"...color is a secondary aspect of building the picture. What really creates realism, sence of volume, weight and drama in the figure is the correct use of light and it's values. Then color brings the powerful emtional part of the experience, the sence of temperature and relation with environment."
video was suggested by "poor hammer" youtubers and they are big fans of yours. I am, now, also a fan :) lot's of great information as I'm entering 40k and painting. Thank you
This. This is where I learned the name of what I was doing. One year before 'Slapchop'. An art pro teaching noobs like me what I was doing and how to do it well. Grazie mille, Marco!
"The video took a philosophical turn..." No disrespect to say Marco that for all my appetite to improve the results of my mini painting, I'd never have imagined myself getting drawn into an informed and educated deconstruction of Carravagio's technique in a particular painting. How on earth did you manage to bring me here Marco??? How on earth did you get me focussed on greyscale value sketching the composition's focus over a warm brown background sketch and then glazing fleshtones on top with an appreciation of how doing it that way had brought such luminosity to the skin??? It's not that I watched it, I'd have looked at it as part of a vid that showed me better mini painting. I'd have done that. It's that I peered at it and appreciated the skill, the process and the vision that helped him to realise the scene that way. That in this small way, Carravagio is now helping me appreciate and visualise how I can bring more radiance to the important focal areas of a model. That now I can create a quality of light that before was outside my range and the province of much better painters than I. Of course much of the time I'll get it wrong, it'll look crap and overdone and I'll have redo it more than once. BUT, I'll get better with practice, and that particular door is today open a crack, I can feel the breeze from it. I'm not in the room but I can smell the master's turpentine You, surprise me over and over, Marco, I've seen Carravagio's work, stood in front of it and remember being struck by the power of it. A quality of light he brings to the people in his paintings that seemed a mysteriously high art, magical. The Cucifixion of Saint Peter for the Cirasi Chapel I've (only) seen in coffee table books and I've only appreciated it as art, the skin and that face particularly, but I've never imagined relating it in any way to my painting. It's high art, not tabletop hobby. Doesn't look like the same approach to me, I'm not saying that, but as a painter he'd have a range of superbly executed approaches for any subject. But till now I've only thought of Wow, never thought of how, never smelled the turpentine. You did that for me, not even Carravagio had done that, took Marco the joyful, passionate, skilled teacher - still don't like your Blood Angels tho ;0P
Just came from the latest Artis Opus video. Double treat, double threat. Between these 2 channels, I feel like I'm learning so much about modern mini painting. It's changed a lot since I last painted seriously in my early 20s.
Same here... in my teens there was white dwarf to stare at and armenist mini photos. I only wet the brush with my mouth when grabbing paint straight from the pot, working the excess on a News paper before applying the thick paint on my minis as thin as I could... the hobby sure has changed since then... roughly 24 years ago.
I'd argue that the hobby hasn't changed much... We're just catching up with the stuff that we view as being on the fringes of the center of the universe that is "painting really small stuff."
Just wanted to say that you're my biggest source of inspiration for miniature painting! I love your energy and if i'm feeling lazy or not motivated, one video from you makes me pick up the brush! Keep making these awesome videos! 😍🏆
Agree 100%. Love the fast pace as well. I’m new to painting and struggling with flames and power armour/weapons. Checking if he has tutorials on those with contrast paints =)
Marco you are a god. I was working on a contrast-over-zenithal mini just as I saw the video in my subscriptions. This has been a masterclass of what I was trying to do.
Yes Marco! I'd love to see more about this style, especially when applied to high quality speed painting! (I love ways of cranking out lots of minis that look good)
Another awe-inspiring video. When you did the blend of akehlian green and snakebite on the second cloak I immediately thought I've seen wood that color, then you use it for wood just seconds later. Your Kung-Fu is strong sir! Thank you for sharing and please stay safe!
I see you quietly renaming old videos to keep up with the trends. Always ahead of the curve, Marco. This is probably my third watch through and I'm still gleaning new info.
