The Crass Course in Freehand Minipainting is designed for beginners and experienced painters to get a strong foothold in freehanding designs onto miniatures. With my Freehand trinity, I guarantee you’ll get a strong foundation on how to Freehand whatever you want before you develop it further into your own painting methodology.
A FAQ and lots of guide tips are also included to make sure most of the common questions and concerns are tackled before you give it a try. Everything is explained as best as I could for the sub-twenty minute video. There’s also timeline markers for you to go back and review anything necessary.
That said, this is still a crash course. A lot of nuance with specific designs is missed, but those are advanced subjects better taught by the more professional painters. My goal was to make a video tutorial to get new miniature painters to try freehand with more confidence and less anxiety. If I help even one person get into Freehanding with this, it served its purpose.
This how to video applies to nearly any painter, whether it be for Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, Conquest, Marvel Crisis Protocol, or any other tabletop game where a player wants to go the extra mile for their minis. With this solid footing, anyone can become a freehander!
Side note: Still rather annoyed that’s the best I could manage for the overhead setup without having several more lights. But real-estate space on the desk is limited, and comfort takes priority when doing any painting. I hope everything else in the video makes up for the rather hit or miss quality of the extreme zoom closeups.
Crass Course: Ever want to quickly learn a few things about a topic but don’t have the time to sit through long videos? Enter Crass Course. As the name implies, it’s a collection of short tutorial videos focusing on a certain topic, whether they are hobby related or video game simulation based construction. I’ll impart the knowledge I know on the topic in a somewhat roundabout way, kinda like you asked the cool guy at the store how to do something that he does frequently. As the name implies, it's complete with completely unnecessary humor and inserts to make a blend of informative and entertainment.
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Equipment
Microphone: Shure SM7B w/ Mini GoXLR
Cameras: Logitech Brio, Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6k, and my phone (when I need something super casual)
Editing trident: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects
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KZfaq Audio Library
“Ocean View” - - Patrick Patrikios
“End of the Rainbow” - Quincas Moreira
“Wicked Things” - Quincas Moreira
“Shadowing” - Corbyn Kites
“Overdrive Ride” - Dan Lebowitz
“Summer of 1984” - RKVC
“Level Up” - Quincas Moreira
“Instant Crush” - Corbyn Kites
“Dawn of Man” - Quincas Moreira
“Late Night Train” - Vans in Japan
“Shadowing” - Corbyn Kites
“News Room News” - Spence
“Sunny Travel” - Nico Staf
“Fantasyland” - Quincas Moreira
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“If I had a Chicken” - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
“Pixel Peeker Polka” - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
“Merry Go” - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
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Vectors purchased legally from VectorStock
00:00 Lesson 1: Mental Hurdle & Intro
01:19 Lesson 2: Freehand Triad - First Piece
04:18 About Brushes & Paints
05:56 Lesson 3A: Freehand Triad - Second Piece
07:25 Lesson 3B: Shaping Example
09:03 Lesson 4: Freehand Triad - Third Skill
10:31 About Referencing Images
11:21 Lesson 5: When to Freehand?
13:28 Frequently Asked Questions like Shaky Hands
15:29 Bonus: Even more tips and tricks!