Didn’t think about the highlights in the under folds of clothing, been completely over looking that, awesome I learned something I can immediately use. Thank you!👍👍
Hey guys, i completely f* up the name of the person painting the shield, it is of course Olmo Castrillo, a fantastic painter. Go check out his work: instagram.com/olmo_castrillo_miniatures/
Love your channel ! After my devorce (20yrs relation & mariage) i was struggling and someone told me "Bro, go do something you loved as a kid. Its therapeutic and may help you", so i went back in time and rebooted a hobby i had as a kid. Modeling and painting.. I bought a 3D-printer and just started making things completely ignorant and unknown how much it meant to me... This ultimately pulled me back into the hobby and im lovin it! Feels like refinding parts of myself i lost during growing up.. It sure is true that growing up is the first step of loosing pure imagination and unbound fantasy one had as a kid.. Im realy happy i picked it up and refound a passion i had as a kid.. I havent seen much of your vids yet, just a few but i would like to thank you for giving so much insight on painting miniatures & the technics etc behind it all.. Much appriciated and keep up the good work! Thank you :)
This video is amazing. The lighting for cylinders, cubes, and spheres applies to a lot of art, including miniatures, obviously. This is why I think that artists shouldn't specialize in one or two areas and instead branch out, because by doing that, you learn a lot that applies to all the other mediums that you enjoy doing. Thanks for the amazing video Squidmar, it's helped me a lot!
I played 40k in the 90s, just got back into it the last month or so. Don’t even have an army yet, just some guardians, a couple warlocks and a farseer, with more on the way (oldhammer minis ftw)… I could paint decently back in the day. Well enough to win small local competitions as a youth. But times have changed. What I did back then is child’s play compared to the standard now. Which is awesome (if only GW would advance the Eldar mini line as much!), but has me working to catch up. This video… I’ve watched it a dozen times and listened to it as many more. Thanks for this and your other tutorials. I’m already far better than I was back then, and I know I have a ton of room for improvement. Best of all, I see a clear path to get there.
Everytime I have some doubts about how to use the lights to highlight my models I come back to this video. It's hard for newbies to understand how to run away from the "eavy" way to paint Space Marines and this video really helps to shine a light on the subject (pun intended). There are a lot of good painters out there but you are one of those who really contribute to teach. Thank you and you team.
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Oh, you sweet summer child... When I started painting - I sadly stopped a couple of decades ago - the White Dwarf was just coming up and Warhammer wasn't even released... So all this had to be learned by trial and error, by making the miniatures look as good as possible with as little work as possible. Acrylics were a new thing, so I learned this with enamel paints: totally different kind of torture, to be honest! Now I'm contemplating on taking my ancient paint toolbox out and dust off the unpainted miniatures I still have stashed somewhere only because of all these lovely videos around RU-vid. Your's being one of the top ones, for sure!
Same hee, warhammer wasn't a thing when I started, and some of those paint jobs were horrible to behold. No tutorial videos in those days, not for a long time after that. I dusted of my old kit and old models about 2 years ago and I'm just about seasoned enough to put out a few tabletop ready miniatures now. They're not great, but they're not totally embarassing either! I've got a lot of very old metal miniatures, some from D&D, some from warhammer and some from the old fantasy gamebooks like Lone Wolf. I need to paint them up and try to make them look decent!
That last detail about the center line in the chest and the folds on cloth just blew my mind. Thanks so much for all your videos! Every time you post I get super motivated to paint and improve.
I still think like this lol. You have to get into thinking that the model might as well be in a painting scene. With different light sources and effects, that affect the composition.
The thing is, the brain processes many things in conjunction with one another. The amount of your field of view taken up by an object is far from the only thing the brain considers when determining how big something actually is. Shading, relative sizes, parallax, and even high-level concepts like what the object is used for all contribute to the final perception of an object. This why you can have a 100 foot sculpture of a spoon a few hundred feet away that might look like it is right in front of you, or a miniaturized figure of a building within in a whole miniaturized cityscape that encompasses your entire field of view seem like it is hundreds of feet tall. You learn to see in color within a month or two of birth. You learn object permanence in about a year or so. You don’t come with the understanding that a cube oriented differently and at a different distance under different lighting conditions is the exact same cube. You have to experience that cube repeatedly and under different parameters for your brain to associate all the different visual patterns as a single physical object. That’s why baby mobiles are so important. They “distract” babies because their 100 billion neurons are busily looking for jobs to do. Without purpose, neurons die. Boredom is the result of neurons looking for work to do. Just like in human societies, as some neurons take on certain tasks more efficiently than ten neurons handling that task, those other nine neurons need to find a new task to handle. The day you stop learning is the day your neurons start dying. You are your neurons, so that’s when you start dying too.
