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Upcoming video tutorial announcement

Upcoming video tutorial announcement

Hey everyone, 

Hope you are all doing well. :) Let us use this opportunity to announce first of upcoming tutorials in September. Hope you are all ready for new month and new content. First video and pdf are coming on Third September. And announcement with a sneak peek on video content is available on the video teaser above. Stay Tuned, 3rd September is coming soon. :)

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For those interested :)

For those interested :)

Hey everyone, last day in this month and from 3rd next month comes more content. Hope you are excited :D

Before that, since we learned and gathered more information's, we want to share the news that we will be judging Freak Wars Miniature Painting competition, together with our friends artists (see pic above) - that will be held Online this year (this means, everyone can join :D ). This ...

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Live Stream 29.08.2020 - Result :)

Live Stream 29.08.2020 - Result :)

Hey guys, here is the result from last night. I continued painting after the stream ended. And also finished his base. Decided to keep everything in Metallic Paints for this one, hope you guys like him and for those who weren't able to join the stream - it is available for watch on Patreon. Let us know if you like it and what topics you would like to see on future live videos. :)

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Live painting! True Metallic Metal with Aleksandra! lml

Live painting! True Metallic Metal with Aleksandra! lml

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Hemlo - Ready for Saturday Night Live - 29.08.2020 :)

Hi everyone, How are all of you doing?
Are you ready for one more live painting with us. We will make Live Painting Stream for all of you (that will stay available for later watch) this Saturday. And we would like you to help us choose best time.
We are trying to make it approachable for all time zones - so we though on three timings that we would like you to choose from.
Not a big tim...

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Topic: Cold & Warm / Warm & Cold

Hello dear Patrons, we got a question that we though it would be best to answer publicly as a post as it is something that many of you may question. :)

Jamie, Thank you for your question.

Here is the question:
"Hi guys! First, apologies if this is the wrong place to be putting things like this (if it is, please tell me where to move this). I have ...

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Close up - Exclusive's - Dwarf King 50mm

Close up - Exclusive's - Dwarf King 50mm

Hi dear Patrons. Today we are sharing some dwarven close ups, hehe.

This is a recent boxart for Miniatures od Madness. Dwarf King - Marko Miladinović.

We still haven't publish the final photos. But we are happy to share some close ups with you all, first!

Here you can see all the transitions between tones and colors, smooth blends as well as overleaping brushstrokes and ton...

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The MAW - Step by Step progress article on Boardgame Mini

The MAW - Step by Step progress article on Boardgame Mini

Dear Patrons, 

We believe you will find this new tutorial very fun for practice. And it is our pleasure sharing it with you.  There is common belief that board game minis can't look good. Well, that is not really true. In this article I am leading you trough my progress of Painting - CmoN mini from "Hate"  (Chronicles of Hate) Boardgame. 

Easy steps with accent o...

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Wip Throwback (2017)

Wip Throwback (2017)

Dear Patron's I (Aleksandra) just found my work in progress shots from 2017, hope you will find it useful. The tissue was there for my hand holding mini safely while freehand-ing some fur texture as well as her abs and other details. Model was Sculpted by Pedro Fernandez for Mirico. This project was very dear to me as it is style of the figures I really like. Even if progress looks subtle you c...

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Necron Warrior - Full Video Painting Tutorial - Aleksandra Cvetanovski - Craftworld Studio

Necron Warrior - Full Video Painting Tutorial - Aleksandra Cvetanovski - Craftworld Studio

Dear all,
Today we are bringing you second of Indomitus Series Tutorials.


And that is:
Necron Warrior - Full Video Painting Tutorial  (it took 12 hours to upload this lol, we are experiencing some internet technical issues this month so bare with us and our provider, lol.)

Quick and Easy technique for very cool Ambiental NMM on Necron Warrior. This is a full progress...

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Hi lovely Patrons, there have been some talking on light placement recently

Hi lovely Patrons, there have been some talking on light placement recently

... and we will prepare some practices and lessons for you in future.
But before that we wanted to share sneak peek on upcoming tutorial. This time we have prepared a bit different approach on painting Non Metallic Metal. On this step you can see that Aleksandra is sketching light placements, so we are happy preparing this tutorial knowing that it will be interesting technique for many of yo...

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Happy Saturday lovely Patreons - SBS wip

Happy Saturday lovely Patreons - SBS wip

You might seen this work in progress posted the other day. It is mine (Aleksandra) aside project from Indomitus. Figure I just needed to paint to get my motivation back on track. To release that idea from my head. But, of course.. being committed to this community I couldn't miss the chance to take a pictures of some progress. ( I am taking pictures of other details as well for some future tuto...

