Notice that there is no attempt to blend whatsoever. Even after you put in all your base coats and cover up all the primer, the contrast level on the miniature will look different with shadows and highlights painted into all areas. The before/after pictures on the left date from 2008-2009. This was my attempt to apply the Notan concept to a figure. (Again, taking photos of the value map stage is probably a good idea since I’ll be painting over the reference on my miniature. This can also be a useful method for speed painting or tabletop painting. Many Contrast colours still work nicely over somewhat darker base coats for a darker result, and work even better with a zenithal prime from mid tone to light. Try it out on some photos of miniatures painted by painters you admire to give you a better idea of how to apply better contrast to your miniatures: https://blog.mitchalbala.com/compositional-studies-with-the-notanizer-app/. I’m going to share it with my local group. Miniatures painted with glazes over zenithal priming have good contrast within each area, but can lack contrast between each of the areas. And then white straight on from the lightsource, it helps you increase the constrast of your OSL. Sometimes I roughly block in the midtone, shadow, and highlight values of the major areas on my figure using black, white, and grey brush-on primer. A discussion of classic Notan: https://blog.mitchalbala.com/the-wisdom-of-notan/, Using three and four value Notan: https://www.finearttips.com/2017/05/using-japanese-notan-design-principles-for-plein-air-painting/, There is an app for that! So as suggested, a basic zenithal spray of wraithbone over the top sets you up for any of the lighter colours really; Miniwargamer did that with the iyanden yellow Contrast for a browner version of Imperial Fists. The advantage of using a zenithal highlight is that is a fast and easy way to add contrast to a miniature. For me, at least, that idea is a little challenging to apply to miniatures. It seems everyone’s always focused on the blending part and then wonder why their miniatures seem to be lacking something despite butter-smooth blends. I also have written a PDF that will be released by Reaper that goes into a little more detail on the process I used with Sophie and a few other figures. I’ve edited the text to include a link to a PDF I wrote for Reaper Miniatures that includes an example of painting in the colour blocking in style, and also has more information about painting highlights and shadows for a directional light source. Both black and white primers are extremes of contrast that will throw off your perception of the contrast as long as any primer remains in view. Well my friends, Zenithal Priming is your answer for fast, easy, great highlights and shadows. You could also have two copies of the figure and paint the value study on one and the full colour paint on the other. I’ll go over my efforts to paint Volfyirion in another mini-painting post. ), This page has photos of the process with a relatively simple portrait: https://mattharveyart.com/2017/11/28/portrait-painting-step-by-step-glazing-over-grisaille/, And this is an example using a more complex colour scheme: http://www.muddycolors.com/2017/08/what-lies-beneath/. You might not want to cover nearly as much of the model, as you normally would with a zenithal … In this post about how to paint miniatures with more contrast, I’m going to discuss technique and paint application ideas for how to increase the level of contrast that you paint into the shadows and highlights of your miniature figures. My goal is to establish the midtone, shadow, and highlight values on the large areas of the figure. I primed some spare mans I had lying around with vallejo black primer. Generally you will use just three colors, black, gray, and white. It is definitely more challenging to create smooth transitions when you have a more extreme range between your darkest shadow and lightest highlight. Notice that there is no blending in this kind of value map, just a very clear indication of where things should be lighter, darker, or somewhere in the middle. Italian Bersaglieri Citadel Contrast Painting Guide. I have written two Learn to Paint kits for Reaper Miniatures. You can use this as a ‘map’ for where to apply colour by applying opaque layers of paint in the correct value over the zenithal prime. This Blues Brothers graphic is an excellent example: Classic Notan – everything in the image is either black, or white. Therefore, I’m going to review the style of mini painting I use before I show lots of photos. After that … (Grisaille is when it’s done with grayscale, brunaille with brown colours, and verdaccio/verdaille with greens, which can be quite effective under skin tones. Experiment with different sizes and brightness of lights for different effects. Use of spray cans creates a speckled appearance of the white over black in the midtone areas. In the traditional art world, what I’m doing is equivalent to a value study. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Remember – ultimately the contrast is more important than the blending! They can help you keep areas of light and dark in mind even while you’re distracted by other concerns like blending, and thus help you paint with more contrast. It’s good to see articles focusing on the other parts of mini painting. But there I was making the same old lack of contrast mistake in 2015 as in 2008. I do this to create a ‘value map’ for myself to follow when I start applying the colour. I mean, if you’re cash strapped or lazy you can get away with using 2 colors, but 3 gets best results. Miniatures painted with glazes over zenithal priming have good contrast within each area, but can lack contrast between each of the areas. Zenithal Priming is a way to paint your miniatures based on how they are traditionally viewed. https://www.lifeminiatures.com/step-by-step, And at this point it probably won’t come as a shock to learn that this is something else practiced in traditional painting. Miguel Gutierrez makes treasures from trash. