Volomir's Blog MASSIVE VOODOO: Tutorial - Zenithal Lightning / Work Order posted by roman, jarhead, kong Aloa. This time i want to talk about light. As you know Miniature painting lives from Light that you paint on your miniature. I will also do italic side notes while talking about light to give an overview on my personal painting order. Talking about light sources There is for sure one light source that will influance your models everytime you look at them. Dramatic Light situations can often be found in Artist paintings - this is always a good inspiration to learn from. Or this one, found here: Raffaele, our beloved Chapuchin, already wrote this great article about light in common. Now i will get one step deeper into detail light painting as there is one light source, which can make your painting a real joy when you get to understand it. Zenithal lighting theoryMeans an imagined light source, unreal first - up to you to make it real and alive hitting from the top at the miniature.
Dre4mit Miniatures Weird Animal Species This is the list of animals that are, nice, kind, nasty, odd, gross etc. Look at it and suit you self. The Weirdest and rarest animals on Planet. Blog de Pepa Saavedra 5th Dimension masterminis.net - where we learn to be a better painter! The brushstroke In my opinion, one of the most basic concepts in miniature painting is the proper way to use a paintbrush. The speed and quality of our painting depends on how well we know how to use it. Specially crucial is to control the brushstroke when we choose a style of painting based on layers or gradients, because in these cases the way we lay our brushstroke is the key of the process. Other styles like puntillism or wet painting permit us more freedom when choosing the brushstroke, but we should take into consideration how the use our paintbrush will affect our choice. When using a painting style based on layers, the first myth that needs to be broken is that a brush to paint miniatures needs to be small. We are actually going to prefer using a brush with a big head, capable of loading a decent quantity of paint so that we don't have to go back to our palette every time we give a stroke. Comparison between a euro coin, an interesting W&N size 1 and a not so interesting W&N size 00.