it has been a long time since i have first seen non-metallic metal painted online and from that point on i have fell in love with it and i have tried my best to improve at it in this video you will learn what is non-metallic metal how to paint it and what are the advantages of using it is it really better than regular metallics let's find out now just before the video begins i can see that just a fraction of my viewers are subscribed so go ahead and subscribe it's free and you can always change your mind and unsubscribe later if you want alright so what is non-metallic metal non-metallic metal is a way of painting something so that it looks metallic without using any actual metallic paints as you can imagine NUMBER_TOKENd painters have been doing this for a long time since that was the only way to depict metal in their art but why would someone use non-metallic metal when we do have metallic paints nowadays the answer is simple not only that you can control where the reflections are to really sell the metallic look but also you can control what is reflected this means that if there is a source of light or anything with specific color you can reflect this color on your non-metallic metal this however can be really problematic with regular metallics don't believe me try it see that's what i thought so to help us understand the basics of painting it let's look at this armor you can see that the lightest parts of the armor are super bright and that there is quite a contrast another important feature here is the smoothness as far as you can see reflections are made of this nice gradient without any hard separations on them the last important feature is that the armor doesn't only have main frontal reflections but also counter reflections that are placed behind the main reflections of course metallic shine will always look somewhat different depending on the environment so the principles are high contrast smooth reflections and counter reflections with these principles in mind let's try it on our bouncy boingroves miniature by the way there are many approaches to painting non-metallic metal so this is just one of them if i have such a nice diverse surface like this one i put the miniature against the light and see where the reflections are black base layer helps me finding them it is quite difficult to describe this on video but you want to paint a white layer over the spot with reflections since i see the light in a different angle than my camera i took a photo of my miniature so you understand these are the parts that should be painted with white for the main reflections i will now cover them with multiple thin white coats to make sure that the area is well covered okay so what i got now hardly looks metallic but you get the idea of where i'm going with it all the white parts are going to be covered with NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN ratio of white to dark sea blue which is great paint for non-metallic metal the black parts except for the recesses are painted with pure dark sea blue be sure to mix a lot of paint like this so you don't have to do it again since it's difficult to get exactly the same shade if you are asking why don't you start with this mix instead of white believe me it's faster like this don't believe me try it see that's what i thought by doing this we are done with the first feature of non-metallic metal which is the high contrast to blend the reflections
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