Me too! But there are important differences between a model an the full size real world. For example the structure doesn‘t go very deep in a model, so the differences in brightness are far less pronounced than in a real size object. I think this is also because the light reflection of surrounding things (like the table) has it much easier to get in into all the folds and dents.
You sir are a great teacher. Getting back into the hobby after over 10 years and you are making me very excited about the potential of my model painting!
As a physicist I know tons of bytes of knowledge about light and maths, but I had zero idea about painting 🤣. Thanks for the video! Prety nice. I started looking at your videos one week ago and now I am already a Big fan of your work
Wow... just wow. I started painting a little less than a year and a half ago, and your videos have really inspire me a lot. I feel you're making me a way better painter. I don't have a lot of ressources and I never touched a brush or a camera in my life before all this, but the hobby is changing my life in a great way, and you are changing my hobby in an amazing way. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I hope I will some day be able to paint like a pro, I already see some amazing results! Keep on the great work, I'll be sure to watch everything to the end!
Thanks for covering this, helps a lot of those struggling with why their paintjobs don't "pop". Here's another quick tip I've picked up: Learned while working on OSL techniques that lightsources shed light at roughly the square of distance. Sounds complicated? Think of it this way: Every 1m away from a candle, the light gets 4 times as dim. Depends on the lightsource of course, your feet aren't that much further from the Sun than your head is compared to how far the Earth is from the Sun. This is why most paintings and paintjobs judge the light situation to be overcast/gloomy instead of full sunlight, easier to work with shadows and light when the contrast isn't too drastic.
Really love this format of videos where you take time to explain stuff that might seem granted to advanced painter but isnt for peoples who just started a while ago with 0 background in this kind of hobby. Very helpful even tho indeed my "brain" seem to try to do it naturaly.
This was eye opening! I paint as I listen to your videos and I was able to immediately appreciate the shapes on my mini and try some new techniques! I’ll be able to use this on every mini and I’m definitely sharing this with friends! Keep up the awesome work, thanks so much!
Idea: Paint your armies by light types. Morning or Evening; High Noon; 45 Degrees ... or some such distinctions. Perhaps a video of three different minis painted to show different degrees of sunlight (or moonlight, or lamplight, or firelight.)
I'm fairly sure I understood all of this already, but it was so nice to hear the way you described it and showed it to us with so many visual aids. Excellent tutorial! Massively helpful, thank you soooo much.
Started a new group on your and Scot's advice. We randomise a list of topics and generate a piece of a model to paint in a week. First week is a cloak and we already have 20 members. Low pressure but consistency will hopefully get us all painting more. Also pushing each other to do better. Thank you for the inspiration!
I feel like I'm back in Drawing 101 learning still lives. Great job explaining the basic shapes and how to form the volumes. Reminded me of a professor I had.
Kung är du! Älskar dina videor och har tagit till mig massor på kort tid, även jag har tagit upp den här hobbyn efter 15 års paus, så känner igen mig väldigt mycket i din hobbysituation! Jag tror du tar upp väldigt mycket saker framförallt nya personer till den här hobbyn inte tänker på så mycket, Keep it up!!
I love these kinds of videos, and hope you do more of them! I'd really enjoy seeing you do some analysis on BattleTech minis, since they have SO MANY flat surfaces/cube shapes and are very difficult to do super realistic.
This video is the reason why I’m a patron 👍🏻 Don’t know if it will make me any better at painting, but atleast I know more of why it looks like my 3yo paints my minis :)
I also use imagining the angle in which is the light hiting the surface. If it is acute angle, it is going to be dark and opposite in the obtuse angle. So if the light hits the cilinder it will be bright in middle because of the 90° angle and it darkens with decreasing angle.
Fantastic video to highlight (😜) some very fundamental concepts that can dramatically shift our skills when we aware of them, understand their impact and how to utilize it with the tool we have, and put them to use! I would love to see a followup video (or videos) really getting into this topic more and more. Thank you!
Man this is great, cuz this also applies to drawings, as WELL as mini painting. Thx man, I probably won't be painting for much more than just so I don't have bare models, but maybe one day I'll have some HD marines
Just described it differently , well painting is whole different idea then painting minatures , they taught us how to make contrast on 2d plane to make it look 3d , but it wasnt two light sources it was all the light in the room , but for painting you are using all that light and for minatures , it is a little easier .
