Why does people insist on licking the brush. Why would you teach other people to lick a brush? The water you clean your brush with will collect paint, YOU SHOULDN'T EAT PAINT.
DO NOT lick brushes or paint your skin with them for a good point. It IS a known health hazard. Look up Radium Girls, also misled to think it was safe. History repeating itself. Consuming toxic chemicals on purpose is never worth it. Value yourself as a painter. Treat yourself and your materials, (and your audience!) with respect. Ignorance is bliss till cancer sets in or your jaw falls off. Learning correct technique IS important, you don't see oil painters licking their brushes, and for good reason.
I have just started to get a little more serious about edge highlighting and thought the hair splitting on my brush was just me getting a bad brush from the lot. I'm glad to know the fix is just to keep the brush moist.
Dear SQIDMAR of the wet palettes I've never seen a video where the empty space in my cranium didn't fill as much a nanite cell and since your diorama ideas has been enjoyable especially your jolly crew mates amazing painting make my son and myself believe theres still a mystery to be cracked and understood .So Congress forget that UFO/UAP/MTG👱♀️ bother (Americans do love their psycho Congress women with secret alphabet agencies and JFK Who did it ) that the mystery of painting and the human soul as bad paint days turn into terrible weekends while great painting days because magical. So saint SQUIDMAR of the wet palette thank you for being there !
Excellent video! Something I do after I'm finished using my brushes & cleaning them is stroke them in brush soap, carefully shape the tip, and let them dry that way. I then use one of those gadgets to hang them upside down. The brush will dry nice and pointy; this works with inexpensive brushes as well. As far as control of the brush, I prefer to wrap my brushes in those silicone straws, cut to fit. I've never actually seen anybody use those straws as straws, but added to my brushes, it gives me much better control over the brush, easier to hold & no slipping. Hey, heard anything about the Squidmar Infinity release date?
Awesome video. I've been painting for years now and tried this out tonight and it was soooo much better than how I had been painting before. Wish I'd seen this video years ago. Thank you.
this a huge part (50% ?) of the skills of painting, that is rarely shown. always details and personal prefferences of techniques are debaitable. but great clip about a topic that is not sexy but so important.
I've been too scared to use my OG squidmar brushes for how many years now. Reached for them a few times and then decide to rather grab one of my cheap synthetic brushes. One of these days...
One issue I feel I have when keeping my brush wetter is that I dilute my paints too much, i also have the same thing when the paint is on my wet palette for too long, the paint just gets thinner and thinner and sometimes i just have to replace it because it's unusable. Any ideas on how to improve this?
OMG why aren't you guys posting tutorial videos any more where you teach basic skills like how to handle a brush or work with kolinsky sable? Wait... what?
awesome tutorial! we need more every tips like this. I'd like to see a "real time" airbrush tutorial showing thinning+loading paint and then swapping colors (intra-color cleaning). No one ever shows the whole process, they just gloss over it verbally.
I got my friend a Ork combat patrol and and I are new to Warhammer table top(we've played the pc games). He loves orks I send him your videos, he is nervous about painting because he's severely colorblind. For science I want to take him to pick paints/colors that he does like and watch him paint his Ork combat patrol. Thank you for your content It helps alot.
I definitely put the brush in my mouth. I learned this method painting tattoo flash. In that application, it is called spit shading. I just painted my first miniature and popped that brush into my mouth without thinking about it.
When loading the brush with paint, how do go about stopping the paint getting stuck in the neck of the brush? I get quite a lot of clogging at the base of the bristles no matter how much cleaning i carry out?
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is the type of detailed explanation/information that I’m always looking for. This will directly impact, and hopefully improve my painting, Tonight when I sit down to paint. Just as important, at least to me, my understanding of what I’m doing has been improved by the information in this video. Did I say thank you….really appreciate your content
The $550 piece is a piece of crap compared to the others at the insanely high price point. Horrible, horrible choice if you were to have minis painted. Never go there.
