I’ve got a ton of posts scheduled here, and I keep pushing them around so I don’t end up posting several times on one day!
Kelly Kim is a long-time member of the gaming community in Vancouver, and I remember even when I was a young pup of a 14 year old that he was known as a fantastic painter. (Not that I knew good painting from bad…). He’s got a blog where he writes the occasional painting related piece. Don’t expect frequency, but when he does write, it’s good stuff. He also managed the painting competition at GottaCon, as well as holding mini-painting seminars at his desk near the Malifaux/Warmahordes folks.
I had long ago decided that since my Herald of Nurgle failed to live up to my expectations, that my Lizard Riding A Lizard would be a model that I’d see about entering into a competition. GottaCon has been my AdeptiCon practice in many ways, so Mr. Lizard ended up spending the weekend in a glass case with some amazing looking models.
Kelly is writing a series where he posts photos of the models in the competition, along with a few sentences of things he liked and things the person could fix. A big project, and I’m super glad he’s doing so because he directly addressed something about my lizards that I didn’t like!
This is a long-winded way of saying…go read his blog!
http://sableandspray.blogspot.ca/2014/03/gottacon-2014-part-2-single-miniature.html
2 Comments
Kelly
March 10, 2014 at 3:17 pmThanks for the plug. I’m glad people are taking my comments on their competition entries so positively… whenever I told people of my intentions to do a writeup of every entry in the competition, I was warned not to. I guess people thought that any constructive criticism, however well worded and intentioned, would be poorly received. Having entered many a painting competition myself, and sometimes not having learned how I could do better for the next one, I always thought that hints and tips would be welcome.
In any case, I try and outline the most common areas where people can improve their painting, so these posts should be of interest to just about anyone… not just the one painter in question.
Craig Fleming
March 11, 2014 at 9:23 amSeveral years ago I played World of Warcraft. In my guild we had a section for fan fiction, which was fairly active. Whenever I wrote, I wanted constructive feedback – things to change and such. It turns out that no body else in the community wanted that, and I was asked to stop providing such feedback.
It can be hard at time to be on the receiving end of it, but I know for certain that I get better when someone else looks at my stuff and tells me what’s not quite right – on my own I have only my own limited point of view to go on!