Why do some Miniatures look better? - Painting volumes and light
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
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Why do some miniatures look better than others? This video might be the most important one i've released to date. It covers the topic of how light falls on different objects and how different shapes and volumes react differently to light. We go through the primary shapes, Cubes, Spheres and Cylinders.
A perfect how to paint tutorial for both beginners and experienced miniature painters a like.
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Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures. Games Workshop, painting with volumes, volumetric painting - Jak na to + styl
I would love to see a full paint through a model going through these sorts of steps. You'd be a good Bob Ross for minis!
I second this vote!!!! :)
Let's give this piece of armor a friend, right here...
I love Squidmar but Goobertown Hobbies has the Bob Ross of minis on lockdown...Just listen to that voice!
Please do this I am so lost this made zero sense
@@dillonbuescher1147 lol Brents voice is Bob Ross like 👍🏻
Hey guys, i completely f* up the name of the person painting the shield, it is of course Olmo Castrillo, a fantastic painter. Go check out his work:
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Didn’t think about the highlights in the under folds of clothing, been completely over looking that, awesome I learned something I can immediately use. Thank you!👍👍
This was really mindblowing to me :D
Well darn! There goes my "base coat followed by a wash" technique! Thanks for explaining how to emulate realistic lighting!
I played 40k in the 90s, just got back into it the last month or so. Don’t even have an army yet, just some guardians, a couple warlocks and a farseer, with more on the way (oldhammer minis ftw)…
I could paint decently back in the day. Well enough to win small local competitions as a youth. But times have changed. What I did back then is child’s play compared to the standard now. Which is awesome (if only GW would advance the Eldar mini line as much!), but has me working to catch up.
This video… I’ve watched it a dozen times and listened to it as many more. Thanks for this and your other tutorials. I’m already far better than I was back then, and I know I have a ton of room for improvement. Best of all, I see a clear path to get there.
Eldar could very well be getting a bunch of new stuff in the next few months!
A class on blending would be nice too! It would go hand in hand with this one!
early gang. "Working from home" actually means "working through dark imperium"
That is exactly what I have been doing! How did you know?
Love your channel !
After my devorce (20yrs relation & mariage) i was struggling and someone told me "Bro, go do something you loved as a kid. Its therapeutic and may help you", so i went back in time and rebooted a hobby i had as a kid. Modeling and painting..
I bought a 3D-printer and just started making things completely ignorant and unknown how much it meant to me... This ultimately pulled me back into the hobby and im lovin it! Feels like refinding parts of myself i lost during growing up.. It sure is true that growing up is the first step of loosing pure imagination and unbound fantasy one had as a kid.. Im realy happy i picked it up and refound a passion i had as a kid..
I havent seen much of your vids yet, just a few but i would like to thank you for giving so much insight on painting miniatures & the technics etc behind it all.. Much appriciated and keep up the good work! Thank you :)
You sir are a great teacher. Getting back into the hobby after over 10 years and you are making me very excited about the potential of my model painting!
Literally just finished airbrush glazing a basecoat on a set of Terminators and was wondering why they felt so "flat". Thanks for this! :D
Wow... just wow. I started painting a little less than a year and a half ago, and your videos have really inspire me a lot. I feel you're making me a way better painter. I don't have a lot of ressources and I never touched a brush or a camera in my life before all this, but the hobby is changing my life in a great way, and you are changing my hobby in an amazing way. So thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I hope I will some day be able to paint like a pro, I already see some amazing results! Keep on the great work, I'll be sure to watch everything to the end!
👑👑 I'm in the midst of releasing my dream miniature brush as well as some wonderfully sculpted miniature busts. It's something I'm really proud of and been working on for the better part of the last year. Late pledges are up and You can check it out here: www.squidmar.com/latepledge 👑👑
This video is amazing. The lighting for cylinders, cubes, and spheres applies to a lot of art, including miniatures, obviously. This is why I think that artists shouldn't specialize in one or two areas and instead branch out, because by doing that, you learn a lot that applies to all the other mediums that you enjoy doing. Thanks for the amazing video Squidmar, it's helped me a lot!
