I recently started trying to improve my figure painting skills, at this point most of my figures have one shade of paint with a bit or dry brushing to add a bit of highlights, im trying to add more depth to them, if anyone has any guides or tips it would realy be appreciated

Check out this list of figure painting articles from missing-lynx.

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/articles_figures.htm

Hello Jonas,

Hope this will help.
https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/219287#1843645

Best,
Julien

I would suggest that you study some well painted figures done by other miniaturists and select a particular style and medium that you wish to emulate.

Specific techniques are tied to particular media (hobby enamels, acrylics, or artist oils). As you ask about tips for your own painting, what you need are explanations that are targeted to the particular medium that YOU are using or that you desire to use.

Once you know what types of paints that YOU want to use, you can then include that information in your requests for assistance. It is only confusing and not helpful to have some one explain in great detail how to do wet-on-wet blending of artist oils when what you really need is an explanation on using glazing techniques with acrylics. If you try to apply the first explanation to the second medium, it will simply not work leaving you worse off and disappointed with your own efforts.

My advice is to search around looking for examples from the best figure painters and then study their particular medium and technique to help you select a medium that you want to learn. Then you can ask the specific questions to get the best advice for YOUR own technique.

Here are some names to get you started:

Calvin Tan - Acrylics
Bill Horan - Hobby enamels and oils
Andy Evans - Acrylics
Gunther Sternberg - Acrylics
Volker Bembennek - Acrylics
Patrick Ang - Acrylics
Stefan Muller-Hardemertens - Artist oils over hobby enamels
John Rosengrant - Artist oils
Phil Hyslop - Artist oils
Sheppard Paine - Artist oils
Roger Cockburn - Artist Oils
Keiichi Aoki - Mixed media tempera and acrylics


If you Google search the names of these model artists and look at images of their work, you can pick a style that you would like to learn. You will notice that the two main "schools" are artist oils and acrylics. However, master-level work can be achieved with hobby enamels or other media (see Horan or Aoki).

Many of these guys have written books or have on-line tutorials, painting blogs, or their own websites.

Once you know where you want to go, you can better ask for directions on how to get there and you can study the work of others who use those same techniques.

HTH,

i personally use calvin tan's guide. gives a great breakdown on how to do it.

thanks for all the links guys, at this point im leaning more towards acrylics, mostly because they seem more forgiving and there easier to clean up than oils, also I already have a decent variety or citadel paints and some reaper ones too