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The Catalog of Contrast

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Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. When miniature painters talk about contrast, we most often talk about one very specific type of contrast - painting a sufficient range of contrast between dark shadows and light highlights. That is a critical element to successful miniature painting, and… Continue reading The Catalog of Contrast

The Contrast Series Guide

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Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. The most common advice miniature painters receive is to paint with stronger contrast between their shadow and highlight areas. I’ve written several articles over the years on this topic. This post collects those articles together for easier reference, and for… Continue reading The Contrast Series Guide

Contraints and Conundrums – Part II

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Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. This is the second part of an article discussing the constraints of miniature painting - things that we can’t do, or can’t easily do, that are common in other forms of visual communication that we might study for inspiration and… Continue reading Contraints and Conundrums – Part II

You Can’t DO that in Miniature Painting! (Constraints Part I)

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Ko-fi tips help keep this content free. Patreon supporters receive PDFs with high res photos. It is common and in many ways helpful to use other forms of visual communication as inspiration and ideas for what we might do with miniature figures. Traditional artwork, film and television scene setting, comic art, even advertising and packaging… Continue reading You Can’t DO that in Miniature Painting! (Constraints Part I)