Painting Warhammer in the Grimdark Style 

Awesome, and Glad to hear it! Thank you so much!

Oh, awesome! Thank you so much.

Ty ty! I appreciate you.

Thank you immensely!

Indeed

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Appreciate that!! Thank you kindly.

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Glad to hear it! TY TY

I'm so glad! Thank you!

Thank you! Make sure to check out the Learn Grimdark Course. Admittedly, its due for an update but the information is still very good.

Thank you! Deeply appreciated friend.

thank you!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you immensely!

Definitely check out the Learn Grimdark Course!

@@GrimdarkCompendium I will! I'm someone though who needs a tutorial to work to 😅 I've seen a few on the site that I can follow. The Dark God's one looks amazing for a great unclean one, for example. I'll sign up for a paid membership when I get paid. Do you have a link to your discord?

The setting is also so expansive in scale than almost any conceivable set up can exist "somewhere" within the Imperium.

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The style has been on a come-up over the last year or so. A Grimdark entry took home a golden Demon earlier this year or last year.

Yeah, exactly. It's OK to contribute with personal views, but I also felt it was the time to nail down some objective stakes. Every style has its rules, the box art / eavy metal style has very precise instructions. It only makes sense that one has to adhere to certain paradigms in the grimdark style too.

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Oh I see what you mean. For how I see it, your models can absolutely be recognizeable and readable from armlenghts distance in the grimdark style with no compromises: I myself am a player, I actually love delving into the rules of the games I play. I would be a hypocrite to say I never lost a "grimdark" miniature on a "grimdark" table for a good minute, but those things improve the more you model and paint and adjust the process for an optimized gaming experience. It's all about the composition of the models: you can have high contrast with pale skin. Or, if you have dark skin, you can have faded white clothing or features. Or you can use the bases instead, or the sheen of weapons, and countless opportunities with surface finish variation: the possibilities are more than one might actually think. It doesn't have to be a brown blob, and that's why I felt necessary to stress out that grimdark doesn't mean only drab and dirty colors or a oil wash! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Yeah they look like shit in natural lighting. It’s all dark photography/contrast editing to make the grimdark minis look way better then what they do majority of the time.

I followed their guide for my mortarion to the exact T, I’m a pretty decent painter, and it looked like rubbish close up in person, but then I editing the exposure and upped the contrast. Looked exactly like the model in the video lmao

I mean, they have an extensive collection of Mordheim stuff. Pretty easy jump to old world from there, right?

I do have some Cities of Sigmar in the pipe but as @BPFDesigns mentioned our Guide to Mordheim is assuredly a good resource for you to check out.

@@BPFDesigns Indeed. thank you.

Yes, very influential to me for sure!

Thank you! Cheers!

Check out the Learn Grimdark Course. Its a good starting point.

Yes: Guide to Mordheim Ep9 - Skaven and Dark Angels - Secrets of the First Legion Ep2 are the most detailed.

Heavy texture paints like black mud. Primer it and then painted with Dirty Down.

Thanks for your comment! I agree that grimdark can be much more abstract, and how it makes you feel, the emotion it conveys. However depending on the personal style and approach, it can also be highly technical, with a varying degree of "abstract" that meets "lifelike". And that is where I personally like to play, within the realm of that uncanny valley. The techniques we use and we show on our website range from very easy to advanced in difficulty; the hair application, glue technique, all the knowledge when it comes to how oils and enamels react with certain mediums and their application, they are quite demanding on a technical level in terms of manual skills. The answer lies within how much you want to commit to push the grimdark style, how far you want to take it and what you want to express! By the way, those concept boards were all transmuted to miniatures, on the Grimdark Compendium website you can watch how to make one from start to finish and how to apply all those principles on your models, specifically the Episode 8 - The Undead, of the Guide to Mordheim. I hope the video has inspired you to try this out for yourself!

100% nailed my point of view in one sentence. Happy to see you're excited and inspired by it!

I understand what you're trying to say. And I would say yeah it can be, totally. Bright colors are not "banned" in the grimdark style; it's about being creative with paint and modeling. As long as you convey it in a certain way, your message and vision of a decayed and long gone beauty could be absolutely awesome. You can totally do that and still maintain the grimdark style. Again, it's just not the rust, the dirt and distress. That is indeed an important aspect. But a big part resides in the composition and how you portray these characters, from the basing, to the mood they convey as they walk and bring the banners. There's lots of classic fantasy illustrators that still manage to capture a grimdark world with more bright colors!

​@@DarkAgesWorkshopI'm glad I could convey what I was trying to say.

Couldn't agree more!

You're too kind! Ahah thank you

We appreciate the support greatly! What are your course and what course would you like to see next?

@@GrimdarkCompendiumcurrently replicating the custodes course across a 5,000 pt army. I’m about half way on my vehicles still highlighting with brass wax and abteilung washes, saving the infantry for last. I’m also copying the sacred rose course for my 40K army so far those are only primed. As to what I would like to see? GrimDark 30k thousand sons. I’m a sucker for Horus heresy so something from the end of the siege would also be ideal.

Awesome! Glad you like it!