@@jeremyhess7977 Look, if you stick in a couple of mixing balls and hold in on a vortex mixer until you develop secondary Reynaud's phenomenon, it will last *at least* 40 minutes.
Scotty, you've always been a great painter, but your storytelling/teaching/videography/editing has hit another level. There should be awards for minipainting vids. Thanks for all the extra effort you put into these.
Always love the "Scott Learns Something" videos, as I'm always learning something along with you. This is video brings up something to think about. I think it's common people start with a base color and go from there, when we should probably be starting with the shade color and working up from there. I think this is where the newer paints sets that have those shades built into their design are very useful.
I am loving the fact that you are posting so much more regularly. And this video was absolute 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The story mode of the first couple minutes was excellent.
I really appreciate you highlighting the things that you think you're doing wrong, and admitting that you're going out of your comfort zone. As a MUCH worse painter it's reassuring to know that all the RUclips painters are ALSO human.
That's how they got to the level they're at now. Stepping out of their comfort zone and mastering (or least achieving solid reliability) with new techniques, tools, colors, and ideas. I'm not saying you do this. But I see so many people in discord groups rely on slap chop too heavily and genuinely wonder why they don't get better when they try something different. Then, revert back to slap chop cause it's comfortable. We all suck trying new things the first time. But if you keep at it, it will eventually click and you can keep moving forward on your hobby journey.
I really enjoy the videos where you run into a situation that you don’t know how to deal with, and we get to see how you solve it. It seems like so much of miniature painting is about finding solutions, and learning the thought processes to do that is something you rarely see in tutorials.
ive been loving these weekly "just painting a mini" videos. i think its great motivation for other hobby content creators to not feel like every video needs to be something massive.
I like that you published the video despite it not turning out exactly how you expected. I try to learn something new with each piece that I do and often have the same result where I’m pretty pleased with some of it and not as much with other parts.
Hey Scott, just want to say I see you crushing it at the moment with the upload schedule and I've been enjoying the uploads. I hope you have a great holiday
Haha, that was the most stealth warframe sales video thus far. I have to say, out of all the channels spruiking warframe your model has easily been one of the best painted.
What's really interesting is the sense of texture on the suit you have managed to instil by keeping the transitions more subtle and the colour more saturated. The material looks natural vs. say armour where you might want that brighter value and sharper / brighter more extreme highlight. And the face is superb. I'm doing my first 75mm mini soon. Bought a malifaux model to test and push myself. My son wants me finishing our space marines first though. But I'm hoping to get onto more display minis, maybe that'll be my New Year resolution!? Happy holidays Scott. Look forward to learning more from you in 2025
Really enjoying your approach to videos lately - topic, presentation, everything. Not sure if it’s a full “pivot” per se, but it’s working for you imo! Great result on the mini.
She turned out quite nice there Scott, it just goes to show that it never hurts to experiment and try new things and step up your level of creativity regardless of what you're doing weather it's a hobby or even life in general. Merry Christmas and a Happy and a prosperous New Year to you and yours
Monday time Miniac time! Thanks for posting so much more frequently dude. You are part of my inspiration that keeps me painting my wood elf army for Old World
Great vid as always! the paint job was also awesome but most of all i really loved the shots at the start around the office. i think they were really fluid and i feel like they really brought us in to what you might do and you wander around the office figuring out your approach
Hadn't stopped by in a while (not really painting right now), and was really inspired by the technique and theory applied here. Love this kind of content.
I'm really enjoying videos about you exploring your weaknesses and trying new techniques. A lot of creators seems to have their recipes/styles/go tos, but end up repeating the same thing and not really expanding.
The figure you used as a reference reminds me of the chiaroscuro paintings. Less about using dark colors but rather focusing on an almost exteme contrast in tones through the whole piece. During one of the painting classes I took in college we did a piece on it and the restrictions were no black or white paint, if we were doing any shading or lighting we had to achieve it without those two colors. That taught me a lot about how I could achieve these deep dark hues through these blue/purple/red combinations. I think the figure you did just needed more of that contrast, although the warframe armor didn't give a lot of surface area on the armor to achieve those high contrast areas like the piece you were referencing. Personally I think the blue/orange combination also felt like it hindered you, the figure feels like it needs like one more color to make the rest of it pop. I actually play a lot of warframe and whenever I'm coloring my frames I think of that scene in Iron Man where he tells Jarvis 'throw a little hot rod red in there'.
