mystic badger
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I\'m having difficulties to place highlights and shades, in fact where exactly must I place them, especially with flat clothings ?
HELP !
HELP !
where to place highlights
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Gilvan Blight
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Your best bet is to follow this idiom:
Art Imitates Life.
Take a look at things around you, or do a google image search. The highlights should be wherever light hits your object, and well the shadows would be where light does not.
A couple tricks for mini painting: put a light next to your primed mini, really close and take a picture, then immitate the highlights when painting. Another trick is to use some spray paint and hit the model with a short burst in the direction you want the light coming from. This works best with white spray over black primer but I\'m sure other colours would work.
Art Imitates Life.
Take a look at things around you, or do a google image search. The highlights should be wherever light hits your object, and well the shadows would be where light does not.
A couple tricks for mini painting: put a light next to your primed mini, really close and take a picture, then immitate the highlights when painting. Another trick is to use some spray paint and hit the model with a short burst in the direction you want the light coming from. This works best with white spray over black primer but I\'m sure other colours would work.
What mini are you currently trying to paint?
Because chances are someone on here will have painted it so you can do a search of the galleries and find a good example which will identify the Shadows/Highlights for you and you could work from there, emulating what you see.
Because chances are someone on here will have painted it so you can do a search of the galleries and find a good example which will identify the Shadows/Highlights for you and you could work from there, emulating what you see.
mystic badger
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ok now I see Thanks !!!!!
airhead
Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
mystic badger, in case I haven\'t said so earlier, welcome to the forums.
Generally (there are always exceptions) minis are painted under a \"halo\" of light. Imagine a upper diffuse sourse of lighting (cloudy day, office, etc.) where shadows are under overhangs, and upper surfaces are highlighted.
If you are still having trouble, take some close up pics of things like someone\'s shirt - without flash (someone you know and ask first). Look at the differences in the color from the area under a fold/crease to the color on the top of that same fold. Our minds are trained to see it as a single color, but it never really is.
There are some good aids in the \"articles\" section here as well as several other good mini painting sites.
Post some pics in the WIP section and you\'ll get some good advise on improvement.
Generally (there are always exceptions) minis are painted under a \"halo\" of light. Imagine a upper diffuse sourse of lighting (cloudy day, office, etc.) where shadows are under overhangs, and upper surfaces are highlighted.
If you are still having trouble, take some close up pics of things like someone\'s shirt - without flash (someone you know and ask first). Look at the differences in the color from the area under a fold/crease to the color on the top of that same fold. Our minds are trained to see it as a single color, but it never really is.
There are some good aids in the \"articles\" section here as well as several other good mini painting sites.
Post some pics in the WIP section and you\'ll get some good advise on improvement.
Along the same lines as the OP. I have a question about highlighting black. I\'m painting a really big tank model black. (It has to be black, don\'t try to talk me out of it.)
I was thinking that I would put a lamp at an angle on one side of it and use those natural highlights to tell me where to put highlights of gray.
Then I\'d put the lamp on the other side of the model and at a different angle and use that natural lighting to tell me where to put the highlights of dark grayish blue.
Does this sound like a good method?
I was thinking that I would put a lamp at an angle on one side of it and use those natural highlights to tell me where to put highlights of gray.
Then I\'d put the lamp on the other side of the model and at a different angle and use that natural lighting to tell me where to put the highlights of dark grayish blue.
Does this sound like a good method?
