Wow, My friend show me your channel, I'm 33 old guy. Who wants to start painting my own miniatures, after this movie i know that i must hard learn about colors and all staf around it. Thanks for this type of movies/learnings. Gretings from Poland.
I Found your channel from another RU-vidr who is a big fan of yours that you took to Italy for a show. I’ve bought 300+ different paints, 3 airbrushes and all accessories, 50+ different synthetic and natural brushes, I’ve looked at airbrushing, dry brushing, wet blending, glazing, a million techniques, and got to a point where I’m like shoot what do I even do everything seems like it’s great (dry brushing looks lame to me tbh but it works), I have spent 150+ hours watching videos and painted 0 times so far…. Your video is helping me get past all the theory and just start doing something for my warhammer collection.
Welcome! Super happy you found your way to my little RU-vid corner. I am really happy that this video is helping you. Yes, painting happens only when you paint :) - Keep on happy painting!
THIS. Too much "fire hose"... Roman turns off the water pressure, calms your mind, and lets you finally revert to... painting, without all that fear you have built up.
Thanks for such a straightforward technique for learning colour theory/technique. Been working on my understanding of mini color schemes and this is just the kind of practical approach I needed to break through mental barrier.
I've never learned about that neutral grey before that's awesome! 9 years in mini painting now and I'm still picking up new stuff all the time. Love it! Can't wait to play with that, I feel like making my own desaturated colours is a weakness of mine and so I always turn to the pre-mixed paints for that. I hope this will help me level up for that.
A pleasure, David. Never thought this could be something for you as I am big fan of your work and like everything you do. Looking forward to see what this grey trick can do to your painting from now on ... Keep on happy painting!
@@ROMANLAPPATMINIATUREART hopefully we can meet some day when I travel to Europe or maybe you will consider coming to Australia some day I would love to spend a week learning from you in personal private tuition.
I am flattered. Would love to be able to teach you a thing or two. Unfortanetely I will not be in Australia anytime soon due a full schedule and a baby :D
Thanks to RU-vid for recommending this video. It’s exactly the kind of video I was needing for my painting journey. The quality of this video is excellent. That’s so much for making it.
As english is not your first language Roman, I let you know that the word, 'Recipe,' is pronounced "Ress - Ip - ee" not Resype. Great content keep it coming please. See you in the next Video.
Exploring different brands and mediums is so important, btw, highly recommend golden so flat acrylics. Just so versatile. Once you are used to mixing colors you can do so much with so little!
@@deantareach8217 when i first tried them i just got black, white a bright yellow and bright red and ultramaine blue cause i could mix most colors from that. after i was sure i liked them i started to expand my range of colors.
@@ROMANLAPPATMINIATUREART Well, I watched the 3 parts, I have some arts acrylics, and I'm lookinf for some models to print. I think it means I'm hooked. Danke Schön for the series !
Thank you for this lesson. I started using artist acrylics a year ago and discovered that I love mixing colours, part was freedom and part was getting that little dopamine hit that feeds the attention. But it was all experimental play with no deeper learning. I'm watching this at work and I want to rush home and follow the exercise. Thank you also for the warning about heavy metals. It does not come up anywhere enough in other mini-painting videos around artist acrylics. much appreciated. (As an aside, painting 40k miniatures became a lot more fun when I stopped trying to use the recipes that GW listed on the box and started organically mixing the layers and highlights.)
Roman: I am very happy about your feedback. Really appreciate your thoughts on it. Yes, there is freedom of painting included in the journey of mixing colors.
I never had fun with just going by recipes and a lot of colours. So I began looking to finally start with colour theory and mixing colours. Your video is by far the best I came across! Thank you so much!
Hi. Great explanation of all the physical processes that take place when mixing paints! I have one tip of my own: I stopped using brushes to mix pain and started usig sylicone brushes (you know - those typically used for sculpting) - I find it much better expirience. With silicone brush you can push the mixed paint back into small ball on the palet and it's much easier to clean the brush for your next mix.
Great idea, and I already own some too! I experimented with painting knives (like oil painters do) but found they don't interact well with a wet palette. Much obliged!
