soo, had time to watch it through.
- sorry, but for ttq+ you'd need to improve. Biggest part of it is that at the end the video shows a result, that looks like a basecoat despite all your work. Mostly because of overworking the mini (first all HL-s are covered by the shadows, so you destroyed your work there, then the shadows are destroyed by the HL-s by covering them). Atm a video showing a result similar to warhammertv I consider (nice)ttq, for + I'd need more visual appeal.
- about the speeding up: it was past 23:00 and had to get up at 6:00, so didn't have the time to watch paint dry for 30 minutes (most video tutorials are like that) especially as writing this text+watching the whole vid took about an hour.
- painting with a camera between you and the figure is a pain. good luck there.
- the lighting in the first part was ok, but after the first basecoat it changed. It got darker, duller and colors were off (see your own skin color for example). It's not noticeable if it stays the same through the whole video, but with the jump it is.
The best could be using some dedicated equipment (lighting, camera, workplace) and after setting it up once don't change it (settings in cam, light positions, etc.)
+ voice if clear and understandable, super
+ color scheme for skin is like the Spanish one (light flesh + purples), which is rarely shown, I had 0 luck painting it correctly (tried only once though).
o "primed grey to keep the colors neutral...": not specific to your video (most on YT vids say this), but makes no sense. After you do a proper, opaque base coat, the primer color becomes irrelevan. The only exception would be if using AB/preshading (so no opaque layers)
+ you start from a very light color as a base (is super, just unusual)
- but when you show the highlight it's totally not visible (pale skin vs paleskin+wolfgrey are too similar in value (good for blending, not so much for showing)).
+ your brush control looked pretty solid, shows that you are not a beginner in painting. At the same time the way you applied it is almost like a wet drybrush.
o @9:00 "it creates a texture". Not really. It creates volumes and the light for needed contrast.
- last HL you say: "apply just a little bit, just to bring out some of the edges". At the same time the video shows that you cover pretty much everything that's not a shadow area (so basecolor, HL1, HL2 too)
o @16:00 shadows are everywhere, even where you applied the lastHL. Pretty much killed all of HL1-finalHL. After that you start with 1st shadow (pale+warlord), which is lighter than the crimson just before making it look like you paint HL-s in the shadow areas.
- placement of some of the shadows is weird (around the stomach area, hips)
- @22:00 you start re-highlighting (double work), aaand you gradually paint over most of them, making them disappear
o @28:00 the legs turned out nice. Altough based on the video you pretty much overpainted the shadow areas with basecolor and HL-s. But they look much better than the torso/face.
(+: positive in video for me, -: negative, o: neutral/don't care/weird)