I am illegally early to this one. EDIT: This is something I've always struggled with so this is super helpful! Thanks! I love the way the hair and face looks on this, lower body is a bit underwhelming in comparison but we improve every time we do something. I think it definitely turned out really nice overall
This is a really good break down, I recently noticed this same thing with my minis and in my last one I did the same thing very minimal highlighting and I enjoy the results. Personally think it’s hard to dial stuff back sometimes especially when you’re first learning you just end up doing too much at some point. Also instead of highlighting to white I go to ivory or an ivory mix instead so it’s not as harsh on the eyes for the highlight. I like to think of it as a brain is a computer and only has a specific amount of processing power before it gets confused and overloaded with detail. The common person that doesn’t do detail work has even less processing power. 😂
Hey Scott, I noticed You used a White or off white mixed in with your base colours for flesh. I almost never use white myself to brighten my colours. I use a lighter colour from the same colour family and mix to get my next highlight colour. my highlights all stay within the same family of colours rather than adding white as it can create a very stark DE saturated look. Loved what you achieved. I've learnt a lot from you over the years! always a fan!
I totally get keeping things dark for display painting, but for tabletop or an army - you always want to go as light and bright as you can. That moody grim dark or atmospheric paint job looks amazing on photos, on a dark background with a studio lighting. But on a table with normal lighting (or heaven forbid dimly lit playroom), even viewed from several feet away as part of a unit - it becomes a dark blob. 😮
Also keep in mind the lighting and the direction of that lighting that they use when taking photos of the miniature. Sometimes those can make the colors look "bright"
Love the intro. I dont know what it reminds me of, maybe like that Good Eats and earlier era of programs. Bill Nye, Beakman, etc. I needed this video, my marines are Naggaroth Night. Or basically dioxazine purple. Really dark and dealing with the values while not drifting into pinks for highlighting to keep the purple cold is a real challenge. Elminiturista is definitely one of my big references to achieve the look i want.
It's always very interesting when you try out new things. I had a similar issue in the past. I solved it by using highly saturated colors and glazing over the highlights a lot. Normaly my highlights are something like ivory. So I tried to always have some color in there.
I found something similar when I wanted to do some glow effects in 2D art. Basically I noticed that when painting in pastel colors any normally bright color almost glows, allowing me to generate a colored light source that's not pure white in 2D art.
Personally, I think leaving the lower half of the model darker and more desaturated and only putting highlights and more saturated color on the upper half does a fantastic job of guiding the eyes towards what is most important, the face and upper body. I know you have many years of experience and thus you have most likely become very critical of your talent, but you are an excellent painter. Everything you put paint on at this point comes out beautiful. It is also good to see you are continuing to learn and grow, and I am happy to see your progress on this hobby journey.
I find I have a similar issue. Most of my mini's tend to be bright and vibrant so much so it has kind of become my "Style" but recently I've been trying to do darker more moody pieces and run into the same issues and getting frustrated with it, I'm glad to see even painters of your level run into issues like this and I will have to try some of what you suggested
Imagine if every videogame release included some free stls! It's pretty awesome/business smart for this company to sponsor some hobby channels to promote this game. I will try out the game, just because I really like the Infinity aesthetic.
Amazing paint job. I definitely like the top half of the model better, but maybe that’s because you intentionally make that the focus. The face is beautiful.
You could desaturate the blue with the brown you're using, I tend to mix my different colors to see whether that provides an interesting alternative that still provides cohesion. In this case, blue and brown make a blackish grey that is WAY more interesting as opposed to black. Black tends to slap colors down, whereas blue and brown pigments cancel each other out. Also it is great because you can gradient it pretty well. You could also have made the bottom more interesting by giving it more structrure, like a pattern, to break up the mini.
