You might not want to cover nearly as much of the model, as you normally would with a zenithal … Are you looking at a quick way to improve your painting? It will look pretty pale on one, and fairly dark on the other.) It is also possible to apply the idea of zenithal priming/value mapping in a much more finished way. You are 100% correct that it is only one piece of the puzzle! 2019/05/12 20:37:00 Subject: GW Contrast … Remember – ultimately the contrast is more important than the blending! One of the things you’ll find over in that other post is larger pictures of the following figures. For me, at least, that idea is a little challenging to apply to miniatures. If you’re using an airbrush or spray-on basecoat, then you can just spray over the top with a thin layer: But I don’t have an airbrush or spray-on basecoat! This post continues a saga I began in an earlier post on the hobby of painting miniature figures. I started with a black prime and then a zenithal highlight with Wraithbone base with my airbrush. Given the nature of acrylic paint and how pigment colours behave, you would likely also need to apply some more opaque layers of paint, particularly for the top level highlights, but also possibly in other areas. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. https://www.andrewtischler.com/. Short film showcases quirky 72-year-old artist, AIDS activist Ryce Stoughtenborough; Dec. 12, 2020 1:30 a.m. I can’t think of an easier way to get a good looking army tabletop ready than the 100% POWERFISTED approved Zenthial Priming method. (For example, try painting the same midtone colour like a tanned Caucasian skin colour onto a black primed and a white primed figure. Then you’ll go over it all with a translucent paint that acts like a filter. And you can compensate slightly by adding other types of contrast, like using complementary colours on adjacent areas. Thin layers. I would like to strongly encourage you to do so. In the value map version on the left, you can see that I am not very worried about blending, and I’m completely ignoring details. Then you can get a better idea of how things work as a whole and whether you need to tweak some areas to be lighter or darker before you put a lot of work into blending and detail painting. Ask yourself a question: Do you like saving tons of time while painting? Zenithal priming is a way to apply a reference to the location of your light source directly to the miniature itself. After that I applied blocks of opaque colours over those maps, placing my highlight colours over the white, midtone colours over the gray, and shadow colours over the black. NOTE to painters of Bones miniatures: I do not recommend using spray primer on Bones. This site shows you how the app works and includes links. They can help you keep areas of light and dark in mind even while you’re distracted by other concerns like blending, and thus help you paint with more contrast. Again, use thin layers. ), Here is a site with a good visual example of a simple value study: https://www.dorian-iten.com/value-study/, This site demonstrates how even something that looks super sketchy and rough can be valuable to a well-executed end result: https://www.davidmkessler.com/blog/23789/value-studies-the-artists-essential-tool. 4th Aug 2017. Spraying with an airbrush has a smoother look. When I did take a close look some time later, it became obvious to me that the level of contrast was far too weak. In the meantime, here are some additional resources you might find useful. I went with a black/grey/white zenithal prime using my airbrush. Contrast works really well for some models/armies, I wouldn't want to use them for others. Again, the purpose is exactly the same as what we’re trying to do with our figures – ensure that the contrast level range between the darkest and lightest values is large enough enough and pleasing to look at. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have photos to show from such a span of years. You can find that kit at this link, from your local retailer, or numerous online shops: http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/learn%20to%20paint/sku-down/08907, Layering is not the only method for blending, though for a variety of reasons I do think it is useful for every painter to learn. Technically zenithal priming with a brush is possible, but significantly harder to achieve the same results. The colour you would glaze with depends on the colour shift paint. I mean, if you’re cash strapped or lazy you can get away with using 2 colors, but 3 gets best results. C-TOP quiere acercarte lo último en moda, estilismo, diseño de casas, cultura, viajes, gastronomía. I declared them done and didn’t really take a moment away from them and then come back for a close look to assess the overall effect. Now let’s discuss some methods you can use earlier in the painting process in order to try to minimize how much you need to adjust at the end. And be willing to do touchups and adjustments as necessary. After that you can paint the rest like normal. So if using only two values seems to challenging, consider using white, black, and one or two values of gray to create a Notan on your figures. I recommend trying some of the monochrome underpainting methods out because separating the stage where you work on values out from working on colour and blending helps to make it much easier to keep your focus on building higher contrast in your values. For the next step, layers of transparent paint were