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Technique Toolbox: Criss-Cross Paint Strokes!
April 22, 2014 by elromanozo
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Interesting technique, will have to make use of the vast collection of unpainted minis I have and try some of this out.
On a completely different subject, do you have any plans to do a tutorial on miniature prep?
I suffer from what I call mould blindness, I can work at prepping a mini for an hour, thinking that I have cleaned all mould lines only to find I’ve missed some after I’ve undercoated.
So some tips on preparation would be most useful.
Cheers.
Thanks ! 🙂
I have done a building tutorial on a Finecast miniature and on the Ghetorix from Privateer Press… It seems I will have to do simpler modeling tutorials at some point.
In the meantime, I suggest glasses… but everyone forgets a line here and there.
Great tutorial. I will definitely try this 🙂
Interesting technique.. I can see its uses but it seems a bit of a chore when there are simpler techniques that can achieve (IMHO) better results.
Ah, but it depends on the result you need ! You use this one to get a certain texture. If you want a gradient, of course, you’d use glazes or wet-on-wet, or wet blending.
That’s why these tutorials are here : to give you more tools for different stuff.
Also, it’s not that much of a chore, it’s really quite quick : I slowed it down to show you better, that’s all.
All fair comments.. I think I will watch this again and see if it inspires… however really finding this series useful and interesting.
Thanks a lot ! 🙂
Also, sorry everyone for the dour ans surly air I have during this video : I was quite sick, and even had a fever. Still, that didn’t prevent me from teaching you stuff, comforted in the fact that I wouldn’t contaminate you through the screen.
Thought I detected a sniffle or two! Never mind, you seemed to get everything across well enough.
Besides, some green would have created an interesting analogous colour scheme 😉
This is interesting, though I have a feeling it will be easier for someone who can actually draw.
I don’t know… Possibly.
What I do know is if your brush strokes aren’t precise, you can’t do it. But then if your brush strokes aren’t precise, you should acquire that precision in order to paint anything properly with any technique…
So I suspect drawing helps you out for everything here, not just this technique.
No I don’t mean brush control, I mean it’s very hard for me to picture something that isn’t physically on the model.
If there’s a raised bit, I can catch it with drybrushing or even specifically touch with a highlight.
But if I’m supposed to create a highlight on basically featureless piece of kit, I’m lost.
I see… You would then benefit from tutorials on zenithal lighting and source lighting.
I can actually see from your painting style that you’re not accustomed to thinking about light, and are just used to “highlighting” the raised areas of a miniature, wherever they are.
It’s a legitimate way to paint, and, to be fair, I haven’t done a proper course for zenithal lighting and the lighting of surfaces… Do study other people’s work to see what they’re doing, though, maybe you’ll see something you like ! 🙂
Romain, do you have any plans to do tutorials on lighting, particularly source lighting? That’s a style of painting I would love to get my head around but haven’t managed to as yet and while I know there are lots of resources out there for this sort of thing it would be awesome to see your take on it… 🙂
Also, loving this series of tutorials, it’s really helping to get me back into painting after a long break form it.
Thanks for your kind words ! 🙂 I’ve done one or two tutorials on source-lighting… find them on the website, backstage. The full one on Dartan Vilmon would be the most useful. I’ll do something more akin to a tip/technical video on how to proceed, perhaps, but it’s covered nonetheless. The first thing you need to understand is zenithal lighting : the why and the how… Then source lighting just follows suit. This is also the basis for proper NMM : in order to paint non metallic metal, you have to know where the light comes from and how metallic… Read more »
Interesting technique. It’d look good on cartoony models (not a dig at GW, I mean Judge Dredd, Batman, Pulp City etc.).
This is an interesting tutorial. I do have a question. Maybe you already discussed this and I missed it but is this technique intended to show the brushstrokes and in particular create a texture using paint rather than modelling clay. You did mention using it on cloth. I ask as a lot of other techniques are designed to avoid leaving brushstrokes and create smooth coats and transitions. As a rookie painter I was just wondering. At the end you do mention using washes and glazes. I’m loving these tutorials into different techniques. Its nice to know ‘Eavy Metal isn’t the… Read more »
Thank you for your keen interest ! Yes, this is designed to show texture through paint and not by modeling. Sometimes, due to scale, you simply can’t sculpt every fiber of a piece of clothing. Smoothness and gradients are all well and good for skin, silk or painted armor, but if you want to show denim or leather you’re stuck with painting it. There’s nothing wrong with that ! Do remember though that at no point one should put so much paint on the miniature as to actually make genuine asperities : this is just trompe-l’oeil, if you will. I’ve… Read more »
I like it. Hatching and cross hatching to create texture, innovative to say the least.
I could see it becoming quite a challenge on say , say , a tartan design, love to see you tackle that Romain. I’m sure you’re more than capable.
Thanks !
Hm. You know, this could be great in 54mm scale. Thanks for the idea ! 🙂
Sounds to me like you’ve already got a project In mind.