I really love the detail at 2:09 where he demonstrates the importance of light by lighting himself from the side and it creates the effect that his mustache and beard is longer one side of his face than the other.
I heard a quote "everyone needs to sharpen their saw sometime" - these tips reaffirmed some key things everyone needs to be reminded of sometime - helpful!
I think alot of these tips actually happen organically if you paint often. You have some cool minis you don't feel quite so confident painting, grap a few unit filler dudes you hate from the bottom of the pile and try some stuff out or grab a similar mini to the ones you want to do justice but aren't quite so worried about and go to town on it. The more you paint the more you will be confident in your skills The light tip for me is the most left field, if nothing else i am keeping that one😉 Keep it up, i love what you do
There's an especially important tip that you mentioned but didn't really explain or emphasize. Hold your hands together when painting. By doing so you steady your hands further than they would be apart and you synchronize your hands. Whatever tiny shakes you make now move together reducing their impact. Learning to do this was the single biggest improvement i had when i started.
Don't fear being a noob. we all start somewhere and not all of our end game is up to display standard competition pieces. First rule should be "have fun"
Love the first tip, I am always stuck painting under the same light and when I am just deep into process it really does not come to my mind to check it under different light. Great vid!
I got a new habbit recently of when painting in the evening under lamps, I always check in daylight next to the window in the morning to cross check, also to photograph as I go through each stage as things can look different in the photo
@@snarehit2230 It's a good habit..... I find the always look completely different than you thought they did when you look at them in the daylight compared to when you're painting under the lamp at night lol :-)
Very small brush strokes is a really good one. I’m new to miniatures and painting in general. I’ve only painted 4 so far but after hearing that from the 3rd to the 4th for the edge highlights wow what a difference!
"sticking to your safe zone" this one rings a loud bell in my head. it's soooo easy fall into your existing habits but to truly learn and gain new skills is through exploring the other techniques and making those mistakes. it applies to real life too. we all wanna make it right?
I loved the color shifts during the video to give people the visual of how color theory and light, shadow, and making us all think of miniatures as us! Great info here. Well done.
Developing your own style is an interesting one - I think it’s sorta like leveling up into a whole new bracket of painters and many people will never get there...Including me! For me, it’s already taking all I’ve got just to nail the basics and I can’t even imagine how to turn that into a unique style.
It really is it's own topic, and tbh; I think it's something showcase painters need to think about and maybe not army painters. Coming from a place working in media/art for a long while i've had a chance to analyze the topic quite a bit. I'd love to make a video on it some day!
Love this video, watched so many since I started watching 2021, awesome to know there's more I have yet to see. Thanks for the work and the advice given, must say I've improved so much from them.
This Roman Gruba guy needs a youtube channel! Even though his English needs a little improvement he definitely gets the point across and would be so awesome to watch in some tutorials!! Really cool guy! And you're also one of the best man, no doubt about it. Great video man! @Squidmar Miniatures
This was excellent! I listened as I was weeding the front yard - great points . I’ll watch it again when I don’t have sharp shears in my hand ;-) Thanks again for very useful content!
regarding the tip of developing your own style. I think this advice should and can only be taken, once you have fully mastered the fundamentals. It's just like in traditional painting.
Not sure anyone noticed but Emile is right handed, Roman is lefty, help me looking his fingers, hands positions. I really want to launch myself, but lake of confidence and money kill it in the wound...
This information is really good. I am day 1 new, pretty much. And there has been a firm wall of raw experience and knowledge blocking me from making impressive figures. Now I am a few steps closer. : )
My problem is I can appreciate every style when executed well. When you're exposed to so many masterful artist' work on Instagram it's hard to pick a style and stick with it. I'd love to execute the eavy metal style like Darren Latham, the beautiful grim dark blends from Richard Gray, the eye popping creative colours of Kaha, the NMM blends of Flameon. And countless other styles of masterful craftsmen around the world. It's all quite over whelming 😊
The best advice here (at least in my opinion) is to identify the elements you like from each person's style and incorporate that element as opposed to the overall style; from one painter it might be the way they apply edge highlights, from another painter it might be how they create a gradient, etc. By taking separate elements and compositing them into a different style, you'll have that sort of homage to painters you admire but it will essentially be in an overall style you've created.
