>>95911670
>That's impossible to do when the base neutral colour is almost as dark as shadows and excessive highlighting would ruin it.
you could go all the way to black, like the people that do NMM, or use NMM techniques with metallics

>Again, your example doesn't fit and your 'gradients on everything' approach is wrong.
it's not wrong or right, is a matter of taste, if you like it like that it's fine, to mee it looks flat

>Not everything needs added volume
most everything needs added constrast on a very small model that will be look at from afar to make it readable, but again, if you are happy with it it's fine