What are you working on today?

[sorcerersapprentice]

Just finalizing a new range of tiles to build a huge variety of RPG Marketplaces.

[IvenBach]

Got an alchemists bench fully painted and a reaper bones halfway done. It feels good to get good results finally.

[IvenBach]

Trying to paint when I have the time. Still need to get better at eyes.

[Anderas]

For the photos, if you have a small cam, try a grey background.
For the eyes, look at Mangas. These are so simplified they could all be reduced far below 28mm scale without losing detail. They have mostly colored eyes. Only little parts are white - how much depends on your taste.
Someone told me also to do the interior of the eyes not with a brush but with a wooden toothpick, but I can't get friends with that method. Someone else told me to paint first the eye that is on your offhand side and then the eye that is on your main hand side. That worked well. And a third person told me to paint first the eyes and then the rest of the face-if you do something wrong and you paint the eyes in the wrong form or too big or such, you can correct while painting the face. Someday I have to try that, I didn't until now.

[knightkrawler]

Start with a black dot and then do what you have done over that in such a way that there's a black frame around what you have there. That's basically all there is to know.
Connect the inner black dot with the upper black frame more than at the bottom. That will take the shocked scare away that you gave them. Last a tiny white dot off the center of the black pupil to one side in both eyes. Both left or both right, that means. And tiny. Tiny.

[Goblin-King]

I like to fill the entire eye with dark brown.
Then fill in with white leaving an edge of the dark brown.
Finally adding a black dot.

I simply use a very fine brush.

You can also give the entire face a light brown wash to emphasize where all the details (eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks) are.

[Baylor_OgreBane]

I have to agree with the above.

The easiest way is to paint the eye what ever colour pupil you want and then do a white dot either side of the eye and the touch up the surrounding flesh if you go over.
It also helps stop starey eye syndrome and one eye looking at you and one eye looking for you.

[Redav]

A few months back I printed out a 30 mm board and the original tiles one or two squares in size are okay but I needed the right size for the room overlays. The other day I printed out the tiles for the Game System, Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord sized for 30 mm squares onto sicking label sheets. I'll stick them onto thick card when I can find some more. I'm not looking forward to guillotining everything but it's a necessary evil

[Count Mohawk]

Somebody complained that they couldn't use my Questimator difficulty approximator because they didn't have Excel on their machine. All I can say in response to that is:


Writing Visual Basic code is slow going for me, so don't expect anything resembling a finished product for another few weeks at least. Progress is definitely being made, though!

[IvenBach]

A good resource I used to learn VBA was http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/index.php. Also learned tons of tricks from https://www.youtube.com/user/ExcelIsFun. You can do so much more with it than you'd believe. I'll give it more than a cursory glance tomorrow and PM some suggestions I come up with.