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Colours, Values and Blending. The second is an overview of my methods for blending – layering and glazing. Note that I did not have the app at the time of painting this figure, I just wanted to give you an example of what using the app on a reference lighting photo might look like. You can find that kit at this link, from your local retailer, or numerous online shops: http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/learn%20to%20paint/sku-down/08907, Layering is not the only method for blending, though for a variety of reasons I do think it is useful for every painter to learn. Zenithal highlighting is a key component in many speed painting techniques. Zenithal Priming is useless for me!!!! If that were the case, I wouldn’t have photos to show from such a span of years. I recommend trying some of the monochrome underpainting methods out because separating the stage where you work on values out from working on colour and blending helps to make it much easier to keep your focus on building higher contrast in your values. This was my interpretation of the placement of light and shadow based on my lighting reference photo, I did not have an app that could apply Notan filters at the time. For more details on my value mapping method, please see my post on painting ReaperCon Sophie 2018: https://birdwithabrush.com/2018/09/06/reapercon-2018-sophie-painting-process/. In … Given the nature of acrylic paint and how pigment colours behave, you would likely also need to apply some more opaque layers of paint, particularly for the top level highlights, but also possibly in other areas. Paint used : -Mephiston red -Wild rider red (gw orange) -scale 75 flat black -vallejo air white (Note that you can also take pictures of the miniature after zenithal priming but before applying paint so you still have a reference in case you lose track of where the shadows and highlights should be while painting. Zenithal Priming is priming your model with 3 colors instead of just 1. Do you hate layering? A common mistake I see with contrast paint is applying too thick of a layer, but if you're using it over a zenithal prime, the thinner you apply the contrast paint, the better it looks overall. All facets of … I recommend scanning through all of the tutorials, as each demonstrates some of the points better than the others in some respects. I always do a zenithal prime to help me establish my light points. You may want to look at Ansel Adams for more inspiration. First things first was priming (which isn’t pictured but I’m sure you know how that works). Using a spray can or airbrush with a bright color, usually white, you spray directly downward onto a dark-colored model. I’m a slow learner sometimes! Applying paint via an airbrush is the best way to zenithal spray ‘prime’ Bones figures. Ask yourself a question: Do you like saving tons of time while painting? You work on the big picture, then start to refine blending and details, stopping at any point where you’ve invested as much time into that miniature as you can afford. This is done as a way to familiarize yourself with the subject and to assess if the composition is eye-catching. More miniature-painting goodness: Citadel shades and washes, zenithal primes, and Etherfields. Gavinthekaiser on reddit’s r/boltaction forum posted his Italian Gavinthekaiser painted with Citadel Contrast Paints in what might be one of the simplest, but effective paint schemes out there so far. Those on the right date from 2015. I went with a black/grey/white zenithal prime using my airbrush. This figure was painted as a black and white noir detective, but you could also use this approach as a grisaille under painting. My special snowflake color doesn’t have a wash! So my first tip is to  paint to the point where you’re finished or almost finished and then take a final look at the figure. My painting ability did improve over that span – I would not have been able to paint the freehand details on the 2015 figure in 2008. If you haven’t read the previous post about how to paint with more contrast, you will find it here: https://birdwithabrush.com/2018/10/06/how-to-paint-contrast-mind-games/. The first covers the core skills of drybrushing and washing. (For example, try painting the same midtone colour like a tanned Caucasian skin colour onto a black primed and a white primed figure. I break down painting into three steps. It is interesting to see him work from blocking in, working his values to where he wants them and then bringing in detail. Are you looking at a quick way to improve your painting? So you aren’t necessarily doing anything ‘wrong’ if you find that happening! No problem, just use a wash instead. I haven’t had a chance to paint a lot of oil paintings as yet (I’m trying to stay more focused on learning to draw for the time being), but I hope to do more in the future, as well as all of this being very useful information for painting figures. Spraying with an airbrush has a smoother look. You can reduce that appearance a little by adding grey in the middle step, or smooth it out by touching up the figure by hand with some thinned white and thinned black. This is the color you want your model to be. So if using only two values seems to challenging, consider using white, black, and one or two values of gray to create a Notan on your figures. I recently picked up an airbrush for Father’s Day and prime using Vallejo Surface Primer Black and Liquitex Titanium White Ink. By that, I mean don't get caught up in highlighting an "arm." The contrast is much less obvious when you first spray the model and everything is the same color but it comes to life as you paint more. Notice the difference between the leg nearer the light and the one further back. The first thing to know is that this technique requires a spray primer. White is the lightest value, and black is the darkest value. • A filter paint to apply over the primer. Position a small bright light close to the figure in the direction you’d like to have your imagined light source. Zenithal, meaning “located at or near the