Contrast and Light - Color Theory for miniatures 2
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- This time we talk about light and contrasts (yep plural!) and we'll see 5 ways to improve the look of your models + a juicy final trick!
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I really love your channel. FINALLY there is a miniature painter who explains all of these traditional art concepts. Thanks so much. Very, very helpful
Thank you soooooo much to you!!! 😍😁😅😁😍😁😘
I'm gonna need to watch this like a dozen times to understand everything. So full of info... great job Marco, your videos are so instructive, man.
Thank you soooo much!!! I'll be super honest, it took me a couple of years to understand and put to use all this stuff but once you know the concept the information will work at a subliminal level every time you paint ;)
You, Sir, are KILLING IT!
I will be watching this multiple times and taking notes.
This video is so well structured and info packed, and you've chosen really good examples.
I can't wait for the knowledge to sink in and express itself in my art in the years to come.
And thank you so much for recommending the Kimera paints to me - I found the money for it and they are finally on the way!
😁😍 Thank you sooooo much 😁😍!!! I can assure you (because I had the same experience) that this stuff will become a subroutine in your brain for every time you paint or you see something interesting. It will take some time but everything will become useful: Alfonso Giraldes told me "maybe you don't understand this now but now you know it and you'll understand everything in the future while painting" 😅
It would be helpful if you showed the teories you talk about on actual miniatures, keep up the good work!
I do It during all my painting videos 😉
As excited as I am to have returned to my artistic roots I left behind almost 20 years ago, I cannot express how much your instruction and love for the subject turbo-charge my enthusiasm. I also draw, sculpt, and paint watercolors in addition to minis and terrain. This video is platinum grade, Marco, thank you!
This guy was paying attention in his art courses. He's giving you very valuable information free.
Incredible, I feel like I payed for a class and I am loving it. Hell this is far more comprehensive than a lot of my art classes.
😍😍😍
Been around for ages and have painted with a few big names of the scene at some point and I must say of all the CZcams painters I'm aware of, you're the one casting the best light (haha) on the more dedicated miniature painting scene and the deeper artistic concerns of it. At the same time you manage to keep a light tone and remain encouraging at all times.
From what I've heard I imagine to have a similar experience, when I finally take the chance to attend one of Roman Lappats workshops.
Kudos for your efforts here!
I'll keep a very close eye on your work, while I get back into actually painting stuff after a veeeery long hiatus.
Thank you sooooo much!!!
This is super super appreciated 😁.
Yep I think we had the luck to have very good teachers 😊.
Can't wait to have more feedbacks from you and now I'm super curious to see your future production 😉 Let's keep in contact and send me some pictures!!! You can use anyone of my socials, I've always an eye on everything 😁
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Great, that will help with my motivation. I'm looking forward to your input!
First time I understood why violet shadows work and make any sense. Thank you very much... Again :)
You really should have more likes. You are an invaluable source of information when it comes to painting miniatures. You and Miniature Maniac are my two favorite youtubers for miniature painting.
Thank a million man!!! 😍
Excellent! I'm learning so much!
I can see this episode playing on a constant loop while I'm painting the next few models. Contrast, or rather the lack of, is a critique I receive regularly. It's time I put more energy into comprehending this skill set. Eternal thanks for the lesson, Marco!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Thanks a million 😍😍😍😍!!!!
Excellent tutorials. I'm not sure if you deliberately planned the strong directional lighting on your face but I appreciated it. Towards the end i was trying to analyse the contrast it gave your face. Many thanks Marco
Woo-ooo! Is Marcoday!
Before Marco friday was useless but now... we have a reason to live!
Grazie Marco!
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Cant get enough of these.
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Thank you for spreading the lite on things that are really important instead of “take this, do that - voila!”. You are doing a great work to keep info consistent and not overwhelming. Ciao!
so much info I watched 1 and 2 in one go and I am more confused than before ... but I enjoyed watching it and will rewatch it so I keep it fresh ^^
I am a relatively new subscriber, so a lot of your older videos, like this one, I am only seeing recently. This series on color theory reminds me of art school but you present the material so well - much better than my professors of 30 years ago! Have you ever considered doing a workshop? Probably via Zoom? You just teach so well it would be great! Anyway - thanks for another great and inspiring video!
