Craftworld Studio - Miniature Art Lessons & Tutorials

Mastering Nature: Painting the Living Tree, Master Ent - An Incredible Nature Series Tutorial

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to our latest tutorial in the Incredible Nature Series: "Mastering Nature: Painting the Living Tree, Master Ent!"

In this video, we're diving deep into the techniques you need to bring this awesome miniature to life. I'll show you how to use underpainting, wet blending, and some amazing color contrasts with just three primary colors – Primary Red, Primary Blue, and Intense Yellow. Whether you're painting the Living Tree, Master Ent f...

Step-by-Step Painting Guide: Lord Terminos - AoS Skaventide

Dear Craftworldians!

We're excited to share our latest step-by-step painting guide for Lord Terminos, the new Games Workshop Age of Sigmar model from the Skaventide Box.

In this tutorial, we dive into underpainting and overlapping layers techniques for easy and striking effects.

By reading and following this guide, our hope is to enrich your knowledge and use of zenithal pri...

Introducing the New 32mm Scale Miniature of Dwomo Kind for Era of Providence

Dear Craftworldians!

We’re super excited to share latest boxart with you – the first 32mm scale miniature of the Dwomo Kind for Era of Providence! In our last updates, we gave you some background on the Dwomo Kind and showed off some concept art and illustrations. Now, you can finally see the miniature itself, painted by Marko Miladinović and sculpted by amazing Pablo Nava...

Pocket Goblin GREENSKIN: Underpainting and Overlapping Layers - Part 1

Dear Craftworldians!

I’m excited to share Part 1 of our latest tutorial: Painting a Greenskin Goblin Miniature: Underpainting and Overlapping Layers.

In this tutorial, we'll dive into the techniques needed to bring your goblin miniature to life with vibrant colors, rich shadows, and warm highlights. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter, this guide will help you achieve stunning results.

Of course results will vary regarding your skills, so be consi...

Unveiling the Dwomo: Lore and Legends of Era of Providence

Dear Craftworldians,

As promised, here is a new update on Era of Providence, specifically more art and lore for the Dwomo.

In the ancient forests that cradled the Dwomo civilization, whispers of discontent echoed among the towering trees. For centuries, the Imperishable Queen had ruled with an iron fist, her authority enforced by the rigid hierarchy of the Echelons. But as the shadows o...

Era of Providence - Dwomo Kind

Dear Craftworldians,

As some of you might have noticed from our occasional Instagram story updates or some chats during our live streams, we love playing TTRPGs in our spare time. Over the past ten years, we have tried many exciting games, and each of them has found a special place in our hearts. (We do plan to talk more about this in future posts.) Today, we are excited to announce that the fantasy world of Era of Providence is getting its very own game system, all created by me (Mark...

Reverse Zenithal Priming with OSL Effects

Hello, dear Craftworldians!

Welcome back to our channel. In today's tutorial, we will be diving into an exciting miniature painting technique: reverse zenithal priming with Object Source Lighting (OSL) effects. Instead of the usual top-down light source, we'll be creating an eerie green glow emanating from below, through floor cracks and runes, to give our miniature a mystical and dramatic appearance.

Paints Used:

Scale 75 Artist

-Primary Yellow

-Jade

-Prim...

Updates from Craftworld: New Projects, Events, and Personal News!

We haven't updated you on our behind-the-scenes progress in a while, so here’s what’s been cooking in the Craftworld arts and crafts kitchen.

We are preparing some exciting new developments for Era of Providence. We know our fans are admirers of the arts, so stay tuned for something truly beautiful coming your way. Many of you know we are TTRPG gamers, and we hope more of you in our commu...

Painting Sana the Medicine Seller's Hat | Dark Colors & Underpainting Techniques PT3

Welcome back, Craftworldians!

In this tutorial, we continue our journey with Sana the Medicine Seller, a stunning bust from the Era of Providence, sculpted by Marko Miladinović. This is third and final video from this series. This time, we're focusing on painting her hat using darker colors and underpainting & overlapping layers techniques.

- PART ONE

2024-05-23 11:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Darkoath Chieftain - Body and Skin - PART ONE

Dear Craftwordians,

Welcome to a new month on Patreon, and thank you for your continued support over the years. :)

Exciting news alert! Get ready to dive into the wonderful world of miniature painting with our latest guide focusing on painting realistic skintones and body for Darkoath Chieftain by Games Works...

Live Stream - The Caged - Craftworld Studio + Bestiarum Miniatures

Dear Craftworldians,

Join our new live stream with our guest from Bestiarum Miniatures.

Marko Miladinović is continuing painting The Caged, miniature from Bestiarum Miniatures.

Wednesday Live Stream at 7PM CET ' The Caged - Stay tuned

Hey Craftworldians,

Exciting news! You're invited to hang out with us this Wednesday, the 24th at 7 PM CET, for an awesome live stream event featuring myself, Marko Miladinović, as I dive into further painting 'The Caged' from Bestiarum Miniatures.

This work-in-progress session promises an exclusive peek into my creative process as I share insights and techniques while painting this captivating piece.
2024-04-22 16:21:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Sana The Medicine Seller Pt2 - Fabrics

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a new tutorial series featuring

Sana The Medicine Seller.

Bust sculpted by Marko Miladinović, for Era of Providence.

In todays lesson you will follow up my progress on painting Sana's clothing. In first part I painted her face and hair. This time, learn how to build up green tones from purple. Learn how to work with texture brushstrokes + glazes. And much more.

2024-04-18 11:37:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Step by Step - Tyrant from Hate Boardgame

Dear Craftwourldians,

Welcome to a new month at Patreon.

And welcome to a new step by step tutorial of painting Tyrant. Boardgame miniature, based on art of Adrian Smith.

For this project I used Underpainting and Overlapping Layers techniques.

Original plan was to share steps as photos in the post. But we decided to make pages with Tonal variations and Paints used for color mixes, to make the progress and understanding of the steps closer to all and easier to fo...

Sana The Medicine Seller Part 1 - Skin, Face, Hair

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a new tutorial series featuring

Sana The Medicine Seller.

Bust sculpted by Marko Miladinović, for Era of Providence.

In todays lesson you will see how I did the underpainting. That is dominantly purple. Pale ski tones in this purplish ambience and dark hair.

Paints I used in underpainting stage are Drop Paints by Scale75 (premade paint tones for airbrush use). But you can use any paints you prefer. You can use Scale Artist range ...

Painting Green Fabrics - Third Lesson of The Untethered Series

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to the Third and Final Lesson of The Untethered Series, Era of Providence.

The Untethered is the Bust from Era of Providence Range,  sculpted by Marko Miladinović.

It is available for wider community as free STL, get yours HERE! 

2024-03-11 15:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Painting Wood - SBS Lesson & Tutorial

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a new lesson and SBS Tutorial of Painting Wood.

In this lesson, focus will be on Purple shade Ambience and Warm Highlights. AS well as Rich Brown Wood.

Darkest shades are Dark Violet, Brightest are Magenta.
Light Ambience is Warm/Yellow.

Follow these steps and share your results with us at our Discord Channel.
And Social Medias, Using:

#craftworldians #craftworldpatreons #underpaintingminis #overlappinglayers 2024-03-06 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post