glazed over the underlying values on the cloak – dark reddish-purple in the shadows, red in the midtones, and a little orange in the highlight areas. Black line the full squad. (Some people do an intermediary step of spraying gray paint/primer to add the midtone values.) Notice the difference between the leg nearer the light and the one further back. Pale pink is a light value of red, brick is a midtone value of red, and a deep wine colour is a dark value of red. -Do a Zenithal from the top and side with pure white. One of the reasons I’m sharing these kinds of things on this blog is that I am hoping to spare other people some of the time and annoyance I’ve spent along the path of learning. This is a tip I got from Vince's video and I pretty much used it on all of the rest of the models. Paint used : -Mephiston red -Wild rider red (gw orange) -scale 75 flat black -vallejo air white If possible, take it in a dimly lit room. In that post, I described how I managed to paint the minis in the game Mystheato a satisfactory level. Using the ink over the black allows for a perfectly smooth zenithal transition without the grainy look usually caused by airbrushing white. The artist can refer to the value study during the drawing/painting process of the final work to ensure that they are capturing the full range of shadow and light they saw on their subject. Try it out on some photos of miniatures painted by painters you admire to give you a better idea of how to apply better contrast to your miniatures: https://blog.mitchalbala.com/compositional-studies-with-the-notanizer-app/. These are going to be a quick overview – each of these tips could be expanded to be a blog post in their own right! ( Log Out /  And you can compensate slightly by adding other types of contrast, like using complementary colours on adjacent areas. NOTE: I am going to use the word value a lot. EDIT TO ADD: I have an example of blocking in that I did in this PDF from Reaper, which also includes more information on painting lights and shadows to match a directional light source: http://www.reapermini.com/images/dungeondwellers/07002_BaranBlacktree_PG_low.pdf, Life Miniatures has some excellent tutorials demonstrating one kind of block in approach for major shadows and highlights followed by blending the transitions. Prime the full squad. This Blues Brothers graphic is an excellent example: Classic Notan – everything in the image is either black, or white. And then white straight on from the lightsource, it helps you increase the constrast of your OSL. The method is still the same. I primed some spare mans I had lying around with vallejo black primer. Then at a 45 degree angle, relative to the light source, spray the light gray. ), This page has photos of the process with a relatively simple portrait: https://mattharveyart.com/2017/11/28/portrait-painting-step-by-step-glazing-over-grisaille/, And this is an example using a more complex colour scheme: http://www.muddycolors.com/2017/08/what-lies-beneath/. Zenithal priming uses a gradient of grays to mimic the sun at mid day. Anthony Rodriguez (Pirate Monkey Painting) has a good overview of the major blending techniques (including layering) on this site. Prime with Rustoleum Painters Touch 2x … This is a way around the issue I mentioned up at the top in the Check and Reflect section – you can’t really judge whether the contrast range of your values is correct until you get the majority of them painted on your figure. It’s been almost a year since my last post on painting miniature figures. Then you spray white primer/paint ONLY from the direction of your light source. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. If you are unfamiliar with what zenithal priming is, we have a video on our Metalhead Minis YouTube channel that you can check out here: How to Zenithal Prime.You can feel free to fill in the eyes fully with black primer , or white primer, or leave it zenithal like how I have it. A value study is a quick sketch or painting of a subject or scene that concentrates on the values (the darks and lights) of the subject. Tutorial: ‘Mad Cating’ your deredeo- pinning, scouring, and green stuffing joints oh my! A common phrase from him is “Be sure to reserve your brightest value for last” which reminds me of this article. Using a spray can or airbrush with a bright color, usually white, you spray directly downward onto a dark-colored model. https://www.lifeminiatures.com/step-by-step, And at this point it probably won’t come as a shock to learn that this is something else practiced in traditional painting. It is interesting to see him work from blocking in, working his values to where he wants them and then bringing in detail. (Discussed more below.). The way the United States will formally choose its president on Monday stands in stark contrast to how most of the world’s democracies select leaders. General workflow was prime black, cover most of that with grey, zenithal prime white (all these steps by airbrush), then go in with the paints. 