More Red and Armor and the Aging Painter

Spent some time, here and there, working on the Bloodbowl Ork. It’s taking me some time, but I’m slowly getting back my rhythm. I can tell as I progress through the model as the earlier fiished parts of the armor are markedly different than the later areas. Looking closely at the arm guards and shoulderpads compared to the tabbard (which was done last night), you can easily see the color progression is getting better from darks to lights, as well as the paint getting smoother in the transitions.

I’ve also come to the realizations that,at the moment, I can’t sit and paint for 4-5 ours straight like I used to. I get about 2 hours tops before my body and my eyes start to fatigue. My brush starts to slip into places it shouldn’t, my eyes start to have a hard time holding parallax focus, and my brain starts having a hard time focusing on what I should do next. Yeah, getting old sucks, but I knew that. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to get abck in with painting only singular miniatures and not entire armies. I can spend 1-2 hours on something small, like a few pieces of armor, just a face, or simply the leather straps to a decent standard and focus on technique. It will eventually be finished and I’m in no rush.

Today update – small touches and cleanup like errant red spots on the face from the nearby armor painting and slowly working on the front armored tabbard.