Want To Improve? STOP Using Colors.

[@BB-pn2qv]

As someone who is partly color blind, this looked to be pretty helpful

[@peyk88]

Tightly condensed and on the point as always. You are easily my favorite miniature KZbinr.

[@Zumikito]

Thank you so much!

[@redrooster7371]

I painted the whole Zombicide Night Of The Living Dead in blueish black and white. It was so much fun I was nearly somewhat reluctant to use colors again. As a bonus I had of every Zombie 6 sculpts that I wanted to look different. So I played a lot with textures. I highly recommend to try B&W painting!

[@Wa11breaker]

I once saw an entire zombicide painted on black, white and only red for blood, was one of the most awesome zombicides I've ever seen!

[@orkinho1]

I gotta try the black and white thing at some point. I do suck at texture and contrast for different materials.

[@thattabletopguy]

Looking forward to trying this out, I just got some thick body acrylics after watching your paint a mini with only three colors video. My biggest struggle with getting the values right on my minis, so excited to see if this exercise will give me some good practice and learning.

[@dannythomson5239]

i would never have thought of painting only in shades of grey black and white myself, awsome tip and now i have one hundred things i want to try this on running though my head lol.

[@youtubevideo2607]

If I will ever find again my way to miniature games and hobby painting I am going to try this Black and White painting method on my minis. I enjoy how this method helps to see where to push some whites to get shining and shadows.

[@das5842]

That is an awesome awesome paint job, and has totally inspired me to try the concept. Thank you!

[@friedrichbeutles4605]

very interesting, it realy shows that the techniques are the core and not colors, brushes etc.

[@SebGruch]

Well, yes. But good luck applying all these precise techniques, without at least decent brushes ;-)

[@friedrichbeutles4605]

@@SebGruch thats true xD

[@robbie.205]

Awesome advice. Will give it a try for sure. Thank you for sharing.

[@TheGoldenDragon_]

I like your channel very much. You explain things nice and clear, easy for a noob like me. The techniques you demonstrate are awesome and I'm glad I found you and your channel on Instagram. Thank you.

[@Zumikito]

Thank you very much!

[@philparis796]

Ngl, the more i see of your work, the less motivated i am to paint cause i flat out cant compete with this level of skill and i just dont have the time or patience to improve this much. great video man!

[@Zumikito]

Oh man, don't say that, it's supposed to make you pick up the brush and go for it! Thank you for the compliment

[@philparis796]

I dont wanna discourage you, you are amazing! I dont want you to stop! Its just that i have about 2-3 hours of free time every day and i have trouble painting better faster.

[@Zumikito]

@@philparis796 no worries, I am not discouraged, but I hope that neither are you!

[@embarkingolive]

I'd be interested to see how contrast paints work over a base like this.

[@manuelklein7627]

Dana Howl uses a technique like this and then glazes over it. I tried it multiple times, with thinned down contrast paints and it works just fine. Depending on the contrast paint using it out of the pot may kill some of the built up volumes, so I recommend thinning them and using them as glazes.

[@patorabe2734]

This is very interesting, and still in this modern "we got no time for blahbla" format that i love

[@mikereckhaus1139]

Great Clip. I never thought about that topic, but it totally makes sense. The result is cool and the leather and metallics are very good to differentiate

[@Benry87]

Your videos are great instruction in easy to consume packages. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@MrGodzillafan801]

Thanks for the video. I picked up Hexbane's Hunters from Underworlds and want to paint the minis like an old black and white horror film.

[@ЕгорКовин-ь5м]

This is unreally useful, thanks a lot. I'm really new, and even the trick with the lamp was mindblowing

[@j453]

Now, after doing all that, how about a follow up with glazing in color over the value sketch with either your favourite paints, or citadel contrast paint? Preety please 🙏

[@SmallSoldier]

great idea! I’ve always wanted to paint a miniature in black and white.👌🏻💪🏼🤘🏼

[@ArnolddeGans]

Bedankt

[@Zumikito]

Thank you!

[@13Robzilla]

So much greatness!