Ich hatte bisher nur einmal das Vergnügen einen Malkurs mit Roman zu Besuchen, aber dort hatte er auch einen die Welt der Farbmischung gezeigt. Ein absoluter Gamechanger! Super dass er dieses Video gemacht hat und allen auf der Welt, diese Philisophie näherbringt. I've only had the pleasure of attending a painting class with Roman once, but there he also showed you the world of color mixing. An absolute gamechanger! Super that he has made this video and brings everyone in the world, this philisophy closer.
Hi. Thanks a lot for this vidéo! I was thinking about it for a while. I'm not youtuber at all but I was thinking about making a video about this subject. The only thing I could say more is that : Most of time, because some pigment have a lack of opacity, paint maker put some charges and white pigments to give more opacity , even in primary color. So I came back to my traditional beaux-arts paints , in that way I manage to have pure primary colors. I use ready-made colors but I adjust most of time with primarys. Instead of greys I used earths (ocre to burst umber with prussian blue to get it darker) so I'm impatient to see howyou use neutral grey. Nice job!
Roman: All you say makes sense. There is so much more on comor theory than the content in this video. I plan many more, but still mighr think I miss a thing or two. Thanks for your feedback!
Thank you for this video. This explanation of a color wheel and mixing to make it is the best I have ever heard. You did an amazing job, opened my eyes to a whole new world!!
Stumbled onto this from Instagram - now I understand why mixing magenta and yellow has been giving me such rich colors! Really enjoying this and learning a lot. Small note, "recipe" breaks normal English pronunciation rules and should be "re-si-pee", not "re-seep" :)
Great video! I find another great advantage of using artist paints, compared to miniature paints, is that they don't tend to change colour after drying. I think that the miniature paints with a lot of matte medium etc. are lighter and more opaque when wet, since the matte medium is white when wet before drying clear. I remember always being frustrated when trying to match a colour with miniature paints, being happy with it when it went on, only to have it turn out to be darker once dry. I think you are also right when you say to just use any highly saturated colours - it is easy to spend all day looking up paint brands and pigments, but ultimately the only way to know what you like is to start painting and try it.
what makes me mad the most is that i am in the grand scheme of it all still new to the game. i started back in 2020 during the pandemic and i am now love the hobby of painting... but not understanding how good artist colors are what you can do with it, is that i have a huge collection of colors from vallejo, citadel, scale 75 and more....if i had just settled and bought a set of artist colors and understood more of what i know now about color theory i would have saved so much money but have been better at understanding it all...but such is life, a constant lesson to learn about things...great video!!
Roman: Thank you so much for the kind words. Yes, in the beginning we all used to buy everything as we think every new toy makes us better and improve. This is the biggest lie played on us from the miniature industry. Thanks for the kind feedback!
I am so grateful for this video! I seriously thought the next step for improving my miniature painting was to buy another paint set so I had that "one color." Next step for me is to get some primary colors and work through a color wheel and a mini with them! Thank you sir!
Thank you for such a lovely feedback. This is exactly why I have done this video. Enjoy and also enjoy the journey that is ahead of you. It is a different type of painting than what we are often thaught by miniature painting companies.
amazing video. i have been using an app to kinda help me with the visual representation of the wheel. Now i think i´m gonna ditch it and actually start trying to get the colors myself. I got a whole better understanding (i think) of this now. And now i will be mixing colors with an intention and a better feel or how to try and achieve the colors i´m seeing.
Best theory video I've ever seen, thank you for making this content! I've several artist paints but never really tried using them by applying color theory. I'll follow this series and do my homework. And I will take the challenge to paint one miniature only with the primary colors. But first some learning... A big thank you! 🙏
I especially like the part about the neutral grey being made with other pigments than PW6 and PBk7. E.g. purple/violet and yellow pigments like artist brands sometimes make. Much more interesting tones or at least a great alternative traditional neutral greys.