It's kind of ironic, because I feel like the biggest pitfall for new painters is to stay too dark, but now the pro is leaning into dark while trying to retain detail/readability. Maybe some of the dark/dynamic lighting schemes could be a good branch from this too and help you really lean into heavy shadows.
Thank you, this is an interesting idea to explore. I struggle a lot with putting in enough contrast without making things look cartoonish. Well, unless I'm painting something that's comically evil like my current set of swamp goblins in which case I just let it happen. I end up with a lot of issues with things like washes & highlights desaturating my minis so they end up kind of blah.
I saw that same Lion post! I agree with you, the top half looks amazing but the legs doo look a bit dull in comparison. Btw I just got your recommended products in today and am excited to give them a try!
I really like the final result, the mini looks really good and I also agree that sometimes You tend to have problems with contrast because you go too bright with a paint scheme. Recently I have also encountered a problem of my own, I feel trapped in a specific way of painting (base, shade, highlight) because I need to keep coherency with all my Necromunda models. Although the paint schemes are very different, I feel the method needs to be basically the same to keep them all on the same level. Some advice would be greatly appreciated!
Nice work! I think it looks good! I think the experiment is worth pursuing further. I think the face still ended up pretty bright compared to the example model of what Scott was shooting for. I tell myself I am letting the environment the model is in narratively influence how high the highlights and how low the shadows go. But realistically, I probably just paint what the model looks like in my head. Which is always putting things through a 1990's Saturday Morning Cartoon filter. Overly saturated and lacking subtlety. 😂
My paint jobs seem to be on the darker side. I put it down to me painting with two bright lights close to the model while I paint. Sort of making me paint dark thinking that I was painting bright. Its only when i go back to them days later that I notice/realise.
So so glad that "you" are so more "you" in your new videos rather than the mono tone slow talking moody person with the small bit of "oh yeah I want to be funny" The Scott i first watched and listen to on the podcast is back and I really like it!!!!!!
I love reds and, blacks but because of this is never let my reds too dark to make sure they contrast the blacks. I also use deep rich reds with only the spares amounts of brights for tiny highlights.
Her face is amazing, and the rest of her looks great also. I will, however, ask you if some edge highlighting and black panel lining might tighten it up a bit?
I run into this issue primarily with skintones - I always want to brighten them up and they end up ashen or chalky. More like corpses than healthy flesh. This was very insightful and helpful!
Flippin Legend. Nurgle Bless Our Constitution In The Kindest Of Ways, Chat. Miniac Great Guy. Diggin the work. Thanks foe rockin it as ya please, m8. Ripping up some Greenery for ya over here 🎉 cheers , end of year Best wishes, Team.
This video was really interesting because I always am looking for ways to boost saturation. I am wondering how much this is due to paint selection, but highlight vs shadow distribution gives me a lot to think about. Are their paint ranges that tend to be more desaturated? Do models with intense saturation get painted with inks to make things pop? Very interested to know your thoughts. Great video!
I'm curious what kind of medium you are using to keep the paint workable on the brush for so long. When I thin with water, it lasts me a good 12 seconds before the paint dries onto the tip of the brush.
Curious, why do you start with a midtone and work your way up and down? Wouldn't it be easier to accomplish what you want to do in this video by just starting with the shade color and building up the highlights via layering? You're already layering anyway, why not just start from the ground and work up? You can best control the amount of highlights you want to add and their placement without being frustrated by having to go back and adjust blends. I know you already know this, but just curious why you aren't doing this? Is it just a personal preference or do you genuinely paint faster starting with a midtone? Always fascinated by the different techniques people use. Also, if you're going for cream, why not use a warm white but lean more into sandy tones rather than flesh tones?
2 things. 1) Amazing painting skills an beutiful model. 2) looking for a new resin printer and the one you have looks like it does a great job with detail, what kind is it?
