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Seeing all these youtubers demonstrating the "box art" style makes me want to try it myself! Your videos especially are well made and easy to follow, i find myself coming back to them while im painting
The great thing about GW box art is not only it's readability, but the colour usage, both from the perspective of colour theory and emotional responses it's trying to convey about the models and factions they belong. It puts a lot of pleasant boundaries on people, by the book models look appealing, readable, lore accurate, appropriate and easy to sell if nececcary. It lustfully drives newcomers to those Citadel pain(t) pots' stands.
Yeah but also dealing with other paints drives people to Citadel pots. They are expensive but so much better than nearly everything else out there at the time. .....they also have an oddly pleasant smell.... 🧐
What Ivan is talking about here is called 'colour psychology'. GW are pretty good at it -- likely due to the artists and their natural and learned understanding of such things. Even back in the crazy 1980s and 1990s, the Space Marines were painted that way on purpose: to sell to kids and feed on the bright cyberpunk style of the day (aka Judge Dredd). Now I think about it, this was the dominant style around London between 1980 and 2000, though it was also popular in America, as well. Space Marines is just one example of that, though they moved into a more serious, simple, muted tonal quality by the 2000s (more in line with Stormtroopers from Star Wars than Mad Max, though I guess Necromunda was a nice bridge there, haha).
Absolutely fabtastic video, I’ve really appreciated all your efforts in putting it together, the theme is very requested, I wanted to hear and see all the applied concepts of GW box art painting method and you’ve shown them all. Even the last reminder part about the difference with volumetric highlights with the nurglings is top notch, oh and I’ve laughed a lot, please never remove the funny part 😂😂
That was both informative and hilarious at the same time! I've been working in volumetric highlights for the past half year and my miniature painting has really improved since doing so!
GW painters do use overall washes all the time. But they tend to greatly thin washes with medium and treat them as layers and glazing. Even over white.
This is really helpful in because it cleanly divides the painting process into three major steps. And you showed the model side-by-side at each stage. Very cool! Thank you.
Always great advice and practical observations. I used to slap washes on everything then spend afternoons on clean up. I found pin washing through my experience with panel lining on Gunpla which is what I use on my Imperial Tau. I also have some renegades, count as Farsight, but they're a bit grungier. Anyway, point is, a good painter knows a lot. A great painter listens to others who know a lot. Nice Raid ad too. I've been playing for three years and have yet to get bored. Team building is a lot of fun.
Your tutorials are great! Really down to earth. If you haven't made one yet, I think a tutorial video on how to mix paint properly to get those +1/-1 lighter/darker shades for highlighting and recesses would be super helpful. Most other painters on youtube have 2365982365982365928365 different paints but it looks like you're mixing your own off the base coat to make your shading tones.
Excellent video Zumikito! I really liked that you were able to generate and specify the requirements for a miniature to look good and follow the same Eavy Metal guidelines. I hope you have a good end of the year and thank you very much as always!
I dont paint in this style and I dont use acrylics, but I must say this is an excellent tutorial video. You absolutely nailed the concepts and showed very easy but effective techniques, and you made me laugh more than once! Anyone who enjoys mini painting at whatever level can get something here. Good job, Zumikito.
“You can fix anything you don’t like.” This should be hammered into new painters heads more than anything else. Also if you need a good paint stripper/remover for acrylics, use brake fluid, it works amazing!
This is an awesome video and one that can save new painters a lot of time when learning why some tutorials don't get them the results they want. I knew the difference between Eavy Metal style and volumetric definition from experience but I immediately realized that I have almost never seen a tutorial show an example like this. Most tutorials dive deep into either/both techniques but stay focused on one of them at a time.
Fantastic video Zumikito! This was extremely easy to follow and had some great tips! Readability is sooo important and definitely something I need to work on more.
gna be honest, just on the topic of washes, i never really painted white, so cant talk about that, but generally, i apply a wash sort of on the base coat, then use dry brushing with the base color the rest, details i sort out separately.
As someone coming from Gunpla models, you can REALLY see these techniques in action. Some kits will have more external mechanical detail but since they're fairly large they still have a lot of empty space to fill. The best paint jobs I've seen tend to use a mix of both techniques!
