Painting a Cell-Shaded Space Marine | Random Astartes #2

This year I am painting one space marine intercessor a month in a randomly determined style and colour scheme. This month? A cell-shaded astartes from my homebrew chapter, the Redemptionists!
This was a super fun scheme to work with, and a discovered a hack to painting cell shaded models that you will want to copy.
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[@jonnytalala2410]

For comic "black" you want to do a Blue. If you look at alot of characters that have black suits or hair, it is highlighted with blue!

[@MrDaqar]

Could also do the boltgun with a dark grey and then black line it.

[@domainofscience]

This was cool! I'd love it if at the end of the vide you showd all your space marines you've done so far together, it'd be interesting to compare the different styles next to each other

[@SimonClark]

Great idea! I'll do that next time

[@seanmalloy7249]

It's not a well-known term, but the opposite of 'zenith' is 'nadir' - but 'nadiral shading' is never going to be a term used by anyone but extreme grammar geeks.

[@BiggusFroggus]

The "rock" on the base works for me because it reads to me as a piece of slain tyranid.

[@iapetusmccool]

The opposite of zenith is nadir. Not sure how you'd turn that into an adjective though. Nadiral?

[@beannguyenkhac4332]

something you might want to look into is tamiya panel liner, or the gundam panel liner. its easier to clean and apply.

[@Naith123]

The opposite to zenith is nadir and in your case it would be nadiral

[@ericochoa7551]

This looks like a fun, awesome technique. How would this work for black armor? Do the same thing, but instead of using black as a liner, you use white?

[@AevasHouse]

That is a comic book style cell shading is a rendering style not an art style

[@pedergoff7980]

I'm working on a guardsman army and have a few models with kilts. I wanted your opinion on how to approach cel shading on a pattern. My thought was to cel shade the base color and then lay in the lines as solid unshaded colors.

[@ger5956]

Excellent work as always dude 😁❤️👍🏼 This turned out really well, such a cool style. Anytime I hear cell shaded I think of an old ps2 (I think?) game, XIII, always loved that one. Have fun and stay safe 👍🏼

[@rhettupthegrove6288]

Homie paints white scars and calls it home brew.

[@ForTheSuperEarth]

For black edges the best method is to use a sharpy or fine liners.

[@dmereel]

I would love to try this for a kill team. Or combat patrol. A full army... wow that's a time investment and a half! You did a fantastic job mate! You should be chuffed!

[@enricob15]

Simply amazing

[@azarael77]

The opposite of a zenithal highlight is a nadir shadow, by the way ^^

[@DoubLL]

Very cool! Even cooler considering that a miniature patreon I'm subscribed to is releasing a 1/10 scale model of Lilith from Borderlands next month and I really had no idea how to go about painting it. So thanks for the tutorial

[@soapybangsyoma]

This is brilliant and works hand in hand with my home brew Ork faction from Pandorka.

[@learntooilpaint]

I did quit a number of hero minis in a more comic style, but based on cell shading for the colour, I am genuinely surprised it took this long for the “inking”. However I really liked the work you did. I did like the idea of using zenith and nadir painting, although on a model with more parts you would like need to convert that somehow, so a thought that springs to kind is to do something very similar, and use the gradients to paint over as a way to know where light and dark colours should be in general. V handy tip that honestly. I’m hoping to get back into some painting with the cheap intro box and do it in this style.

[@CoBy_CoBy-97]

Based on the fact that im currently thinking of getting in to painting Warhammer and your statement about this technique to just dont i feel like its a good starting place :p

[@SimonClarkErrata]

Yeah I wouldn't recommend this being the first style you try! I'd recommend Midwinter Minis' video on starting painting

[@galacticchannel6741]

That looks sick! Now I really want to use a cell shaded/comic style, but for a necron

[@Half_of_The_World]

Damn, Salvador been stealing power armour again

[@DiegoVallejoDev]

Tip for the gun color: go with dark gray and highlight with black, pure black chuncks didn't existed in comics because it will cost a lot in ink (dithering printing limitations) , so the darkest tones you would see on them where dark grays and purples

[@thomasmarais5008]

I was certain that your 2 bits of advice were both going to be "Don't" lol

[@briancollins2693]

I'd thought of doing this for my ultramarines army, you've confirmed that its going to look fantastic. Thank you very much! 😄

[@retrocalypse]

You earned a sub with this video and the Ultramarine! What a great idea for a series and you're a hell of a painter!

[@aaronjames3833]

looks amazing :)

[@ilokiwi]

Nice one Simon!

[@sosun847]

loving this series