Journey into Sketch crows

I was hoping for this to be a cool, inspiring journey. I'm sorry to report it's turned into more of a cautionary tale.

The TLDR is that I strongly recommend against this technique unless you have someone physically on-hand to guide you through it. I found I took longer to paint the minis and with notably poorer quality results. Specific issues I found (that would likely be much easier with someone on-hand to guide me):

- Understanding where and how to put each colour / blend (white / black) on the sketches. I ended up agonising over each brush stroke, not really knowing what was a good or bad decision. This took absolute ages.
- appropriate consistency of the glazes. While I'm used to using very thin glazes, I found I was getting no effect from those thin glazes. Then trying to make them slightly stronger I'd end up too strong, losing a lot of the sketch effect

I'm calling this a failed experiment at this point. Three attempts down (2 x Neraphs, 2 x Gremlin swarms and now the murder crow unit) and I'm getting worse results over significantly longer painting times.

If you have a mate around who can guide you through it then this might be a viable technique to dive into, but articles / painting vids are just not good enough imo to learn this one solo.

-und_ed