The reason I like to use a wash on bit areas is to make stuff look used and dirty in just a few motions. That's kind of why I agree with how the Citadel tutorial washes over the Stormcasts entire golden armor - it just makes it look like they've seen some shit and not like they're straight from the assembly line. What they don't tell you is to apply the wash in a particular direction according to where you want it to set - they just show you them going from top to bottom with a big brush, skip over the part where that will just fuck up your paint job by setting in random places apart from the recesses, and start bringing the colors back out where they want things brighter (probably because they fucked up the paint job by applying the wash randomly). The wash is a tool like anything else, and can work great if you take some time with it.
Your content is great! The videos are so helpful and I love your energy/personality/jokes. I enjoyed your video about making minis interesting by adding in textures rather than trying to focus on being smooth. I would love to see you do a video where you paint the same mini (a mini that is not a marine) and paint it with two different color schemes to get a different result. By that, I mean taking the same figure and making one good and one evil by color choice. Or a video like that showing how you can take the same colors and put them in different places to change effect. Or even just what different color choices can do to your model by showing the same model done differently (Could even show an example of bad color choice vs good). Just sounds like something you would do well. Thanks for the videos! Keep up the nice work. :)
Hey Beard guy. You fucking rock. Your vids are a nice mix of funny and clear, actionable advice. Simply the most enjoyable hobby painting videos I've seen so far. Keep it up I love them.
Really well done with explaining highlighting vs highlighting …. By that I mean true (volumetric) application of light and shadow as opposed to what I refer to as accentuating (calling out the edges and shadows in a linear fashion) … two different techniques … and using one or the other or both. 👍🏻
Great demonstration on volumetric highlighting that belly. BTW do you have a video on how you photograph your minis? Your images always come out unbelievably CLEAN! Thats the secret I wanna know.
Once I painted Nagash with tutorial from Duncan and I have to admit that it works, especially for the tabletop level, but, of course, if you want go further, than you'll have to look and learn for some more complex, intricate and time and effort-consuming techniques.
I use washes for recess shading. I get the feeling if I just use normal paint its either to thick and if I thin it enough to precicely recess shade I can as well use a wash and don't risk a "splodgy" finish. great video though with priceless advice though :)
Question: Do you “always” gloss varnish before using oil wash to pin-shade ???? If yes, then your process is something like: base>recess shade(layer/wash)>highlight(layer/drybrush)>gloss varnish>>oil wash (pin shade)>matt varnish>metallic paint ??? (Do you gloss or satin varnish metallic paint??)
You can actually wash white models, but you gotta use retarder/flow improver/glaze medium, and play with the ratios on test models until you are satisfied with the result. Glaze medium + agraxt wash ( around 50-50 mix) on white skeletons produced such a great cappilary work and smoothness in transition, and it was all on rattlecan cheap primer (surface is not so good as with priming with airbrush). Gloss vanishing with airbrush produces even more brush control when washing to stop wash stains forming
To fill all those recesses I'd recommend to use acrylic ink mixed with a water (70:30) ;) I've painted 2 armies of f*** Thousand Sons like this, and the ink helped me a lot.
Slapchop method changed my life as a hobbyist. I can never go back to basecoat, shades, highlights, edges, etc... I love my minis now and I dont mind that I am not a pro painter. My minis are all 6s or 7s in the painting scale and thats ok!
Great video Zumikito. Big fan. I think edge highlighting and recess shading are awesome techniques. I mean, for someone who has studied art or has been painting for some time and is ready to improve, i think its much more fun to grab a mini and start highlighting from a dark tone and do all your light gradients or your NMM like you show on your videos. But try to teach that to my 10 year old or to a new painter with no arts formation and it's gonna be a lot harder for them to pull that out. We all begin somewhere!
Always appreciate when something other than space marines as their example. I'd rather learn how to operate on things with unique shape rather than the same armor that most of 40k is.
Heyooo Zumikito , Excellent video, as always. So easy to understand from start to finish (again, as always) Where did ya get the tiny bricks and barbed wire?
