Craftworld Studio - Miniature Art Lessons & Tutorials

Updates on work in progress and upcoming tutorials, also What's Friday 13th?!

Hello dear Patrons,

We both hope you are doing well and enjoy painting and creative stuff.

The Apollo tutorial will be ready in next few days. You can see some progress shots above, hope you are excited. 

Today I (Mrs. Craftworld) worked on some small surprises for Mr.Craftworld Birthday that is tomorrow on Friday 13th.🧛🎂

We will stay home and cozy this birthday because of the pandemic, but we were just got used celebrating it November 13th on our Miniature ...

Casual Sunday, Talks and Tips from Patreon lessons and some updates

Hi everyone, I wanted to cover some of the topics regarding Patreon lessons and teaching, your updates and life stuff. Of course, I couldn't just focus on one thing but bare with me, I hope you will find some cool info on this video as well. If you like this format of videos as well let us know, and we will make a section for you guys to suggest some topic we can cover in some of our talks. First thing on the list for next time is coffee and a list, hehe notes. To stay on topic. Hope you all ...

OSL - Darkest Dungeon Series - Highwayman

Hi lovely Patrons, we created this short video as an add on to already available PDF Step by Step tutorial published recently - https://www.patreon.com/posts/43469003

Hope you will enjoy this one. There is one Osl tutorial with similar palette already on patreon. Here we have a bit of different interpretation and style of approach. Its, easy and quick and most importantly FUN :D

So we both hope you wi...

Fantasy Mediterranean BASE - from Creation to Painting - Lumineth Realm Lords Series - Part 2

Hi everyone, technicalities made us post this late, but we are excited finally sharing highly requested base video. Since first base done and published we had been getting questions and requests for a tutorial. Here it is finally. Second tutorial from Lumineth Realm Lords Series.
In this tutorial you will follow Marko's progress from scratch. How he made this Mediterranean inspired base. Very simple and easy progress that you can all try.
You will also follow very, quick fun and effec...

SBS on Highwayman - Darkest Dungeon - Marko Miladinović

Surprise, it's not 3rd yet but we wanted to share this guide early. We both hope everyone will find more value or value of interest, idea, refreshing approach or just new and fun practice. As we recently painted The Cove expansion for Darkest Dungeon Kickstarter active for few more days, we wanted to cover some cool topics using some of the minis from main set. So here comes Highwayman. In steps. Idea was to share more of the interesting and useful information's that we will refer to later ag...

Welcome to November on Patreon, soon comes new content...

Meanwhile, Marko have a short deadline for his new boxart project, we wanted to announce that we will see to make some cool tutorials referring to this mini (and other minis from Elves of Inneath set / in future). We received messages from some of our followers and patrons that you guys are excited for it. Let us know what you think in the comments as well,

There is 54 hours left till the end of this campaign, so in case you are interested but missed it, here is a link: 2020-11-01 15:44:32 +0000 UTC View Post

PDF in Progress - And new video right after ;)

Hi guys, 

We wanted to share one more sneak peek with you all. This is one more tutorial in making, hope you are excited seeing this one. One more from Darkest Dungeon, this time on Hero. :)

We hope you all enjoy content here so far. Last few month were crazy for us, but this one was very hard, hopefully in coming time everything will go more smoothly. But this month was very stressful and busy. We tried to be active and available in the highest percentage possible. But, ha...

Aleksandra's Boxart for Aradia Miniatures EXCLUSIVE REVEAL & BENEFIT FOR OUR PATRONS

Hello Dear Patrons, 

Reminder* this benefit ends tonight 11:59pm cet (1st November), don't miss your chance to get this mini among firsts and with discount. For those interested of course. ^^

As you may know we always tend to bring some cool stuff here for you next to our teachings and tutorials, or better said very connected. We want to say our big Thanks to Aradia Miniatures, as they let us share the boxart with you guys before final reveal anywhere else, but not only that ...

FULL PAINTING PROGRESS TUTORIAL - The Cove - Sea Maggot - Darkest Dungeon

Hey everyone, 

New video tutorial is finally here. We got more then few feedbacks from you guys that you would like following a full time progress of how we paint the mini, without regarding to one topic but laying the brushstrokes and building creation. The deadline for this project was short, but we had great time paining these minis. We love the style and aesthetic of this game, so we tried to bring it closer and match with our style. Showing that flavor of Darkest Dungeon toget...

While tutorial is uploading, we can finally share minis that we painted for The Cove expansion for Darkest Dungeon the board game :)

Dear Patrons, we are so honored for being part of this project. Darkest Dungeon is the game of which us both are a big fans.  We are thankful to Seb Lavigne, Mythic Games team and Red Hook for this awesome opportunity.

