To put this in perspective, I didn't progress beyond this stage until about 18 months ago (when I watched my first Duncan video to tackle Archaon) - and since then I've painted regularly. But the change between early and recent is quite significant, and I believe that anybody can achieve these results with time, patience, techniques and practice.
Here's the first one - a before/after of a good old Dryad.
Obviously, the key point here is just that the old picture is base coat only - but then I had no idea about washes, or highlights. I think the skeleton was a dark grey base with a light grey over the top to achieve the dark recess.
It's interesting that you can barely make out any detail on the old model - hardly even see the face, or any real shape to the body.
So the use of highlights and zenithal lighting style (ie top-down light source given more prominence) definitely helps here.
The next one is probably even more stark. A Glade Guard - recently painted since GHB2017 (and painted over the old 'colour scheme') as they may become interesting for allies.
Similar to the Dryad, all I had in the old days were about 10-12 paints, and no understanding of how to bring out the detail of a model.
I had three units of 10 Glade Guard, and they were all green/brown, with red, yellow or blue hoods to differentiate the units.
Urgh!
I think I'll enjoy painting over all that old stuff... but nice to have a record of how it's changed.
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