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Ultramarines - Full Video Painting Tutorial - Marko Miladinović - Craftworld Studio Art Patreon

Ultramarines - Full Video Painting Tutorial - Marko Miladinović - Craftworld Studio Art Patreon

Dear all,  How do you like new Indomitus Set?

We both like it and today we are bringing you first of Indomitus Series Tutorials.
And that is:
Ultramarines Full Progress Painting - Quick and Easy technique to make your models look nice, have a good contrast and pop out on the table. Idea is to make display quality painting that can be achieved fast having you easily paint more...

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Colorful NMM - Dragon Huntress Sword Steps

Colorful NMM - Dragon Huntress Sword Steps

Dear all, welcome to a new month on Patreon. :)

For the Patreon technical reasons last, this and for next months we start with upload of posts from 3rd. But since it is 2020 we had some technical issues ourselves, hehe. So fist video for this month is still uploading and will be posted later today. :)

Here is fist pdf article with steps and explanations on how to approach to paintin...

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Videos upcoming in August - Patreon

Videos upcoming in August - Patreon

Dear Patrons, Thank you for your continuous support. We are happy to share quick preview of upcoming videos and some inserts from previous ones. There will be more surprises as always, but we wanted to share with you some nice preview at the start of this month and send our nicest wishes and gratitude for your support! 


Yours, Aleksandra & Marko

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Patreon Content in August

Patreon Content in August

Dear Patrons, these are some of Tutorials you can expect in August on our Patreon. Hope you are excited for a new tutorials as we are excited sharing them with you all.

Thank you for your support and Thank you for being Awesome! :)

All the best, Aleksandra & Marko

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Justicar Marko Part 8 - Base Painting

Justicar Marko Part 8 - Base Painting

Hi dear Patrons, 

Here is the final tutorial of Justicar Marko. So you have : 

VIDEO - Justicar Marko 1 & 2

PDF - Justicar Marko 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

I separated these parts to be easier and more detailed approachable in steps.  This is helpful for those who are using this tutorials on other practices as well as to those who are painting along. We can see ...

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GOLD NMM in 4 steps, And a Quick way of Painting Gems, Scrolls and Leather Pouch - Justicar Marko Part 7

GOLD NMM in 4 steps, And a Quick way of Painting Gems, Scrolls and Leather Pouch - Justicar Marko  Part 7

Hi lovely people,

We hope you will like getting one more tutorial on Justicar Marko, that 

walk you trough quick and simple painting of Gold NMM, Leather, Scrolls and Gems.


We love seeing your painting inspired by our tutorials so far, each of your post is unique and dear to us. We would love seeing more of it so tag us on your posts and write if you like our ...

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PALE TZEENTCH HEAD - FEATHERS, PALE SKIN, MENACING EYES, TONAL VALUES AND FOCAL POINT

PALE TZEENTCH HEAD - FEATHERS, PALE SKIN, MENACING EYES, TONAL VALUES AND FOCAL POINT

Hey dear Patrons,

We are sure this was very expected as it is one more tutorial you all voted to get. This is Step by step article of how I painted this Pale Tzeentch head. Trough this tutorial I will lead you trough progress on painting feathers, pale skin and beak. How to work with tonal values to create volume and to separate focal point. How to create menacing look and make the smal...

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Stormcast Part 2 - FABRIC/LEATHER/BASE - Marko Miladinović

Stormcast Part 2 - FABRIC/LEATHER/BASE - Marko Miladinović

Hi lovely Patrons, 

As announced here is second Part of  Stormcast limited palette - red, blue and yellow + white - VIDEO TUTORIAL.

Some of you already practiced NMM of limited palette from Stormcast Part 1, some of you painted a lot of Stormcasts since or minis inspired by technique's from previous video. We are sure this one will bring you more insight on color use and c...

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FIRST LIVE PAINTING VIDEO STREAM - MARKO IS PAINTING ARTISAN GUILD OGRE

FIRST LIVE PAINTING VIDEO STREAM - MARKO IS PAINTING ARTISAN GUILD OGRE

Hi everyone,
Welcome to our first live video on Patreon. 

We hope connection and stream will serve us well. And let's paint and enjoy together in todays Painting Session. Thank you for joining. :)

Cheers,

Aleksandra & Marko


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Tomorrow Live Painting (Sunday, July 12th at 8PM CET)

Tomorrow Live Painting (Sunday, July 12th at 8PM CET)

Hi dear Patrons,
Tomorrow we will be streaming live painting session on this mini from Artisan Guild.
Marko will be painting Ogre - starting with painting face, and we will see where this session brings us. Hope you will be there to hang out, to ask some painting questions regarding the progress or tutorials. We both are looking forward. :)
See you tomorrow.
Yours,
Aleksandra...

