Reply To: [unofficial weekender] 1 week until Christmas 2020

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I started some new minis the other day. Although I was finally not-upset with my “stylistic” edge-highlighted cartoon style I’ve spent twenty years trying to shed, I thought I’d give “volumetric shading” a go (you know, where you split a mini into basic volumes then paint each with appropriate highlights and shadows).

I wasn’t happy with the result, so photographed it and turned the image black and white. As I expected, there was a lot of mid-tones and not much variation in “volume”. So I thought I just needed to mix some brighter colours.

Then I watched this:

And now my brain is leaking out of my ears and nothing makes sense any more.