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Aukan's Blade NMM Video Tutorial (STL Included) - CWSA Patreon

Aukan's Blade NMM Video Tutorial (STL Included) - CWSA Patreon

Dear Craftworldians,


We hope you will enjoy seeing closer look of the painting surface,

interaction between overlapping layers and underpainting. Density of paint mixes,

brushstrokes and how it all comes together in one whole.

Featuring lesson on painting NMM Steel B...

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Aukan - Tiefling Goliath STL (Company of the Gracious Heart)

Aukan - Tiefling Goliath STL (Company of the Gracious Heart)

Dear Craftwordians,

In collaboration with Adam Folse from Twin Goddess Miniatures,

We are bringing one more character to our dear COMPANY OF THE GRACIOUS HEART .

Aukan, Tiefling Goliath.

In next post you will watch Vid...

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Cleric - Masterclass SbS - CWSA Patreon

Cleric - Masterclass SbS - CWSA Patreon

Dear Craftworldians,


Welcome to a new month on our Patreon.

With this lesson I want to bring more attention to a color choices, Underpainting & Overlapping Layers. Tonal Values & Variations, as well as volumes. How to use thin or thick layers when it comes to a painting definitions.

We both hope you will enjoy. 

2022-04-01 18:43:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Enchanted Forest - BackDrop Background Painting - Moonlight Stories Pt2

Enchanted Forest - BackDrop Background Painting - Moonlight Stories Pt2

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a New tutorial,

This time I want to share with you how I built, and how you can make your own Display

BackDrop Base for your miniature.

I also want to share with you my painting progress and guide you trough few ideas and lesson of easy approach to a 2d painting.

Lan...

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STONEBEARD (First Upcoming Release) & Painting Tutorial in 4k

STONEBEARD (First Upcoming Release) & Painting Tutorial in 4k

Dear Craftworldians,

We are so happy to share this project with all of you. Our friends Rhianon & Jim from Sydney, and us two have been working hard on creating Stonebeard's first release.

Idea started with logo & branding, which spontaneously slipped into concept art. After creating a concept, we all agreed this would be an awesome miniature. First as representative of a St...

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TOP 20 FINALISTS - VOTING

TOP 20 FINALISTS - VOTING

Dear Craftworldians.

Here our our Top 20 Finalists.
It's been a tough choose to choose only 20 of all entries.
And now it goes even more important step. Choosing first 3 Places.

Take a better look of all entries and FULL Gallery , here.

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GALLERY - CRAFTWORLDIANS PAINTING COMPETITION ENTRIES

GALLERY - CRAFTWORLDIANS PAINTING COMPETITION ENTRIES

Dear Craftworldians,

Last week was both both exciting and hard for us,
We are very excited seeing all your amazing entries. We are grateful and appreciate seeing so many amazing projects created in only two months. As well as proud at your achievement. Well done everyone, congratulations!

Hard part is working on a preliminary selection where we decided to pick top 20 entries th...

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FROG SHINOBI REN - SBS TUTORIAL

FROG SHINOBI REN - SBS TUTORIAL

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a new month and new tutorial on Patreon.
This time I am happy to share my Boxart project I had much fun with.

In this lesson you will follow one of the approaches on painting frog eyes, skin, dark fabrics in ambiance and many more cool ideas and technique...

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THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING CRAFTWORLDIANS PAINTING COMPETITION

THANK YOU ALL FOR JOINING CRAFTWORLDIANS PAINTING COMPETITION

Dear Craftworldians,

We are both so happy and excited to see all of your beautiful Miniature Painting Projects and entries.

We wrote on Discord and IG, but we would like to mention it here as well. If you by any chance need a day or two more to submit your entry, let us know to expect it as we will definitely need a couple of days to review all entries.

Competition Rules &...

