I am a very slow painter. I've always wished I could improve my timing but I've always focused on quality primarily. Recently I've been impressed by how much Roman Lappat can paint in a short time and while I can't do what he does, I would like to get faster. Slowly layering from dark to light is where my comfort zone is. I just put on a TV series, an audiobook or Youtube and have a relaxing time, but that way of painting is very slow. Ideally, I would only touch a part of a miniature once, with the exact paint that needs to be there. Of course, that's impossible given the nature of acrylic paints, the size of the miniatures and the iterative process of painting itself, but I would like to get as close to that as possible. Here is my first experiment:
1. 10 minutes of brush priming. I usually prime black by airbrush, but this is faster for a single model and it gives me a useful undercoat. The yellow should have been a dark brown-red and the ultramarine should have been darker but that's all I had.
2. 85 minutes later. I sloppily placed some light and shadow. I also used some washes on the brown parts. I don't do that often but the base color was too light. This isn't too bad so far. I could have been faster if I made some smarter choices.
3. 400 minutes later. This doesn't include the basing. This is much slower than I want. I took a lot of time to make everything smooth and correct all the mistakes. I was in the zone and having a good time but that is still too long.
4. Airbrush varnish and photographed through my DSLR (the others are from my phone). I didn't time this as there's nothing to change.
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