Secaries wrote:I'm not much of an artist, but I wanted some color, so I'm not going crazy with it. I did not spray paint though, I used a small brush for everything
The amount of work is not the same as the quality of work, so while using a small brush for things is a good idea when adding detail, it's perfectly ok to use spray paint to cover large areas and then add a little detail, as opposed to spending a lot of time covering large areas with a small brush.
After looking at two threads by you, the best advice I can give is to consider some basic techniques that are quick, but very efficient as it sounds like you want something that looks good on the table top but isn't overly fancy.
So the following is beneficial to you:
1.) Touch up the few places where the gold colour bleeds onto the blue, and as well where the gold is broken up by the blue.
2.) Play around with "washes" which just means you take some black paint, or paint of a darker shade that matches the one you're already using, mixing it down with a bunch of water and then washing that colour with it. This allows the black to get in all the cracks and give it a little shading, it's also really quick and the longest part is letting it dry.
3.) The other technique to complement "washing" is "dry brushing" which is simply where you get some paint on a brush, wipe off as much of it as you can until only a very dry amount is left that when the brush is ran across a rigid surface only the peaks of the surface will get paint on it. Then you just run it over the areas you want highlighted to it catches on all the edges and stuff. You can even do multiple layers of lighter shades and dryness to get more depth.
All three things take virtually seconds to do and can be done in an assembly line fashion. The first thing makes them look crisp and clean, while the other two gives them depth by shading and highlighting, without spending countless hours on the effect.
