How to Get Better at Painting Minis: Understanding Colour

Colour is something we can see, yet we don't think about it. Much like walking we just do it...but when it comes to painting 'just doing it' doesn't help. Learn about how we see colour and why sometimes the colour you want to achieve and the colour that is painted on your model don't match and how to make it more accurate.
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Reading Colour
1:40 Midtones
3:00 Skintones
5:02 Black and White
8:10 Metallics
10:42 Conclusion
11:51 Outro
12:20 After credits scene
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[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:22 Reading Colour 1:40 Midtones 3:00 Skintones 5:02 Black and White 8:10 Metallics 10:42 Conclusion 11:51 Outro 12:20 After credits scene

[@UK-patriot-Cooper]

Perfect video of useful advice (Instantly saved!) Thank-you

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Glad to hear we made the playlist? I hope some of the other videos make it like Understanding colour theory, a lot of people like that one

[@larente]

This channel is more informative than what I learned in art classes at college. Incredible content and so inspiring. ❤

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We are extremely glad to hear comments like this and you are not the first! It makes us feel we are doing something right

[@pedrogzc]

This serie of How to get better is like a bible! Thank you for sharing it!

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Glad to have helped, not sure where to go next with it though

[@roryhatfield6696]

This is the first time I’ve actually understood about the basics and I’ve saved this video for future use. Great job guys

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

It's Rory I am really gald it helped 😊

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

RORRY!! I am so glad to hear all these great comments telling us that they are learning so much more than they did in school and I still wonder what we do that's so special that's making things so much easier fo you guys to understand🤔 but no complaints here, as long as you find it useful I am more than happy ~Sunny

[@roryhatfield6696]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnow art classes in High School were horrible and didn’t teach art at all. I never took any in College.

[@ghitapaints91]

This video deserves a sub. Thank you so much for the guide.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We are proud to hear we have earned your subscription, we also do commentary videos as well so know it won't always be like this check out some of our other videos to get a taste for the range of stuff you may see

[@speaktome4778]

Thanks for always remembering people with predominantly metallic armies! Still making my way through your older videos but you offer a really thoughtful perspective that's lacking from a lot of other mini painting channels. You guys rock!

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Yep did a whole episode on it! But we are thinking of redoing those two and combining them because our audio wasn't very good back then

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Thank you for watching as far as you have! I am really glad to know we are going in the right direction. May I ask what is the perspective that we provide that clicks with you because many people like you have said the same and we'd like to understand what we bring to the table so we can make content inline with the people's interest ~Sunny

[@Fearthepudding]

Another fantastic video! I love how you pull in examples from other channels and outside the hobby.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We try and credit as best we can, but what we try to do is show the best examples we can. So be that hobby stuff, outside the hobby stuff or even AI art

[@Nekorook]

I love your videos. Great little advice video.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We are glad to hear that

[@MoOs.Corner]

pure enjoyment watching the video. Your channel should be a must read with every color pot, really great!

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Thank you so much the kind comment. If you want more people to find us sharing is the biggest help

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We are so glad to hear that , thank you very much! Tell us more about what you enjoyed in particular~Sunny

[@MoOs.Corner]

already did =)@@WhatareyouPaintingnow

[@MoOs.Corner]

hard to explain, but how you play the Q&A with explaining each topic make my gears click in the right place... and i watched a lot of tutorials before but never get a clue on real color theory @@WhatareyouPaintingnow

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

@@MoOs.Corner So the back and forth where one person plays expert and the other plays learner helps you process the information? Would I be getting close there?

[@shauku77]

Best ending so far!

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We are glad to hear some people really like our end stuff, we put up the conclusion and end part so people know that we are done on the main topic so we don't waste peoples time

[@ahmeterenkoc2510]

Great content!

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Thank you very much

[@loonyonthebeat9516]

Thx I love this.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Thank you very much, comments like these keep us going

[@chuck2703]

Glad to have subbed. Good stuff

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Glad to have you as a Subscriber 😊

[@victorhenden6909]

A great video, have a happy new year.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Thank you very much! Also you are our very first 'super chat/thanks' means a lot means people are willing to pay for what we make which means a lot!

[@brianv769]

Great video, thanks!

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Glad to be of service

[@Mordraqq]

Since Im with oil paints, its much more fun, so many options, blending colours,getting em into each others buisness.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Oils are great for that but they are a bit of a brush killer

[@yuliydubovyk3080]

One of your best videos! ❤️🙏

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Thank you what it one our our best?

[@yuliydubovyk3080]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnowsorry, could rephrase that?