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Glaze red the full squad. Zenithal, meaning “located at or near the zenith”, is all about painting from above. The blog reader stats tell me that a lot of you haven’t read that post. My special snowflake color doesn’t have a wash! SAN FRANCISCO (5-9) at ARIZONA (8-6) Saturday, 4:30 p.m. Each of the tutorials has a ton of photos. The root causes have more to do with my failure to stay focused on the necessity of contrast, and the need to better train my artist’s eye to judge whether or not something has enough contrast. At the end of that post, I looked forward to painting the dragon Volfyirion and the miniatures in Icaion, both from Tabula Games. ( Log Out /  Excellent post on how to improve miniature painting by adding more contrast (e.g., the incorporation of a wider range of light to dark values), It’s a great post. Also note that there is less contrast in a more matte material like the leather, but I painted a higher degree of contrast on the shiny metal armor plates and dagger. • From the very top, spray in a 90 degree cone using grey. It is definitely more challenging to create smooth transitions when you have a more extreme range between your darkest shadow and lightest highlight. To push the contrast further, before moving on to the remaining basecoats, I thinned green ink heavily (8:1) and sprayed it from below to push the shadows towards green and have them contrast with the red armour. This kind of blocking in is the idea behind the technique called sketching that Alfonso Giraldes, Matt DiPietro, and other miniature painters often employ, particularly the European painters. • Prime the entire model black Sometimes I roughly block in the midtone, shadow, and highlight values of the major areas on my figure using black, white, and grey brush-on primer. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. (This particular approach is called planar painting, where each plane of the three dimensional object is painted the appropriate value based on the direction of the light source.) Zenithal priming is a way to apply a reference to the location of your light source directly to the miniature itself. Think of it more like a cylinder or tube that is in a particular position with light falling on it. Don’t go crazy. This figure was zenithal primed with spray primers. It can be a wash, glaze, or regular old paint applied from a rattelcan/airbrush. Seriously, just thin your paint more than usual with water and add some flow improver/gloss varnish (about 4:1) and you’ll get fantastic results: Ok, I am convinced, but what else can I use Zenithal Priming for? Just try to get the shadows, midtones, and highlights roughed in to their correct locations on the major areas of the figure. So as suggested, a basic zenithal spray of wraithbone over the top sets you up for any of the lighter colours really; Miniwargamer did that with the iyanden yellow Contrast for a browner version of Imperial Fists. Zenithal the full squad. Additionally Andrew Tischler is an oil painter with very watchable tutorials. The following is an example of my attempt to apply Notan underpainting to a miniature figure. Sure it will make the shadows less shiny, but it will add contrast. But it also leaves you the freedom to adjust and embellish as you see fit – I altered the midtone colour on the skirt from my original map, as well as painting it as more of a gauzy textured material. Zenithal Priming is priming your model with 3 colors instead of just 1. Underpainting: Sketching and Sketch Style, In the miniature painting world painters have recently begun using terms like sketching or sketch style to describe variations of underpainting applied to miniatures. This is an airbrush primer that’s great right out of the pot, but I still thin about 5:1 (primer:water) to make sure I get very thin layers. Edge highlight and orange lining the full squad. So my first tip is to  paint to the point where you’re finished or almost finished and then take a final look at the figure. You work on the big picture, then start to refine blending and details, stopping at any point where you’ve invested as much time into that miniature as you can afford. But it is possible to do something similar with colour. I coated the body of the model with Skeleton Horde and the tentacles with Magos Purple. Then a more opaque highlight was added in just a few spots that would be receive a lot of light. After taking pictures illuminating the figure with an in-scale light, I applied areas of black and white over the gray primer to block in a Notan value map. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Gavinthekaiser on reddit’s r/boltaction forum posted his Italian Gavinthekaiser painted with Citadel Contrast Paints in what might be one of the simplest, but effective paint schemes out there so far. I use a small and inexpensive LED light. Well my friends, Zenithal Priming is your answer for fast, easy, great highlights and shadows. It can be helpful to leave the figure to sit for a day or three before making that final assessment. His full length videos have been lost (he’s recreating these on Patreon I believe), but the text articles under the Brushwork Technique Articles heading include animated gifs that are great illustrations of the techniques: https://piratemonkeypainting.