Your approach to painting miniatures is what makes this hobby for me; it‘s what keeps me painting and trying new things, not just following „recipes“ regarding amounts of drops or SPECIFIC paints or whatever. „Use a vibrant red for this“ is so much more sincere and paradoxically so much more exact than saying „use red“... Whenever I watch one of your videos it’s like I‘m watching something from another artistic level... so many other painting channels on UA-cam are just so... I don‘t know, „normal“? Just „the usual“? „Boring“? A mix of all these things. By no means do I say this to bash the other mini-painting channels, there are many that I like, but NJM is just so unique; your finished miniatures look like a work of art. There are many other painters that paint minis well, but many don‘t care at all for making their style approachable. Hell, if I paint a mini, I always ask myself: „What would Marco do? What would his way of making this thing UNIQUE be?“ And I always find inspiration in your videos. I don‘t want „battle-ready“ Blood Angels in 10 minutes, I want amazing shiny red bloody bois, like you did in the last video. Using so many different tools, techniques and approaches without saying „You have to use THIS brand or THIS technique exactly as I do.“ You always explain WHY you do things, not only HOW, and break it down into DOABLE things for people coming back into the hobby. It‘s not about obsessing about the left arm of your model and have 27 skin tones, layer them and then they look good, it‘s about the undercoat, interesting moduleyshon ( :D I just LOVE your accent, attitude and energy, your HELLOOO GUUUYS always makes me happy ;) ), and then an oil wash to top it of. No Witch craft, no BS, just the well thought out usage of your tools. And in the end, all of your stuff looks SO much more interesting to me than 99.9% of literally ANYTHING else in this hobby. It‘s like watching what Raphael or Michelangelo would do if they were alive today and miniature-loving nerds. Just masterful! And by doing it the way you do, you keep motivating me; I try to approach miniature-painting in a way as close to yours as possible because I believe that if you aim close to the bull‘s eye, you will eventually hit it much easier than if you just aim for the whole target blindly and hope for the best. Thank you for that ;) I hope that one day I can come up with as genius ideas in the mini-painting hobby as you ;) be it a really unique warband, a whole army or just a single model. Thanks for uploading these KNOWLEDGE-BOMBS every week, it makes these COVID-times really so much more bearable. I can really feel your enthusiasm and love for the subject, it’s just a joy every time. Alright, that‘s a long comment, but it‘s sincere and honest ;) Already looking forward to the next one (and now back to binge-watching all your other videos until then, as usual, albeit this time including the amazing grisaille-info)!
The advent op "slapchop" made me think about getting into painting minis again, but this video really makes me excited about getting back in. I really want to try this, as it seems like something even I could do! Great video! Thank you.
Marco, youve opened my eyes to the possibilities of miniature painting. Ive been stuck in the traditional GW method, which isnt a bad thing at all! but having you open these doors that i didnt know were even there when it comes to miniature painting has really made me a better painter. Thankyou!
Marco, the image of the woman along with the explanation of light and values to create depth really really hit home. As I was looking at the image it stood out to me that color really is secondary but to make realistic art, you have to master depth. You are such a great teacher sir!
There's all sorts of science behind it, rooted in the way we perceive the world around us... Generallly speaking, shape and form are of higher priority to us than colours. It's always useful to take a picture of your minis and change it to greyscale. If it doesn't "read" well in black-and-white, you probably need to rework your values (light and dark).
I love this use of contrast paints. I used them as glazes over highlights before but never thought to paint the whole model this way. Keep up the fabulous content.
I did Zenithal highlights either drybrushed in, or spray painted on for years. You talked about using white inks to do it and I was a skeptical because of the way inks work. But having a white ink from my inktense set, I tried to brush in some white ink on a miniature. Wow. I will doubt you no more. White ink is amazing and works like magic for zenithal! It also has a side benefit of creating a grayscale of its own, that is harder to achieve with drybrushing. Thank you very much for you advice and your work!
ahhhh holy sh*t u are so freakin awesome! during xmas holidays i had time to build and base my complete fotbidden fortress all in pledge and was lookin for a way to paint them.... wanted to try contrasts but wasnt sure... and stuck in the process... lost interest... but now i am burning again! ready to do my homework in a less complex way but i will definetly give it a try!