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Freehand Base Video Tutorial - Queen Guinevere Series

Freehand Base Video Tutorial - Queen Guinevere Series

Dear Craftworlidans,

We both hope you will enjoy this lesson. My idea was to bring you one of the nice and easy ways of creating a freehand ornament on the base. Drawing and Painting Ornament on the base. In this video I will lead you through few steps of what I like to call back and forth progress. :)

2022-02-22 11:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post

RUDDY & VIBRANT SKINTONE - SBS CWSA + AG

RUDDY & VIBRANT SKINTONE - SBS CWSA + AG

Dear Craftworldians,

Today we are happy to share new tutorial together with 3d printable STL by our friends from Artisan Guild.

In this booklet you can follow Marko's progress and lesson on painting Lenna Skin in Cold Ambiance, in just a few easy steps.
You will also have insigh...

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Champion of Vore Nash - Hate Boardgame

Champion of Vore Nash - Hate Boardgame

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to one more tutorial. This time featuring miniature from "Hate" Boardgame. 

One year ago, we created PDF Step by Step Article, on other Hate Boardgame mini, The MAW.

Champion Of The Vore Nash is a full video tutorial packed i...

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Gnome Artificer - Craig Scrapfiggs Step By Step

Gnome Artificer - Craig Scrapfiggs Step By Step

Dear Craftworldians,

Yesterday we represented Boxart Photo's of Craig Scrapfiggs, done for Collective Studio.

Collective Studio are New on Patreon  and this Gnome Artific...

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Boxart of Craig Scrapfiggs for Collective Studio

Boxart of Craig Scrapfiggs for Collective Studio

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a New Month on our Patreon,

Today, we are happy to share with you the newest Boxart Painting by Marko Miladinović. Craig Scrapfiggs, Gnome Artificer by Collective Studio  Patreon, is one of their first Printable STL Miniature releases, ne...

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HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR MINIS - CWSA GUIDE

HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR MINIS - CWSA GUIDE

Dear Craftworldians,

Today we are Happy to bring you one more tutorial. This time, not on painting, but also very important skills to know when representing your Artworks. :)

We worked hard to bring most important steps simplified and explained trough this guide, to help you all create good quality photos of your painted miniatures.

Model used for this repres...

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LORD DAVICUS Miniature Painting TUTORIAL - Ravaged Star

LORD DAVICUS Miniature Painting TUTORIAL - Ravaged Star

Dear Craftworldians,

Today we would like to share with you,

LORD DAVICUS, The Afflicted. Miniature from upcoming Kickstarter Campaign by Miniwargaming. Read More Here: 2022-01-16 21:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

New Stormcast Series: NMM GOLD - Part 3

New Stormcast Series: NMM GOLD - Part 3

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a New Stormcast Series Part 3 

Non Metallic Metal - GOLD LESSON

This lesson can be used by someone who is trying NMM for the first time as well as advanced painters who would like to boost NMM Knowledge and upgrade Light placement use, Contrast and Tonal values. 

2022-01-10 22:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Leather & NMM SBS tutorial - Gnoll & Kobold

Leather & NMM SBS tutorial - Gnoll & Kobold

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to January 2022. Hope you all enjoy painting, and as already being said, we enjoy following your enties for our Craftworldians Painting Competition. 

Welcome to a Step By Step Lesson and tutorial, that I really hope to see some of you incl...

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Painting Snow in Ambiance - Lesson of Color Mixing, Overlapping Tones, Values for defining Volumes...

Painting Snow in Ambiance - Lesson of Color Mixing, Overlapping Tones, Values for defining Volumes...

Happy New Year's Eve dear Craftworldians,

We hope you are all healthy, happy and enjoying the painting. :)

We have seen so many great entries for the Craftworldians Painting Competition and we are very excited to be following so many amazing projects. :)

Today we are bringing you something a bit different, featuring L...

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

Dear Craftworldians,

Nicest wishes and best regards from yours Aleksandra & Marko! 

We hope you have a wonderful holidays with your families and loved ones. We celebrate Ortodox Christmas that is just around the corner, in January. Still, festive season in Craftworld Studio is fully on and we are painting some cool Christmas topic miniatures as well as working on editing o...