The light tip is a good tip.......I find the always look completely different than I thought they did when I look at them in the daylight compared to when you're painting under the lamp at night lol :-)
I’ll take 1/4 Roman’s talent. Only comes from putting in the time and having the vision IMO. We’ll see. I have a few projects lined up for this winter. Hopefully I don’t end up cutting off my left ear. Lol!
Good video, i am only a few weeks into painting miniatures, and cant wait to level up. The tip about lighting is super helpful. I started by just picking up plastic minis from dollar stores ( army men, bugs, found skeletons and mummies all for 1$ and about 10 per pac.
Always a pleasure watching your videos. Amazing quality for such a new channel and you can feel the effort that was put into it :) But just a small criticism: can you please normalize your videos or put the volume of the music down? It’s always way louder than the spoken parts whenever you raise the musics volume.
@@SquidmarMiniatures This goes for the intro too. I'm often watching late in the evenings or at night and all of the sudden I'm afraid I'll wake up the neighbours.
Great tips! And awesome that you could get Roman as a guest (I'm wondering how you managed to not get totally star struck???). Would be really cool to see even more collabs with famous painters/youtubers. Hearing you all reason about how you go about things is really helpful!
1:40 The goblin looks great, you've got the moonlight, the NMM, and the OSL looks good...but...where is the light supposed to be coming from? It looks like his foot is just glowing...
Great work always i can learning so much from this video new ways to paint my miniatures in a different light. i am currently learning how to blend my colours with my wet pallet just need to get better over time i currently clean my brush between colours or should i carry on with each colour as normal my only worry is over loading the paint as i like to keep my paint fin.
Developing my own style and getting to the point where people can look at my mini's and see that is mine, is still one of my goals after many years of painting. Would love to see a video on that!
I like to know how to keep hair and fibers out of my paint and miniature! I got a free-range pet rabbit in the room, so that's a HUGE challenge for me!
Lights are good but use your cellphone and take focused pictures zoom in and from many angles. I will paint something and think it looks good but when I see it through the camera I see all the flaws.
Great video! Could you make a video on how to make that zenithal paint job on that goblin from the intro? I am trying to achive those effects, but something is not working out as I want it to.
I get why you did all that bw in the middle, as well as the zooming thing, but I think it is largely unnecessary: the spoken parts are pretty short and well divided in sections, both by changing topic and changing speaker. A second camera would be more effective (yet expensive). All in all great video as always! Just one thing, I noticed you use gw colors in dropper bottles, could you please make a video/tutorial on how to properly transfer paint? I find those pots unnerving... Thanks!
Oh yeah, the first one is something I started noticing recently. I was using highlights that were way to soft and didn't pop at all, yet I only did that because my painting light seems to enhance highlights. So now I'm taking my models outside or in the hallway to check highlights.
Hmm, difficult really. I would usually differentiate tattoos from the skin tone. Not painted green skin, but have you tried using softer colours like buff/light skin tone style paints? Mixing a little with the green might create a distinctive green highlight.
@@SquidmarMiniatures I checked your site, but the Amazon image for the listed Task Lamp does not match the construction of the lamp shown in the video. Are they in fact the same lamp? I really appreciate your help and prompt reply and love your videos!
Yeah was in sweden. Du kan följa Fantasia North på facebook och gå mer i grupperna "Visa världen att vi svenskar är ena djävlar på att måla" och "age of sigmar sweden" :)
I realize that in order to get attention for videos, you have to use dramatic titles like "stop being a noob!". But I do think most of the tips here are far more advanced than what a new painter should be focusing on first. These stray into the area of miniature painting at the fine arts level (which Roman definitely qualifies for). Actual new painters may have difficulty if they try to jump straight into this level. Honestly it takes a few years to start having to really worry about these kinds of things.