Nice video Scott! Have you btw read Color & Light by James Gurney? If you haven’t, you might be able to get further in your journey with color theory by reading it. It seems to me that your issues with the legs may have come from exactly that, not going all the way with applying color theory. You could’ve used a bit of black and violet to shade the lower blue parts in order to differentiate the navy colors, pushing the blue to a more indigo color.
@@Miniac Cool! I just checked, and Gurney doesn't really go that far with the Munsell color system. You touched on it when you talked about blue being a fundamentally darker color in terms of value. I think it's really useful, if you want to back your color choices with some fancy science.
Great video! I like the more saturated outcome. Definitely going to try this out. Just a request, but if something is sponsoring you, could you call it out in the video? I know it was pretty apparent you were being sponsored by Warframe in this video and I may have missed the callout, but I only see the acknowledgment in the description.
Great video, it was very interesting to see you explore something new :) As a bit of constructive criticism, i don't like having to guess what a video is about. The thumbnail I got was the burning-eyes version that i think just says "highlights", and the kinda vague title. That's not very engaging. Looks like a generic video about highlighting, which frankly i'm not interested in watching. And it would jave been such a shame to skip it, when it's actually an interesting discussion and experiment. Showing at least a glimpse of the point you want to make would certainly be more intriguing, at least to me :)
@Miniac I don't know anything about how to make an effective thumbnail, but as a title maybe something along the lines of "Highlight less for stronger colors?" ? To kinda put the emphasis on your objective/lesson learned
It's a great pain job but I think the whole model looks pretty desaturated which, to me, doesn't quite fit the character and setting. I wonder if it would look better or worse if you added some gloss.
Genuine doubt. I have always thought that when you do zenital highlights you tend to leave very little grey behind and almost no black. To the point that sometimes I hyperbocally wonder why did you even bothered, why just don't prime it white? I get that this could be a camera, screen and/or my eyes issue. But could this be related to the 'problem' that sparked this video?
Video has been up 38 minutes so I am assuming the Corax White in the thumbnail has juuust about solidified in the pot by now.
hahahahaha
What?! ...you mean it wasn't already runny cottage cheese when it was first opened? Amazing!!!
@@jeremyhess7977 Look, if you stick in a couple of mixing balls and hold in on a vortex mixer until you develop secondary Reynaud's phenomenon, it will last *at least* 40 minutes.
Btw: "cream" is NOT a colour 😁
Scotty, you've always been a great painter, but your storytelling/teaching/videography/editing has hit another level. There should be awards for minipainting vids. Thanks for all the extra effort you put into these.
Always love the "Scott Learns Something" videos, as I'm always learning something along with you.
This is video brings up something to think about. I think it's common people start with a base color and go from there, when we should probably be starting with the shade color and working up from there. I think this is where the newer paints sets that have those shades built into their design are very useful.
I am loving the fact that you are posting so much more regularly. And this video was absolute 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 The story mode of the first couple minutes was excellent.
I really appreciate you highlighting the things that you think you're doing wrong, and admitting that you're going out of your comfort zone. As a MUCH worse painter it's reassuring to know that all the RUclips painters are ALSO human.
That's how they got to the level they're at now. Stepping out of their comfort zone and mastering (or least achieving solid reliability) with new techniques, tools, colors, and ideas. I'm not saying you do this. But I see so many people in discord groups rely on slap chop too heavily and genuinely wonder why they don't get better when they try something different. Then, revert back to slap chop cause it's comfortable. We all suck trying new things the first time. But if you keep at it, it will eventually click and you can keep moving forward on your hobby journey.
I really enjoy the videos where you run into a situation that you don’t know how to deal with, and we get to see how you solve it. It seems like so much of miniature painting is about finding solutions, and learning the thought processes to do that is something you rarely see in tutorials.
ive been loving these weekly "just painting a mini" videos. i think its great motivation for other hobby content creators to not feel like every video needs to be something massive.
Dude, GREAT format. Love the storytelling in it, especially the lead in. I truly dig the thought process portion.
I like that you published the video despite it not turning out exactly how you expected. I try to learn something new with each piece that I do and often have the same result where I’m pretty pleased with some of it and not as much with other parts.