Oh, you sweet summer child... When I started painting - I sadly stopped a couple of decades ago - the White Dwarf was just coming up and Warhammer wasn't even released... So all this had to be learned by trial and error, by making the miniatures look as good as possible with as little work as possible. Acrylics were a new thing, so I learned this with enamel paints: totally different kind of torture, to be honest!
Now I'm contemplating on taking my ancient paint toolbox out and dust off the unpainted miniatures I still have stashed somewhere only because of all these lovely videos around CZcams. Your's being one of the top ones, for sure!
Same hee, warhammer wasn't a thing when I started, and some of those paint jobs were horrible to behold. No tutorial videos in those days, not for a long time after that. I dusted of my old kit and old models about 2 years ago and I'm just about seasoned enough to put out a few tabletop ready miniatures now. They're not great, but they're not totally embarassing either! I've got a lot of very old metal miniatures, some from D&D, some from warhammer and some from the old fantasy gamebooks like Lone Wolf. I need to paint them up and try to make them look decent!
Everytime I have some doubts about how to use the lights to highlight my models I come back to this video. It's hard for newbies to understand how to run away from the "eavy" way to paint Space Marines and this video really helps to shine a light on the subject (pun intended). There are a lot of good painters out there but you are one of those who really contribute to teach. Thank you and you team.
This was eye opening! I paint as I listen to your videos and I was able to immediately appreciate the shapes on my mini and try some new techniques! I’ll be able to use this on every mini and I’m definitely sharing this with friends! Keep up the awesome work, thanks so much!
That last detail about the center line in the chest and the folds on cloth just blew my mind. Thanks so much for all your videos! Every time you post I get super motivated to paint and improve.
Mind blowing Emil on how you approached something quite "scientific" and explained it perfectly explained. Great video. Thanks.
Honestly the most important video for developing my painting I’ve ever watched. I come back to it once a year at least
Really love this format of videos where you take time to explain stuff that might seem granted to advanced painter but isnt for peoples who just started a while ago with 0 background in this kind of hobby. Very helpful even tho indeed my "brain" seem to try to do it naturaly.
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen...absolutely interesting. I learned so much, thank you Emil!
When I was younger I always thought it was a 3d shape anyways, so it should produce its own shadows and you wouldn't need to add any...
I still think like this lol. You have to get into thinking that the model might as well be in a painting scene. With different light sources and effects, that affect the composition.
It does it's just not as pronounced, and this way looks cooler so it's what people are looking for now
The thing is, the brain processes many things in conjunction with one another. The amount of your field of view taken up by an object is far from the only thing the brain considers when determining how big something actually is. Shading, relative sizes, parallax, and even high-level concepts like what the object is used for all contribute to the final perception of an object.
This why you can have a 100 foot sculpture of a spoon a few hundred feet away that might look like it is right in front of you, or a miniaturized figure of a building within in a whole miniaturized cityscape that encompasses your entire field of view seem like it is hundreds of feet tall.
You learn to see in color within a month or two of birth. You learn object permanence in about a year or so. You don’t come with the understanding that a cube oriented differently and at a different distance under different lighting conditions is the exact same cube. You have to experience that cube repeatedly and under different parameters for your brain to associate all the different visual patterns as a single physical object.
That’s why baby mobiles are so important. They “distract” babies because their 100 billion neurons are busily looking for jobs to do. Without purpose, neurons die. Boredom is the result of neurons looking for work to do. Just like in human societies, as some neurons take on certain tasks more efficiently than ten neurons handling that task, those other nine neurons need to find a new task to handle.
The day you stop learning is the day your neurons start dying. You are your neurons, so that’s when you start dying too.