zenith”, is all about painting from above. SAN FRANCISCO (5-9) at ARIZONA (8-6) Saturday, 4:30 p.m. (I’ll cover colour contrast in future posts.) The result allows you to easily see where light hits the figure strongly (white areas), or doesn’t hit the figure much at all (black areas), as well as the in between sections that should be midtone values . I was asked if I could write a blog post on the subject of Zenithal highlighting and I was delighted to have a go.. Zenithal highlighting is simply a way of preshading a model. A center for all things Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and more! You can do Zenithal priming with normal spray cans. He is well known for advocating a system to make sure that each photograph had an almost black dark and an almost white spot. Best of all everybody can do it. If possible, take it in a dimly lit room. ), Here is a site with a good visual example of a simple value study: https://www.dorian-iten.com/value-study/, This site demonstrates how even something that looks super sketchy and rough can be valuable to a well-executed end result: https://www.davidmkessler.com/blog/23789/value-studies-the-artists-essential-tool. After completing this step, I could add transparent layers of paint to introduce skin tone, hair colour, etc. I didn’t just try to paint with more contrast once or even over the span of a year or two and then it just clicked and I started to be able to paint that wayon every figure. For a short video example of glazing a grisaille underpainting with colour, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYdla_4H-R8(Technically this is a brunaille since the value painting is in brown rather than gray, but same idea. I have had some questions in response to my first post about contrast that were really more related to blending. You can find the PDF here: https://www.reapermini.com/images/dungeondwellers/07002_BaranBlacktree_PG_low.pdf, Reblogged this on Tangible Day and commented: If the miniature is metal or a very light or dark coloured plastic, you might want to prime it in a more neutral gray colour before taking your reference photos. A common phrase from him is “Be sure to reserve your brightest value for last” which reminds me of this article. NOTE to painters of Bones miniatures: I do not recommend using spray primer on Bones. How to use Zenithal Highlighting – Eckter from Kings of War. With this guy, I tried a zenithal prime, using Badger African Flesh Tone and Vallejo Bone. The artist can refer to the value study during the drawing/painting process of the final work to ensure that they are capturing the full range of shadow and light they saw on their subject. Thin layers. Now let’s discuss some methods you can use earlier in the painting process in order to try to minimize how much you need to adjust at the end. Additionally Andrew Tischler is an oil painter with very watchable tutorials. And the previous post has a lot of helpful tips on this topic! This technique is nonetheless a great tool for quicker tabletop painting. It often fails to cure and remains tacky to the touch. I generally reserve extensive discussion of blending for convention painting classes where I can easily demonstrate the techniques and brush handling that I use. You can even use paint instead of primer as long as you prime first. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In that post, I described how I managed to paint the minis in the game Mystheato a satisfactory level. Just glaze in the shadows using transparent colours; after you use the colour shift paint. It is also possible to apply the idea of zenithal priming/value mapping in a much more finished way. If you like the work I do on this blog, please consider supporting it via my Patreon. The plan here was to give me enough initial contrast so that I could then spray a single base color and still get a nice gradient effect. ( Log Out /  During the value mapping stage I am just concentrating on contrast and value – trying to make the midtones of adjacent areas different enough from one another, and blocking in the appropriate shadow and highlight contrast based on the location of the light and the texture of the material in each area. This is a way around the issue I mentioned up at the top in the Check and Reflect section – you can’t really judge whether the contrast range of your values is correct until you get the majority of them painted on your figure. (Some people do an intermediary step of spraying gray paint/primer to add the midtone values.) Zenithal Priming. (Discussed more below.). I spent too many years too focused on just the blending. Dionne, Werewolf Hunter by Hasslefree Miniatures: https://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=dionne~hfa015&category=modern-%26%0D%0Apost%252dapoc~modern-adventurersWood Elf Goddess Avatar Form by Dark Sword Miniatures: https://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/miniatures/visions-in-fantasy/wood-elf-goddess-avatar-form.htmlTara the Silent by Reaper Miniatures, special edition figure not currently available: http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Special%20Edition%20Figures/sku-down/01602Unknown figure by Sandra Garrity (possibly an Adiken figure)Camille from the Barglemore and Camille pack, special edition figure currently available for a limited time by Reaper Miniatures: https://www.reapermini.com/search/camilleDeadlands Noir Occult Detective by Reaper: https://www.reapermini.com/search/occul%20detective/latest/59039, Miniature painter and board game enthusiast. These are going to be a quick overview – each of these tips could be expanded to be a blog post in their own right! Zenithal Priming is priming your model with 3 colors instead of just 1. What do I need? Then you’ll go over it all with a translucent paint that acts like a filter. Then you can get a better idea of how things work as a whole and whether you need to tweak some areas to be lighter or darker before you put a lot of work into blending and detail painting. After that I applied blocks of opaque colours over those maps, placing my highlight