Great video and tips. I prefer to do my recess shading (lining) with citadel shades because it’s more forgiving then just using normal paint, even though I know its not as high contrast. However I really do want to try doing this using an oil wash or tamiya panel liner soon, as it looks faster.
I know nobody is going to believe me, but this is the literal first UA-cam video I've seen that is actually sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends (and I watch a LOT of UA-cam videos). Until now, I only knew them from the meme.
Revell contacta. Man ur skills are approved. What other glues do you recommend tho? Also Washes are great for memes like making something more grimy than it really is
Yeah I just "washed" a White Scar... he looks like he joined the Death Guard now. Jaghatai lost him during the attack on Lion's Gate Spaceport. That's his backstory. A traitor in the making...
If the goal is to replicate GW box art, then of course you are right. But if you are fine with a grittier look, then washes and tidying up afterwards are way faster. My hand shakes too much for edge highlighting for long periods of time (and more than one highlight layer is out of the question), so washes and maybe some strategic blacklining with washes is way faster for me.
Someone who demonstrates how effective just washing the whole mini all over can look is the fabulous Sonic Sledgehammer. Yes, the result is tabletop quality -- but VERY good tabletop quality!
When painting volumetric highlights on the nurglings in this video, are you just lightening the same dark color for each new layer, or are you adding in new, lighter paints?
I think GW box art is perfect the way it is. I've heard many people complain that its too bland but i think thats great about it. For new painters that are just coming into the hobby the models look great and with a few months of practice you can reach that level of painting and be happy with it. But you can also go much beyond that. It set an achievable goal for people that just a tabletop ready paint job and a good milestone for those that wanna go beyond
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You content is hands down then best painting content on UA-cam. I love your no bullshit approach and appreciate your transparency. Never change!
Seeing all these youtubers demonstrating the "box art" style makes me want to try it myself! Your videos especially are well made and easy to follow, i find myself coming back to them while im painting
The great thing about GW box art is not only it's readability, but the colour usage, both from the perspective of colour theory and emotional responses it's trying to convey about the models and factions they belong. It puts a lot of pleasant boundaries on people, by the book models look appealing, readable, lore accurate, appropriate and easy to sell if nececcary. It lustfully drives newcomers to those Citadel pain(t) pots' stands.
Hmm, many a young lad has included these Citadel paints in the assets. 🤪
Yeah but also dealing with other paints drives people to Citadel pots. They are expensive but so much better than nearly everything else out there at the time. .....they also have an oddly pleasant smell.... 🧐
What Ivan is talking about here is called 'colour psychology'. GW are pretty good at it -- likely due to the artists and their natural and learned understanding of such things. Even back in the crazy 1980s and 1990s, the Space Marines were painted that way on purpose: to sell to kids and feed on the bright cyberpunk style of the day (aka Judge Dredd). Now I think about it, this was the dominant style around London between 1980 and 2000, though it was also popular in America, as well. Space Marines is just one example of that, though they moved into a more serious, simple, muted tonal quality by the 2000s (more in line with Stormtroopers from Star Wars than Mad Max, though I guess Necromunda was a nice bridge there, haha).
You’re great at teaching this. I’m much less afraid of the “painting with volumes” concept now. You’re really great at explaining this stuff.
This video was absolutely brilliant. You put in words some really hard to explain concepts with examples! Should be mandatory watching for beginners
Absolutely fabtastic video, I’ve really appreciated all your efforts in putting it together, the theme is very requested, I wanted to hear and see all the applied concepts of GW box art painting method and you’ve shown them all. Even the last reminder part about the difference with volumetric highlights with the nurglings is top notch, oh and I’ve laughed a lot, please never remove the funny part 😂😂
That was both informative and hilarious at the same time! I've been working in volumetric highlights for the past half year and my miniature painting has really improved since doing so!
Just went down a rabbit hole of these videos and learned a lot in the process before starting my first miniature, thank you
GW painters do use overall washes all the time. But they tend to greatly thin washes with medium and treat them as layers and glazing. Even over white.
