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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8764498" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Yeah, after a certain point, there's just no way you can paint little details on stuff so that human eyes can still see it.The smaller you get, the harder it becomes to paint individual details (or even the suggestion of details like rust, battle damage or mud) so they'll still show up to the human eye. Yeah, minis are small enough that they don't really cast their own shadows or show their own highlights very well, so if you want them to be visible you have to paint them on by hand.If you look at a digital illustration blown up enough to see the individual pixels, you'll notice that something "green" is actually drawn with about seven or eight colors going all the way from black in the shadows to yellow or white on the highlights. It's the contrast between those various colors that makes the human eye read them as being three-dimensional and blended together as various shades of green.For minis, painting something "green" means you end up having a base color, a shadow color and a highlight color - three separate shades of green. Or more. Or other colors, depending on how much time you want to invest in the figure - if you're assembly-lining twenty orcs for your tabletop game most folks are just going to dip them in a thinned-out wash of black or brown, which will naturally pool up in the recesses of the figure as it dries, adding in the shadows...On MGibster's giant, for the flesh you can see he's gone from a reddish dark tan in the shadows up to a yellowish white on the forehead highlights. <a href="https://imgur.com/EfggFkl" target="_blank">This orc I painted</a> with green skin (linked for nudity) has a few more muscles to it, so you can see pretty clearly that although the base color of the flesh was forest green, the shadows go all the way to black in some spots and the highest highlights are a light mint green. She's got, hrm, I think three layers of highlights and shadows on her.<img src="https://i.imgur.com/NfItuUP.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

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