Thanks for explaining so nicely the importance of being able to observe and read colours!! To paint what we observe and not what we think we know - it makes all the difference
Thanks for making this video. People don't believe me that 1) they were taught this in elementary school and 2) this isn't rocket science. Having them do this helps them understand that they can just play with the paint and see what happens, they don't have to study for a year before they touch a brush. Years ago I wanted a paint that I could airbrush and brush paint, so I tried Golden HIgh Flow. Their literature suggested that their starter 8 pack was designed to be a limited palette - all the colours you needed to paint anything. This got me interested in the idea of mixing everything and maintaining a limited palette. Unfortunately Golden High Flow is super glossy and I just couldn't see what I was doing while I used it. So I went back to Vallejo, trying to apply colour mixing. Except they have so much white and so many pigments in each pot everything quickly goes grey. I lamented that there'd never be a hobby paint which was single pigment and no added white. As if answering my prayers, Kimera announced their new line of paints. Really, they'd been developing it for a while before I had the thought, but I like to think I willed it into existence. I was part of the first pre-order and am on my second box - although now when I run out of a colour I buy a single from the FLGS that stocks Kimera (Ottawa is the hobby mecha of Canada, strangely) so that I always have 1 open bottle and one sealed bottle of each of the 13 original colours. And that's it. That's all I use. Exact colour matching is not as necessary as many believe - I've painted large models where each limb was painted on a separately day from a freshly mixed batch. If you tried really hard you could probably see that the colours are not exactly the same, but only if you know to look, take pictures and pull swatches.
Roman: Happy you like it! Well, maybe very far in the future I can speak about the Zorn Palette. In the meantime I find this very helpful: gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2011/07/zorn-palette.html?m=1
I really enjoyed this tutorial. You have definitely helped me to understand colour theory, and have helped with my miniature painting. Thank you. I look forward to the next lesson.
I definitely enjoyed you first video, but like you mentioned at the end, I am looking forward to you "putting you foot on the gas". Don't worry about making it to complicated. This medium makes it easy to rewind/re-watch content.
Roman: This is true. I do not worry to make it too complicated, I mainly want to add didactic quality and teaching methods to it to make it a senseful and very useful learning experience. This takes time for me to film and edit. Working on it! Thanks!
Great tutorial ! Will you take a bit about the transparency of acrylics paint in the coming tutorial , do we have to use transparent acrylics paint or just mix some medium or water to make them transparent ? This is the best color theory tutorial for me so far ,thanks a lot !!
Normally acrylics are already a bit translucent depending on brand and pigment density and the colour itself. Mix in a bit more water or medium and you should be good to go.
Thank you! I will speak about these important matters when they make sense. I start from the basics and color consistancy while painting is something that is not important in the beginning. It gets more important later on, then I will also explain things about it.
I finally managed to try this lesson out. It was more interesting than I expected. I tried out three of my favorite paint brands (Scale Artist, Kimera, Ak3rd) and while I felt no big drawback with the AK3rd for the wheel, it was really frustrating to create the neutral grey with the hues I had available in the Murakami set.
Thanks for this one Roman. Gave me a reason to bust out the pallette and paint for a few while I've been in a slump and hampered by time constraints. I ended up using the scale color artist range for this and was pleased with the results. Looking forward to the next parts!
Roman: Do it! And wait for the second part, the lesson continues over several videos. Thank you for your patience. Editing these takes a while for me :)
Roman: will happen. Already recorded and started editing, but too much work in terms of teaching and painting at the moment, so no time for editing. Thank you for your patience!
@@ROMANLAPPATMINIATUREART Just wanted to let you know, since you read this, that you have led me down the road of creating my own colors from pigments, as to get even more pigment power! It has gone great!
I use artist oils so I wasnt expecting this to be useful but it was excellent, very informative when you use grown up paints with proper designations. Thanks Roman.
Aweso lesson! Made me think back to one of your beginner-workshops. Now with more experience i understand the power behind this knowlege.... Also nice "bloopers" at the end...."törchiery" made me laugh out loud :D... looking forward to your next video.
