A Game-Changing Discovery for Miniature Painters

Whether you paint DND and Boardgame miniatures or any other minis, coloring books will teach you one key aspect about how different shapes work.
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I am painting miniatures for warhammer 40k, age of sigmar, marvel crisis protocol, D&D and much more! Whether it is superhero miniatures, heroic characters or space marines, I will paint them! If you are looking for some sweet miniature painting tutorials or warhammer hobby content in general, this is the right channel for you!

[DefaultProphet]

Alternatively “Can getting better at art make you a better painter?”

[DyingtoPaint]

All your videos are good but the recent ones are great! Informative, concise, and genuinely funny! Thanks for the great content!😊

[TehAwesomer]

4:52 - "And I guess you can already tell what kind of shape is this? It's not a cube, let me tell you that!" 😁

[christopherheintz]

'It's not a cube, let me tell you that.'
Funny enough, I think I get volumes now.

[RodBatten]

You taught how to paint miniatures by teaching the basics of lighting and drawing.

That's pretty epic!

[LGHOT]

Since I got into the hobby a few years ago. I said that once I started looking at the model like a 3D colouring book my painting has grown exponentially.

[ZuzanaUlrich]

Páni, děkuji za zvláštní algoritmus YouTube, jen koukám, jak úžasné a šikovné lidi u nás v Čechách máme 👍 I v tak nezvyklých oborech jako malování figurek. Tohle video má ovšem mnohem větší výtvarný přesah. Perfektně vysvětlená a ukázaná základní teorie 👍

[gomezzara_art]

Once again, Zumikito proves to be a master of condensing useful, entertaining and dynamic information in so few minutes. And of course with a very original creative twist, excellent as always my friend! <3

[xXbillthekillXx]

I just have to say between you and several other content creators, my painting skills have grown exponentially in a rather short amount of time. You do allot for the mini painting community and I always look forward to new uploads! Awesome video as always.

[cheekeemonkee]

You covered something that has been oddly missing in my latest purchases of "how to draw books" applying these shapes to every object is gonna help me immensely with my shading. Thank you!

[DamianM]

“It’s not a cube, let me tell you that” 😂. Every episode has at least one golden line. We need a ‘quote book’ at the end of each year with absolutely no context, just an image and the quote next to it. ‘Zumikito’s pearls of wisdom 2023’

[crips]

A true joy to see how you stepped up your video game over time.
Easy to understand through visualization and clear steps. The comedic factor breaks up the seriousness of those topics and simply makes it fun to follow your descritptions.
...also big phat anime shapes 10/10

[desmo]

Zumi… I’ve watched many a video on this subject. But this one, this one right here… This one clicks a lot with me. Thank you for this video, it definitely helped me out

[PlanetHugger]

i love your genuine humor. you are hilarious! love it! and content is best of the best. finally i found my painting guide ❤

[shawnford]

I really found this video useful! Thank you

[miaouew]

Kingdom Death minis look like the most fun things ever to paint

[ideiben]

I was [am] a traditional oil painter LONG before I began to paint miniatures. I can tell you that I had an IMMEDIATE ability to produces painted mini's that LOOKED like oil paintings. I surprised my own self actually, but I guess it all makes sense. I just know what to do, and how to get the 'look' I'm after. ALL of my mini's look nearly photo-realistic. In fact, the only thing I initially needed time to get used to, was how small the brushes needed to be, alas, VERY small as it turns out. I build my colors through direct blending ON the model, and 'glazes'. Producing colors through glazing, produces results on par with the Masters. I had always preferred the Dutch method, and thus I begin by painting my entire mini in grey scale....like Vermeer did, for instance. THEN, after the mono-chromatic paintjob it done, I begin building color through transparent, thin, glazes. Since the 'values' are already fully established via the initial mono-chromatic phase...the color phase turns out exceedingly rich and very very realistic. I'm jut now beginning to scratch build my mini's...which is a whole different skill, but quite fun. Also, using a monocle or min. 2.5x magnifying visor makes a WORLD of difference in the detail you can ultimately achieve with scratch building your figures. Sometimes I 'buy' the heads already done and ready to go, also, sometimes I buy 'hands' already ready to go, and then I build the rest of the figure from scratch, including all clothes, equipment, etc.. Scratch building with a 3d pen and micro diamond and sanding bits allows you to achieve super fine details without having to spend so much time like it does when trying to scratch build with epoxy putty...which is too time consuming. 3d pen scratch building figures is really, really easy to do once you get the initial 'feel' for the heat setting on the pen AS WELL AS the heat settings on your 'smoothing' heat element...which is just a modified electronic soldering iron with bits you can easily customize yourself via grinding whatever shape and size you think you might need or want to use.

[goodman]

You had me at the drum stick, pencil twirl .. that was epic.. really a great video on how to look at minis super helpful.

[daveg]

I was about to start painting a 40k army and decided to take a look at YouTube. I stopped by one of you vidoes and was impressed. So, I watch another and another and...friend, you are amazing. I have learned from EVERY video I have watched. Thank you for real content presented in an entertaining manner.

[andreasdesigns]

Turning everything into one of the shapes helps make highlights easier to imagine and paint. Thanks.