and now moving on to the shade these shade paints are fantastic just as dave gushed about them i have to gush about them too dave showed you one of the best ways to learn how to start painting your first minis if you're intimidated and that's just to be fearless but once you start building your confidence it can be good practice to decide where to paint the shades because the shade color painted on a flat surface or a clean highlight that you've already painted can sort of muddy things up and you can of course go back and clean it up later but i tend to really enjoy crafting the miniature as i paint it and deciding where that shadow goes and where to add a little bit more and build it up is a really fun process so the next step for me is just adding more highlights really trying to build up that contrast so in the areas where i started to build up some of that brighter color i just keep going until i reach the peak saturation and brightness of the areas that have most exposure to light in the color scheme and lighting scheme that i'm working on now you notice so far on the armor panels it's been pretty straightforward because they're all fairly rigid flat panels at different angles so deciding what's brighter and what's darker is pretty simple cloth can be a little intimidating for people but actually i find it one of the most satisfying things to paint and it's a very similar process you're just working up towards the brighter layers so start with your base coat and put in your shade if you're using a shade and just slowly work up layer by layer to the lightest color in your gradient and remember that wet palette you'll notice behind me i have this red gradient and this blue gradient i'd literally just mixed the transition of colors on the wet palette and i can just literally dip in different areas of that gradient and slowly move to my brighter color it makes the shading process super easy and really simple to understand it's really satisfying
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