This is truly the best video for explaining how to improve from a beginner level. I’m sharing this with my hobby group immediately
I've been watching these videos, and I'm getting better at painting minis slowly but surely.
This is really helpful in because it cleanly divides the painting process into three major steps. And you showed the model side-by-side at each stage. Very cool! Thank you.
Wow! The effort you put into the advert as well as the humour and tips is truly impressive. Keep up the great work.
Always great advice and practical observations. I used to slap washes on everything then spend afternoons on clean up. I found pin washing through my experience with panel lining on Gunpla which is what I use on my Imperial Tau. I also have some renegades, count as Farsight, but they're a bit grungier. Anyway, point is, a good painter knows a lot. A great painter listens to others who know a lot.
Nice Raid ad too. I've been playing for three years and have yet to get bored. Team building is a lot of fun.
Zumikito is How to Basic confirmed
Not the face reveal we wanted but the one we deserve
Where eggs
i appreciate your ongoing effort to get people to paint volumes lol
Zumikito the Grey, Keeper of the secret painting technique of the Workshoppe, wielder of the holy brush. Great vid, thanks for sharing.
You are by farrrr my favourite mini painting youtuber now. 👌
Your tutorials are great! Really down to earth. If you haven't made one yet, I think a tutorial video on how to mix paint properly to get those +1/-1 lighter/darker shades for highlighting and recesses would be super helpful. Most other painters on youtube have 2365982365982365928365 different paints but it looks like you're mixing your own off the base coat to make your shading tones.
Excellent video Zumikito! I really liked that you were able to generate and specify the requirements for a miniature to look good and follow the same Eavy Metal guidelines.
I hope you have a good end of the year and thank you very much as always!
Without any doubt their packaging presentation is top. Rules writing and explanation, well that's another story...
I dont paint in this style and I dont use acrylics, but I must say this is an excellent tutorial video. You absolutely nailed the concepts and showed very easy but effective techniques, and you made me laugh more than once! Anyone who enjoys mini painting at whatever level can get something here. Good job, Zumikito.
Great video, I'll try this out on my next mini. Even if it have to wait 'till next year.
“You can fix anything you don’t like.” This should be hammered into new painters heads more than anything else. Also if you need a good paint stripper/remover for acrylics, use brake fluid, it works amazing!
Also, Cool mini or not: ultimate miniature painting guide is a great 400 pg book detailing every technique.
This is an awesome video and one that can save new painters a lot of time when learning why some tutorials don't get them the results they want. I knew the difference between Eavy Metal style and volumetric definition from experience but I immediately realized that I have almost never seen a tutorial show an example like this. Most tutorials dive deep into either/both techniques but stay focused on one of them at a time.
Fantastic video Zumikito! This was extremely easy to follow and had some great tips! Readability is sooo important and definitely something I need to work on more.
Great Video!! Your 45 Marines may have been a pain in the a$$ to paint, however they look absolutely gorgeous!!
love you brother. Cannot believe you smashed an egg on your desk for funnys, one video like just for this
gna be honest, just on the topic of washes, i never really painted white, so cant talk about that, but generally, i apply a wash sort of on the base coat, then use dry brushing with the base color the rest, details i sort out separately.
That does work or most colours, but not on white. Your white obviously won't be white anymore after you apply a tinted wash to it.
As someone coming from Gunpla models, you can REALLY see these techniques in action. Some kits will have more external mechanical detail but since they're fairly large they still have a lot of empty space to fill. The best paint jobs I've seen tend to use a mix of both techniques!
I really like the investigative (is that a word?) nature of those videos :D Really opens eyes to some simple things that are just hard to see!
This is some really great advice! I tried doing more edge highlights on my Warhammer and they look so much better! 🙏
The reason I like to use a wash on bit areas is to make stuff look used and dirty in just a few motions. That's kind of why I agree with how the Citadel tutorial washes over the Stormcasts entire golden armor - it just makes it look like they've seen some shit and not like they're straight from the assembly line. What they don't tell you is to apply the wash in a particular direction according to where you want it to set - they just show you them going from top to bottom with a big brush, skip over the part where that will just fuck up your paint job by setting in random places apart from the recesses, and start bringing the colors back out where they want things brighter (probably because they fucked up the paint job by applying the wash randomly).
