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Hello,

A good while ago I found an article or video about painting checkers or white cloth, but somehow I lost it. Now I can't find it anymore, and I thought maybe one of you guys could help me out, either by finding it, or giving me a tutorial on how to do this.

Basically, it was for bretonnian knights, and how to paint the cloths on their horses in white cloth and checkers, and one example there was very beautiful.
It was painted to resemble the 'checkers' material of a white cloth, like the templars in the background of this picture are wearing:

http://www.primagames.com/media/images/news/Siege_of_Masyaf_Templars.png

As you can see, it is making diamond shapes, all white (with grey for the shadows).

Your help (especially finding the article or video, pretty sure it was a youtube video) would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Thanks!

You may have better luck in the search if you change up the terms. In English, at least, "checkers" are a pattern with alternating colors, like a checkers/chess board or a racing flag. What you're looking for, from the example image you posted, is a tutorial on painting quilted cloth. The desired effect is giving the illusion of patterned texture, not color.

Essentially, you'll need to lay down the lines of the stitching, then shade/highlight each of the resulting diamonds, individually, taking into account both its slightly puffy shape and its facing relative to the assumed light source. This image conveys the idea relatively well:



It's a two-dimensional painting, not a photo of a painted model, but the same concepts apply - there is a general gradient to the shading, based on the shape of the man/horse, but each "cell" of the cloth is further highlighted and shaded, giving the sense of texture. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find an actual tutorial for painting the effect on miniatures.

Yes, thank you for the name, I was looking for that as well haha.
The reason I said ' checkers' and 'white cloth' is because I am sure those are the terms I used when I first found the video.

It was a video where he showed some cloth techniques, like checkers and then he also showed this.

But thank you, it's very helpful and with the correct term I'm sure I can find some other nice examples =)