Excellent information Marco
😊😉 Thanks buddy!
I've learnt more from 2 of your videos than years of self learning, coming from pixel art to 3d models has been confusing but you are such a huge help.
Very, very informative. Thank you.
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Marco, complimenti. Ottima padronanza della materia e magnifica capacità di spiegarla e insegnare agli altri.
Grazie mille, davvero davvero di cuore!!!
What a pleasure to discover this youtube channel! Explanations of quality, a painting work that commands respect and a real involvement in the videos... Thank you. Thank you.
Thanks a million to you 😍!!! I can't tell you how much a comment like this one is important to me... Really thank you from the heart, you made my day 😁
Bloody hell, TMI is an understatement! This vid needs watching a couple of dozen times to get into my tiny mind :)
Never ever seen this level of detail, information and care from any other YT painting channel......
Love ya Marco and thanks :)
😂😂😂 Thanks a million buddy!!! 😍😍😍 Really from the heart 😉 Yeah at the beginning I was very concerned about the density of stuff in this video, but I think it's easier to understand in a single chapter than divided in small subsections with some time between a video and another
Great video, mind breaking on some aspects! Thanks!
Thanks a million buddy!!!
Yes! Fantastic video, thank you!
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Seriously one of the best channels. Thank you so much for all the hard work. This video as all your videos are very informative and always helpful. Thank you Marco.
You're my painting hero !
😍😍😍😍😍 Thanks a million buddy 😍😍😍😍😍
Nice work Mr Marco
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Just found this, great work!
Thanks a million man 😍!!!
And said from you it's a huuuuge compliment 😊😊😊
I'm a great fan of your work!!!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM thanks mate, likewise!
@@trovarion we should do something together 😉😉😉
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM sure, anytime, mate!
Love the video. Can you please give some examples of the last tip you gave and how to do that. Warm light - cold shadows and cool light warm shadows.
Great video this week, it really sets us up for success. Looking forward to putting it into practice. 😉
😍😉 Thanks buddy 😍😉!!!
awesome! I'd love to see a second episode with more in depth examples
Thanks😁 Don't worry, it's already in the making 😉😉😉
Great video!
One suggestion. Its really easy, at least for me, to understand when its good and bad example. It would be really great to have kind of "this is bad and you need to do this and this to make it good". I believe I already saw its on some other channel - and as for me its the greatest thing how to learn things.
Anyway, the most important thing - continue, don't stop, you are the best!
Thanks a million 😊! Yeah I thought about that but I didn't want to be the guy that uses other people's works to say "do not do this"; I prefer to show you precisely what to do with the brush in my next videos
Here for the awesome tips AND the intro/outro music ;)
Thanks God!! Finally I understood how to use color theory. Some points that I could not understand became clear with their explanation. Thank you very much!
😍 Awesome!!! 😍 I'm sooooo happy to hear that the series is useful! And for any question and curiosity I'm always here 😉
Great follow up to your color theory video. Thanks!
Always such great inspiration and knowledge in your videos. My mind blev up!
Thanks buddy 😍!!! It's always a pleasure 😊
Super helpful, thank you very much!
It's a pleasure 😉😉😉
Thanks for this series, you have at least prompted me to buy a couple of different colour wheels, hopefully it might eventually sink in.
Nice video. Thank you
Thanks a million to you!!! 😉
Awesome video, very usefull, thank you so much.
Thanks a million to you!!! 😊 It's a pleasure!!!
Hey Marco great info and we can never have enough :)
Thanks a million!!! 😍😍😍
As always, awesome stuff and thankyou!!
Thanks a million to you buddy!!! 😊
Please tell me this is not the end of your color theory videos! Amazing techings Marco!
😁 Don't worry there's soooo much more to tell 😉😉😉
Really nice theory! Thanks for giving this vid! You seeded my brain, lets hope it will root and I will catch more about colering my Minis ;)
Glad I found this channel. Extremely useful tips. Now what I really can't figure yet, is how to make a color warmer or colder. I get the feeling when I see it but before putting it down on my figures I don't really have a clean vision. Is there a general guide on how to "think" on that ?
Awesome video! Very informative. I've been starting a necron army and have been trying to do everything NMM. Would love to see you trick out an immortal or a deathmark! Would like to see your take on some of the kingdom death miniatures as well! Plenty of Osl and contrast to be taught on Kdm minis!
