The Printer Ink HACK Pro Miniature Painters Know

an artsy video that isn't about warhammer. interesting.

The video title made me think this was going to be to use printer ink to paint. Not sure using one of the most expensive liquids on Earth would have been a good idea.
Glad it was about colour models and mixing. It's amusing there is no agreed upon standard and varies based on where it's being used.
RYB is mostly in art and design. RGB is mostly in video and display tech. CMYK is most in printing. And they all work in their own ways.

instructions unclear, my printer is broken and my hands are covered in printer ink

damn, that looks rly good and nice how to.

Thank you for the advice Lyla! It was nice to join you on this video! Hope you enjoyed these anniversary minis!

So Useful! Much Help!

JADE!!!! Jade is an awesome color, innit?

CTHULHU!!! DREAD CTHULHU!!! IT DARKENS THE SUN!!! THE ANCIENT!!! THE ANTI-GOD!!! LORD OF THE UNHOLY ONES!!! ahem, 90's death metal moment over with

Joking aside, this jolted my mind in a good way in regards to the color wheel and I will definitely be referring to this in the future. Good video as usual, Miss Lyla! The whole message of this video seems to be "Be painterly and all will flow from there," and that's something I often aim for in my painting as well.

So the Crippled God stuff are print files and not miniatures?

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

CMYK is also how you get chromatic black! Definitely the better way to mix, especially if you're using inks.

I tried CMYK a while ago, but chose the wrong colours for my Cyan and Magenta - I chose a light blue, and a pure red. Some of the mixes turned out OK but, as you state, you cannot make a decent brown from them.

Might give it another crack, having watched your video.

Thank you!

Thank you, great video.

Am I wrong or did this model lost some fingers somewhere from the print to the paint?

Excellent presentation explanation 👍

For the curious, you can look at additive and subtractive color. RGB works when adding emitted light, CMY works when applying pigments that absorb some light.

Thanks again for this inspirational tutorial 😊 Simple but very effective 🤩

After losing patience with citadel paints I decided to start from scratch with all new paints. But money's tight these days, so I went with pro acryl and bought cyan (turquoise actually) magenta yellow, red green blue, black white, and gold and silver. I'm not a prolific painter, but I love using just this set and having "cyan" and magenta a prominent part of a limited starting palette encourages use of "weirder" colours. 😊

I will try that, thanks for share!

Great video. The more cymk tutorials that are out, the better painters we get.

Acrylic inks are very good sources for cymk range as are artist grade paints. Wonder if your system would work well with oilpaints?

I don't really know why we all learn as kids the blue red yellow thing while artists well know that the real deal is CMY 🤷‍♂️

I wonder how the cyan/yellow mini would turn out if it was given a glaze of green. Maybe a vibrant gradient of green?

And in my experience most modern paints are made using CMYK so it can be faster and you'll hit fewer bumps if the paint itn't full of fillers.

Not me thinking this video was about using inkt cartridges somehow for mini painting

The hue, saturation and brightness of the colors matters when mixing.

A wonderful video with great information

I actually pointed out to my art teacher that red yellow and blue aren't the primary colors, since screens use red green and blue... I recall he got somewhat mad at me.

I think the reason those colors are usually taught in art class is because of some historical reasons related to naturally occurring pigments and such. Magenta isn't exactly common...

wait what
I was at no point taught that red blue and yellow are "primary." What does that even mean??????

Hey masterful mini witch, thanks for giving such an accessible, practical demo of an application of colour theory. It's a thing I can never quite get to grips with in the abstract, but I always feel much more enlightened by this type of demo. Another thing I really love is that, as an unfixably shakey handed person, your scrumbling, dry brushing and glazing makes laser-point precision less of a necessity. Gorgeous minis, beautifully painted as always. Really looking forward to part two now.

Thank you leyla your videos are gold

Used my small experience in print to do this hack myself, works so well.

This is awesome - thank you for the tips! If we don’t have/want to use an airbrush - would drybrushing the initial layers work decently enough?

I'm glad to see you found a use for the Chronicle brushes.😂 My "natural wolf" bristles developed the synthetic curl at the tip in a week.

Love your work, especially the "Hound of Tindalos." If you don't mind me asking, did you see some source on the net for your color scheme or just winged it, like I did? Also, where did you get your bases that you used in the video?

While your doing this color theory serise would you consider going over the practical differences between a true black an RGB chromatic black and a CMY chromatic black, also maybe the idea of a chromatic black made with one or all florescent colors?

Learned this in graphic arts in high school.

Thabks for this. I was asking about CMYK vs. RGB color models elsewhere. I wondered with all rhe color options if Pantone was a more applicable color model. But I know I will be coming back to this video for another viewing.

There are many different color wheels. None of them are "best". I personally prefer the split primary color wheel as it works with artist pigments.

Great video, thanks

Once again great video. Thank you for continuing to create very easy to follow videos

Another very nice and helpful video! 🤩
Keep on going providing us with this high quality content.👍
Thank you for that. 😊

You have changed my painting forever.
I tried this on a tiny area of some fish fins I've been trying to figure out what to do with. (Brushes, not airbrush)
It did not look great, but I accidentally discovered the tie-dye look I've been trying to achieve for my " High " elves

This is an interesting idea with a color that we as humans can not see. Magenta is a color that we as human’s can not perceive so we “guess “ what it looks like inside of our brain

This is also called glazing.

Synesthetic moment, I can smell your shampoo when you talk😮

thnx great vid ..:}

cool! the transitions do look very good cuz all the colors 'look' as if they come from same pallet ..of brand,.. mixed from same base so to speak... sometimes you can do everything perfect and still something looks off about it... usually one of 3 color doesnt complement ..is slightly off.. yellow yes ..but not same tone .. like using 2 pastels and 1 pure color... seems like one does not belong... but the CMYK paints??... hmmmm... good idea!... Looks awesome too... always colors match well together ..... very nice. I try it...

You and your videos are absolutely stunning. Informative and easy to watch, thank you.