How to improve your Miniatures in 50 seconds!

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Жыл бұрын

Trying the new "shorts from videos" feature. This is a clip from my video about contrast in miniature painting. I get asked a lot how to highlight particular shapes and I made this small explanation to have a clip I can point viewers to when the question comes up. Let me know if you find this helpful!

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@hobbithubby5076 Жыл бұрын

I really love this series of videos where you breakdown steps you would take to “take the mini to the next level.” A lot of us newbies feel stuck as beginners and it’s nice to see simple things to focus on to improve. Thanks for what you do.

@andrewpackham8236 Жыл бұрын

Digitally painting over the photo is so helpful and I've not seen anyone else do that

@Kourosmenis Жыл бұрын

Man, Trovarion, you have been SLAYING it with the content lately -- I really appreciate all your hard work and hustle to push out and bring us content that we want/need and EVEN moreso content we didn't know we needed/wanted. KEEP IT GOING MAN!!!

@elronman 3 ай бұрын

Yknow while that would look great on table top where contrast is exceptionally important, I would say though in this example your changes are EXTREMELY gaudy up close. But that's an important truth to know. Somethings simply look better from further away.

@dziku2222 Жыл бұрын

This video is great - even when seeing someone paint a good looking mini and having some knowledge from those more theory focused videos, it's really easy for someone learning how to paint to fall into this trap, where you are convinced you've followed the steps or general idea right, yet the mini looks underwhelming. What you are at this point, it's really hard to identify what might be the real problem and why the mini doesn't look as good as something another person painted. Your video illustrates the problem by upgrading it with a simple step of edge highlighting showing the best placement for those lines - after seeing that instead of all of this hazy mumbo jumbo of not knowing what went wrong, the mind just clears up. Thanks man, as always!

@ninjamanfella Жыл бұрын

Edge highlights are the best way of ruining Ur realism, as soon as U add them they automatically look like a plastic action figure. I think they should only be used on areas which actually would have them in real life

@iluvpandas2755 Жыл бұрын

Edge highlights are often on metallic objects and even some plastics and painted metal. Like how cars have natural edge highlights.

@VoidplayLP 8 ай бұрын

A good Alternative is recess shading. Instead of highlighting the edge, shade the recess. Add readability without looking cartoony

@Turtle00001 15 сағат бұрын

Not everything has to be realistic. It's art style. It brings further attention to the figure and I generally like it.

@demo6tro777 10 ай бұрын

Make it into a watermelon got it.

@moneymitchel9948 Жыл бұрын

Chris I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and inspiration. I'm grateful for all the amazing content, and I'm looking forward to learning more from you. I recently subbed to your Patreon, and I'm happy to support where I can. I can imagine the youtube content career is tough but no matter what I've got nothing but love, admiration and support for you homie!!

@zer0nix Жыл бұрын

Initially I thought the original looked better but in the thumbnail your repaint looks much better, so I guess the scale matters :p

@nitrous146 8 ай бұрын

In the thumbnail it looks like it's only added the edge highlights, not the whole shade/highlight template.

@blizzardgaming7070 Жыл бұрын

I'm going to be real with you, your version looks way worse, what would have been better is if you watered down a mix of the black and the colour, glazed over the respective areas and then drybrushed the edges with some form of silver or gunmetal metallic.

@someblacktemplar Жыл бұрын

Even if you did the improvements you gotta agree it already looked awsome

@MaxDobeck Жыл бұрын

Wow! Super helpful

@Songhammer40k 7 ай бұрын

It looks better without the edge highlights, in my opinion. I don't understand the fascination of highlighting every single panel edge.

@littlelizardrides4801 Жыл бұрын

Personally I think the original example looks best

@poggestfrog 6 ай бұрын

The edge highlight definitely improved a lot IMO, but the rest looked a bit weird

@trevorsklar 6 ай бұрын

Agreed. Too much contrast stops looking realistic

@mrpitman2428 Жыл бұрын

i thought it could benefit from more blending. as it is now, it looks as though the paints werent even thinned.

@trovarion Жыл бұрын

Any miniature in any state can always benefit from more blending. BUT: New painters don't learn to blend overnight because it involves a lot of knowledge about thinning paint and mainly motoric training and muscle memory to build up. That takes a lot of time. New painters can however grasp the concept of upping the contrast and where to place a highlight and a shadow in a few minutes.

@mrpitman2428 Жыл бұрын

@@trovarion in that case I think also perhaps not changing from such a dark green to such a light one, and instead using a lighter base layer or darker highlight.

@trovarion Жыл бұрын

@@mrpitman2428 now you are talking about personal taste while I was trying to explain contrast. You like less contrast, that's fine. But that was not the point of the video.

@mrpitman2428 Жыл бұрын

@@trovarion perhaps so, either way great video. just trying to give my 2 cents.

@Bloodworia Жыл бұрын

Edge highlighting every edge on space marines is horrible

@navarrjenkins7648 Жыл бұрын

I would’ve changed the black and purple to be more of a smooth transition

@GalanThings Жыл бұрын

tbh I don't think making everything super reflective makes it better. Sure you show of you skill more but marine armor is not suppose to be made out of aluminium. To each their own I guess

@trovarion Жыл бұрын

This just exists to explain the concept of increasing contrast. You can of course paint your own minis any way you want.

@dziku2222 Жыл бұрын

I agree that there are different styles of painting, but honestly in my opinion this NMM style of shading Trovarion has shown on the video is a really effective one. First - it looks good both on close-up photos and if you look at the mini from afar while playing the game on the table, secondly for a casual painter like me, it's a really complex techinque, hard to do right - and the video shows how to accomplish it by showing attractive angles for lightning if you would like to go with this super contrast one which are different from the original mini.

@ariyanchoudhury6658 Жыл бұрын

hey i love ypu videos and the've really helped alot of us mini hobbyists! hope i can win a golden deamon like you someday! so inspirational!

@garryame4008 2 ай бұрын

What is the longer video that this clip is from?

@trovarion 2 ай бұрын

It's linked at the bottom of the short.

@garryame4008 2 ай бұрын

@@trovarion Rad, thank you! I was looking for it in the description lol

@MakCurrel Жыл бұрын

Why are people not dry brushing highlights. The painted highlights looks painted not like reflections. 🤔

@Marcusstratus Жыл бұрын

Which video is this clip taken from? I wanted to share it but feel like this is too abridged

@trovarion Жыл бұрын

It's kinda funny, since KZfaq prides itself with the fact the short links to the video it is taken from, but it just says "created from Trovarion Miniatures" and noone knows that this leads to the original video...lol. It'S tken from the contrast video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbZxmsZo2baUdok.html&ab_channel=TrovarionMiniatures