As you can see the painting tutorial that is upcoming will feature the Sea Maggot, as it was great mini for recording the progress in best way possible. :)
Of course, all of this was done in secret and in very tough deadline. We received more minis, heroes and e...

Coming soon /our secret projects are waiting reveal

Hi dear Patrons,

We apologize for a bit strange posting schedule this month. We are working like crazy behind scene, plus we have too many thing in private life happening that we can't wait sharing also sometime soon, as everything we are doing is always connected to miniatures. Well, we shared one sneak peek for project coming in November (there will be some nice benefit for our Patrons organized together with reveal, so we are super excited). Squidmar project we shared sneak peak on i...

New figure painted for a KS and one more colorful guide tuto

Hey everyone, yesterday we shared a little sneak peek with you guys,

So finally we can share news on our Patron Greg Kickstarter campaign, it is live from today and you can check it out on this link: http://kck.st/2HgoHrw

He asked us to paint a boxart of this lovely lady and we will soon publish photos on our social medias, before that we thought (even as we already have one tutorial of colorful sword) - that this katan...

Sneak Peek

Dear Patreons,

Something cool comes tomorrow. Here are some sneak peek's and tomorrow after this project is revealed, we will share more. I guess these details give some idea on this character. :D

All the best,
Aleksandra & Marko

Progress on new video tutorial

Hey everyone, as you may know we have been working hard on new video. That will be released as public (by Squidmar Miniatures). Of course, since it is collaboration between channels we will wait a bit more for some consults and final adjustments. But since we are very excited sharing this video with you all, we wanted to share some sneak peek  while we wait. Hope you guys enjoy seeing it.  :) PS. Meanwhile, more content is upcoming.

All the best,
Aleksandra & Marko 2020-10-18 16:36:33 +0000 UTC View Post

More cool news - Vulpeana Whitebranch & Justicar Marko (mini us) bundle is additionally discounted for our Patrons

Thanks to our Patrons Daniel and his wife, we are happy to share one more discounted bundle of Justicar Marko and Vulpeana Whitebranch from Artisan Guild on their etsy store.
This lovely couple is offering additional 10% discount for all our Patrons:

Here is a link to their shop that will automatically apply the discount: etsy.com/shop/DatamancerGames?coupon=CRAFTWORLD
If that do...

Pre-order discount - WOLF DRAKES - CLAY PROJECT

Hi dear Patrons,

We wanted to share this new release with you and share the link for the Clay Project Webpage for those interested.

We got 5% DISCOUNT for our Patrons and Followers, just use

discount code: CRAFTWORLDSTUDIO

Link to webstore: https://clayprojectminiatures.com/

If you guys like this minis and would love to see tutorial on one of these Wolf Drakes someday in future, let us ...

Exclusiveness of Patreon Videos

Edit*
We just learned that maybe it is possible making private playlist (sorry for our lack of YouTube skills) so if any of you guys have private playlists, that is of course okay with us. Is this is not visible for people outside Patreon, because of exclusive content we prepare for you, it is all good.

Playlist we refer to is public.

Hi everyone, we have been notified that someone made a playlist with our Patreon videos. There are video playlists of other creators as well...

Exclusive wip for our Patrons - Eira Bust

Hello everyone. Hope you all are doing well. We are doing just crazy with projects, deadlines and life. Which just made us a bit quiet but working a lot behind the scene and preparing some cool stuff for you all. Finally we are able to show some work in progress sneak peek on the bust that Marko is painting for Squidmar Miniatures. Tutorial we announced some time ago. This video will soon be ready after some details and adjustments we take together with Emil. But we thought it is about time t...

Colorful Bronze NMM on Shield - Lumineth Realm Lords Series Part 1 - Craftworld Studio

Dear Patrons, Welcome to new month on our Patreon. Today we prepared already announced and highly requested video tutorial on our colorful NMM. This time Marko will guide you trough lesson and tutorial on Painting Bronze NMM, at least one of the cool ways of painting it. This tutorial will teach you our way of painting and give you better insight of how we work with colors. This is not an easy tutorial to practice but it would be very appreciated for your progress if you try. If you practiced...

Quick & Effective Miniature Painting Guide

Hi dear Patrons,
Welcome at a new month on our Patreon and thank you for your support.

In today's Step by Step Walkthrough we want to share with use, quick and effective way of getting striking results on your mini. :)
This tutorial is simple in approach if you watch closely and practice your brushstrokes and brush use. But it requires a lot of color mixing and tonal values work. So get your brushes and mix those paints to practice this way of painting.
Hope you will enjoy, sha...