If I could give my (year late) take in this, the style taught to most new painters is not effective for advanced painting techniques. Speaking as someone who went from the GW style to a more volumetric style it is easier to learn a technique like blending than learning the extreme precision that comes with 25 layers of edge highlights.
Well... some good points, but it didn't touch on s subjectvthat's been nagging me for quite some time: do we paint to make a model interesting, to make details pop or realistic? Most would probably say realistic - and then happily paint shadows on the skin reddish brown... Or to make details pop perhaps? Very common sentence I hear from youtube painters all the time. But that seems more to show what a good sculpt/model you're painting, being not necessarily a realistic paintjob. Like for example, did you know nuts and bolts on tanks are in fact painted the same way as the rest of the tank? And just because they are protruding doesn't mean they are always clearly visible due to accumulated dirt, rust or artificial shadows we tend to add to - say it with me - make them pop. This is quite infuriating for me, but I do it myself all the time, simply because its ingrained in me. But if you look at shadows for example, just pause this video and check the color of the shadows on Romans face. Are they reddish brown? Are they?
I don't think there's one definitive answer to this question because in the end what it comes down to is your personal style, your preferences and the effect you're trying to achieve. I'll share an example that seems to come up with me quite often: Lets say you're painting an orc miniature and you've decided to go with green skin tones; often times when people they do this they add reds and brown into it as well as green to make it more realistic. The question then becomes; how do you determine what's "realistic" in this scenario? There's nothing in the real world around us to even compare an orc to; they're clearly mammalian and not reptilian but they have green skin. Where does that green coloration even come from? So is it more realistic to add red and browns (a more human skin tone) to the green or to focus solely on the green tones? I personally feel that its the latter since orcs aren't human and to me it makes no sense whatsoever to add any sort of human skin tone. The question of how much contrast to use and what, if any, details you make pop is the same sort of question. For comparison, take a normal photo and shrink the scale until the subject in the photo is the same size as a 28-32 mm miniature then see how much detail you can pick out; it won't be much. So we're already exaggerating things as is by even having these details visibly sculpted on the miniatures which means that if you're going for strict realism you're already working with a strike against you from the very beginning. About the best advice I can think of in these scenarios is to decide which details are most important to you, which ones you want to call attention to, and use high contrast to make those pop; don't worry about whether or not its realistic.
@@@TheRunesmythe An elaborate reply - nice. I think I should clarify that I mainly come from regular modelling in 1/35 scale even if I have painted my fair share of tabletop minis as well. For the example with the orc, I kinda agree - they aren't real and we have no idea how they 'should' look, no more than dinosaurs. That's kind of hard to argue, wether a skin tone on a monster is correct or not, even if the fluff often gives a hint on what and how the creatures live, which should give you a little more meat on the bones on how to paint them. When it comes to details on minis and exageration... Yes, the exaggerated details might be there (not on photo-realistic minis though mind you), but does that really mean those details must be painted? Take a 32 mm human warrior from Games Workshop for example - a figure like thatwhen viewed up really close, like 10 cm from your face is still not larger than an actual human 10-15 meters away. How many details can you see in the face of a person that far away? Already, the eyes will be reduced to dark slits, with only the slightest hint of a white - you can make out details in the face like the nose and mouth, but not really smaller ones like zits. And I think the question on wether something is painted realistic or not is quite important - I think the intent is there with pretty much all modellers and painters, but we have been indoctrinated for so long with just using darker shades of the basecoat (like a reddish brown for skin shadows as I mentioned), when this reddish brown is nowhere to be seen in shadows in real life. And if we stop caring about painting realistically, why don't we just dunk our minis in a pot of paint and call it finished? What we get with the current methods are minis and models that look might look good - but have no equivalent in real life, not even in the physics form, where colors don't adhere to real life rules.