Love it! These kinds of mini painting videos are way more interesting than the old step by step. I'll revisit this one soon just as I have revisited the Zorn video quite a few times already
Awesome as always Marco! Caravaggio being my favorite painter (the guy was practically almost the first cinematographer) I really appreciate your insight on these videos! Coming from a photography background, this technic makes soooo much sense! I'll use it very soon! Thank you!
100% giving this a go. It is very close to how I currently use contracts but without knowing why, but looks like a good way to be more intentional. PS your channel is by far and away the best mini painting channel on you tube. Keep doing your magic.
I find this grisaille style underpainting the most natural for me because my artistic experience was with graphite drawing. This technique has helped me become so much more successful with painting colors. Thank you for sharing your approach and teaching me more about the art history behind the style. Great video.
Once again always an inspiration. 😍 I may have bought far too many contrast paints that for the life of me always dissolve my white ink when I airbrush my zenithal. They sit on my shelf taunting me, and now Marco has given me a new use for them! Can't wait to try!
Hope you had a good holiday dude, I'm thrilled that you're back! I'm always inspired by your cheerful, enthusiastic, and encouraging content. It happens like every weekly release, so I shouldn't be surprised at this point when you teach me something in 10 minutes that opens a mental pandora's box and blows my mind because I was unaware that box existed and needed opening! Thanks for the brilliant videos.
Still Criminaly underated Chanell. I Love it.
Indeed I cherrish a lot this channel after this video
Really Nice and fast!!!!
Hands down the best mini painting hobby channel
"...color is a secondary aspect of building the picture. What really creates realism, sence of volume, weight and drama in the figure is the correct use of light and it's values. Then color brings the powerful emtional part of the experience, the sence of temperature and relation with environment."
video was suggested by "poor hammer" youtubers and they are big fans of yours. I am, now, also a fan :) lot's of great information as I'm entering 40k and painting. Thank you
Thanks for making videos like this!
Marco, you should know that we aren't just here for the amazing paint jobs, but also the art history! Great video as always.
Wow thats something completly new to me! Thanks a lot
your videos are simply addictive
Loved the little art history lesson in the middle!
I absolutely love your edit to the title 😂😁
I have found my technique for Flesh Eater Courts... Another fantastic video
Every time I watch your videos, Marco, I’m inspired to go paint again. Thank you
This. This is where I learned the name of what I was doing. One year before 'Slapchop'. An art pro teaching noobs like me what I was doing and how to do it well. Grazie mille, Marco!
Of course I am interested for more Marco. I need more, forever, always!
"The video took a philosophical turn..."
No disrespect to say Marco that for all my appetite to improve the results of my mini painting, I'd never have imagined myself getting drawn into an informed and educated deconstruction of Carravagio's technique in a particular painting.
How on earth did you manage to bring me here Marco??? How on earth did you get me focussed on greyscale value sketching the composition's focus over a warm brown background sketch and then glazing fleshtones on top with an appreciation of how doing it that way had brought such luminosity to the skin???
It's not that I watched it, I'd have looked at it as part of a vid that showed me better mini painting. I'd have done that. It's that I peered at it and appreciated the skill, the process and the vision that helped him to realise the scene that way. That in this small way, Carravagio is now helping me appreciate and visualise how I can bring more radiance to the important focal areas of a model. That now I can create a quality of light that before was outside my range and the province of much better painters than I.
Of course much of the time I'll get it wrong, it'll look crap and overdone and I'll have redo it more than once. BUT, I'll get better with practice, and that particular door is today open a crack, I can feel the breeze from it. I'm not in the room but I can smell the master's turpentine
You, surprise me over and over, Marco, I've seen Carravagio's work, stood in front of it and remember being struck by the power of it. A quality of light he brings to the people in his paintings that seemed a mysteriously high art, magical.
The Cucifixion of Saint Peter for the Cirasi Chapel I've (only) seen in coffee table books and I've only appreciated it as art, the skin and that face particularly, but I've never imagined relating it in any way to my painting. It's high art, not tabletop hobby.
Doesn't look like the same approach to me, I'm not saying that, but as a painter he'd have a range of superbly executed approaches for any subject.
But till now I've only thought of Wow, never thought of how, never smelled the turpentine.
