Fixing a Bad Speed Paint Job

Day Two: No Plan

Welcome to day two. I have no idea what I’m doing—and that’s on purpose.

I’ve tried to start a YouTube channel so many times. I come up with all these plans: two videos a week, talk about this, then that. I never make the videos. I spend all my time planning things that never happen.

So instead, I’m just going to keep going every day without a plan and see how far that gets me.

Don’t Run From Mistakes

Normally, if I messed up a paint job like I did with this robe (by messed up, I mean I just don’t like how it looks), I would have thrown him into the bits box or back on the shelf, never to be touched again. He’d serve forever as a memory of my failure.

I’m being hypercritical of my own work. It doesn’t actually look that bad. I just slapped some speed paint on it, so of course it doesn’t look good.

The Fix

Instead of being frustrated by not getting the results I wanted the first time, I sat back down with him. Pulled out a couple different blues—dark blue, very bright blue, middle blue. They all have that green or violet teal tone.

Now I’m just reworking it:

1. Paint the shadows dark
2. Add the midtone on top
3. Paint highlights on top

That’s the tutorial, guys.

Black Mage Inspiration

By now you can see the inspiration: Black Mage from Final Fantasy 1, or Vivi from Final Fantasy IX.

It turned out pretty good in the end. The arms and feet I just started with a dark color, worked my way up with a lighter gray.

The Lesson

The main thing I want to talk about today: don’t be afraid to make mistakes. After you make them, don’t run from them.

Now I’m looking at him and I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. I think it looks pretty great. I pretty much completely covered up the speed paint. The skin looks great, the staff looks great (which was just layering), and I’m very happy with the robe.

All because I made myself sit back down with it and work on it instead of running from the mistakes.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow I’m going to finish this guy and then start on my terrain board for Mollog’s Crew.

Transcript

Today I want to talk about mistakes. Hey, welcome to day two everybody. Uh, I have no idea what I’m doing. And that’s on purpose because I’ve tried to start a YouTube channel so many times and I’ve come up with all these plans and ideas of like I’m going to do two videos a week and I’m going to talk about this and this and then this and then that and then some of this for sure. Still, going to talk about some of that.

Um, but I never make the videos, right? I spend all my time just planning out these things I’m going to do and then it never happens. So instead, I’m just going to keep going every day without a plan and make it happen and see how far that gets me. Uh, of course, I was going to record the how-to on finishing this guy, but I thought that’d be kind of boring. So, instead of doing that, uh, what I’m going to do is talk over me painting him.

Normally, uh, if I would have messed up a paint job like I did with this robe here, and by messed up, I mean I just don’t like how it looks, I would have just thrown him into the the the bits box or back on the shelf, never to be touched again. Uh, because he would just serve forever as a memory of my failure. And I’m just being hyperritical of my own work. It doesn’t actually look that bad. I didn’t spend any effort on it.

I just slapped some speed paint on it. So, of course, it doesn’t it doesn’t look good. Uh, so instead of being frustrated by not getting the results that I wanted to get the first time, um, I sat back down with him. I pulled out a couple of different blues. Uh, so you can see dark blue, very bright blue, middle blue.

They all kind of have that green or violet added to them and the teal tone. And now I’m just reworking it. I’m coming in with the dark. Paint the shadows dark. add the midtone on the top and then I just painted some highlights on the top.

And that’s a tutorial, guys. Uh not trying to teach you how to paint a blue robe. But by now, hopefully you can kind of see the inspiration behind my paint choices, which are the black mage from Final Fantasy 1 or Vivi from Final Fantasy 10. And you can see that it turned out pretty good in the end. And again, I don’t I painted the arms and the fees.

I just started with a dark color and then a lighter gray, worked my way up here. So, that’s how I finished those parts of him. Um, I think I’m probably done tutorial-wise for this guy. Uh, I’m going to obviously do the metal and the hourglass on the metallic and that’ll probably be a job for tomorrow. Uh, but I have a new plan already.

I said I wasn’t going to plan and as I’m recording this, I decided I’m going to plan. Uh, tomorrow I’m going to finish this guy and then I’m going to start on my terrain board for Molly crew. Molly Cruz, which I’m very excited about. Um, but the main thing I just want to talk about today is don’t be afraid to make mistakes and after you do make them, don’t run from them because now I’m like I’m looking at him now and I’m pretty happy with how he turned out. Like I think it looks pretty great.

Uh, it’s really cool and I’m very happy with the job and I pretty much completely covered up the speed paint on it. Uh, the skin looks great. The staff looks great, which was just layering. I just layered on the staff. I recorded that, too.

But again, I don’t really think it’s worth looking at. And just very happy with how the robe came out. And it’s all just because I made myself sit back down with it and work on it and not run from the mistakes of it. And that’s where we are now.