@@Kojak0 You bring up some good points and I have to say that by and large I agree with what you're saying. I'm not saying we should abandon the idea of realism and painting things realistically but rather that we should choose our battles, as the saying goes. For something like a historical wargame, I think realism is definitely important and the same applies to dioramas based on historical model kits and miniatures; even if its not something we ourselves have experienced, there's enough information about it and we're familiar enough with the people and places so that a lack of realism will immediately register to our eyes and brain. In other words, it will *look* wrong. The further we move into fiction, especially fantasy and scifi, the more ambiguous the concept of realism becomes. When we're dealing with environments and races/creatures we have no analog for, how do we even begin to determine what painting them realistically even means? There are, of course, descriptions but if what you're painting is described as having bright orange skin does that really help much? This, I feel, also carries over into discussions about contrast and details. That's what I meant when I originally said it depends on your style, preferences and what you're trying to accomplish and its why I feel its unlikely that there's any one definitive answer.
I already stopped with the stuff, because I hit my limit pretty fast. Im way to bad with artsy stuff. So I can only consume but not do something. No matter what kind of "hyper super duper mega pro tips for beginners!!11!1" guides I see. They are all the same and not helping at all.
"Develop you own style" ...that could be a direct quote from my father, an art professor from the University of Ohio back in the 70s.
I really love the detail at 2:09 where he demonstrates the importance of light by lighting himself from the side and it creates the effect that his mustache and beard is longer one side of his face than the other.
I heard a quote "everyone needs to sharpen their saw sometime" - these tips reaffirmed some key things everyone needs to be reminded of sometime - helpful!
That underlit goblin looked awesome! Would love to see a tutorial of that kind of super dramatic lighting in the future! :)
I second this! An Object Source Lighting Tutorial would be fantastic. Maybe with this underlit goblin? :)
Yep, amazing paint job. I'd like to have a tutorial about this.
Could be an amazing way to speed paint an army
First watched "It's okay to suck at your hobby" and now I start a video titled "Stop being a noob"... What an emotional rollercoaster!
Haha yeah, the title of this one is maybe a bit harsh :) its just a few good tip! :D
Awesome video. Thank you. Roman is an amazing artist. He appears to be good good people also.
I think alot of these tips actually happen organically if you paint often. You have some cool minis you don't feel quite so confident painting, grap a few unit filler dudes you hate from the bottom of the pile and try some stuff out or grab a similar mini to the ones you want to do justice but aren't quite so worried about and go to town on it. The more you paint the more you will be confident in your skills
The light tip for me is the most left field, if nothing else i am keeping that one😉
Keep it up, i love what you do
Instablaster.
Yep, one of the best and I am lucky enough to own one of his busts.
There's an especially important tip that you mentioned but didn't really explain or emphasize. Hold your hands together when painting. By doing so you steady your hands further than they would be apart and you synchronize your hands. Whatever tiny shakes you make now move together reducing their impact. Learning to do this was the single biggest improvement i had when i started.
Don't fear being a noob. we all start somewhere and not all of our end game is up to display standard competition pieces. First rule should be "have fun"
That should be the title of the next video :D And yes, you are right.
Life is an rpg where you only gain experience by failing a bunch of times, so you might as well have fun!
Love the first tip, I am always stuck painting under the same light and when I am just deep into process it really does not come to my mind to check it under different light. Great vid!
I got a new habbit recently of when painting in the evening under lamps, I always check in daylight next to the window in the morning to cross check, also to photograph as I go through each stage as things can look different in the photo
@@snarehit2230 It's a good habit..... I find the always look completely different than you thought they did when you look at them in the daylight compared to when you're painting under the lamp at night lol :-)
"Your hand need to make good move, pretty big one, and your hands not really steady." That is some good general life advice.
Very small brush strokes is a really good one. I’m new to miniatures and painting in general. I’ve only painted 4 so far but after hearing that from the 3rd to the 4th for the edge highlights wow what a difference!
