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This is great advice, thank you. I'm just breaking out of my speed paint phase I think but it's slow going when the immediate results look worse than before!
I followed a painting guide on Patreon recently and I was surprised at how many layers went on to the model. Prime and grey/white drybrush yes, but then a colour layer and then some more white, and then another set of colour and highlights, and then more white in place over that, and then more layers.
The end result looked better but it was way harder work. I'm gonna keep pushing myself beyond speed paints but they are a useful fallback to get a model that is 'quite good' in pretty short order.
It's a good idea to learn to use regular paints, but don't throw away your contrast or speedpaints. My favorite way to do leather is to paint the area in the highlight color, then use a dark (black or brown) contrast paint on top to make it look like leather.