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/pirate-monkey-painting-basics-layering/. A discussion of classic Notan: https://blog.mitchalbala.com/the-wisdom-of-notan/, Using three and four value Notan: https://www.finearttips.com/2017/05/using-japanese-notan-design-principles-for-plein-air-painting/, There is an app for that! Generally you will use just three colors, black, gray, and white. Grisaille is also a well-established technique in the traditional art world, particularly for oil painting. Notice that there is no blending in this kind of value map, just a very clear indication of where things should be lighter, darker, or somewhere in the middle. When talking about colour, value refers to the lightness or darkness of the colour. Here’s what I’m going to do in this tutorial: While more nuanced, it’s roughly the equivalent of using a bright white primer, using vibrant layer paints, then putting a light coat of a sepia wash like Agrax Earthshade on it. In its purest form, Notan interprets a scene or subject in black and white only. Nice stuff. With this guy, I tried a zenithal prime, using Badger African Flesh Tone and Vallejo Bone. (A glaze is paint heavily thinned down with water, but applied in a controlled fashion rather than allowed to pool as with a wash.). If you prime the model black. In this post about how to paint miniatures with more contrast, I’m going to discuss technique and paint application ideas for how to increase the level of contrast that you paint into the shadows and highlights of your miniature figures. I’ll go over my efforts to paint Volfyirion in another mini-painting post. It doesn’t even have much to do with specific techniques or brush skills. The result allows you to easily see where light hits the figure strongly (white areas), or doesn’t hit the figure much at all (black areas), as well as the in between sections that should be midtone values . (I’ll cover colour contrast in future posts.) I always do a zenithal prime to help me establish my light points. I was asked if I could write a blog post on the subject of Zenithal highlighting and I was delighted to have a go.. Zenithal highlighting is simply a way of preshading a model. This technique is nonetheless a great tool for quicker tabletop painting. This can also be a useful method for speed painting or tabletop painting. The contrast is much less obvious when you first spray the model and everything is the same color but it comes to life as you paint more. Many Contrast colours still work nicely over somewhat darker base coats for a darker result, and work even better with a zenithal prime from mid tone to light. If you haven’t read the previous post about how to paint with more contrast, you will find it here: https://birdwithabrush.com/2018/10/06/how-to-paint-contrast-mind-games/. • The primer/paint MUST be applied through an airbrush or rattle-can You can use this as a ‘map’ for where to apply colour by applying opaque layers of paint in the correct value over the zenithal prime. These kinds of pictures make an excellent guide, but remember that different materials reflect light in different ways, so some will have higher levels of contrast than what appears in your pictures. I recently picked up an airbrush for Father’s Day and prime using Vallejo Surface Primer Black and Liquitex Titanium White Ink. Both black and white primers are extremes of contrast that will throw off your perception of the contrast as long as any primer remains in view. The mental goal to push contrast is as important or more so as anything you will find here. It forces the artist to look at the big picture of the contrast before they get lost in painting colour and details. Metal or hair, for example, are very shiny, so you will need to exaggerate the lights and shadows even more on areas you want to have look as if made of those materials. Seeing these at this smaller size is a good reminder of why we need to paint with contrast – gaming figures are small! Miguel Gutierrez makes treasures from trash. -Then spray a thin coat of Gloss varnish, this step is optional but the Contrast paint flows a lot better with it, staining a lot less flat surface. Get an overview of your big picture blocked in quickly to make sure the colour and value choices work before investing a lot of time into the work. • From the very top, spray in a 45 degree cone using white. All facets of … My goal is to establish the midtone, shadow, and highlight values on the large areas of the figure. You’ll apply black, grey, and white primers in a way that creates a gradient effect from the shadows to the upper most areas. White is the lightest value, and black is the darkest value. Then I hit the upper 90 degrees of the models with grey primer, thinned as above. My use of brush-on primer to map values is a similar thing, I’m just doing it on the same surface that I will do my final painting over. I actually like these results better, since washes will shade the recesses even more (for xxx pro MLG painting you could use BOTH a spray-on paint and wash. Just make sure all the layers are really thin): But BROFIST! I am considering whether to write a post with some tips for blending. I mean, if you’re cash strapped or lazy you can get away with using 2 colors, but 3 gets best results. For more details on my value mapping method, please see my post on painting ReaperCon Sophie 2018: https://birdwithabrush.com/2018/09/06/reapercon-2018-sophie-painting-process/. I put my the lighting reference photo shown earlier into a Notan app and applied a three value filter to give you an example of what that would look like. Zenithal highlighting is a key component in many speed painting techniques. Zephaniah Adriyen likes this Zenithal Priming. He is well known for advocating a system to make sure that each photograph had an almost black dark and an almost white spot. Zenithal priming is a method of underpainting, but there are other options for underpainting. My painting ability did improve over that span – I would not have been able to paint the freehand details on the 2015 figure in 2008. 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