"sticking to your safe zone" this one rings a loud bell in my head. it's soooo easy fall into your existing habits but to truly learn and gain new skills is through exploring the other techniques and making those mistakes. it applies to real life too. we all wanna make it right?
I like Roman, he's good people. Cool video.
Great advice mates! Thanks for sharing🤗
I enjoy your videos very much. Take care!
I loved the color shifts during the video to give people the visual of how color theory and light, shadow, and making us all think of miniatures as us!
Great info here. Well done.
Developing your own style is an interesting one - I think it’s sorta like leveling up into a whole new bracket of painters and many people will never get there...Including me! For me, it’s already taking all I’ve got just to nail the basics and I can’t even imagine how to turn that into a unique style.
It really is it's own topic, and tbh; I think it's something showcase painters need to think about and maybe not army painters. Coming from a place working in media/art for a long while i've had a chance to analyze the topic quite a bit. I'd love to make a video on it some day!
@@SquidmarMiniatures Though I've noticed army painters still can develop a striking style all their own.
This was all fantastic advice. I love these sort of collaborative efforts between painters.
Very well done! I love the style and flow of your videos. Keep ‘em coming Emil!
Kind of blown away by how awesome the blanket texture is on the Native mini. Wow.
Yeah i'm going to try to steal that from him haha :D
I appreciate these great tips, guys. I especially enjoy the "Make short deliberate strokes." Great video.
Love this video, watched so many since I started watching 2021, awesome to know there's more I have yet to see. Thanks for the work and the advice given, must say I've improved so much from them.
This guy's English is golden!
You are such a wholesome dude, really great ambassador for the hobby
I really enjoyed this, reminded me of the fundamentals of any creative effort. Thank you!
This Roman Gruba guy needs a youtube channel! Even though his English needs a little improvement he definitely gets the point across and would be so awesome to watch in some tutorials!! Really cool guy! And you're also one of the best man, no doubt about it. Great video man! @Squidmar Miniatures
This was excellent! I listened as I was weeding the front yard - great points . I’ll watch it again when I don’t have sharp shears in my hand ;-) Thanks again for very useful content!
I would just like to point out had bad ass Roman's Pikachu hat is!
regarding the tip of developing your own style. I think this advice should and can only be taken, once you have fully mastered the fundamentals. It's just like in traditional painting.
Loved the video, thanks. Please please please could we get a video on how you painted that Goblin. Keep up the fantastic work my dude!!
Please make a video about the sixth tip: how different types of colours work, and also glues and brushes (also air brush).
Thanks, awesome tips!
Not sure anyone noticed but Emile is right handed, Roman is lefty, help me looking his fingers, hands positions. I really want to launch myself, but lake of confidence and money kill it in the wound...
Thank you, these are fresh tips! Please do more in-depth tips and tricks, also really good video production as well! Looking forward to more.
Thanks for all the great info, not sure if I was crazy about the random zoom + B&W randomly, specially since all the clips were kinda short.
This information is really good. I am day 1 new, pretty much. And there has been a firm wall of raw experience and knowledge blocking me from making impressive figures. Now I am a few steps closer. : )
I really much enjoyed this! Great tips that I will definitely bear in mind.
My problem is I can appreciate every style when executed well.
When you're exposed to so many masterful artist' work on Instagram it's hard to pick a style and stick with it. I'd love to execute the eavy metal style like Darren Latham, the beautiful grim dark blends from Richard Gray, the eye popping creative colours of Kaha, the NMM blends of Flameon. And countless other styles of masterful craftsmen around the world. It's all quite over whelming 😊
The best advice here (at least in my opinion) is to identify the elements you like from each person's style and incorporate that element as opposed to the overall style; from one painter it might be the way they apply edge highlights, from another painter it might be how they create a gradient, etc. By taking separate elements and compositing them into a different style, you'll have that sort of homage to painters you admire but it will essentially be in an overall style you've created.
Great video. Loving your content and hot damn he is such an amazing painter.