You did that for me, not even Carravagio had done that, took Marco the joyful, passionate, skilled teacher - still don't like your Blood Angels tho ;0P
Absolutely amazing, absolutely fucking amazing
Loving these. Great work.
Super excited to test this on a mini!
I think you just changed everything about mini painting for me with this video
😁😍😁😍😁
Unreal as always my man!
Came here from the Poorhammer podcast, my mind is absolutely blown
Same, it took me so long to work out what they were saying
I love how you apply fine art and art history to your videos. Makes for great videos I can't find elsewhere!
I really enjoyed this; thank you!
Awesome. So much extra information on top of the technique.
Wow...just wow
Maaaaaaaan! That looks like an awesome exercice! Will definitely try it soon :)
Thanks Marco for the insight into vollume, highlights and depth. And that color can make them shine .
Thanks for the lesson Maestro! :)
Fine art is why I'm subbed.
Just came from the latest Artis Opus video. Double treat, double threat. Between these 2 channels, I feel like I'm learning so much about modern mini painting. It's changed a lot since I last painted seriously in my early 20s.
Sprinkle in some Trovarion, and you've got everything you need
Same here... in my teens there was white dwarf to stare at and armenist mini photos. I only wet the brush with my mouth when grabbing paint straight from the pot, working the excess on a News paper before applying the thick paint on my minis as thin as I could... the hobby sure has changed since then... roughly 24 years ago.
I'd argue that the hobby hasn't changed much... We're just catching up with the stuff that we view as being on the fringes of the center of the universe that is "painting really small stuff."
"Hello guys!"
That mini looks amazing!
Your vids are filled with so much wisdom
Very interesting technique! And the result is excellent 👍 👍 👍
I love this guy!
Super video, Marco, thanks! Keep the cool stuff coming!
Thank you for the video. Always a treat to take a look at classical painting techniques
Just wanted to say that you're my biggest source of inspiration for miniature painting! I love your energy and if i'm feeling lazy or not motivated, one video from you makes me pick up the brush! Keep making these awesome videos! 😍🏆
Thanks a million man!!! This is the best compliment ever 😁 I'm really happy for this flow of inspiration!!!
Agree 100%. Love the fast pace as well. I’m new to painting and struggling with flames and power armour/weapons. Checking if he has tutorials on those with contrast paints =)
Marco you are a god. I was working on a contrast-over-zenithal mini just as I saw the video in my subscriptions. This has been a masterclass of what I was trying to do.
😁😁😁 I love when this perfect timing happens!
THis is awesome Marco!
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooo much Dan!!! 😍 Super appreciated!!!
Did not expect to see you here!
No waaaaaay - greetings from Congleton haha
Look at this king
Amazing! So much i dont know about! Great work on this video, so enlighetening. Loved it as always!! Stay safe and healthy and see you next time!
Fantastico!!!! Eh niente, mi metti sempre idee nuove in testa!!!!
😁😁😁
Every video is like taking a college level art class. Always a joy to watch. Can't wait to meet you at Adepticon!
I could watch you paint all day 👍👍 and the added art history lesson is a bonus 🤣
I absolutely love your accent.
Love it! Seems like a very important exercise for learning where light falls on miniatures.
Thanks for the video. Clever and interesting technique beyond just zenithal highlight.
I adore how you include classical art techniques and history!
I used to paint like that without knowing... I think it's very nice technics for begginers and a huge playground for colors
Terrific video! This is 100% the most important topic for me at the moment, I would love to see more videos on it.
WOW dude, ur are such a great painter
I am so happy to see you painting Malifaux! They have such wonderful models, and I wish I would see people paint them more often.
They really are awesome. I just wish the miniatures were a bit bigger.
Yet another great video Marco! Thank you for the time spent making it! :D
Fantastic video!
Thank you so much for sharing your extensive knowledge. Your channel is one of the best for painters looking to upgrade their skills.
I really need to try this! Really amazing!
Really excited to keep experimenting with this style of painting!
Amazing!