Would you approach the idea of shading cool color with warm when approaching a pure black? Simply adding a cool hue to the highlight and contrasting warm to the shadow of a black? Currently painting a lot of ulthwe eldar that’s mostly black/bone colors, using a blueish grey for black highlights
This is exactly how you should work with black!!! You are on the right track
2nd time watching it and my is still blown. Great job with the explanation
Thanks a million!!! 😍😘😍
THNX:}
Being a space wolves fan I'd love to see a tutorial on cold winter light that puts these principles into action.
Probably it will be out in a couple of weeks 😁 in the meantime check this video to see various applications of these principles! czcams.com/video/hbosKSggxn8/video.html
I very much appreciate the color fundamentals theory instead of "watch me painting a model" video. It's like giving a fishing rod instead of the fish. Thanks!
Thanks a million man😁!!! Yeah this is exactly my idea; then I'm going to refer everything to actual techniques and approaches during the next painting videos but I really think it's important to understand the theory before moving to the brush 😊
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Waiting for more than. Good job!
Hat's off - not yours obviously, but definitely mine
I'll need multiple passes through this extraordinary vid to begin to usefully absorb the sheer spectrum of complexity and possibility but I know the opportunity is there to begin to think like an artist, this is the door to actual composition and not just hoping to fake it.
I also fully realise that if it wasn't you explaining this Marco, with your full disclosure/complete from first principles yet simply explained approach to building understanding then multiple passes would still leave me not much wiser.
The proof is - this is by no means the first vid on colour theory I've watched
It is the first one to leave me with even a sense of what it is I'm needing to grasp to make my colour and contrast decisions with reasoning and intelligence, rather than copying and trying to apply other talented folks colouring choices that I've seen obviously work strikingly to the model in front of me. Including previously stealing some of yours!!!
The door is ajar for me to learn to colour from my own grasp and understanding.
I've done it before from video, if I watch the original cut of the karate kid just 3 more times I get my black belt. Mind I've been waxing on and off for 22years and have worn three cars down to the doorhandles...
Five bloody ways????? That was when my eyes crossed and my hands began to shake...
Nice video dude! :)
Thanks a million man!!!
Great video, thanks for all the content!
I am having some trouble with oil washes, at the beginning works great but while applying the last models the oil breaks like when there is not enough pigment. Constantly mixing after applying and still happens. Any idea why?
Thanks again, amazing work!
Wow! That is a lot. 🤯
I will rewatch this a couple of times and take notes. A big thank you for doing this. It is awesome! 👍
Just one question, when you are working with a more 'grimdark' approach (I was thinking about your Admech tech priest you painted a while ago), do you mix a cold osl for contrast or maybe just go with colour harmonies instead and pick a warm osl? If this makes any sense to anyone...?
Great video, I can't wait until next time. 🙂
😍 yeah a lot of stuff 😅
With the "grimdark palette" you have a lot of freedom for these effects because you usually start from a very desaturated model so the tone for a light effect depends more on the mood and sensation you want to achieve; in a case like this the contrast by saturation and lightness is dominant and the choice of tones is less important
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Thank you for your answer! 👍
I think that is great to have the opportunity to ask you questions and to get answers! I'm very much grateful for this. Thanks again.
@@jonnyunga2945 It's a pleasure! This is my favourite part 😁 Videos are great but I like when they are the beginning of a conversation 😊
Men such a good channel
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the lightest value in the shadows should always be darker than the darkest value in the lit area....
yeah that makes sense. thanks.
Noice Noice. I need to watch it again a copule of times and make a list to properly absorb and apply these concepts. I remember a couple of amazing tutorials by Rusto and Franciuus trying to crack open the topic of values. I tried to find them on the Legiopictorum's website but I get some weird error and can't have access at all. I I can find only the facebook page. Totally unrelated, but congrats for your gold at Monte San Savino 2019 :)
Thanks! 😉 They are the best, every piece of theory from their experience is pure gold!
Thanks a million man 😁😍😁!!!
Grazie marco. Involontariamente l'avevo già fatto un procedimento del genere, usando lo zenithal highlight (per simulare le luci) e poi usare colori più scuri sul modello non toccato dal bianco, colori medi sul grigio e colori chiari sul bianco.
