Enjoy learning miniature painting on these miniature painting workshops!
"After a couple of group courses (beginner classes, sculpting workshops and base building workshops) with the guys from MassiveVoodo I previously attended, I opted for a private coaching by Roman at the beginning of this year.
The coaching started already a few weeks before the workshop itself by the common elaboration of my learning objectives
- useful project planning before the painting
- athmospheric painting
- understanding textures and reasonable painting in scale
- useful steps with the airbrush while working at a figure for display
A particular aspect of this coaching weekend was, that my hobby buddy Andy had a sculpting workshop by Raffa at the same time. This gave me the opportunity to take a look across the great and very well lit desk now and then. If you come to visit the studio of these guys, look how practically and neatly the working places are arranged there. When I came home, I immediately started to reorganize and clean up my studio a little bit. Already at the friendly reception I felt familiar and welcome. There were tea, coffee and Andy also brought a cake with him. After a short while of small talk about the content of the workshop the painting adventure could start. Preceding the concrete painting process, there were amazingly elaborated theory units and exercises on paper concerning the respective issues. Here, Roman integrated many parts of his advanced classes concerning athmosphere. There were also some theoretical exercises about colour study and theory of colours to absolve.
First exercises consisted of mixing any imaginable colours from primary colours. Amazing, how easy it works. This gave me the certainty, that I can remix any colour already used on an figure without exact knowledge, which colours were used before. Very helpful!
First of all I painted a wolf in a classic daylight situation an an exercize, followed by a wolf in a light situation similar to the one I planned to paint onto my mini later on. This whet my appetite to draw or paint something like that onto paper.
For the scene I wanted to build, I had the vision of a dwarf, entering a ruined city in the Frostgrave setting at dawn (blue hour). For that reason we mixed a little bit of dark, cool blue into every colour to set the right mood. I was really surprised that the eye perceives these colours as „normal“ nontheless. White for example still appears as white even with blue in it. It's magic!
Because I had only very little experience with the Airbrush, Roman showed me how to apply the base colour and a first light situation on mini and terrain. Not as difficult as I had thougth. I will certainly use this technique again in the future, because you can safe time and bring a kind of rough sketch of the light situation onto the objects.
In between we painted the mini in detail and worked at tissue and leather textures. Roman was so kind and painted a rat with a dripping snout for me. So a „true Roman“ decorates the whole ensemble. Many thanks again for this!To intensify the mood, we added an OSL effect of a lantern. When I later showed the scene to friends at home, they couldn't believe that you can create such a bright shine with normal colours alone. It's magic again! Summarizing I want to say, that the workshop totally satisfied my expectations and I can recommend it to everybody who left the most basic painting behind. In the end you will certainly think: It's magic!"