Mi sto spostando sempre più verso questo stile, e devo dire mi sta dando soddisfazioni che mai mi sarei aspettato. NJM GOAT
And another amazing video with a wonderful and different approach to painting miniatures! Thanks Marco! 🙌🏻
Yes Marco! I'd love to see more about this style, especially when applied to high quality speed painting! (I love ways of cranking out lots of minis that look good)
Great video! Love to see more fine art lessons brought into the hobby. I think I will take on this homework challenge!
Another awe-inspiring video. When you did the blend of akehlian green and snakebite on the second cloak I immediately thought I've seen wood that color, then you use it for wood just seconds later. Your Kung-Fu is strong sir! Thank you for sharing and please stay safe!
I see you quietly renaming old videos to keep up with the trends. Always ahead of the curve, Marco. This is probably my third watch through and I'm still gleaning new info.
Your approach to painting miniatures is what makes this hobby for me; it‘s what keeps me painting and trying new things, not just following „recipes“ regarding amounts of drops or SPECIFIC paints or whatever. „Use a vibrant red for this“ is so much more sincere and paradoxically so much more exact than saying „use red“... Whenever I watch one of your videos it’s like I‘m watching something from another artistic level... so many other painting channels on UA-cam are just so... I don‘t know, „normal“? Just „the usual“? „Boring“? A mix of all these things. By no means do I say this to bash the other mini-painting channels, there are many that I like, but NJM is just so unique; your finished miniatures look like a work of art. There are many other painters that paint minis well, but many don‘t care at all for making their style approachable. Hell, if I paint a mini, I always ask myself: „What would Marco do? What would his way of making this thing UNIQUE be?“ And I always find inspiration in your videos. I don‘t want „battle-ready“ Blood Angels in 10 minutes, I want amazing shiny red bloody bois, like you did in the last video. Using so many different tools, techniques and approaches without saying „You have to use THIS brand or THIS technique exactly as I do.“ You always explain WHY you do things, not only HOW, and break it down into DOABLE things for people coming back into the hobby. It‘s not about obsessing about the left arm of your model and have 27 skin tones, layer them and then they look good, it‘s about the undercoat, interesting moduleyshon ( :D I just LOVE your accent, attitude and energy, your HELLOOO GUUUYS always makes me happy ;) ), and then an oil wash to top it of. No Witch craft, no BS, just the well thought out usage of your tools. And in the end, all of your stuff looks SO much more interesting to me than 99.9% of literally ANYTHING else in this hobby. It‘s like watching what Raphael or Michelangelo would do if they were alive today and miniature-loving nerds. Just masterful! And by doing it the way you do, you keep motivating me; I try to approach miniature-painting in a way as close to yours as possible because I believe that if you aim close to the bull‘s eye, you will eventually hit it much easier than if you just aim for the whole target blindly and hope for the best. Thank you for that ;) I hope that one day I can come up with as genius ideas in the mini-painting hobby as you ;) be it a really unique warband, a whole army or just a single model. Thanks for uploading these KNOWLEDGE-BOMBS every week, it makes these COVID-times really so much more bearable. I can really feel your enthusiasm and love for the subject, it’s just a joy every time. Alright, that‘s a long comment, but it‘s sincere and honest ;) Already looking forward to the next one (and now back to binge-watching all your other videos until then, as usual, albeit this time including the amazing grisaille-info)!
Man... I don't know what to say... Thank you!!! Thank you sooooooooooooooo much!!! Really from the heart... You made my day 😍
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM I'm very happy to hear that I could give back a little fraction of what you give to us, your viewers, every week. Thanks again!
The advent op "slapchop" made me think about getting into painting minis again, but this video really makes me excited about getting back in. I really want to try this, as it seems like something even I could do! Great video! Thank you.
Fantastic video, Marco! Can't wait to give this a try
Well, some of my minis, coming from the infamous Drawer of Shame, will undoubtly be worked this way!
Thank you.
Marco, youve opened my eyes to the possibilities of miniature painting. Ive been stuck in the traditional GW method, which isnt a bad thing at all! but having you open these doors that i didnt know were even there when it comes to miniature painting has really made me a better painter. Thankyou!
😍😁😍
Man you love giving away all the secrets!! You'd make the worst freemasion ever ;-P Thank you!