Me too! But there are important differences between a model an the full size real world. For example the structure doesn‘t go very deep in a model, so the differences in brightness are far less pronounced than in a real size object. I think this is also because the light reflection of surrounding things (like the table) has it much easier to get in into all the folds and dents.
Thank you for the content, That is amazing to break down miniatures to primary shapes! That is so cool, I think in miniature the zenith highlighting takes care of some of it. The scale we work in definitely depends on the kind of highlighting we do. 100% I think this is great guide line to bump up the quality of miniature painting and can't wait to implement this theory to my miniature painting.
This is honestly great, you explained it in a style that really helped me understand it. Moreso than tutorials that feel more Friendly.
I'm fairly sure I understood all of this already, but it was so nice to hear the way you described it and showed it to us with so many visual aids.
Excellent tutorial!
Massively helpful, thank you soooo much.
I feel like I'm back in Drawing 101 learning still lives. Great job explaining the basic shapes and how to form the volumes. Reminded me of a professor I had.
Best explanation of painting minis I've ever seen. Keep up the videos / tutorials.
Excellent explanation! Especially that recesses can be in direct light!
WoW, this video is awesome. You open my mind now I really understand how I have to think when I piant my miniatures. Thank you very much.
Dude, I'm learning so much from your videos. My dreadnought is gonna look a lot better now thanks to you
love to hear more like this, really think this is a good place to start learning!
This video is what made me subscribe! Great explanation, good example and interesting theory. Good job! Keep it up!
Started a new group on your and Scot's advice. We randomise a list of topics and generate a piece of a model to paint in a week. First week is a cloak and we already have 20 members.
Low pressure but consistency will hopefully get us all painting more. Also pushing each other to do better.
Thank you for the inspiration!
It's always good to consider new advanced techniques whether you intend to use or not. Great Vid!
Thank you Mr. Squidmar Sir. Very helpful 👍🏽
Yes. This is what we all want. All the time.
Great video. Well thought out, explained clearly things I never thought of in painting. Well done Squidmar.
Thanks for covering this, helps a lot of those struggling with why their paintjobs don't "pop". Here's another quick tip I've picked up:
Learned while working on OSL techniques that lightsources shed light at roughly the square of distance. Sounds complicated? Think of it this way: Every 1m away from a candle, the light gets 4 times as dim. Depends on the lightsource of course, your feet aren't that much further from the Sun than your head is compared to how far the Earth is from the Sun. This is why most paintings and paintjobs judge the light situation to be overcast/gloomy instead of full sunlight, easier to work with shadows and light when the contrast isn't too drastic.
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This video is one of the Best vids out There on painting :) thanks for it.
I'd love a few more of these videos! Just going into detail for one simple factor of painting. Like a Masterclass series?
Superb explanation of light physics in painting. Hats off to you Emil. Good explanation with good examples of how it applies to miniatures. 👏
As a physicist I know tons of bytes of knowledge about light and maths, but I had zero idea about painting 🤣.
Thanks for the video! Prety nice. I started looking at your videos one week ago and now I am already a Big fan of your work
3 years later and this is still the most important video you've ever released ^_^
Highlighting as I am watching this. I am finding myself shifting the highlights to go along with what your saying. Thank you.
I love these kinds of videos, and hope you do more of them! I'd really enjoy seeing you do some analysis on BattleTech minis, since they have SO MANY flat surfaces/cube shapes and are very difficult to do super realistic.
After watching this video and getting a wet pallet my miniatures look like another person with skill painted them! Great video and fantastic advice!
Excellent video, looking forward for the next part !
Thank you, I learned to look at miniatures in a different light.
sir you just opened my eyes to a whole new level
thank you kindly
Really good video, this is gonna improve my painting a ton! its nothing i didnt already know but this was a very digestible refresher.
That was super cool and informative, thank you !!
Fantastic video to highlight (😜) some very fundamental concepts that can dramatically shift our skills when we aware of them, understand their impact and how to utilize it with the tool we have, and put them to use! I would love to see a followup video (or videos) really getting into this topic more and more. Thank you!
