❤️🤘🔥 love the videos lads

Where are viewers sending you minis?

I paid 2 different painters for one custom kingdom death figure and they never hit what I wanted any help

I don't know what you've done to deserve it, but i'm sure it was something bad!

I really do need help painting my Space Marines, though, so the comment is legit, haha

@@spacemarinesteve6057 Don't you have enough space marines already? haha

If you guys ever feel like taking a trip to our studio in Canada to teach me how to paint better than the other guys on the team... I mean... that would be great, lol.

I get the same feelings, We are legion!

Honestly, I liked your glowing effect a bit more. You did a damn good job on the dwarf! The head looks better afterwards, but your nose was more dwarfy. Keep up the good work!

I think you missed half the video lol :P

@@SquidmarMiniatures I mean, there's definitely more, but I feel like that's the primary thing here

I agree. The hard part is how to do that in a pleasing way. Which they showed 🙂

bruh its 20 minutes not 2 hours

Exactly what I thought, I love these guys but that’s all they were doing

That would be pretty useful for better showcasing which areas are the most important to focus on for making things read well. It can be easy to forget about when you are focused in.

Yeah, this was fantastic!

Best of luck!

Lukas can be so savage some times hahaha

Hope you enjoyed it! Was a really creative paint job! :) we'll get you the mini back soon!

Just the tips?

​@SquidmarMiniatures thankyou!! Can't wait to see it in person😊

Its good that you are happy with it, but ngl dude, i personnally feel like it looked even better before they touched it, you are already an insane painter my guy :,)

They know what they've done

What did the Aussies do? Well, not paint apparently.

@@eXileLies I know right!

They don't know what time the tabletop is.

@@joshconfer209 thats because its not tabletop in Australia. We play tableunder

I mean…..he was right….he just didn’t have to say it out loud 😢

@DamianM90 you don't speak for all of us thank you Damo 🤣

I'm proud of you. A decisions that will pay off in the long run. Once Canadian you'll be fine

Rip

100%

It's a great observation. Some of this was artistic choice, but also the "light source direction" can sometimes benefit from being unrealistic for minis being viewed 360 degrees, like for game pieces. Front-on viewing only, you might make slightly different choices.

@@BloomThat true! But the only reason I was asking and pointing it out was because I was wondering if he actually had a connection with this person?!? Because if could have been what they were going for, but it kinda sounded like he was saying “there was NO reason for a shadow there” to me……………… so I was curious!?! Anything new I can learn I will try to get the most out of it!!!

@@ryankyle2467 Ultimately miniature painting moves into set photography skills, in the sense that you don't just want the light to be realistic, but to place the lights in the right places for the miniature to look their best. I can make a lot of terrible pictures that aren't caused by the light being fake (as it's always real, it's a camera!), or the subject being bad, but the light sources being the wrong hue, or placed in locations that don't help the subject look good. A lot of lighting you see in stills, and even in movies, includes plenty of secondary lights that you would never find in real life: See basically every night scene, or anything lit by candlelight. So can I get a light setup that makes the crown create a shadow? Sure! But does it make the subject look better? Probably not

@@jorgemontero6384 Ummmmm, ok……… I can’t tell if you are answering a reply I will leave in the future or if you were trying to reply to someone else’s comment that kinda had something to do with lighting also and something went wrong or your just messing with me?!? Yeah, I get taken a picture of anything is like taking a picture of a mini! But at no point was I talking any studio lighting or lighting to be able to film a movie or show!?! I was talking about the NORMAL lighting when you walk outside and the sun is in your face, where would the shadows fall!?! Like in the case of the model in question…… I’m not asking how the light should fall on it in his studio at his paint desk! I’m asking about the lighting if that creature was REAL AND ON THE BATTLEFIELD!!! But honestly I’m not sure where you were going with that?!? Since you were replying to the 2nd message I left (for the obvious reason! Unless you’re new to KZfaq) but were talking a bit more about the original comment, but that was corrected in the 2nd part!!! But I don’t know!?!

That was my thoughts exactly, though most of the highlights did look better in the after, but I agree it wasn't perfect still

I have seen armies painted on a neon theme and they look amazing. So I guess there cannot be too much contrast if you apply it on the right places.

Did you paint them though? Or was it migrant labour 😅

​@Almindale I like painting walls ceilings less so). I even paint all my windiw a dfloor architraves with enamel paintto get that smooth finish.

@@Andrewc87563 oh snap. Theory debunked, well played sir

Yeah Danes can go eat some poo

It's from maniac

​@@SquidmarMiniaturesthanks a lot!!

Have the same issue. Still dont really get what "connect the muscles" actually means. I hear the words, I see them making brushstrokes, but it doesnt connect in my mind since its still too abstract for me.

It's a bit of both, where the deepest creases are you want to stay dark, but the shallower separations you want to join with your mid-tones. And if those points are closest to the light source, you can also join with your highlight. Hope my ramblings are helpful.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rqp3paacuMqVdHk.htmlsi=tIb5j8WQ0ABusuBl This video may be helpful, as he demonstrates the difference whilst painting the model's thigh muscles. Initially, he'd separated them with too much shadow.