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Greenskin Tutorial - Tonal Values - SBS

Greenskin Tutorial - Tonal Values - SBS

Dear Craftworldians,

Happy Holidays to all who celebrate Christmas tonight. Merry Christmas!

Today, we are happy to share one more Greenskin Tutorial. This time using a bit different palette and focusing on tonal values, color mixes and creating different hues of Green Skin.

Previous one is featuring 2021-12-24 15:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post

CRAFTWORLDIANS - Miniature Painting Competition

CRAFTWORLDIANS - Miniature Painting Competition

Dear Craftworldians!

As you may know,

We started with 3d printing last year at Christmas. Actually, in this period we received our first printer. Sonic Mini 4k by Phrozen. And since we have been sharing our printing journey with you all.

This journey has been amazing so far, and it's about to become even better with the Son...

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Moonlight Challenge FEEDBACK - Video Lesson (+ announcements)

Moonlight Challenge FEEDBACK - Video Lesson (+ announcements)

Dear Craftworldians,

If you were a part of a Moonlight Challenge, it's FINALLY THAT DAY. And if you weren't it is never late for Painting a MOONLIGHT STORY. This Video Feedback was a REWARD we have promised to create, using some of the Moonlight Stories entries by our students.

Watch ...

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Black Templars Tutorial - Lesson & Guide

Black Templars Tutorial - Lesson & Guide

Dear Craftworldians,

Happy December :D Hope you are getting ready for holidays and Festive Season. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas , everywhere I go... 🎵

Today we are bringing new Step by Step Tutorial and Guide. Featuring Black Templar Painted by Marko, Mr.Craftworld. Follow his Underpainting Stage, Storytelling and Ambience set. Differ...

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New Toys

New Toys

Dear Craftwordians,

New PDF and video tutorials are in preparation, but before we dive in to that we have awesome news that would be beneficial to all!

We upgraded our video and photography equipment!
After many hours of browsing and talking with professionals in photography we decided to get Canon M50 Mark II series with 18-150mm lenses (that we really liked for both filming an...

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Red Hair Painting Tutorial - Queen Guinevere

Red Hair Painting Tutorial - Queen Guinevere

Dear Craftworldians,


Welcome to a New Lesson on Painting Hair,

This time featuring Red Hair Tutorial. :)


Model I am Painting is Queen Guinevere, by BigChild Creatives - Echoes of Camelot. 


My goal with this lesson is to bring you closer to ...

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Work in Progress - upcoming tutorial

Work in Progress - upcoming tutorial

Dear Craftworldians,

I would like to share some BTS from my current work in progress,
It will be a upcoming tutorial on a Ork kommando. And as you may know, I like demonstrating painting both on the minis and paper. Especially when I talk about the colours.


2021-11-06 16:18:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Painting Fabrics in Ambience - Step by Step Guide

Painting Fabrics in Ambience - Step by Step Guide

Dear Craftworldians,

Following Video Tutorial Published yesterday ,

We are happy to share PDF Step By Step Painting Tutorial on:

Painting Fabrics in Ambience

Learn more about Tonal Values , Light Placement and Volumes.
Make your Fabric painting more Dynami...

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New Stormcast Series Part 2 : Fabric / Stippling/Glazing & Light Placements/Volume Definition

New Stormcast Series Part 2 : Fabric / Stippling/Glazing & Light Placements/Volume Definition

Dear Craftworldians,

Welcome to a New Stormcast Series Part 2.

Watch Part 1 : Halberd NMM 

Take a closer look at tonal values introduced with stippling technique, shaping of the light placements for detail volumes. Glazing technique merging tone...

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Special Discount for Followers & October minis Group Photo :)

Special Discount for Followers & October minis Group Photo :)

Dear Craftworldians,

*in the main picture you can see all our minis completed/in progress during october, there are more projects getting ready behind the scenes. Hopefully to be revealed this month :)

Welcome to November on Patreon,

Hope you enjoyed Spooky Month & Tutorials as much as we did. :)

Today we would l...

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