colours over the white, midtone colours over the gray, and shadow colours over the black. With zenithal highlighting, it's important to keep the overall shape of what you're highlighting in mind. At this stage you do NOT worry about blending or details. And thank you for the link and information. Do get caught up in what exactly it is. Zenithal highlighting is mentioned in almost every video and article about it to be a way to speed paint models. Short film showcases quirky 72-year-old artist, AIDS activist Ryce Stoughtenborough; Dec. 12, 2020 1:30 a.m. Batrep: Reconquest of Keopsis VII- Part I, WIP: Dark Mechanicus Magos, Archmagos Draykavac Conversion. Using the ink over the black allows for a perfectly smooth zenithal transition without the grainy look usually caused by airbrushing white. A simple but important thing that leads us astray with contrast is that you can’t accurately judge the level of contrast on the various areas of your figure until you have mostly finished painting it. While more nuanced, it’s roughly the equivalent of using a bright white primer, using vibrant layer paints, then putting a light coat of a sepia wash like Agrax Earthshade on it. The app that I mentioned, Notanizer, is available for various operating systems. One of the reasons I’m sharing these kinds of things on this blog is that I am hoping to spare other people some of the time and annoyance I’ve spent along the path of learning. Here’s what I’m going to do in this tutorial: Prime with Rustoleum Painters Touch 2x … The colour you would glaze with depends on the colour shift paint. You’ll apply black, grey, and white primers in a way that creates a gradient effect from the shadows to the upper most areas. -Then spray a thin coat of Gloss varnish, this step is optional but the Contrast paint flows a lot better with it, staining a lot less flat surface. It can be helpful to leave the figure to sit for a day or three before making that final assessment. Sure it will make the shadows less shiny, but it will add contrast. I coated the body of the model with Skeleton Horde and the tentacles with Magos Purple. This is a big part of what went wrong with the figures above. Luckily people also create Notan using three or four values. Zenithal priming is a method of underpainting, but there are other options for underpainting. Prime in GW 's black then once dry, then hit it again with your chosen lighter spray. For tabletop painting I believe Matt uses zenithal priming or something very similar. This figure is from a painting class I took with Eric Louchard many years ago. I actually like these results better, since washes will shade the recesses even more (for xxx pro MLG painting you could use BOTH a spray-on paint and wash. Just make sure all the layers are really thin): But BROFIST! • From the very top, spray in a 45 degree cone using white. Glaze red the full squad. Metal or hair, for example, are very shiny, so you will need to exaggerate the lights and shadows even more on areas you want to have look as if made of those materials. I started with a black prime and then a zenithal highlight with Wraithbone base with my airbrush. It's not all that different from glazing or 'juicing' over a zenithal prime, which is a technique used by GD winners, not just speed-painting hobbyists. You are 100% correct that it is only one piece of the puzzle! So I think that I should bring this post to a close. Then its time to MAN THE FUCK UP and use your paint as a glaze. Taking your black templar contrast paint, apply a thin layer all over her clothing, including her gloves. The mental goal to push contrast is as important or more so as anything you will find here. In the meantime, here are some additional resources you might find useful. • The primer/paint MUST be applied through an airbrush or rattle-can One of the things you’ll find over in that other post is larger pictures of the following figures. Seeing these at this smaller size is a good reminder of why we need to paint with contrast – gaming figures are small! Pale pink is a light value of red, brick is a midtone value of red, and a deep wine colour is a dark value of red. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. And you can compensate slightly by adding other types of contrast, like using complementary colours on adjacent areas. It doesn’t even have much to do with specific techniques or brush skills. The process is simple and pretty straight forward. We may encounter an inopportune death, such as drowning, freezing, being shot, crushed or burned to death, or death due to diseases like cancer, heart attack or AIDS. I use a small and inexpensive LED light. Or you can glaze transparent colours over the established values to add colour to the figure. I’ll link it here once it’s available, as well as mention it in the comments and likely in a future post. If you try this technique, you may find that you need to apply some opaque highlights in the brightest areas to get maximum pop and contrast. Zenithal priming is a way to apply a reference to the location of your light source directly to the miniature itself. https://www.andrewtischler.com/. What the hell is Zenital Priming? ( Log Out /  If you’d like to know more about methods of zenithal priming using spray primer, airbrush, or brushing by hand, check out this excellent video by Metalhead Minis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=88rMH25y-2E&feature=share. Black line the full squad. After taking pictures illuminating the figure with an in-scale light, I applied areas of black and white over the gray primer to block in a Notan value map. I zenithal primed the mummy, which shows on the eyes as well. More Contrast experimentation, you won’t get these results out of the pot. We need to add dramatic shadows and highlights for their details to be visible to the viewer, and to make them more interesting to look at. Generally you will use just three colors, black, gray, and white. In its purest form, Notan interprets a scene or subject in black and white only. Don’t go crazy. 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