Hey Scott, just want to say I see you crushing it at the moment with the upload schedule and I've been enjoying the uploads. I hope you have a great holiday
I appreciate the camerawork during the intro.
hard same
Haha, that was the most stealth warframe sales video thus far.
I have to say, out of all the channels spruiking warframe your model has easily been one of the best painted.
This format of video is perfect for people taking their second step in the hobby.
i havent watched this but i assume its good
not as good as back to back to back Miscast videos
@@Miniac shhh scott im busy watching
Best bromance on youtube.
You know what they say about when you assume...
Here's a chance aren't right!
Playing it safe I see!
The intro sequence of this video is most excellent. It's informative, comedic m, and visually appealing. Keep it up!
What's really interesting is the sense of texture on the suit you have managed to instil by keeping the transitions more subtle and the colour more saturated. The material looks natural vs. say armour where you might want that brighter value and sharper / brighter more extreme highlight. And the face is superb.
I'm doing my first 75mm mini soon. Bought a malifaux model to test and push myself. My son wants me finishing our space marines first though. But I'm hoping to get onto more display minis, maybe that'll be my New Year resolution!?
Happy holidays Scott. Look forward to learning more from you in 2025
Merry Christmas Scott! Can't wait for that end of the year video EVERYBODY is asking for! ;)
Working on it right now!
What an awesome video. This style is uniquely "you". Light hearted, fun to watch, and i learn heaps. Much love Scotty keep it up
Really enjoying your approach to videos lately - topic, presentation, everything. Not sure if it’s a full “pivot” per se, but it’s working for you imo! Great result on the mini.
She turned out quite nice there Scott, it just goes to show that it never hurts to experiment and try new things and step up your level of creativity regardless of what you're doing weather it's a hobby or even life in general.
Merry Christmas and a Happy and a prosperous New Year to you and yours
The editing and cinematography are out of this world ❤
Monday time Miniac time! Thanks for posting so much more frequently dude. You are part of my inspiration that keeps me painting my wood elf army for Old World
Great vid as always! the paint job was also awesome but most of all i really loved the shots at the start around the office. i think they were really fluid and i feel like they really brought us in to what you might do and you wander around the office figuring out your approach
You've been working hard lately! All the recent vids are fire! Not that your old ones were bad, but the new ones are a step up!
Hadn't stopped by in a while (not really painting right now), and was really inspired by the technique and theory applied here. Love this kind of content.
I'm really enjoying videos about you exploring your weaknesses and trying new techniques.
A lot of creators seems to have their recipes/styles/go tos, but end up repeating the same thing and not really expanding.
The figure you used as a reference reminds me of the chiaroscuro paintings. Less about using dark colors but rather focusing on an almost exteme contrast in tones through the whole piece. During one of the painting classes I took in college we did a piece on it and the restrictions were no black or white paint, if we were doing any shading or lighting we had to achieve it without those two colors. That taught me a lot about how I could achieve these deep dark hues through these blue/purple/red combinations. I think the figure you did just needed more of that contrast, although the warframe armor didn't give a lot of surface area on the armor to achieve those high contrast areas like the piece you were referencing. Personally I think the blue/orange combination also felt like it hindered you, the figure feels like it needs like one more color to make the rest of it pop. I actually play a lot of warframe and whenever I'm coloring my frames I think of that scene in Iron Man where he tells Jarvis 'throw a little hot rod red in there'.
I'm loving seeing you in my recommend videos again!!!!!
Great video as always Scott. Hope you have a good holiday!
That fluorescent copper look on the arms is excellent!
I am illegally early to this one.
EDIT: This is something I've always struggled with so this is super helpful! Thanks! I love the way the hair and face looks on this, lower body is a bit underwhelming in comparison but we improve every time we do something. I think it definitely turned out really nice overall
🚓🚔👮♂
Dig the Alton Brown style opener, Scott. Can we be foodie best friends?
