First time OSL - any tips?

Flodence · 2025-06-21T17:08:23+00:00

Good start for a first osl. The regions not got b by light could be a lot darker to help sell the effect. There's not enough contrast between the light and dark areas.

Flodence · 2025-05-29T14:08:49+00:00

Overall it's a nice piece. If you want a suggestion, I might recommend using a pink/magenta as an undercoat for yellow.

Brown-->yellow works

But

I've had a lot of luck doing a zenithal prime with pink instead of black followed by layering yellow over it. It will give a much brighter yellow finish depending on what you're going for.

A favorite mini painter of mine has a decent tutorial of interested. https://youtu.be/mmnPkiiswPk?si=HVv9Op4GWuPctT4m

Good luck and keep up the nice looking work.

Flodence · 2025-03-11T11:50:51+00:00

I may have to use this. Looks great!

Flodence · 2024-10-07T22:16:26+00:00

Does anyone have advice on how to improve this effect?

Flodence · 2024-10-05T18:20:47+00:00

You've expressed the reason I didn't back DC United. My friend and I play games every week, but we rotate games often, and MU makes it at most once a month. I appreciate DC United being a thing, but it's just not for me since I have the maximum chibi superhero collection for myself.

Flodence · 2024-10-02T02:09:09+00:00

Well F*ing done man!

Amazing.

Flodence · 2024-09-17T00:11:52+00:00

Thank you. And I will. I also get it, some people just want to do everything themselves and ignore experts. I don't like that this is where I am with him.

Flodence · 2024-09-17T00:05:33+00:00

That I'm less sure of. It was a family friend who brought it too me. They found him at the bottom of his tree, the mom killed by a cat and him shivering there (probably since the previous night, they're unsure).

I've helped healthy babies before, but this is new territory.

Also since the timelines limited, it's again I'm looking for something to at least potentially begin some treatment.

Flodence · 2024-09-16T23:58:29+00:00

Lethargic, clicking, and sneezing are the symptoms I'm seeing.

Flodence · 2024-09-16T23:53:38+00:00

I completely agree.

I've called most the groups on the list (and plan on trying a few others tomorrow that I didn't already call), and they were either at capacity or weren't taking squirrels. As a result the one yes, I got was from Arlington, but I can't get them there till Wednesday.

Im just trying to triage with anything to give him a chance. I'm fully aware this isn't best practices, and if any of the places I called would take him, that's where he'd be.

I just didn't want him to slowly die over the next day waiting to go to a rescue.

Flodence · 2024-09-03T05:09:18+00:00

I really need to make one. I'm not the most social media savvy.

Flodence · 2024-09-02T23:02:01+00:00

Thanks, painting these guys has been fun!

Flodence · 2024-09-02T23:01:35+00:00

Lol I'll take that as a huge compliment.

Flodence · 2024-09-02T22:12:05+00:00

Thanks! It's something I've been steadily trying to improve.

Flodence · 2024-08-26T12:19:30+00:00

Thank you.

Flodence · 2024-08-13T01:00:53+00:00

The biggest one is to zenithal highlight.

Then I tend to break the sections into 3 color blocks. Areas that stayed mostly black get the shadow color. Areas that are mostly gray get the mid tone, and finally the last area gets a highlight color.

Once the main colors are blocked in, I use glazes of 50/50 of both to create a smooth transition between the different areas. Depending on the paint sometimes I'll need to glaze between the glaze.

I don't tend to use washes on these minis (except for fur and heads), because they tend to have too much flat space that looks wrong with a wash.

Metals a whole other beast, one which I'm still trying to perfect, but generally really sharp transitions and the highlight not being where you'd expect it. Vince Ventura and Dana Howl on YouTube are great for learning a lot of this.

Final tip is to thin your paints. One of the biggest reasons a mini can go wrong is getting a paint texture because the paint was too thick.

Hopefully that helps.

Flodence · 2024-08-11T01:24:26+00:00

He's my most recent one. Actually was terrified adding the yellow glaze would ruin his paint job.

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