This is one of the most underrated videos I’ve seen on painting. I’m starting out and watched countless tutorials but always wanted someone to cover placement and direction. You did a phenomenal job!!! Thank you so much.
Totally agree, seriously needed this vid I've been painting for a little while bit still find it overwhelming just to pick up the brush sometimes, this was so helpful
Really great break down. As a new painter I wish I had seen this a lot earlier. Will definitely be focusing more on that control. Thanx for sharing your knowledge
The simple wetting of a bit of toilet paper wrapped around the base of my thumb now means I don't have to go to my texture palette all the time anymore and for that I really thank you Just a really worthwhile vid
Some of the finest advice I have heard in quite a long time. I take it for granted, but much like an instrument. It is the Time spent that makes it automatic or muscle memory Keeping it in mind allows it to become second nature. Well said.
the content you have is absolutely amazing. Great work and knowledge about the hobby. You do a great job delivering the information. I just got into the hobby and really enjoy you're stuff. keep it up!
I've been painting warhammer for over 10 years now, and even though the quality of my paint jobs isn't lacking, I know there is a ton more for me to learn, evidenced by this video alone. Subbing just cuz of this video.
Great vid, many people assume it's obvious and skim over this topic and then suffer. BTW do you remember which colours were used for the cloth at 8:05? This is the exact palette I'm trying to nail with my undead < 3
Hello, at 6:30 you appear to be using a wet palette as the paint appears to be sitting on a thin filament of water. Yet the several wet palettes I own do not allow water to seep through the paper to the paint. What kind of wet palette is that? I personally own a RedGrass palette and an Army Painter palette.
The whole point of a wet palette is that it should allow some water to mix with your paint, keeping it fresher, so if your wet palette isn't doing that you may have the wrong kind of paper on it? You can also add a little bit of water to thin your paint, just like you would on a regular palette, but I find it is ever so slightly less because of the wet palette. Hope that helps
Honestly, after 20 years in the hobby and considering myself skilled, I wish someone had described me the brush control and basic principles regarding where you take the brush off the model decades ago. Obviously I have learned this this intuitively over the time, but it would have helped a lot in the learning process and I will teach my son like that. Thanks!
Also a reminder that a larger brush tip with a good tip is better than a smaller brush with a bad tip. Beginners tend to use the smaller brushes as they think it makes it harder to mess up as their brush control is not that good yet.
One of the most straight forward and well put together explanations of painting models, you could ever watch. This is most definitely one of the single most important thing you need to understand to take your painting to the the next level. Well done sir!
I actually just figured out the wet paper towel thing particularly for edge highlighting literally yesterday. Very nice to have that validated so I know I'm on the right track. Great videos, keep it up!
This was brilliant. It took me years to realize that where you lift your brush is one of the most important aspects of painting. This should be viewed by every painter - beginner and veteran alike.
Been painting for nearly two years, with good results highlighting and dry brushing and layering, never crossed my mind brush strokes(🙄) I may do this subconsciously sometimes but will deffo work the mindset to see outcome. (Still class myself as a beginner) Always good content and always taking something away from your vids 😎 appreciate d
This is an extremely well explained informative video, I found this advice to be so very helpful. I do reverse painted intaglios but everything he says about painting applies to my particualar art as well. Thanks for the great tips!
Is there a video, or if there isn't can you make one, about how to create fluid transitions of colour on pieces of armour, skin etc. ? Basics are edge highlights, shadows, chipping of base colour on top of damage colour etc. That's all nice but your work looks totally different. When you paint say a shield it has lots of tones on it. Obviously I understand how this is created by adding more thin layers of different shades of base colour or nearby colours if we go for some reflections etc. Although, if there are any tips, tricks or just stuff that can help - I'd love to see that. I started out like 2 months ago only painted.. 13 minis I think. Iron hands marines and eliminators. I feel that the improvement is quite fast but I'd like to start improving on the technique I really want to start learning. Amazing content, thank you. Really way more helpful than another generic do this and that with this citadel paint and voila you're a pro.
Hey, so it really sounds like you’re really taking in the whole painting thing, thats awesome! Interestingly what you’re talking about is a much more intermediate set of ideas, which i think is very cool. At this current moment we are still pushing out our beginner friendly videos but we are definitely going to get to the more complicated topics that exist in the future. What are the techniques that you really want to start learning? Also thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate it!
Great video! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, I've recently got back into painting so its really useful to understand the effects my brush stroke has.
This is very thought provoking, thank you. Now to check your other videos to see what else you have been sharing! I would be very interested to see the techniques you use to paint 'hard to get at' areas of a mini.
Thanks man. My main tip for painting armies and doing it in a faster way would be buying an airbrush but that does come with its own set of learning issues. One day I’ll do a paint an army speed paint challenge type thing but that wont be for sometime.