The wash is a tool like anything else, and can work great if you take some time with it.
Your videos have been the best for me to learn. I hope the channel keeps growing. Id rather a title less click baitish But I understand the purpose.
They also use 3-ups, models 3 times the size, used to be able to view some at Warhammer world
Wait seriously?
“Come on man, focus!”
DAMN IT YOU GOT ME
You’re a king. My first video of yours. Loved it : ) going to watch your videos with a beer. Cheers mate ❤
The second part of this video was super useful for me. Thank you
You channel is amazing. So glad UA-cam suggested it to me!
Great video to close the year. Happy New Year Zumikito and looking forward to more content in 2023.
Your content is great! The videos are so helpful and I love your energy/personality/jokes. I enjoyed your video about making minis interesting by adding in textures rather than trying to focus on being smooth. I would love to see you do a video where you paint the same mini (a mini that is not a marine) and paint it with two different color schemes to get a different result. By that, I mean taking the same figure and making one good and one evil by color choice. Or a video like that showing how you can take the same colors and put them in different places to change effect. Or even just what different color choices can do to your model by showing the same model done differently (Could even show an example of bad color choice vs good). Just sounds like something you would do well. Thanks for the videos! Keep up the nice work. :)
man, I would love to see more content on smooth minis.
Hey Beard guy. You fucking rock. Your vids are a nice mix of funny and clear, actionable advice. Simply the most enjoyable hobby painting videos I've seen so far. Keep it up I love them.
Fundamental explanation! Thank you very much! It's just ABC of painting.
Very nice tuto I’m a beginner and I actually used the second method on a verminlord without having seen this any tuto and it look very cool
Really well done with explaining highlighting vs highlighting …. By that I mean true (volumetric) application of light and shadow as opposed to what I refer to as accentuating (calling out the edges and shadows in a linear fashion) … two different techniques … and using one or the other or both. 👍🏻
Mage Zumikito is now my favourite
Great demonstration on volumetric highlighting that belly. BTW do you have a video on how you photograph your minis? Your images always come out unbelievably CLEAN! Thats the secret I wanna know.
Your video is always a pleasure to watch and a fully constant source of improvement and reflection about our beloved painted minis, thank you Sir 👌
Once I painted Nagash with tutorial from Duncan and I have to admit that it works, especially for the tabletop level, but, of course, if you want go further, than you'll have to look and learn for some more complex, intricate and time and effort-consuming techniques.
I use washes for recess shading. I get the feeling if I just use normal paint its either to thick and if I thin it enough to precicely recess shade I can as well use a wash and don't risk a "splodgy" finish.
great video though with priceless advice though :)
Question: Do you “always” gloss varnish before using oil wash to pin-shade ???? If yes, then your process is something like: base>recess shade(layer/wash)>highlight(layer/drybrush)>gloss varnish>>oil wash (pin shade)>matt varnish>metallic paint ??? (Do you gloss or satin varnish metallic paint??)
Thank you my friend great as always. Never lose your humor
This made an incredible amount of sense to me finally! Thank you!
again best answers for my untold questions, thx
Thank you, it's a good idea to use lining after the base coat. Have you tried Micro pen 0.03mm for that?
You can actually wash white models, but you gotta use retarder/flow improver/glaze medium, and play with the ratios on test models until you are satisfied with the result. Glaze medium + agraxt wash ( around 50-50 mix) on white skeletons produced such a great cappilary work and smoothness in transition, and it was all on rattlecan cheap primer (surface is not so good as with priming with airbrush). Gloss vanishing with airbrush produces even more brush control when washing to stop wash stains forming
To fill all those recesses I'd recommend to use acrylic ink mixed with a water (70:30) ;) I've painted 2 armies of f*** Thousand Sons like this, and the ink helped me a lot.
Great video, Zumikito, great beard btw
Slapchop method changed my life as a hobbyist. I can never go back to basecoat, shades, highlights, edges, etc...
I love my minis now and I dont mind that I am not a pro painter. My minis are all 6s or 7s in the painting scale and thats ok!