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LIVE PAINTING ON PATREON - SUNDAY, JULY 12TH 20:00h/08:00PM CEST

LIVE PAINTING ON PATREON - SUNDAY, JULY 12TH 20:00h/08:00PM CEST

Hi dear Patrons,

We will hold a live video painting session.

And you are invited to join us to hang out and you can ask us questions in real time.

While one of us Paint and other will obviously reading questions and talk. Hehe :)

We are looking forward hanging out with you and if you can't join this time (No worries there will be more of these sessions) be free to leave ...

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Justicar Marko 6 - POWER NMM - MAGIC INFUSED MACE

Justicar Marko 6 - POWER NMM - MAGIC INFUSED MACE

One more Justicar Marko PDF tutorial. I hope you enjoying those so far as only two more from this series are left to be shared. :)

PDF Article is in attachment's. 

This is yet a third practice on Justicar Marko NMM with steps I covered in previous tutorials as well as something more. I believe this one is most fun of all and can't wait to see your practice. 

Stay tun...

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Justicar Marko Part 5 - PDF - NMM LEG ARMOR - Aleksandra Cvetanovski

Justicar Marko Part 5 - PDF - NMM LEG ARMOR - Aleksandra Cvetanovski

Hi dear Patrons,

Here is the new part of Justicar Marko. As this project has few different approaches on Non Metallic Metal Painting I made few articles and more is upcoming. This Article is connected to previously posted Justicar Marko Part 3 as NMM (being from the set of the same armor parts, hehe) is similar, with some difference's. You will see which ones in attachment's. :)

Ho...

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Justicar Marko - Part 4 PDF - Divine Power/Light Source/Glowing Light/Magic Spell/Etheral

Justicar Marko - Part 4 PDF - Divine Power/Light Source/Glowing Light/Magic Spell/Etheral

Hi dear Patrons, one more tutorial on Justicar Marko for today. More is upcoming :)

This time I am sharing with you tutorial on painting "Divine Power" - or magic spell, magic glow, ethereal, light source etc...

Simple and fun tutorial yet many colors, gradient, transitions, contrast, flow, dynamic, volume and light glow. 

Hope you will enjoy this tutorial. And content so...

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"Charlotte" - Exclusive work in Progress - Aleksandra, Mrs.Craftworld

"Charlotte" - Exclusive work in Progress - Aleksandra, Mrs.Craftworld

Hi lovely Patrons, how do you like tutorials so far!? What are you painting this weekend?
We asked you if you would like to see more of work in progress updates from us, so..

Here is my work in progress on display figure from Limbo Miniatures - Charlotte, that I am working on as a commission for private collection.

I under-painted it in simple painting scheme, using my favorite ...

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Jasticar Marko Part 3 - PDF - NMM Gauntlet - Aleksandra Cvetanovski

Jasticar Marko Part 3 - PDF - NMM Gauntlet - Aleksandra Cvetanovski

Hi dear Patrons. 

Here is the third part on Painting Justicar Marko and first of PDF's based on mini Marko model. Hope you will enjoy seeing this progress and looking forward seeing more Mini Aleksandra (Vulpeana) 's & Marko's from you. (There will be more tutorials upcoming of course).
PDF Article is attached bellow. Enjoy! :)

Ps. If you share your progress inspired by...

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Dragon Scales - Video Tutorial PATREON Craftworld Studio Art

Dragon Scales - Video Tutorial PATREON Craftworld Studio Art

Hello Lovely Patrons,

Thank you for your support and Welcome to Third month on our Patreon!

This tutorial got most of the votes from you all, so we both hope you are excited seeing it! We told you trough previous tutorials that we are slowly building steps on taking you all closer to understanding our approach on color use. This tutorial looks fun, but it is not the easiest. There i...

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Surprise Bonus Tutorial - Cocytus Boxart Exclusive Tutorial + Aradia Miniatures Discount

Surprise Bonus Tutorial - Cocytus Boxart Exclusive Tutorial + Aradia Miniatures Discount

Hello lovely Patrons,

Welcome to new month on our Patreon. 

We said we will upload first tutorials from July 3rd, but.. Surprise :)

Today we are sharing "Cocytus" - Guide trough Original Boxart by
Aleksandra Cvetanovski - Mrs.Craftworld.
Next to this surprise we also prepared special discount for July (once again)
on Aradia Miniatures products - 15% discount a...

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