Lighting

I think lighting is very important when it comes to painting, I always try to use zenithal lighting when it comes to painting, even when its very subtle, Zenithal lighting is when there is no apparent light source on the miniature, like the sun is lighting the model.

 

On this model above, the lighting looks very natural, a part of this is not using pure white or pure black, i mixed thrall flesh with scar white and death world forest with chaos black.

 on NMM, lighting is essential and should be more extreme the white arrow shows where the invisible light source is.

i drew up some more examples, but with red arrows.

Object source lighting is when there is an apparent light source on the miniature, in this case, an eye, on an ork project I'm working on,

,remember to take all this into account when painting.