L O L 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Absolutely amazing! Loved the models, paints a d especially the art history. Excellent video. What a way to break open the new year.
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Excellent video mate, thank you very much for this! Looks fantastic and, as always, the method is perfectly explained. Thank you!
man im so happy you are back!!!!
I watched all your videos several times, and this is my favorite so far. Brilliant lesson, Maestro.
Marco, the image of the woman along with the explanation of light and values to create depth really really hit home. As I was looking at the image it stood out to me that color really is secondary but to make realistic art, you have to master depth.
You are such a great teacher sir!
There's all sorts of science behind it, rooted in the way we perceive the world around us... Generallly speaking, shape and form are of higher priority to us than colours.
It's always useful to take a picture of your minis and change it to greyscale. If it doesn't "read" well in black-and-white, you probably need to rework your values (light and dark).
Very interesting and usefull!
This is just amazing! You're like a painting wizard :)
Absolutely fantastic! Going to try this tomorrow on a spare witch elf
I have been using this technique since September. I really like it. Thank you for showing it.
Bravissimo Marco!! really interesting and didactic.
I love this use of contrast paints. I used them as glazes over highlights before but never thought to paint the whole model this way. Keep up the fabulous content.
I did Zenithal highlights either drybrushed in, or spray painted on for years. You talked about using white inks to do it and I was a skeptical because of the way inks work. But having a white ink from my inktense set, I tried to brush in some white ink on a miniature. Wow. I will doubt you no more. White ink is amazing and works like magic for zenithal! It also has a side benefit of creating a grayscale of its own, that is harder to achieve with drybrushing. Thank you very much for you advice and your work!
thanks 4 sharing
More videos of this technique. It was really interesting and makes me want to try it.
ahhhh holy sh*t u are so freakin awesome! during xmas holidays i had time to build and base my complete fotbidden fortress all in pledge and was lookin for a way to paint them.... wanted to try contrasts but wasnt sure... and stuck in the process... lost interest... but now i am burning again! ready to do my homework in a less complex way but i will definetly give it a try!
Thank you, for that technics. I'll try this the next time.
Love it! These kinds of mini painting videos are way more interesting than the old step by step. I'll revisit this one soon just as I have revisited the Zorn video quite a few times already
I'd been wondering about the use of heavy body paints for stronger highlights so it's great to see the technique in action! Great video as ever!
They are a great tool for powerful highlights because the extra volume of the paint naturally catches and bounces back more light!
Absolutely love this and am planning to try this with contrast paints vs monument transparents
Awesome as always Marco! Caravaggio being my favorite painter (the guy was practically almost the first cinematographer) I really appreciate your insight on these videos! Coming from a photography background, this technic makes soooo much sense! I'll use it very soon! Thank you!
100% giving this a go. It is very close to how I currently use contracts but without knowing why, but looks like a good way to be more intentional.
PS your channel is by far and away the best mini painting channel on you tube. Keep doing your magic.
Came for the paint job, stayed for the brilliant philosophy of color and light lesson
Dope tut. Thanks.
I find this grisaille style underpainting the most natural for me because my artistic experience was with graphite drawing. This technique has helped me become so much more successful with painting colors. Thank you for sharing your approach and teaching me more about the art history behind the style. Great video.
OMG! This is mind blowing! What an awesome way to paint! Thank you for this!
Got damn. That is awesome. And seems pretty quick, too? Thinking of doing this for all the bardsung miniatures.
Love it!!! I also encourage people to look up Matt DiPietro’s sketch style miniatures.
Once again always an inspiration. 😍 I may have bought far too many contrast paints that for the life of me always dissolve my white ink when I airbrush my zenithal. They sit on my shelf taunting me, and now Marco has given me a new use for them! Can't wait to try!
amazing m8, going to try that at once!
Hope you had a good holiday dude, I'm thrilled that you're back! I'm always inspired by your cheerful, enthusiastic, and encouraging content. It happens like every weekly release, so I shouldn't be surprised at this point when you teach me something in 10 minutes that opens a mental pandora's box and blows my mind because I was unaware that box existed and needed opening! Thanks for the brilliant videos.
😁😍😁 thank you soooooo much!!!
Love it