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Hey all I'm new here just painted my first 2 eldar guardians. I wasas wondering if I could get some pointers on how to do them, since I'm new to all this thank you for any advice and dont be to critical theese are my first 2 ive ever painted.

I think its a very good start. You seem to have relatively good consistencies. I would try to add more shadowing. Start with a gray to basecoat white. Then paint white over that leaving some in the recesses and most obvious shadowing areas. I cant really tell if there is adequate highlighting on the black. I would highlight that with gray as well. Focus the color on the eges and it will really pop, as for the metallics, pick up some washes. Try badhab black and delvan mud, and maybe some ogryn flesh or sephia to get some more color into them.

As i said though great start. Fine tuning painting skills takes quite a while though.

Looking good. The gray is a little difficult to make out in the pics, but with a little highlighting or a little lighter shade of paint that can be fixed. However if they look great to you then don't change a thing, as long as you are happy with your work don't worry about what others think.

They look better than my first models

Well they look pretty clean and tidy which is a good start for any beginner. Once you have mastered the art of not slapping paint over every facet, then you are well on your way to developing. I like the white on the helmets - I think that is done well.

As others have mentioned, you may want to explore some more advanced techniques; basing in a darker colour, washes and highlights as well.

As a general tip, i cant recomend this book enough :-
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23270615/THE-ULTIMATE-MINIATURE-PAINTING-GUIDE

also, GW's is helpful :-
http://www.scribd.com/doc/20569867/How-to-Paint-Citadel-Miniatures.

GW also do stage by stage guides, but not for your colours.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=4400107a
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=1100012
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=1100009

But two tips i would personaly recomend is to keep your paint thin, dont always use it striaght from the tub and practice, just keep on trying new things and refining them.

One last thing, you have started with two of the more difficult colours. Black & White can be difficult to shade and highlight. I would go for a very dark grey based for the armour, washed with black/dark blue. If you feel confident enought to highlight go back over the edges of the armour with grey. Mixing colours in to the highlights works well, like blues purps, green or reds. You could also Mix a little colour into the base grey/black. Blues work best for this imo.
As for the white, i would wash the white base with a very thin light blue mix. This keeps the shading light and subtle, maybe wash some thined babhab into the deepest details to get a little more detail. Then highlight with pure white using clean water and a clean brush.
The matalics would look good washed with the same mix as the body wash the highlighed with their base colours.

All in all, a good start. Particularly for your first go. Keep it up.

Hope you find this useful.

looking real good for a first start!

as the others mentioned, using black and white is really quite difficult, but I'm impressed by the crispness of the white on the helmets. Takes so much patience to get that right, so good job!

Other than that; if you want to stick to your color scheme you should try and experiment with different highlightning teqniques, especially extreme/line-higlihtning with various grays. Essentially you just line all the sharp edges - such as ends of armour plates, edges on weapons etc - with a thin line of lighter colour. Doing it on black you should start out with codex gray. Just remember to thin it down first, makes it so much easier.

good luck!

Looking good to me! Keep up the good work as long as you keep trying to improve, you will get better. Just takes time.

For starter figures, they look fine. Here's an easy tip. Find a figure you don't care about and just experiments around with drybrushing and different color combinations. Try priming one black and then drybrush it white. It will be very apparent when you have too much paint on your brush and also when you've got it just right.