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Like many, the Pandemic made me revisit all my past hobbies and had a bit of a renaissance with two things I had loved since I was a kid - Warhammer and Pokemon. Both have stuck as expensive hobbies that bring me alot of joy.

As a bit of a perfectionist coming back and realising:
1) I am not as good as I was as a kid and 2) even though I won a few local painting comps as a kid I was not that good of a painter back then

Has taken some getting used to. I also find myself getting pretty frustrated until I eventually give up for a few months and I want to overcome this barrier and keep growing as a painter. Ideally one day I would be in a position where I feel happy about something I've painted/potentially can start to enter some competitions.

Task one for me has been getting a test scheme painted for my new Death Guard army. I have a lot of backlog for these guys, and have debated whether to do Green/Pallid Hand or Grimdark using Streaking Grime. In the spirit of getting better at painting I want to avoid the easy options and really focus on techniques.

I really struggle with glazing/volumetric highlighting, but overall I don't hate what I've done so far. Keen for any and all feedback that is constructive and will help me to improve.

Have spent the last few days learning a bit more about glazing and working on my test model. I want to try spend more time on this guy until I feel confident I like the scheme enough.

I still have the horns, face and gun to do a fair bit of work on. Debating which colour plasma will work best. Green, Bright Red? I want to do Mortarion similar to one of my favourite painters El Miniturista (just google his mortarion) so maybe I'll try to keep it to a magic blue/pink colour to tie in?

I also switched the brighter red cloak for a more burgandy as I think it looks nicer against the green. Definitely will use a deeper bronze than the Pro Acryl Copper (which comes across as gold) as I think its too bright for Nurgle. Maybe I'm wrong but we will see.

Bought some basing materials and had a mess around on a base, going to take a lot of practice to use them in a way that looks good.. but I'm looking forward to it.

I reached out to a fantastic local painter today and asked him to mentor me, seemed positive... so let's see how we go.

Thanks for reading, as always open to any and all comments

Nice work on your Death Guard. Welcome to the forums!