I’m going to watch this again when I’ve recovered from working nights. It will sink in better
In the grim darkness of the future, there is only nightshift...
Amazing video you are a great communicator and teacher thank you !!
thank you emil! very inspiring
Great video. One to refer to again and again 👍
This is your best video for me, thank you.
This video helped me understand shadow and highlight better, even though I don't do miniature painting
Hey Emil!! First time commenting on one of your videos (I think) but I've watched loads, so thanks for all your content so far!! Your vids are great during the lock down and keep me inspired. I loved the theory in this video and a full theory class series would be amazing!! Keep being awesome
Theory heavy, but very useful! Thanks for taking the time to make an a complicated subject more approachable with visuals!
Love your vids, bro! Awesome channel!
Interesting subject, will definitely try to focus on this next time I paint. And those brushes looks pretty...
Ok this was way more interesting than I expected honestly.
Great video. Thank you for teaching me....
Thank you for this explanation!
From the thumbnail, I can tell you immediately that the right one looks better because it's a primaris :)
Wow, yes it was heavy and hard, but i think with a bit of patience and practice, we can all master it! Thanks Emil!! 😁👏🏼👏🏼
WOW, this was excellent.
This really helped me understand. Thanks
How are you sooo gooooood?
Btw lets go Duncan!
Great video, going to apply this knowledge asap! Thanks Papa Squid! 🦑
Idea: Paint your armies by light types. Morning or Evening; High Noon; 45 Degrees ... or some such distinctions. Perhaps a video of three different minis painted to show different degrees of sunlight (or moonlight, or lamplight, or firelight.)
That's a really cool idea!
JUST how I tech this stuff to others as well. Tubes, spheres etc. GREAT way to explain it! *hälsningar från en 45årig konstnörd!*
Amazing as always!
Brilliant video. Very informative. I learnt a LOT.
Excellent tutorial! I'll certainly have a crack this week
This video is the reason why I’m a patron 👍🏻 Don’t know if it will make me any better at painting, but atleast I know more of why it looks like my 3yo paints my minis :)
Thank you for this.
Such an informative video - it gets the brain going like you said but very helpfully - challenge accepted for next thing I paint
Great breakdown!
This was an amazing video! I would love more on the subject on 'highlights in shadows' and 'shapes in shapes'. It is difficult, but I feel like I am on the verge on understanding it from your explanation. I would love some more examples.
Great video. Very helpful.
Such a good explanation
Great breakdown man! Thanks!!!!
Good video, thanks Emil!
This has been so helpful!! Ur so so good thankyou
Det här var hur nyttigt som helst! Mycket informativ och bra. Hoppas att du lägger upp en video om ljussättning för NMM också. 😀
This is really good advice. Would definitely love to see you paint a miniature following these guidelines.
Man this is great, cuz this also applies to drawings, as WELL as mini painting.
Thx man, I probably won't be painting for much more than just so I don't have bare models, but maybe one day I'll have some HD marines
Damn... amazing work!
Thanks man this was really helpful. Iam still a beginner and iam always struggling with what parts i need to highlight so i try to copy it from boxart or pics online and i was never really sure how other people choose what to highlight. I will definitely try out to understand it better and highlight proplerly :)
Great video. I’m kind of struggling with light sources on bases with flat tiles/ brick work at the moment
Mind. Blown.
this was great!
Awesome tutorial
I also use imagining the angle in which is the light hiting the surface. If it is acute angle, it is going to be dark and opposite in the obtuse angle. So if the light hits the cilinder it will be bright in middle because of the 90° angle and it darkens with decreasing angle.
This video was much needed! I have tried to explain these concepts for years to people! Now I'm just going to link them here. Thank you Squidmar! Have you thought about showing off your Goblin Army? Keep pushing to be better.
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Great topic video.
Thanks for teaching. Is difficult and neeeds a lot of practice. I promis I’ll try