This is a really good break down, I recently noticed this same thing with my minis and in my last one I did the same thing very minimal highlighting and I enjoy the results. Personally think it’s hard to dial stuff back sometimes especially when you’re first learning you just end up doing too much at some point. Also instead of highlighting to white I go to ivory or an ivory mix instead so it’s not as harsh on the eyes for the highlight.
I like to think of it as a brain is a computer and only has a specific amount of processing power before it gets confused and overloaded with detail. The common person that doesn’t do detail work has even less processing power. 😂
Hey Scott, I noticed You used a White or off white mixed in with your base colours for flesh. I almost never use white myself to brighten my colours. I use a lighter colour from the same colour family and mix to get my next highlight colour. my highlights all stay within the same family of colours rather than adding white as it can create a very stark DE saturated look. Loved what you achieved. I've learnt a lot from you over the years! always a fan!
I totally get keeping things dark for display painting, but for tabletop or an army - you always want to go as light and bright as you can. That moody grim dark or atmospheric paint job looks amazing on photos, on a dark background with a studio lighting. But on a table with normal lighting (or heaven forbid dimly lit playroom), even viewed from several feet away as part of a unit - it becomes a dark blob. 😮
Maybe there's a way
Also keep in mind the lighting and the direction of that lighting that they use when taking photos of the miniature. Sometimes those can make the colors look "bright"
Love the intro. I dont know what it reminds me of, maybe like that Good Eats and earlier era of programs. Bill Nye, Beakman, etc.
I needed this video, my marines are Naggaroth Night. Or basically dioxazine purple. Really dark and dealing with the values while not drifting into pinks for highlighting to keep the purple cold is a real challenge. Elminiturista is definitely one of my big references to achieve the look i want.
My guys been pumping out videos love it
This new style of editing is juicy
enjoying having more Miniac videos
It's always very interesting when you try out new things. I had a similar issue in the past. I solved it by using highly saturated colors and glazing over the highlights a lot. Normaly my highlights are something like ivory. So I tried to always have some color in there.
Love to see you stretching your skills. Keep up the great work.
I found something similar when I wanted to do some glow effects in 2D art. Basically I noticed that when painting in pastel colors any normally bright color almost glows, allowing me to generate a colored light source that's not pure white in 2D art.
I really like the darker look. The mini looks fantastic.
Personally, I think leaving the lower half of the model darker and more desaturated and only putting highlights and more saturated color on the upper half does a fantastic job of guiding the eyes towards what is most important, the face and upper body. I know you have many years of experience and thus you have most likely become very critical of your talent, but you are an excellent painter. Everything you put paint on at this point comes out beautiful.
It is also good to see you are continuing to learn and grow, and I am happy to see your progress on this hobby journey.
Great topic and choice for a video. Super helpful
I find I have a similar issue. Most of my mini's tend to be bright and vibrant so much so it has kind of become my "Style" but recently I've been trying to do darker more moody pieces and run into the same issues and getting frustrated with it, I'm glad to see even painters of your level run into issues like this and I will have to try some of what you suggested
The figure looks very good in the darker scheme. If you went all the way up to competition level painting it would be absolutely stunning 😎
Imagine if every videogame release included some free stls! It's pretty awesome/business smart for this company to sponsor some hobby channels to promote this game. I will try out the game, just because I really like the Infinity aesthetic.
Amazing paint job. I definitely like the top half of the model better, but maybe that’s because you intentionally make that the focus. The face is beautiful.
Miniac quality content on a Monday? My life is complete
You could desaturate the blue with the brown you're using, I tend to mix my different colors to see whether that provides an interesting alternative that still provides cohesion. In this case, blue and brown make a blackish grey that is WAY more interesting as opposed to black. Black tends to slap colors down, whereas blue and brown pigments cancel each other out. Also it is great because you can gradient it pretty well. You could also have made the bottom more interesting by giving it more structrure, like a pattern, to break up the mini.
It's kind of ironic, because I feel like the biggest pitfall for new painters is to stay too dark, but now the pro is leaning into dark while trying to retain detail/readability. Maybe some of the dark/dynamic lighting schemes could be a good branch from this too and help you really lean into heavy shadows.