The light tip is a good tip.......I find the always look completely different than I thought they did when I look at them in the daylight compared to when you're painting under the lamp at night lol :-)
I’ll take 1/4 Roman’s talent. Only comes from putting in the time and having the vision IMO. We’ll see. I have a few projects lined up for this winter. Hopefully I don’t end up cutting off my left ear. Lol!
Never go full van gogh! 😂
Good video, i am only a few weeks into painting miniatures, and cant wait to level up. The tip about lighting is super helpful. I started by just picking up plastic minis from dollar stores ( army men, bugs, found skeletons and mummies all for 1$ and about 10 per pac.
Great Vid. Some really good tips. New to figure and miniature painting.
These miniatures are awesome !
Always a pleasure watching your videos. Amazing quality for such a new channel and you can feel the effort that was put into it :)
But just a small criticism: can you please normalize your videos or put the volume of the music down? It’s always way louder than the spoken parts whenever you raise the musics volume.
ill do my best :)
@@SquidmarMiniatures This goes for the intro too. I'm often watching late in the evenings or at night and all of the sudden I'm afraid I'll wake up the neighbours.
Great tips! And awesome that you could get Roman as a guest (I'm wondering how you managed to not get totally star struck???). Would be really cool to see even more collabs with famous painters/youtubers. Hearing you all reason about how you go about things is really helpful!
This video helped me really much.
good information
You should totally link to your guest's instagram FB and whatever. Great video.
Awesome video ! Always love your tips and trick video ! Why the black and white transitions tho?
Tried to give the long talking parts som visual difference. You can't win every time 😂
Thanks for the video!
1:40 The goblin looks great, you've got the moonlight, the NMM, and the OSL looks good...but...where is the light supposed to be coming from? It looks like his foot is just glowing...
Another super video :)
Excellent tips thank you!
Fantastic 😍
Great work always i can learning so much from this video new ways to paint my miniatures in a different light. i am currently learning how to blend my colours with my wet pallet just need to get better over time i currently clean my brush between colours or should i carry on with each colour as normal my only worry is over loading the paint as i like to keep my paint fin.
Great simple tips!
Developing my own style and getting to the point where people can look at my mini's and see that is mine, is still one of my goals after many years of painting. Would love to see a video on that!
I like to know how to keep hair and fibers out of my paint and miniature! I got a free-range pet rabbit in the room, so that's a HUGE challenge for me!
It's this super cool thing called a vacuum cleaner 😂
@@SquidmarMiniatures Really? What the hell is that?
Great vid thanks!
Lights are good but use your cellphone and take focused pictures zoom in and from many angles. I will paint something and think it looks good but when I see it through the camera I see all the flaws.
Great vid dude.
Holy shit I wanna learn how to do that,red to blue blend on that grot so bad!
who can argue with giant busts?
New viewer, good video! Not a fan of the frame cuts but the information and general flow is great!
Tks dudes :)
Another hit, I'd say.
Great video! Could you make a video on how to make that zenithal paint job on that goblin from the intro? I am trying to achive those effects, but something is not working out as I want it to.
What's up with all the black and white filters in this video 😅
Tried to give the long talking parts som visual difference. You can't win every time 😂
Those parts were filmed earlier, in 1943.
@@SquidmarMiniatures feels very distracting and unnecessary most of the time, especially for a more educational video like this
I totally knew why it was done - I think it’s fine.
I get why you did all that bw in the middle, as well as the zooming thing, but I think it is largely unnecessary: the spoken parts are pretty short and well divided in sections, both by changing topic and changing speaker. A second camera would be more effective (yet expensive).
All in all great video as always!
Just one thing, I noticed you use gw colors in dropper bottles, could you please make a video/tutorial on how to properly transfer paint? I find those pots unnerving... Thanks!
Oh yeah, the first one is something I started noticing recently. I was using highlights that were way to soft and didn't pop at all, yet I only did that because my painting light seems to enhance highlights. So now I'm taking my models outside or in the hallway to check highlights.
