Contrast - Black & White to see the light!

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Zaphod Beeblebrox

President
Hey y´all!

Here is a little trick Raffaele Picca aka Picster from Massive Voodoo taught me yesterday.

I am working on Melvin by JMD and was not happy with the mini. It looked good, but something was wrong.

And then Raffa sent me a black and white image of a picture of my miniature that I had posted:

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Everything was mid-tone grey. The individual areas had enough contrast of light and shadow, but all areas of the mini were the same brightness. Even the goggles - which are RED on a BLUE hat - had the same brightness.

Raffas recommendation was to choose one area and make it "dark" so that the areas have a contrasting effect.

Thats pretty much all there is to know ;)

If you would like to see the difference of contrast that I created and how it looks in black and white - as always, here is a link to the more detailed article on my blog.

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ischa

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that´s a great help=) indeed that mini seems kinda bland, contrast is a and o in miniature painting!
had to check out a late project, was a roller coaster of dark and light, in no particular order though^^
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Einion

Einion

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You have to be careful about reading too much into this, for a start because there are more than five ways of converting an RGB image to greyscale and each one produces slightly different results, which obviously might lead to drawing different conclusions. And most of the common methods, the easiest and fastest, tend to produce the flattest or 'muddiest' greyscales.

As well as this, value differences (or brightness/lightness levels) aren't necessarily a good guide to what is right or not about a paintjob, since some styles will tend to be fairly uniform in greyscale while others will show a lot more variation.

Einion
 
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