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

@@yuliydubovyk3080 Oh sorry my fingers were moving to fast for my head or the other way around What makes it one of best? We want to try and figure out what we have done well as well as what we do poorly to improve everytime

[@yuliydubovyk3080]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnow hahaha all good, I do it all the time! What makes this video one of the best in my eyes is a solid amount of techincal information on the mechanics of painting or even the composition of paints (like when you discuss metallic paints - that stuff is all incredible). You hit a lot of important topics and the video is information packed. Some content creators probably could have milked the subject matter for like 5 videos, but you put all relevant info into one super video. I've sent it to multiple people already. Your other video that absolutely hits the mark for me is another recent video that's sort of a sped up remake of your earlier video on verisimilitude. The superman example is gold and your idea with showing the weight of a miniature relative to its basing (snow in that case) is really amazing. Another thing that I sent to like 10 people. I'm only mentioning the not-so-well part at your request. And in your defense it is your most watched (I think) video also, so at the end of the day one man's likes and dislikes don't make the channel. The videos I love have a couple of thousand (and in one case a couple of hundred) views. The videos I strongly dislike have tens (and probably soon will have hundreds of thousands of views). So if anything maybe take my feedback and do the opposite because I clearly don't guess corretly what's popular for most aspiring (and current) hobbyists. But to get to my point - by far your worst videos in the sense of concepts and material are the videos on psychology of color. I've rewatched the longest one just now just to make sure I didn't miss some critical component. But you have multiple videos on that subject and they all have shared issues at the theoretical level. There's absolutely no issues otherwise - you guys have great energy, the visual aids are there, comedy, banter - all of your signature stuff is there. It's the concepts that you cover in those videos that are weak. Again - 10s and soon 100s of thousands of viewers obviously liked and shared those videos so it makes commercial sense to continue in that direction.

[@the250mikec]

Any tips on gluing my skull back together. Cause you just blew my mind👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Thanks. Readability is what I'm currently working on and you made it make sense. Thank you

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Glad we could help, probably first thing is see a doctor we do not know which glues could be toxic in that regard We are very glad we could help because it truly is our goal to help, so if you could help us, by telling us what made it so mind blowing? What made things more understandable for you?

[@wackyzaky]

This is a fantastic video! Thanks for this. Note on white: I'm enjoying Pro Acryl Bold Titanium White, though I tend to go super light gray with white as a highlight/mixing color. As for black, I just finished a Battle Sister squad with black armor, and I found that Corvus Black + Pro Acryl Payne's Grey made a great mid-tone, shaded with black in the darkest recesses and tiny/thin edge highlights into a white glazed with jade.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

We don't have have any Proacryl paints on our racks currently but yes! We have (or atleast I have) heard many great things about the Pro Acryl range I know that their white was a favourite of Brushstrokes Painting Guide for a long while before he switched to Wite Star by Dunkan Rhodes and since I saw him rave about it I told Cal to snatch it right away when we were in the shops ~Sunny

[@wackyzaky]

​@@WhatareyouPaintingnow ooh when I run out of my Pro Acryl I'll snag some of the Two Thin Coats white. Thanks!

[@Chrysamer77]

I use varnish after painting anyway. So finish of paints alone don't really matter

[@calvanoni5443]

Other paint lines use aluminium for metallics! Don't lick the brush! 😉😊

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Do you know which paint lines they are?

[@calvanoni5443]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnow Army painters new line, I got them.

[@calvanoni5443]

I think the paints from Monument Hobbies also are?

[@speaktome4778]

​@@WhatareyouPaintingnowI've heard that Vallejo's Metal Color line uses aluminum flakes but you're definitely paying for it. There are a few others I'll post if I can recall them.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

@@speaktome4778 This is something we are going to have to look into

[@Chrysamer77]

I can do basecoat, and I can do shadows. But I can't do highlights with layering. And highlights with drybrushing are too unprecise. My only idea is to do base coat, then do recess shading twice, to get shadows and deep shadows. Then maybe I can barely manage some edge highlighting, and all this should sell the effect.

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

Can you be more specific with the can't do highlight ?

[@Chrysamer77]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnow layering, so that colors blend smothly, is just a hard technique ;)

[@Chrysamer77]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnow edge highlighting alone is kinda easier

[@WhatareyouPaintingnow]

@@Chrysamer77 remember that not every model needs to be showcase level and remember that what is real and what looks real are two different things beyond actual lessons next yo you I am not sure how else we can help on that one

[@Chrysamer77]

@@WhatareyouPaintingnow thanks, your videos are helpful in figuring out my way of painting ;)

[@Ccarnage8]

Or Col Col or Not culluh Power hour flower flour colour? Or. Color.