Please paint a Kingdom Death figure! Preferably by the sculptor Jonah Gilbert!!
Love your Video als always.. but maybe chance Up the Music feom time to time?
learning to add depth to muscles recently
my orc now has a strange greeny yellow war paint and i need to choose a different shade of green
Hmm, difficult really. I would usually differentiate tattoos from the skin tone. Not painted green skin, but have you tried using softer colours like buff/light skin tone style paints? Mixing a little with the green might create a distinctive green highlight.
@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 i havent but i will on his other arm
thanks
Can you simulate metal armor cracks? No texture paints please.
Great video, but in future please avoid the continuous shift between BW & color, it gives headache...
My brush always seems to peel of the paint id painted before Why
Next talk to this guy MarcoFrisoniNJM. He needs some more exposure as his channel is smaller. But man he is amazing! Doing crazy work using Oils.
Skip to 2:15 to save minutes of your life
300 Euros - huiiii - respect.
What is the make and model of the wide desklamp that can be seen clamped to the desk and folded over your work area?
i have all my gear listed on my website www.squidmar.com
@@SquidmarMiniatures I checked your site, but the Amazon image for the listed Task Lamp does not match the construction of the lamp shown in the video. Are they in fact the same lamp? I really appreciate your help and prompt reply and love your videos!
I love the background music. Any links ?
Hey man, it's from epidemic sound and youtube audio library
@@SquidmarMiniatures Cheers 👍
Wait, those were minis?
I know, he's insane!
Dude stole my name, so I should steal his AMAZING painting skills...
What accent is that from Roman?
He's russian :)
is no one gonna mention that he looks like ed sheeran?
no one?
ok.
Why don’t you just use contrast paints?!?!?
Why not prime it white and dip it in quickshade? :O
Hey!
Was this workshop in sweden? :) How do I get find them? hehe
Yeah was in sweden. Du kan följa Fantasia North på facebook och gå mer i grupperna "Visa världen att vi svenskar är ena djävlar på att måla" och "age of sigmar sweden" :)
Squidmar Miniatures thanks! I will!
Squidmar Miniatures Great content btw! I like both the content and the style u have with your videos :D
So what is your style called? Mine is Kung fu bitch hog style!
I realize that in order to get attention for videos, you have to use dramatic titles like "stop being a noob!". But I do think most of the tips here are far more advanced than what a new painter should be focusing on first. These stray into the area of miniature painting at the fine arts level (which Roman definitely qualifies for). Actual new painters may have difficulty if they try to jump straight into this level. Honestly it takes a few years to start having to really worry about these kinds of things.
If I could give my (year late) take in this, the style taught to most new painters is not effective for advanced painting techniques. Speaking as someone who went from the GW style to a more volumetric style it is easier to learn a technique like blending than learning the extreme precision that comes with 25 layers of edge highlights.
Har du nån instagram?
Finns länkat i videobeskrivningen!
Well... some good points, but it didn't touch on s subjectvthat's been nagging me for quite some time: do we paint to make a model interesting, to make details pop or realistic? Most would probably say realistic - and then happily paint shadows on the skin reddish brown...
Or to make details pop perhaps? Very common sentence I hear from youtube painters all the time. But that seems more to show what a good sculpt/model you're painting, being not necessarily a realistic paintjob. Like for example, did you know nuts and bolts on tanks are in fact painted the same way as the rest of the tank? And just because they are protruding doesn't mean they are always clearly visible due to accumulated dirt, rust or artificial shadows we tend to add to - say it with me - make them pop.
This is quite infuriating for me, but I do it myself all the time, simply because its ingrained in me. But if you look at shadows for example, just pause this video and check the color of the shadows on Romans face. Are they reddish brown?
Are they?
