Painter's Eye

EARLY AND GROWING This is an early release. What is here is finished and fully playable, but Painter's Eye is still being built: hundreds more lessons are on the way across Color, Materials, Composition, and Diagnosis. Expect the app to grow steadily from here. Painter's Eye is visual training for miniature painters. Not brush technique, but the judgments underneath it: how light or dark something really is, where the light is coming from, which planes face it, and where a highlight belongs on a form. Most miniatures look flat for one reason: the values are too close together. A range that looks fine on a palette collapses into one tone on a figure. Seeing how close your values actually are is the hard part, and it is the first thing this trains. HOW IT WORKS See it - a short, concrete idea with a figure that shows it. One or two sentences, then you are doing something. Try it - you commit to an answer before anything is revealed. Guessing is allowed; the guess is what makes the reveal land. Own it - the scaffolding falls away, the stimulus varies, and the same judgment comes back later to see whether it stuck. Most lessons fit into two to five minutes. WHAT IS IN THE APP Value, levels 1 to 10 — from a first pair of grays to diagnosing why a finished model reads flat. Telling light from dark, and keeping that judgment when color, size and surround try to talk you out of it. Light & Form, levels 1 to 4 — finding the light, which surfaces face it, placing form light, and understanding shadow: form shadow, cast shadow, contact and bounce. 114 lessons in all. Color, Materials, Composition and Diagnosis are planned and not in the app yet. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It does not decide whether your painting is good. It will tell you when a perceptual call was wrong — that one swatch really was lighter than the other — because that has an answer. Whether your contrast is too high or your blending is too smooth is taste, and it is yours. Smooth is not automatically better. Grimdark is not worse. There are no hearts, no energy, no streak you can lose. A wrong answer is evidence, not a penalty. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU Training runs entirely on your phone. No account, no sign-up, no network needed. No ads, and nothing is for sale. Anonymous usage analytics only, with a switch in Settings, and off by default where consent is required first. Delete your training data, or export a copy of everything, at any time. Some exercises need working vision, and we would rather say that than invent a version that measures something else. Any miniatures: tabletop armies at speed, roleplaying characters one at a time, or display pieces that take a month. Nothing assumes a game, scale, manufacturer or paint range.