Dude these videos are so useful. Keep it up man
Great video Zumikito. Big fan. I think edge highlighting and recess shading are awesome techniques. I mean, for someone who has studied art or has been painting for some time and is ready to improve, i think its much more fun to grab a mini and start highlighting from a dark tone and do all your light gradients or your NMM like you show on your videos. But try to teach that to my 10 year old or to a new painter with no arts formation and it's gonna be a lot harder for them to pull that out. We all begin somewhere!
It shows that you are spending more time on the bases. I especially like the nurgle base.
Always appreciate when something other than space marines as their example. I'd rather learn how to operate on things with unique shape rather than the same armor that most of 40k is.
Heyooo Zumikito ,
Excellent video, as always. So easy to understand from start to finish (again, as always) Where did ya get the tiny bricks and barbed wire?
I like the style of your videos. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video. A lot of great information that is easily overlooked. Happy New Year
Your kdm Phoenix is amazing.
0:34 this… is a work of Art. Also the rest… 😂
Great video - this is really helpful for any mini painter!
I love seeing different methods of how to paint something.
There are so many ways to skin a cat... I mean, paint a figure.
Great video and tips. I prefer to do my recess shading (lining) with citadel shades because it’s more forgiving then just using normal paint, even though I know its not as high contrast. However I really do want to try doing this using an oil wash or tamiya panel liner soon, as it looks faster.
Thank you for your work. All your videos are extremely interesting.
I know nobody is going to believe me, but this is the literal first UA-cam video I've seen that is actually sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends (and I watch a LOT of UA-cam videos). Until now, I only knew them from the meme.
Awesome explanation, many thanks for all the usefull tips!
Glossy varnish or a glossy primer under metallics is the forbidden fruit
I really could have used this video in 2004 when I started this hobby.
Amazing tutorial, thanks for making it!
You made me remember when I said gw models were painted well
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Another fantastic, informative and useful vid!
Will be trying this, thanks !
Revell contacta. Man ur skills are approved. What other glues do you recommend tho? Also Washes are great for memes like making something more grimy than it really is
Yeah I just "washed" a White Scar... he looks like he joined the Death Guard now. Jaghatai lost him during the attack on Lion's Gate Spaceport. That's his backstory. A traitor in the making...
Just base coating = low settings
Base coating + shading + volumetric highlights = Ultra Settings . 😊👍🏽
Super usefull - as always. I like ur straight on approch!
Amazing video as always! Those tips are extremely useful, and your explanation is just incredible. Thanks!
Very very great Video, Thanks for this detail explanations 🙃
1st of your vids I’ve seen. Immediate subscribe. Thank you! ❤
If the goal is to replicate GW box art, then of course you are right. But if you are fine with a grittier look, then washes and tidying up afterwards are way faster. My hand shakes too much for edge highlighting for long periods of time (and more than one highlight layer is out of the question), so washes and maybe some strategic blacklining with washes is way faster for me.
Someone who demonstrates how effective just washing the whole mini all over can look is the fabulous Sonic Sledgehammer. Yes, the result is tabletop quality -- but VERY good tabletop quality!
Hi really loved the video, can u please tell what color did u use for the coat? I loved the color scheme
Really enjoy watching your videos.
When painting volumetric highlights on the nurglings in this video, are you just lightening the same dark color for each new layer, or are you adding in new, lighter paints?
Well done mate, actually loled several times watching this! :D Informative as well, as always!
I think GW box art is perfect the way it is. I've heard many people complain that its too bland but i think thats great about it. For new painters that are just coming into the hobby the models look great and with a few months of practice you can reach that level of painting and be happy with it. But you can also go much beyond that. It set an achievable goal for people that just a tabletop ready paint job and a good milestone for those that wanna go beyond
I just painted an inquisitor and I thought after painting for 10 hours and staying in the lines this looks like garbage and this video explains why.
Awesome artist!
Best beard!
Classy content!
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"make every layer fully opaque so it doesn't look splotchy" *looks at his Skaven on his desk*... oooooh?!
'No, pokémon are awesome.'
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