Sneak Peek - Exclusive CloseUp

Hi everyone, as promised.  We are sharing sneak peek of one upcoming model. Aleksandra is preparing box art and tutorial for our Patrons. Next month there should be more info regarding this project (and hopefully we can say more).  And we expect final release in November this year. How does it looks like, are you excited on seeing more? Can you guess who is the company that is releasing this piece, or can you guess what it will be?

All the best,
Aleksandra & Marko

Announcements pt1: Next month on Patreon - One of the video tutorials for next month is Lumineth Realm Lords Shield (requested by many)

Hi there lovely people, 

We are glad to announce that highly requested tutorial is getting ready for next month release. Marko went a step further and created a complex scheme inspired by his Lumineth Lords Colorful Bronze.

With this tutorial we want to bring you a step closer to use of colors that, we believe, you are all excited learning. Trough previous tutorials and with every upcoming, you will see many topics covered and if something is repeating as a material or simi...

Stippling technique - Building volumes with textures

Hi lovely Patrons, 

Today we want to share a bit of different approach of making volumes on the cape/cloth -  with stippling dots. Using texture to create the volumes rather then painting everything then adding the textures. We shared similar approach on one of the videos but the ambience and contrast were different so we believe you would appreciate having this insight and maybe practice Stippling technique a bit more. Here are steps on Painting the Knight cape. Painting NMM ...

LIGHT PLACEMENT - EXERCISE NO.3 & TUTORIAL - PART 2 (PART TWO)

 Second part of "Get your shields ready" Tutorial and exercise on Light Placement. Mixing colors, contrast, volume, ambience... to get the full insight on this practice watch Part 1 first. Reason I split this video in two parts it is because of the length (concentration), file size as well. Full tutorial is part 1&2 together. I continued with explanations and important topic while painting next three shields. With this exercise you will get insight on most important values defining t...

LIGHT PLACEMENT - EXERCISE NO.3 & TUTORIAL - PART 1

Hey everyone. That cool fun exercise and a video tutorial you all have been expecting is finally here. Have you prepared some bits for painting, shields perhaps!?  We will make more videos with explanations and ideas in future. And this first exercise is on shields. Chaos, Vampire, Dwarven... all of those are cool and fun for painting. You can choose any of the shields you like. Even if I haven't painted all of the possible shield designs out there, trough this tutorial you will get main...

Surprise Surprise :D - Zhurong - Celestial Miniatures - Skin Blending Part - painting progress update/ skin smoothing And adding Higlights on Organic Details & Metals

I know you all are waiting for Video Tutorial & Exercise on Shields. It is in my editing program and I will get it ready as soon as possible. Before that, Marko and I prepared one more surprise. This is video update of my older work that I filmed in 2018. I am sure there were more updates so I will search for those and share them with you guys also. For now, hope you will all enjoy one part of video painting progress on how I blend skin. I actually don't focus on one technique only, it va...

UPCOMING -Exercise + tutorial

Hi lovely Patrons. As requested. New video tutorial & exercise on Light Placement is coming to our Patreon in next days. This is the result of quick sketching with explanations where Aleksandra explained (and gave many tips and insights) on how you can approach to deciding on light placement. Play of lights and shadows, building volumes and contrast. Knowing us, we went a bit further explaining this exercise and progress through approaching to ambience, mixing (use/theory) of colours. And...

Craftworld Studio - FW20 - Aleksandra & Marko -Master Seminar - Expression in Miniature Art

Hey lovely Patrons, we did Master Seminar on Topic "Expression in Miniature Art" for Freak Wars 2020, event that is held every year in Spain, Madrid. And this year, due to circumstances - it is online. Which is great opportunity for everyone to follow the event, seminars and competitions. In Miniature Art, & Illustration. Cosplay, wargaming etc....

Here are our thoughts on this topic, "shortly". There are many more things we would like to cover and will cover trough our lessons an...

NURGLE PALE SKIN - Archaon The Everchosen Series - VIDEO TUTORIAL

Hey guys, welcome to a new month on our Patreon. :)
Thank you for being here with us. And as announced in previous post with PDF tutorial from Archaon The Everchosen Series.
New video is up and this time on very pale & sick skintone - of course on Nurgle. Keep in mind that this tutorial is focused on creating contrast on pale skin - yet vibrant and colorful , making skin looks sick and scary. Therefore you can use this approach on other minis, like monsters, zombies or any figure yo...

Archaon the Everchosen Series - Wing Painting, SKIN, TEXTURES, DETAILS

Hi there lovely Patrons,

Thank you for being here with us, 

This time we are bringing first tutorial in September for all of you as PDF SbS Article.

Video Tutorial is coming in one hour from now, stay tuned. These two topics are connected. Since both tutorials are from Archaon the Everchosen Series. But, we both believe it will be very interesting seeing how approach vary in painting different parts of the same model in cohesion but differently. There is so many possibi...