Level Up Your Painting: From Base Coat to Final Model; Answering YOUR Questions
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 มิ.ย. 2024
- Good afternoon!
In this week's video, I answer your questions on how to level up your painting: What base colors do I use, and how do they affect my final miniature, and where and how do I place my highlights and shadows?
This video is sponsored by Loot Studio, a company that produces beautiful and detailed 3d files for your 3d printer. You can learn more about Loot Studios and find there miniatures here: bit.ly/3adjqx6
Thanks to dicey_d_paints for helping me print this model! bit.ly/3p01zhl
00:00 intro
00:50 Base Coat
3:38 Highlights & Shadows
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How do you "level up" your miniatures?
Great video, per usual! I find that I level up most when I suck it up and paint a bust. I find that working on the larger surface encourages me to pay more attention and learn more about how my paints work. Techniques and learnings from there help me on smaller minis.
I usually don't make any kind of base for my minis, just slap them on the one provided. But I've started to "level up" by making a pretty basic base decoration, my last attempt was with GreenStuff and texture paint, then added a couple skulls.
It’s surprising how much a miniature can improve with a decent base!
I enjoy adding inks at the end of my projects.
Simply Amazing! Currently my level up has been using inks for highlights and shadows, but working towards using my AB on my first mini (been just playing with it on paper right now). The thing that is keeping me from leveling up right now is I forgotten how to base my mini's in the intervening 16 years, and it's really been a painters block for me the past couple of weeks, but I am trying to push through it, as per your advice. Also, your statement about life is as it should be with Mochi asleep on your lap was very Taoist, especcialy considering the visual of your black sleeve curled over the dichotomy of Mochi's fur!!
I really appreciate that you leave in your mistakes and thought processes on why it happened and how to fix it.
Thank you! I appreciate it. I think it’s important to let people know I’m not perfect!
I'm kind of a noob when it comes to paint, but your comment made me put a finger on some issue I regularly encounter. When you wath tutorials to learn, at some point, the skill difference make you ask yourself "allright, I don't get the same result as he does, when did I mess up and how" and often find no answer to that, because I'm simply not skilled enough to see where my deviation ruined the thing. Having a step back on every colour when I figure that it's going sideways is indeed helping, so tips to fix common mistakes are always good to take.
As someone who just botched a mini, this was very useful. I hadn't considered the different amounts of light reflection for different fabrics. Thank you!
Tbh, that tip about shiny fabric going up to white and less reflective fabric only going up to midtone is sort of a game changer to me. Thanks!
Anytime you want to paint something new, I always recommend looking at reference photos!
Yes that was a great tip and insight.
This is a great guide. I'm happy you had the guts to own your mistakes, too, instead of just editing it out and pretending everything is always great. It's a good confidence boost to people who maybe can't paint so well and also better than other youtube channels who just show a couple of brush strokes then skip to a perfectly finished mini
Agreed. Do you know any other painters who own up to their mistakes like this? I would like to watch them.
@@fauxpaint6633 Two that I can think of would be Uncle Atom from Tabletop Minions (when he paints on Twitch) and Dana Howl.
@@cordial001 Thanks. I appreciate your reply; it's cool this community is so friendly.
You really give a masterclasses for armor. Will definitely be using your minis as a reference.
The tip on holding your miniature as if your eye sight is the light source is genius!
I need all the help I can get improving on painting faces, and skin in general, so your videos are helpful in that realm. Also still perfecting my layering game, so again you're most helpful there!
I'm only 2 mins in but I can't get over how differently you hold your brush to me!
Brilliant! I love the final effects you get
This is SUPER helpful. You're very insightful, thank you.
Love the model! Thanks for the tut.
I think you did an excellent job, fixing the mistakes and increasing the contrast and highlights is just part of the process and it's natural that the shield would be a (albeit slightly) different color then the armor. This reflects that the armor and shield were made a different times and by different crafters and helps make the model more visually interesting. Samey is lamey, I've heard it said.
Wow! Amazing end result! Thank you for sharing your process!
Thank you for your kind words!
Dear Lyla, Brilliant tutorial and excellent painting. Please have a Happy & safe Christmas.
Amazing stuff - thank you for sharing your thought processes!
Absolutely! I’m happy to help!
Beautiful work!
so dedicated and good in teaching
Happy Christmas to you and yours, hope you have a wonderful time 😁
Thank you, you as well!
Cool channel Lyla!
The kitty. I absolutely love him.
Great video btw. Gonna apply these to some miniatures I got from wargaming exclusive and Ragingheroes.
That video is awesome, thx for it :D
That is awesome work love the final paint job ) Big like !
Learned a lot, thanks. yes, they are lucky they're so cute.
Great video. The shield dry brushing footage made me wince 😃
For dry brushing I’ve just started using Artis Opus series D brushes , they are amazing and make dry brushing a breeze. Great video 👍
Great cats. Thanks for sharing.
Drybrushing is a focused technique. That’s the lesson here. Less paint, better aim. Will work.
The points in this video are good.
Absolutely. I was imagining this more as a speed paint, so I took a risk at dry brushing hoping to be faster. Obviously, it didn’t work!
amazingg!
A very informative video i should say
As someone else who has cats (adorable little pests they are), I have taken to running an air purifier unit near my painting station just to keep the hair heading towards it
I still have to pick off primed hair and repaint now and then.
I think I’m in love , this girl
Is so dope !!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and advice. Hot nerdy chick's is always a plus as well 😘 hope you have a blessed and amazingly awesome holiday!!