I feel one thing that gets missed consistantly by these types of videos is one of the most important thing about pigments: Transparency. Contrast paints are not just normal paints thinned down, they are made with transparent pigments (when possible) to show the base colour through. Some pigments (reds, yellows etc) are naturally transparent, so in order for them to get good coverage in wargaming paints, they're mixed in with black and whites. This is also why mixing wargame colours can lead to desaturated, or surprising results. It is also why you can't just take any 'normal' paint and make a 'contrast' with it, when thinned enough, all paints feel transparent, but the black and white make it cloudy and defeat the purpose. Artist paints will show an icon for transparency on the bottle, some (like golden) even show a sample of the paint on the bottle.
Great point, and I think that sometimes people conflate "opaque" with "high quality" in the miniature world, even though many of the most beautiful pigments are transparent, and you can get some incredible fidelity using transparent paint layers. Dmitry Fesechko has a video where he lines his palette with opaque pigments on the left and transparent pigments on the right, which I think is a great way to keep track of your paint transparency.
Roman: This is a very good point. You are absolutely right, I agree, but there is a didactic reason why I did not yet speak about it so far. Check the next parts. I will speak about it when it makes sense, at least in my eyes. Thank you for your feedback. Really appreciated.
@@Samwinslol Yeah man, Dimitri got me working with oils in the first place, his tutorials are well worth a watch regardless of how you paint. Hes up there with Roman in my estimations.
One step at a time. If someone is new to colour theory and paint mixing, adding information about pigment transparency or even pigment colour bias is just an overload waiting to happen. Think of things like this as a meal with many courses to gradually ingest rather than a single course, fast food meal that gets devoured in one go.
Thanks so much for this! I've been working with a limited palate (not quite the primary only -- I def have some bottled raw sienna and burnt umber because mixing good browns has been a challenge for me), but I do sometimes feel like I'm floundering, even though I have a loose grasp of the basics. This clear walkthrough is super helpful and inspiring. Looking forward to the future parts!
This was SO inspirational.. I am now googling high quality acrylics near me.. I want to try the challenge of painting a group of minis with only base colors. A question though: Why do you still have so many hobby paints, if mixing your own color wheel is so much more flexible and powerful? What value does an expert gain from having that many hobby paints?
Glad you enjoy it! Enjoy the homework! I bet you will encounter painting freedom. Good question: Well, I do like to pick out a perfect tone for something once in a while, for me it is important to understand the hobby paints I use. And well, honest answer: Lazyness :D
Hi Roman, thank you for the video. Quite a few new things I learned. I also got a question: you are a big fan of the Schmincke acrylic paints. When checking out their website I couldn't quite figure out what the difference between their primacryl, acadamy and college range is (besides the price). Can you - as an expert and highly skilled model painter - elaborate on that? What are they good for and what are their differnces? Regards, Felix
Roman: thanks for your comment. The differrence is in the price and in the quality of the pigment in the paint. The college ones are often used for Kids in school to Experiment. The Academy ones are often used with a bit more skill as they allow more painting techniques and mixing. The Primeacryl are the peak of paint quality that you can get and are ofte used for professional work.
Thanks! Happy you like it! The Orc is a Blood Bowl Orc from Games Workshop, converted with some bits. You can see some of the conversion work in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-68UNMulTAqQ.html
Thank you! You are very welcome! Well, go for a bright blue, I often find a very okish tone in cobalt tourquoise, but you will see if they differ a bit, it does not matter for your homework.
ROMAN: thank you for the video. I am trying to buy artist colors to do the exercises but am unsure what you are using for Cyan. What is the name of the tube or pigment for your Cyan? I am using Golden, but am happy to buy any. Thank you!
For Cyan you can often go with a tourquoise if you do not find the particular name. I only find cyan with the Brand Lascaux. With Schmincke I use Tourquise
Roman: Hehe! Yes. In my very own pace. I am so busy with other stuff and I want to do this RU-vid thing without pressue, as enjoyement. Tbank you for your patience!
Thanks for your feedback. Do not worry, I got this planned for the upcoming part where we also speak about color contrasts ;) ... in this stage it does not make sense as it is not about placement on miniatures. It is about understanding the basics of the color wheel ... in my eyes.