I don't think there's one definitive answer to this question because in the end what it comes down to is your personal style, your preferences and the effect you're trying to achieve. I'll share an example that seems to come up with me quite often:
Lets say you're painting an orc miniature and you've decided to go with green skin tones; often times when people they do this they add reds and brown into it as well as green to make it more realistic. The question then becomes; how do you determine what's "realistic" in this scenario? There's nothing in the real world around us to even compare an orc to; they're clearly mammalian and not reptilian but they have green skin. Where does that green coloration even come from? So is it more realistic to add red and browns (a more human skin tone) to the green or to focus solely on the green tones? I personally feel that its the latter since orcs aren't human and to me it makes no sense whatsoever to add any sort of human skin tone.
The question of how much contrast to use and what, if any, details you make pop is the same sort of question. For comparison, take a normal photo and shrink the scale until the subject in the photo is the same size as a 28-32 mm miniature then see how much detail you can pick out; it won't be much. So we're already exaggerating things as is by even having these details visibly sculpted on the miniatures which means that if you're going for strict realism you're already working with a strike against you from the very beginning. About the best advice I can think of in these scenarios is to decide which details are most important to you, which ones you want to call attention to, and use high contrast to make those pop; don't worry about whether or not its realistic.
@@@TheRunesmythe An elaborate reply - nice.
I think I should clarify that I mainly come from regular modelling in 1/35 scale even if I have painted my fair share of tabletop minis as well.
For the example with the orc, I kinda agree - they aren't real and we have no idea how they 'should' look, no more than dinosaurs. That's kind of hard to argue, wether a skin tone on a monster is correct or not, even if the fluff often gives a hint on what and how the creatures live, which should give you a little more meat on the bones on how to paint them.
When it comes to details on minis and exageration... Yes, the exaggerated details might be there (not on photo-realistic minis though mind you), but does that really mean those details must be painted? Take a 32 mm human warrior from Games Workshop for example - a figure like thatwhen viewed up really close, like 10 cm from your face is still not larger than an actual human 10-15 meters away. How many details can you see in the face of a person that far away? Already, the eyes will be reduced to dark slits, with only the slightest hint of a white - you can make out details in the face like the nose and mouth, but not really smaller ones like zits.
And I think the question on wether something is painted realistic or not is quite important - I think the intent is there with pretty much all modellers and painters, but we have been indoctrinated for so long with just using darker shades of the basecoat (like a reddish brown for skin shadows as I mentioned), when this reddish brown is nowhere to be seen in shadows in real life.
And if we stop caring about painting realistically, why don't we just dunk our minis in a pot of paint and call it finished? What we get with the current methods are minis and models that look might look good - but have no equivalent in real life, not even in the physics form, where colors don't adhere to real life rules.
@@Kojak0 You bring up some good points and I have to say that by and large I agree with what you're saying. I'm not saying we should abandon the idea of realism and painting things realistically but rather that we should choose our battles, as the saying goes.
For something like a historical wargame, I think realism is definitely important and the same applies to dioramas based on historical model kits and miniatures; even if its not something we ourselves have experienced, there's enough information about it and we're familiar enough with the people and places so that a lack of realism will immediately register to our eyes and brain. In other words, it will *look* wrong.
The further we move into fiction, especially fantasy and scifi, the more ambiguous the concept of realism becomes. When we're dealing with environments and races/creatures we have no analog for, how do we even begin to determine what painting them realistically even means? There are, of course, descriptions but if what you're painting is described as having bright orange skin does that really help much?
This, I feel, also carries over into discussions about contrast and details. That's what I meant when I originally said it depends on your style, preferences and what you're trying to accomplish and its why I feel its unlikely that there's any one definitive answer.
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Im way to bad with artsy stuff. So I can only consume but not do something. No matter what kind of "hyper super duper mega pro tips for beginners!!11!1" guides I see. They are all the same and not helping at all.
I read this as sex tips. I mean il watch it anyway. But my wife wont be happy.
'100% subjectively' ...
Art is subjective isnt it :)
I think someone is trying to copy Miniac style a bit ;)
My brush always seems to peel of the paint id painted before Why
It haven't dried enough