[@derekvanwassenhoven7597]

Like always it was super clear. Thank you for your awesome work

[@ShadowPa1adin]

I play DnD and I've wanted to get into painting my minis. However, I am afraid to do so because, when unpainted, I can use the same mini to be a wood elf bandit in one game or a drow mercenary in another, or have the party face a huge white dragon in one game, then a huge red one in another. Using color just makes it so final. Then I saw some photos of some miniatures painted not with color, but in black-n-white (or more specifically, sepia-shaded white and brown) and it made them just pop.

[@cmckinley22272]

Thanks for sharing this knowledge!

[@krystofkrasa407]

Zumikito's tier List!!! I like that. Nice video as well.

[@adye88]

Thats an artists tip, Thanks for the advice!

[@Valcron6]

Love your videos they're so concise.

[@jasonluery1111]

This value approach would make for some stylish "B&W" WW2 miniatures. Would you consider painting Bolt Action soldiers?

[@dennisfoulds3941]

Can’t wait to try it

[@archetypeofdreams6179]

I aspire to get even close to this, at current i am really a beginner.

[@PandorasStar]

I only have about 70 paints, still only use about 10 or 12 of them regularly!

[@RobbinsNestStudios]

Wonderfully helpful video! Thank you.

[@HJ_Extravaganza]

I'm new to painting, so I'm buying many to find out which I like and which I'll never use again 😅

[@lectric]

Thats exactly how it works for everyone. Im considering just buying a batch of primary colors and just go from there.

[@SvenEnterlein]

@@lectric I did that too but soon realized that it is tough, and a lot of work, to always mix all kinds of colors. I do have a lot more colors than I use because I paint very little. However, I have all the colors that I want at arm's reach. Still, mixing your own colors from primary colors is fun and important to understand.

[@Baphirok]

I am totally in love with your Sister of Battle paint job. When you showed the grayscale image of her i was actually surprised that the red armor did not show such a high contrast… Is it to make the armor read as a dark red? Or maybe so it doesnt read as pink/orange ? I feel like i am missing a certain knowledge that helps me break through a plateau

[@AKARazorback]

Alternatively: prime in grey, light zenital high light, use a black wash, then add some white paint on specific places. Good method to achieve most of this with not too much time spend.

[@joshohenno1490]

Awesome video :)) question, how would you add blood red highlights to a black and white miniature?? I'm looking to create a Sin City style army with blood speckles and streaks but don't want to ruin the B&W colour scheme

[@HazzR8]

When you apply a light shade like white how do you transition it into the black or grey? More water while it's active, speeds it until it thins or use a thinner?

[@werry13]

Hot stuff! I would like to paint a whole army this way! Ok, not a huge one, but a cool one xD

[@eham1434]

Awesome exercise idea! Is painting over a B&W value sketch with acrylic ink an effective technique or is it better to do the value sketch with the base color?

[@Zumikito]

If you are doing NMM where the main reflection is very close white, go for it, otherwise it's better to use the actualy colors you are going for. Otherwise it would just be additional step that is not really necessary. But that's just my opinion, I think that flameon always value sketches the main reflections on everything with pure white first, so I might test it going forward.

[@eham1434]

@@Zumikito that makes sense. I find it easier to read values with b&w, but I was thinking the straight b&w might not do as well. Thanks for your response!

[@HouseholdDog]

Painters use a technique where they grey scale a painting and then colour it using washes. It would be interesting to see how that would look.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

Allo mate. Any chance you can do a video on how to effectively use Fantasy & Game paint from Scale 75? I'm still fairly new to painting, I bought a set of F&G paints, thinking they'd be like Scale 75s standard range. Unless a got an entire dodgy set, they are nothing like them. From what I understand, they're more like Citadels contrast paints (I don't know, I haven't used those paints) with virtually no opacity through the range. It's driving me mad, I spent nearly £200 on paints I can't use yet!

[@edwardwhite1652]

Love all your videos and will try this experiment if i get the time in between all my other projects! One request for a future video though; your brill nmm video mentions counter-reflections stage but its the one i struggle with... would really love a video just focussed on that. I know photos etc help but still dont seem to get this stage right.

