Loon's Customs (I'm sorry)

[Loon]

Well, I'm going to be stuck at home for quite some time and figured I needed something to do. I've always wanted to try my hand at customizing.

I recently won a pretty big lot of figures. Most of them were sold off, as I only really only want a few in the lot. One of those figures was the Schleich Stegosaurus, which I decided to make my first custom Dinosaur.


I thought it looked a lot like my favorite Stegosaurus design, the Lost World one. So I'd make it look like that.


So, after watching tons of YouTube videos, I was ready.

Ummmm.... Listen, I haven't painted since elementary school.


I'm actually kinda happy with how some of the dry brushing came out.

Unfortunately, I really clumped the matte varnish on there, and it shows.


Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. Especially for a first try.

Anyway, is love to get some feedback on this thing, so let me know what you think!

[Shonisaurus]

For a beginner painting it is not bad. What you have to polish over time the painting errors but to be the first repaint you can be very happy. I would like to be at your artistic level, which in my case is null.

[Halichoeres]

Keep at it! This is the perfect time to pick up the skill.

[Martwad]

It's quite good for a first try.  You appear to be doing some proper techniques, but my observation is that your paint looks very thick.  You want to really thin your paint with a solvent (water for acrylic).  You want to build up the paint in very thin layers.  This will help the colors blend instead of having abrupt edges.  Looks like you are doing some dry-brushing, but again it's just heavy.  One thing I never could figure out was ink-washing.  I could never get it to go where I wanted.

[Bokisaurus]

Not a bad start.
Are you painting base color first or are you painting in section?
I would give the figures a good base/ undercoat paint first before layering some colors.
And when you apply colors, try  doing it by dry-brushing it in multiple layers.
Keep it up😃

[Loon]

Another awful custom, an Imaginext(?) Ceratosaurus(?) into the Ceratosaurus from JP3.





@Shonisaurus & @Halichoeres Thanks for the feedback. And I will keep improving for sure. I've got all the time in the world currently.

@Martwad & B @Bokisaurus I haven't done any customs since this one, but the information you given me is so helpful for the future.