Wow, I love you.....r channel ;-) Thank you for all this info.
the face on that figure looks so realistic
Perhaps a stippling maneuver for the shield since large areas are prime locations for this technique. It would have revived the grey and then reset the piece for the highlight. Bonus, you can receive a nice color transition for the dirrent blues expressed about the center details of that car door she is toting into mortal combat.
The rest of the vid rocked! Thanks for this workflow, I am taking notes lol.
Lovely cat, very good points, and great mini as a result! Kudos! (I have a very similar-looking black-and-white cat; does it mean I'm on the right track with painting? :-)
Wow Congratulations! your work is amazing! hope one day I could do paint something close to that - you got a new sub. Btw, your cat is amazing as well... :D
Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad my cats brought you joy.
I sympathize about the cat hair. My dogs' hair gets everywhere. I realized that my wet palette was collecting dog hair before I was done using it. I'm going to switch to smaller pieces of palette paper.
Oh man she has some kdm stuff. You got me
What do you think about adding shadows and highlights then adding something similar to contrast or thin air brush layers for your base color/colors? Then adding all the details and lining
In theory it sounds like it would work, but my question is: why? I would love your insight!
@@LylaMev well, I did one unit of striking scorpions that way so far. I did dark green primer for the shadow dry brushed white then light transparent green and the are basically done. Just gotta finish the details. Some dark lining would probably be good too. I'm no pro painter but the green came out really well with very little work. The details on the weapons and in between the armor still all takes me forever but the green is basically done unless I was to spice it up with lining and more contrast. They're not done yet but is your reddit linked in the description? I'll follow you and you can take a look if you want. CC welcome
@@LylaMev actually I see you have instagram I'll add the picture there
Oh! So you basically did a zenithal highlight with dry brushing! Interesting.
@@LylaMev yeah I guess so, but then super thin base color and most of the work was done. Instead of dry brushing you can do your highlights however fancy you want then bring them all under the same tone with a transparent layer. I think if you pick your primer and highlight colors right and do them first before a transparent base color you can save time. Idk I think it worked for the green
What type of Paint do you
Use
Hay, I was working on painting a hydra and messed up the paint, how would one go about stripping a model
Thank you for the tips! Did you use black for the lining between the armour and skin, or a dark blue/skintone?
I did use black!
@@LylaMev Thank you!
Cool stuff. #NotificationSquad
My favorite squad!
Do you use a magnifying glass to see some of the surfaces to paint?
I own a pair (see description box), but I don’t use them very frequently. Only because I don’t need them, I’ve gotten quite good art painting with my eyes alone.
Eldar vehicles in 40k are giving me a hard time. Typically I'd go for the old 'Eavy Metal style of edge highlights on everything but I see everyone else just do gradients with airbrushing etc. Except I'm grey and orange. Also Eldar vehicles are round instead of pointy. Am I paying attention too much to what others are doing?
Anyways enough ranting but love the content and visits from the kitties (I've two myself).
Got my first sable hair brush recently and was for some reason hesitant to use it. I tried it out today and it started out great but began to 'separate' at the end. I rinse it out pretty well and use brush soap to clean it and I didn't use all that much paint so it didn't go past the belly of the brush. Haven't had this issue with my cheap brushes. What gives?
It could be a bad brush. Early in covid they put most of the minks to death, and the farms haven't recovered fully.
@@IndraSunrise Wow. Jesus, that's not the reply I expected but thank you.
where did you get those twisted fabric photos at 7:29? As someone who is color insensitive. I have a hard time picking out gradations of color. Those swirls make it very easy to see the differences
I looked up "two toned satin" or two toned taffeta
@@LylaMev Thanks!
Do you test color schemes in photoshop or something?
I work up my miniatures in procreate, which is an iPad app for drawing.
Hi Lyla, I've seen your videos and you have inspire me to start painting miniature as a hobby. I live in the UK and I don't know what online shop to look to buy 10-20 miniatures of human soldiers to start. Do you have any idea? Also, how does work the patreon for your channel?
Good morning! I'm thrilled to hear I have inspired you. I believe that Mierce miniatures operates out of the UK, I have never bought from them, but I have heard good things.
For patreon, you can get access to my videos early, join my growing community on discord, and there is a tier where you can get custom feedback from me!
@@LylaMev Fantastic, I will this company here and try theirs miniature.
I will navigate to do the patreon, I liked how you offer the support. If I get stuck I will let you know.
Don’t forget to like and comment to appease the almighty algorithm 🎅👍🏼
Where can I find your discord link ?
You can join me on discord through any of my Patreon tiers!
"... not every part of the miniature needs to be perfect!" I see you have chosen treason ... on a more serious note, agreed however I like to paint every part to the best of my abilities depending on the accessibility.
Amy Lee from Evanescence painting warhammer !
I’m not sure what you mean?
@@LylaMev I guess he thinks you look similar to the lead singer.
I will take it! Evanescence was my band of choice as a kid!
Hi, Love your vids so far. So can you make one for us morons who have no talent but want to paint? I am soo intimidated. I have 3d printed a couple dozen minies etc but that painting part ugh. For someone like me who has no artistic talent and not a steady hand to paint 35mm d&d type figures is soo daunting even under a magnifier. like eyes and features are next to impossible. Can you make a toned-down one for people like me so at least we can make something acceptable to start with. I can do washes n all and make things like that look ok sort of. lol
Hello mlady, you are absolutely beautiful :) Have you ever done any WW2 mini's?
Tis witchcraft!!!! Nice piece
The best kind of craft is witch craft!
Draw sculpt Paint
Talented
0:12 - And where's the difference?
Just kidding! :-D :-P
What's your discord channel name? I'd love to follow you there too!
*Mevel up
Your eyes are hypnotic. You are an absolutely beauty.
Really nice 👌 😍💋 💝💖❤️