Thank you, this is an interesting idea to explore. I struggle a lot with putting in enough contrast without making things look cartoonish. Well, unless I'm painting something that's comically evil like my current set of swamp goblins in which case I just let it happen. I end up with a lot of issues with things like washes & highlights desaturating my minis so they end up kind of blah.
oh hell yeah! warframe!! love what you did there!
That looks great Scott. Thanks for the link. 75mm FTW!
Chalkboard segment A++
I saw that same Lion post! I agree with you, the top half looks amazing but the legs doo look a bit dull in comparison. Btw I just got your recommended products in today and am excited to give them a try!
Great video. Love these experiments
I really like the final result, the mini looks really good and I also agree that sometimes You tend to have problems with contrast because you go too bright with a paint scheme. Recently I have also encountered a problem of my own, I feel trapped in a specific way of painting (base, shade, highlight) because I need to keep coherency with all my Necromunda models. Although the paint schemes are very different, I feel the method needs to be basically the same to keep them all on the same level. Some advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you for you train of thought. Over highlighting minis, might also be a problem I have.
I like the experiment, nice paint job.
Nice work! I think it looks good! I think the experiment is worth pursuing further. I think the face still ended up pretty bright compared to the example model of what Scott was shooting for.
I tell myself I am letting the environment the model is in narratively influence how high the highlights and how low the shadows go. But realistically, I probably just paint what the model looks like in my head. Which is always putting things through a 1990's Saturday Morning Cartoon filter. Overly saturated and lacking subtlety. 😂
My eyes can't help getting pulled to the arms, I don't know if that is a win or not. But it's definitely an effect
Merry Christmas y’all
My paint jobs seem to be on the darker side. I put it down to me painting with two bright lights close to the model while I paint. Sort of making me paint dark thinking that I was painting bright. Its only when i go back to them days later that I notice/realise.
So so glad that "you" are so more "you" in your new videos rather than the mono tone slow talking moody person with the small bit of "oh yeah I want to be funny"
The Scott i first watched and listen to on the podcast is back and I really like it!!!!!!
my name is Scott
@Miniac can tell i havet been paying attention and watch to many painters, sorry scott 🤦♂️ changed it now
I love reds and, blacks but because of this is never let my reds too dark to make sure they contrast the blacks. I also use deep rich reds with only the spares amounts of brights for tiny highlights.
Her face is amazing, and the rest of her looks great also. I will, however, ask you if some edge highlighting and black panel lining might tighten it up a bit?
I used to paint too dark. I fixed it by painting in the same light that the mini would be used in, rather than under super bright painting lights.
I run into this issue primarily with skintones - I always want to brighten them up and they end up ashen or chalky. More like corpses than healthy flesh. This was very insightful and helpful!
I think skintones are super susceptible to this
Flippin Legend. Nurgle Bless Our Constitution In The Kindest Of Ways, Chat. Miniac Great Guy. Diggin the work. Thanks foe rockin it as ya please, m8. Ripping up some Greenery for ya over here 🎉 cheers , end of year Best wishes, Team.
I was sceptical but the videos did improve since the survey
This video was really interesting because I always am looking for ways to boost saturation. I am wondering how much this is due to paint selection, but highlight vs shadow distribution gives me a lot to think about. Are their paint ranges that tend to be more desaturated? Do models with intense saturation get painted with inks to make things pop? Very interested to know your thoughts.
Great video!
Hey Scott! Fantastic piece as always! I want to jump into the world of shading my minis with inks, any recommendations on brands to look out for?
I'm always a fan of Liquitiex or FW ink by Dahler Rowney. Haven't done much comparison, but those have never steered me wrong
Good video! I also have a problem with mini's being either to light almost pastel, or that black washed grim dark look.
Oh, I miss those red whippy sticks!
I think there should be a rule when your minnies are stored in a hutch they officially become tchotchke
i dont think i have ever seen a more perfect tip on a brush. what brush is that you are using? i want one. i usual use a W&N series 7 size 2.
Would glazing over white keep saturation better than mixing with white?
