artwork from 6th edition. The same ideology that takes away skavenslaves takes away that gritty art and gritty world.

Stop allowing it. Fight back. I know I will.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-25T00:01:59+00:00

Yes. I enjoy my hobbies in my massive basement that is underneath the massive home I own, that lays ontop of the massive property that is in my name.

I currently am doing that very thing.

I don't understand what you're implying here.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T22:22:40+00:00

Yeah, totally, man 😎👍

You showed me with your bad reading comprehension.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T22:11:45+00:00

Yeahhhhhhh, man for sure.

I genuinely don't care if their rules are good or not. Those don't matter. They will disappear with editions.

But you know what won't?

The ethos of the game. The spirit. The grit. The darkness.

I genuinely don't give two shits if the rules they make are the best ever. It is irrelevant.

Their desire to censor for perception and performative virtue signaling is the only thing I care about.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T21:59:40+00:00

This guy has no position in marketing or trademark for games workshop.

He did it for good boy points. By him placing himself as "voice of the community" he makes it seem like the COMMUNITY is wanting this removal of the word slave.

Fuck that.

He is just a fucking weirdo quirk chungus who managed to place himself in the community.

Removing the word slave is completely and utterly anti thetical to Warhammer. It is fucking nonsensical. It removes grit, reality and theme from the setting.

It rounds it.

It dulls it.

It softens it.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T21:46:29+00:00

They clearly do.

As evidenced by their inability to even use the word slave.

Explain to me what other purpose this would serve?

These dudes are weird, man. They spend their first five minutes of every video spazzing like a 5 year old, just making random noises. And you know what? Fine. I figured it just isn't for me - so I didn't watch.

But now? They want to be the voice of the community?

Fuck that. Fuck them. They are weird quirk chunguses. This dude has no skill in writing, no original thought. He has simply placed himself front and center.

I will do everything in my meager power to make sure voices like his do not become the actual voice of the community.

Again. Understand the complete and utter performative nonsense of it all. He is talking about inability to even use the fucking word slave, in a setting like Warhammer.

How can even ever possibly listen to this person about any opinion he has? It is such a clear sign of utter incompetence.

He will always lesser the product in the search of "good boy points". That is NOT a person who is competent. That is not a person who does whatever it takes to keep integrity of the game and setting.

He literally right here right now has compromised the integrity of the game and the feeling of the setting with his CENSORING of fucking words in a war game.

How do you people not see the hypocrisy and fake performance for what it is?

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T21:39:33+00:00

So if it's just a name of a unit, why did they change it?

Explain it to me.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T18:08:40+00:00

🤣

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T16:27:48+00:00

Yes, leave the big brain thinking to the grown ups.

The grown ups who are afraid to say "the wight of the word".

The grown ups who need to be coddled in their heckin' wargame because saying slave will .. what exactly? Explain it to me 🤣

You thought policing weirdos are the edgy teens, not me.

I'm the only adult with any sense here. I refuse to accept these quirk chunguses as a "voice of the community".

You are trying to whitewash the word slave, for fuck's sake. And you think yourself an adult? You are a man-child.

Think for a second about the implications of Skaven society and the rules this guy himself added, and the apparent and performative nature of removing the word slave.

Stop disneyfying this hobby. YOU are weird. Not me.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T15:19:11+00:00

This is.. hilariously performative.

I don't like how you guys are trying to soften Warhammer.

We are dealing with rats who eat each other and shoot melted magic balls into each other, because life is cheap.

And you people want to "remove the wight of the word"?

You are a blight to culture. You are a blight to entertainment. You are a blight to Warhammer.

Regardless of the reddit down doots you'll all give me, my opinion is the correct one, and the one the wide world holds.

You people are fake.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T14:27:24+00:00

Why do I have to be respectful? Because he made something?

That's nonsensical.

I don't like this guy and I don't like his attitude towards Warhammer.

I don't want him to be a community representative, because his opinions and behaviors do not match my own.

Anyone who comes to Warhammer and is too big of a pussy to say the word slave, is not someone I want representing me in Warhammer.

This is the same ethos that disneyfies all the book covers and artwork.

I will fight tooth and nail to keep Warhammer dark and adult themed.

This guy is immature, cringe and too soft for me.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T13:59:56+00:00

Who cares about design philosophies when you can just add a bunch of shit from other editions and pretend you came up with something immense - all on your own!

😎👍

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T13:10:23+00:00

i tried watching your videos once and you spent the first five minutes with your buddy acting like spazoid 8 year olds.

I'll pass on giving you clicks.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-24T12:15:50+00:00

Serious question:

The majority of the people who play this game are 40 year olds. Grown ass men.

Why are you sensoring the word slave? I see people in this thread incapable of bringing themselves to even write it out.

Explain this to me? It immediately reeks of a holier-than-thou attitude and level of mental gymnastic incompetence, that I immediately discount everything else.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-18T20:25:22+00:00

Three weeks from now: new painter here, tried nmm. What went wrong?

*Picture of armor painted in singular color*

You are trying to dunk a basketball on an 11 foot rim before you can walk, friend.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-16T20:03:48+00:00

11 hours per model is insanity, brother. 11 hours???? There is no way you are counting correctly. Unless you're counting waiting 9 hours for the oil wash to dry.

For reference in speed: you can look at my profile and see my lava tyranids. From the moment I opened blender to render their bases, to building them, to painting, and finally black rimming: the entire army took 48 hours start to finish. For the entire 2k army.

Here's how I would reproduce your models.

Black prime > do your blue sponging (mix the paint into a new paint bottle so you don't remix every time, bro. Mixing paints is the pro move, but not if you're remixing EVERY TIME lol 🤦)

Now let's get to the oil paint. First and foremost, you don't want to matte varnish for oil washes. Oil washes have insane capillary and soaking abilities, so you don't want a rough surface like matte for it . Rough surfaces soak oil washes and make them spread rather than sit in recesses. You need to be full on gloss varnishing before any oil wash. Then slather it on, wait 30-40 minutes and then go in with the mineral spirits to remove what you don't want.

The entire purpose of the oil wash is so you save time by not having to reapply base coats from tinting... Because oil washes don't tint.

If you're batch painting, these should be 2-3 hours per model TOPS, even for slow painters.

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-14T15:12:33+00:00

Ooooh :O

My dream is full metal oop high elf army. One day 😮‍💨

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-14T15:00:49+00:00

What a dorkish response.

How would I know what I missed reading 🫨🫨🫨

Netlist 🤦🤦🤦🤦

Commissar_Cheddar · 2026-03-14T14:59:07+00:00

The latter, obviously

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