Mitico! Queste cose le abbiamo già negli occhi, è che il più delle volte non ne siamo consapevoli dipingendo
Se dovessi dire cosa effettivamente ha mai migliorato la mia tecnica, è lo zenithal. Per ora lavoro sempre in scala di grigi con le mie miniature usando lo zenithal, poi passerò ad altri colori. Però non è molto utile con le parti in acciaio, tipo gli spallacci dei sequitors, per fortuna hai già fatto un video su come fare bene i metalli con le pitture metalliche (e sul come colorare le pitture, tu usi gli inchiostri, io per ora uso solo i wash).
@@federico1263 lavorando così quando proverai gli inchiostri te ne innamorerai sicuro ;)
I'm curious as to what the black and white dots on the RCW mean. Thanks for the video
They represent commercial/traditional/named colours!
Gotcha
Thank you
fu*k knows what you're on about but love your videos regardless!!! Keep up the good work!
😁😂😁😂😁😂😁 Thanks man!
I don't really understand the picture at 9:30, with the 2 columns of similar color labelled warm and cool. Awesome video though. I have so much to learn.
Thanks 😊! In the picture you have the same hues but with different temperatures to show that even the "same colour" can produce contrast just with a temperature change
Heyho! I just watched this and I am a bit puzzles by how I should choose my colours to get a vibrant look. I am painting a mini in a very cold - overcast scene. She has blue skin and purple armour with lots of leather. How should I choose warm shadows for this scene? I can not really see how it would work now. I have tried experimenting and one thins I really liked, is how an ultramarine blue mixed with a red made a really nice dark crimson colour. I used this on a red cape and left the shadows a cool blue. But I am not sure how to add warmness to the other areas. Brown also worked nicely in my eyes, though I still have to enforce contrast. There I used glazes of purple mixed with sepia. But I am really puzzled by the purple armour. Should I use something like green? :O
Good morning friend.
😁😁😁 'Morning!
hey Marco. Can you simplify that thing with homework? Can I say if my highlights are greenish my shadows should be deep (dark) red and vice-versa? I guess it another question, but what if my colour is low saturated cyan tending to be cold white in highlights, should I do not just low value "bluish-greeny-white, but make it "warmer" somehow?
The most important thing and the starting point for any piece should be the main environmental light; that sets the temperature of highlights and shadows. In a winter scene even warm tones should have cold highlights and during the sunset even powerful cold tones have warm highlights from the sun.My best suggestion is to study illustrations and pictures in this kind of "extreme conditions". For the contrast of tones trust the color wheel and you can't go wrong!
Hi Marco! I love your channel, you are doing a great job, im learning a lot with your advices. Now im going to face a new project and i need some help. Do you want to play a game?😈 what colours would you say to pair off with this words: alien, urban, treacherous and technological.
I heard, colour-blind and people, who cannot see the entire colour spectrum, have a very good sense for contrast...no, idea if that's true.
One of my friends is colour blind and I can tell that's true!
@@vicsminiatures7949 Wow, that's so interesting! Do you have a video specifically talking about it? I just subscribed, great stuff!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM btw: which brand is that colour wheel you show in the thumbnail?
@@naphaneal It just says Pocket Color Wheel 😅 it's good for examples and teaching but it's not a great reference for the real work
Another great video full of information...now to kidnap you so that you can guide me through my work 😂😂😂
Or I could just watch the video a few more time 🤷🏽♂️
I sottotitoli automatici so bellissimi, sembra di rileggere le traduzioni automatiche degli spoiler di Naruto
😂😂😂LOLOLOLOLOL 😂😂😂 Sono tremendi pure quando parlano i madrelingua 😂😂😂
I think color theory is my Achilles Heel.
Man I should have taken notes... hah
-.- Still dont get that if Red is a Primary color (Cant be mixed) How the fuck can I then mix it using Magenta and yellow -.-
No automatic subtitles :(
Yeah, italians do it (chiaroscuro) better!
😂😂😂 true story!
You are very knowledgeable however, you would be more effective as a teacher if you showed examples of how to apply each of these principles.
I do those practical examples in every painting video! My channel is a constant conversation and this video was made to tie and explain past and future releases 😉