I'm curious what kind of medium you are using to keep the paint workable on the brush for so long. When I thin with water, it lasts me a good 12 seconds before the paint dries onto the tip of the brush.
Curious, why do you start with a midtone and work your way up and down? Wouldn't it be easier to accomplish what you want to do in this video by just starting with the shade color and building up the highlights via layering? You're already layering anyway, why not just start from the ground and work up? You can best control the amount of highlights you want to add and their placement without being frustrated by having to go back and adjust blends. I know you already know this, but just curious why you aren't doing this? Is it just a personal preference or do you genuinely paint faster starting with a midtone? Always fascinated by the different techniques people use.
Also, if you're going for cream, why not use a warm white but lean more into sandy tones rather than flesh tones?
I usually just glaze a vibrant colour over the top at the end to restore the colour
also a valid approach!
Not a fan of the mini but the paintjob is superb - really dig the skin tone!
Chalk is not trash. You just can't use it the same way you do a paintbrush. Try using the side and smearing with your knuckle.
I would love to paint some warframes but don't have a 3d printer, anywhere i could buy them from?
I haven't been able to paint for months. Can't wait to get back to the mf stu'.
2 things.
1) Amazing painting skills an beutiful model.
2) looking for a new resin printer and the one you have looks like it does a great job with detail, what kind is it?
I'm rocking a Saturn Ultra. I received it for free from Elegoo, but I have no complaints so far.
Nice video Scott! Have you btw read Color & Light by James Gurney? If you haven’t, you might be able to get further in your journey with color theory by reading it. It seems to me that your issues with the legs may have come from exactly that, not going all the way with applying color theory. You could’ve used a bit of black and violet to shade the lower blue parts in order to differentiate the navy colors, pushing the blue to a more indigo color.
I have! But it's been a long time, so maybe I could do with a refresher.
@@Miniac Cool! I just checked, and Gurney doesn't really go that far with the Munsell color system. You touched on it when you talked about blue being a fundamentally darker color in terms of value. I think it's really useful, if you want to back your color choices with some fancy science.
hell yeah alton brown ass video
Great video! I like the more saturated outcome. Definitely going to try this out.
Just a request, but if something is sponsoring you, could you call it out in the video? I know it was pretty apparent you were being sponsored by Warframe in this video and I may have missed the callout, but I only see the acknowledgment in the description.
I'd be happy to acknowledge it verbally next time! There is also an annotation at the start in the top left.
Warframe! :D
How's that Dark Eldar army coming along?
Check out last week's video to find out!
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The Instagram army generation, nice brushes
Great video, it was very interesting to see you explore something new :)
As a bit of constructive criticism, i don't like having to guess what a video is about. The thumbnail I got was the burning-eyes version that i think just says "highlights", and the kinda vague title. That's not very engaging. Looks like a generic video about highlighting, which frankly i'm not interested in watching. And it would jave been such a shame to skip it, when it's actually an interesting discussion and experiment. Showing at least a glimpse of the point you want to make would certainly be more intriguing, at least to me :)
It's a challenging one to title and thumbnail for sure. How would you have done it?
@Miniac I don't know anything about how to make an effective thumbnail, but as a title maybe something along the lines of "Highlight less for stronger colors?" ? To kinda put the emphasis on your objective/lesson learned
@Miniac Btw I appreciate a lot that you're taking the time to discuss this, it shows how much you care!
the noob stick bending triggered all kinds of late 90's gaming trauma lol
I've been whipped many a time with the noob stick
It's a great pain job but I think the whole model looks pretty desaturated which, to me, doesn't quite fit the character and setting. I wonder if it would look better or worse if you added some gloss.
Genuine doubt. I have always thought that when you do zenital highlights you tend to leave very little grey behind and almost no black. To the point that sometimes I hyperbocally wonder why did you even bothered, why just don't prime it white?
I get that this could be a camera, screen and/or my eyes issue. But could this be related to the 'problem' that sparked this video?
I got yelled at by my "brown" friends for keeping on using white skin tone for my flayed ones... 😅