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Would it be possible to paint something in the style of Mike Mignola? The artist behind the Hellboy comics and clearly inspiered the computergame Darkest Dungeon.

If possible, whart army or line of models would lend themselves the best to this style? It seems like a fast and effective way, yet stylish. If it can be transported to the 3D world.

You'd basically prime your model black, then do stark solid colors and highlights on only certain areas while leaving the rest black. So half a face would be left black while the other side was flesh with dark black recesses.

Yeah I think something like that.

When I think about it it could probably be achieved with prime everything black. Then spray it top down with a white spray gun. Wash the white parts with inks/washes. And the find a thin filt tipped pen and fix some of the black lines.

But I don't have a spray gun. I also don't know what models would be good with this. I asume Dark Eldar warriors. But the boats have so many arias withouth details on them, like the hull. The style would probably be best with a lot of details.

Harlequins like to dance in the shadows...

Yeah. The Harlequins could work.

Look up mike mignola batman statue.

There is a series of black and white batman statues made and painted in the styles of various artists. You could easily do this for him. But you would need to pay careful attention to light direction on the models to make it look right.

It doesnt have to be black for the shadows. But you do need a shadow color, a base color (basically the true color of the model) and maybe a highlight.

Don't use washes. Any model could be painted this way.

Hmmm...

Old fantasy beastmenn or ogres could work well with that I think. How would one paint a SM like that? Are there enough ressesses for shades?

Mignola's style looks great and could work well in a grimdark setting, but I think you have to push the contrast a lot more than he does.
I think the chiaroscuro painting style, and most notably Caravaggio, are closer to what could work on miniatures: the contrast is much stronger (by changing the value of the color), and you can really feel the 3D nature of the object, which is what we usually try to enhance on our minis (I find Mignola's style a bit flat to be honest).

As other have said, you can start from a dark color, then do some zenithal highlighting. If you want to make the colors pop, your first zenithal highlight could be white, so that the color you put on top is much brighter. There is a tutorial from a someone who did just that: http://www.themightybrush.com/how-to-paint-blood-angels-part-i/. In this case he/she put a yellow on top of a white, because a light coat of red on white often ends up pink (but on top of yellow it looks very bright).

 Niiai wrote:
Hmmm...

Old fantasy beastmenn or ogres could work well with that I think. How would one paint a SM like that? Are there enough ressesses for shades?

Use a micron pen to black line all the edges and corners?

Number of ressess is irrelevent. You are not painting ressess. Your blocking in shadows based on a pretend light source. It's not disimilar to doing advanced osl but without blending or layers.

I'd love to see someone (with better skills than me!) try this!

I agree Harlis would make sense, so would DEldar

That blood angel loked quite ripe for a black up. I atemted a quick try on paint, but gave up halfway through. There is no way to do this with a mouse. I posted it anyway, but it does not give a clear picture of what is going on.

What generally distinks the Mice Mignola style are the black lines seperating different items and shapes, while a small blend of colours happen inside the bounderies. Or just one bold colour. A bit like how pop art often seperates colours with lines. (Turns out you can have any colour next to each other as long as you have a white, black or grey line between them.)

I don't know how that would translate to a 3D model. You have no controll what is the outliner.

 Niiai wrote:
That blood angel loked quite ripe for a black up. I atemted a quick try on paint, but gave up halfway through. There is no way to do this with a mouse. I posted it anyway, but it does not give a clear picture of what is going on.

What generally distinks the Mice Mignola style are the black lines seperating different items and shapes, while a small blend of colours happen inside the bounderies. Or just one bold colour. A bit like how pop art often seperates colours with lines. (Turns out you can have any colour next to each other as long as you have a white, black or grey line between them.)

I don't know how that would translate to a 3D model. You have no controll what is the outliner.

I honestly don't think Mignola's style is 100% transferable to a three-dimensional medium, because his style tend to employ stark directional shadows and contrasts between light and dark, and I don't know how I'd emulate that on a model. I don't see how it would work, without looking weird and unnatural from most other directions.

Might work with shadow effects applied as washes, and good old-fashioned block-painting with very little highlighting, as well as a defined colour scheme with mostly low-saturated earthen or grey colours, with strategically chosen elementary colours for specific details, such as red. I wouldn't pick Blood Angels for this sort of scheme, since they're mostly red, and in my mind, I would like only a fraction of the model to be red. The ideal would be an almost monochrome paint scheme, though not necessarily grey or black, and with contrasting details, such as the face, pauldrons, or hands picked out in red or white.

Also, the shadows should be black, so Nuln and not Agrax.

This was posted by TheWarpSaysHelloMade in the US. I don't know if it was his picture. Anyway, I am posting it here. This picture has a lot of dark arias like the Mike Mignola. Or am I looking at this all wrong?

 Niiai wrote:
That blood angel loked quite ripe for a black up. I atemted a quick try on paint, but gave up halfway through. There is no way to do this with a mouse. I posted it anyway, but it does not give a clear picture of what is going on.

What generally distinks the Mice Mignola style are the black lines seperating different items and shapes, while a small blend of colours happen inside the bounderies. Or just one bold colour. A bit like how pop art often seperates colours with lines. (Turns out you can have any colour next to each other as long as you have a white, black or grey line between them.)

I don't know how that would translate to a 3D model. You have no controll what is the outliner.

A possible way to do this would be to choose a second solid color for shaded areas, maybe something like brown or purple, and really make blocky areas different from the highlights.

 Niiai wrote:
That blood angel loked quite ripe for a black up. I atemted a quick try on paint, but gave up halfway through. There is no way to do this with a mouse. I posted it anyway, but it does not give a clear picture of what is going on.

What generally distinks the Mice Mignola style are the black lines seperating different items and shapes, while a small blend of colours happen inside the bounderies. Or just one bold colour. A bit like how pop art often seperates colours with lines. (Turns out you can have any colour next to each other as long as you have a white, black or grey line between them.)

I don't know how that would translate to a 3D model. You have no controll what is the outliner.

If I took these marines and went further with the "add black between panels of color" would be be looking at something "Mike Mignola-ish"?

Those marines ( ^ up there ^ )are definitely on their way to achieving what I THINK you're looking for.

Yeah they might be. I think some more black needs to be aplied some where.

It would be cool to see a final product.