[@Zumikito]

There will be more complex vid on that(Nmm as a whole) in the future, so you can look forward to that :)

[@edwardwhite1652]

@@Zumikito fantastic, look forward to it!

[@EugenAnanin]

Love the reference to Daemonculaba :D

[@s7r49]

how would using transparent paints over something painted this way turn out?

[@charleyedwards2121]

wow man, great, informative, interesting and to the point AAA

[@eham1434]

This seems like a relevant time to ask, what's your preferred white paint?

[@Zumikito]

that is an excellent question and I plan to make an entire video on this topic, but my current top contenters are AK interactive white and white acrylic ink - ak interactive by itself and the ink to make other white paints less chalky (though you can use it by itself as well)

[@eham1434]

@@Zumikito Much appreciated! I'm looking forward to the video since white is so hard to make satisfactorily

[@Haunted_Gallows]

Aaannd now I have to actually practice and improve my painting. Great. lmao

[@zxc1972]

really informative

[@tabletoppainter7390]

I liked this video alot

[@natanhalinowski3174]

When I saw the title I thought you went crazy or something but that actually turned out great :)

[@zhaxxrc3600]

0:20 You HAD to choose that particular wiki page for that one, didn't you? Anyways, amazing video!

[@Ajax-wo3gt]

How do I do this?

[@rafallogoogle7485]

Nemesis painting this way, may be good ..... hymmm ... interesting :)

[@Chulmi]

Dude this is a great video! Although I would have enjoyed it more without being distracted thinking WTF HAPPENED TO YOUR GLORIOUS BEARD?! But no, seriously, one of my favorite videos from you so far. Love seeing talented people doing this exercise

[@OidhcheMhath]

Black and white are definitely colours by any consistent definition.

[@psychedashell]

Isn’t black all colours?

[@HarleyFirestorm]

To be honest getting the light/dark contrast right isn't part of my painting ethics, games come with so many minis these days, I just paint them to get them to the table. I am thinking of painting Etherfields black and white and maybe painting the models in colour at another time.

[@polskoi_st]

And after that exercise, you just can apply inks or contrasts to color miniature like color book =)

[@Lorderite0]

Yo why were you reading about the daemonculaba

[@absolutelyloyalspacemarine1684]

Me who uses like the same 13 color palette for everything that I have to paint (and I am using half of the paint that I have) opening the video: Interesting

[@jessehammil3897]

I have 200+ paints. 😭

[@lepettit_bricoleur3212]

Hey! Where is the blue T-shirt? 😂

[@Zumikito]

It was dirty at the time, unfortunately!

[@pablocamargo8744]

🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@senorcapitandiogenes2068]

WHAT HAPPEND TO YOUR BEARD?

[@Zumikito]

lol I trimmed it, but nice catch!

[@Ghostly_Shadows]

Did you scorch your beard during a bbq, cus I know you didn’t trim it lol.

[@MTGFrosty7]

White and Black are all the colors what the heck are you thinking?

[@Zumikito]

The epxlanation is in the vid

[@waardlafrance110]

Je crois qu'on appelle ça un monochrome

[@n0slava]

[@shannononeill482]

Ok so at least my 200+ paints are used for a wide variety of projects...painting on canvas...painting my minis....more mini's...filling in dice numbers...

[@lanesteele240]

All 200 paints will get you is constancy if you are a craft level painter. If you are an artist, 10 paints will work.

[@stormycatmink]

Next trick is he will show us how to paint miniatures... without using ANY PAINT!

[@silver-5]

Want to improve? Don't use colors, don't paint at all

[@X.davidWilliams]

Huzzah

[@petrzverina9366]

perfect tips as always

[@earlgrey2130]

You have a weird definition of "color".. if you wanna be so technical, then there are no colors. There is only material with different absorption characteristics for various wavelengths. But honestly.. that would be just as wrong as saying that black and white are "shades".

[@GeekTheGecko]

Great clickbait. Yeah, don't paint them at all. Leave them as gray plastics.

[@penisraiel]

congratulations! Your miniature went from hero/villian to statue...sooooo much better... not