Monday, May 13, 2024

Painting glasses?

I'm thinking of getting back into painting minis. I stopped a while back - maybe a couple years ago, maybe longer - whenever my last WIP post was, in all likelihood. I stopped for a few reasons, but a big one is vision. I wear glasses for vision correction, but painted without them. Now, though, my close-in vision is sufficiently poor that holding a 28mm mini in close is still not enough to see details and is very tiring on my eyes, as well.

I cannot paint with an external magnifying glass. I have a rig for such, but I just can't handle the different levels of magification between my hand, the brush, the glass, and what's magnified in the glass. I tried and failed.

So I'm thinking I need something like this:

Painting like Joubert

Or a pair of magnifying glasses I can wear. I don't know if it's possible for me to paint even with such a setup, but I'm going to try.

Does anyone have a recommendation from experience? I've done some random searching, but actual use experience would be helpful so I'm not just guessing and spending.

3 comments:

  1. Just get regular reading glasses from the drug store. You can bring a mini with you and try on different strengths until you find one that lets you focus comfortably at a working distance. You won’t look cool but it works just as well as any magnifying headset or loupes

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    1. I second this. I have a buddy who has two different strength reading glasses, one pair for reading and one for painting minis, since those activities are done at different distances to a different 'fidelity'.

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    2. Bringing a mini to the store to see what works is helpful. I'll do just that.

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