What do you think? Do you have any tips or tricks for drybrushing? Brushes used: store.artis-opus.com/collections/series-d-drybrushing Full list of paints used: Primer Chaos Black Sand Doombull Brown Skrag Brown Black - Vallejo Deathclaw Brown Screaming Skull Rocks Dark Reaper Russ Grey Fenrisian Grey Ulthuan Grey Vehicle (AT-ST) Eshin Grey Black - Vallejo Bold Titanium White - Monument Hobbies
Nice end results. 👍 Not sure about blue rocks however. Weathering usually means that they are more brown depending on the geological make up and where in the world you are. In the Australian desert, shades of red/brown are more realistic for example. We all develop techniques that work best for ourselves. There is no wrong or right, just various degrees of the same process. First coat, mostly wet, total coverage. Second coat, mostly dry covering of mostly highlights leaving deep recesses dark. Third Coat is what I call Super Dry and covers highlights only. This process works for me with cheap stiff brushes that can be replaced as required. The KISS approach works for me. Keep It Simple Stupid. I must be Stupid as this is an effective work flow that I follow. 😀👍
Thank you Byron! Before I discovered your videos, I found drybrushing really difficult and big terrain pieces daunting. But thanks to your videos I pushed myself and finished a real big terrain piece for my D&D game today.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. My grandma was the most amazing artist.. but she passed away before she could teach me about dry brushing/dry painting.
Pro tip: take the brown basecoat further. Completely cover the rocks with it, and take it onto the crashed AT-ST a little, too. That way when you drybrush the gray overtop you get built in dirt at basically no extra effort cost. Real rocks don't look like a perfect gradient of grey, they look really dirty in the cracks - even on the areas relatively far from where they interface with the ground. Plus, this is an easy way to differentiate them from the vehicle gray without actually using any other colors of paint.
It is acrylic paint so plunge it into a glass of hot water (not too hot, medium hot and shake it then push your pencil slightly on the bottom of the glass and shake it again, repeat until it's clear on the piece of (sheet?) sry I don't know the word. I hope it helps you comrade
Yeah, not feeling sure about this has held me back from buying these brushes for a long time. Now I just placed the order, but I’d love a video on the topic.
@@TeddyZetterlund I've got the brushes. To clean them i rinse them under running water, dry brush my fingers a bit whilst in doing it. Then rub the brush around in the brush soap quite a bit, then back to the wet fingers. Repeat a couple times until bristles are clean. Couple minutes and all the brushes are clean again
How can anyone fault a channel that listens to the peps that watch it and make a comment, I have also had all my comments answered in person. Great channel and great easy to follow tutorials. Best Regards Steven
*Looks at 100 drybrushing videos on the channel* - Welcome! We're happy to have you, and there's plenty more where that came from, we're still discovering new aspects to the technique :)
Marvelous video! I’m not a table topper but a model railroder and a friend of realistic landscape and buildings. Drybrushing isn’t a big theme there but I love to have a look over the edge and found here the solution for my everlasting problem: realistic colouring of a 1:87 brick wall. Now I tried it again with the techniques I found in this video - and got for the first time a brick wall that amazes me! Thank you very much for showing the basics and secrets of paintbrushing, also for the theory at the whiteboard. That helped a lot for understanding the dependencies of the factors. Rainy greetings from good ol Germany Thomas
That is completely INSANE! 40 minutes?!?! I need to learn how to hurry up! I think honestly I have a lot of wasted movement, or I spend too much time fixing mistakes as they occur, not necessarily when it makes sense.
This video is super helpfull especially for new people learning the ways of the drybrush. I do a lot of drybrush and it's my favorite technique to use to paint something good looking in a short amount of time and I have still learnt from this video. Good job!
Excellent video as always Byron. Love what you can do with the Drybrush technique and love the inclusion of the dampening pad. Amazing addition to any painters arsenal! Keep up the amazing work!
Insane. I had my doubts with color selection (too blue for the rocks I thought), and didn't know what you were going for with the AT-ST, I thought you'd have stayed at a far darker look with much smaller highlighting in the top corner & ridges. Amazing. respect.
I bought a set of these on the strength of this vid. I've always hated drybrushing ,but these things are pretty amazing even for a ham-fisted hack like me. Getting nice results after just a few minutes without all the hassle of cleaning an airbrush.
Nice work mate, I've been using your brushes for 6 months now and love them. The videos are great as well. Thanks! I bought the Drybrushes on a whim as I don't tend to drybrush much but I can't stress enough how much better these are for drybrushing than just the "standard manky old square" brush that I see others recommend using. They are one of those special things to have in your toolbox that make things quicker AND higher quality. The good ol' win win.
Amazing, thanks so much for your comment Matthew! Can we see any of your work anywhere? Really glad they're serving you well, mate, do you have a favourite size? Stay safe, dude
@@ArtisOpus The Large Series D does 80% of the work and the Small Series D does the other 20% of my drybrushing. I tend to start with an airbursh, then to drybrushing with the AO drybrushes and then detail and washing work with AO Series S brushes. I moved away from the traditional brush suppliers because half the time they arrived splayed, which is a pain having to send them back for replacement. I've had 10 of your brushes without any issue, so they are highly recommended by me! The only set I haven't tried yet are Series M. I am in the process of getting my work online at the moment, I'll drop you a link once I do! All the best, keep up the good work!
Thanks for your support, Kieren! Let us know how they go (in another comment, YT awful for ongoing notifications), and if you've got any questions about use etc we'll sort you out, sure you'll love them! :)
Thank you for these videos. I have recently purchased Artis Opus brushes and am trying to improve my painting so these videos are perfect for me. I am time poor so dry brushing looks very appealing to me to paint vehicles, terrain and batch paint infantry 80% finished. Thanks again
You're most welcome, dude, that's amazing to hear! We think it's fantastic for these and the more you do it the better you'll get😊🤩Thanks a ton for the support, hope the brushes serve you well!
I think the benefit of hitting your ground that close to the object you're painting is to give an authentic vision of what's coming out of the ground. If your rocks are perfectly coloured without even an influence of ground on them or pebbles from the rocks on the grounds in the way your dry brush touched... It looks fake. I don't mind seeing one colour getting onto the other because in real life that's how it works. Great video!
Thanks for taking the time to describe how much water is in the actual dampening pad. Can't wait until I have an actual set of your drybrushes. For now, its make up brushes but I'll get there.
I've now watched a couple of your videos on drybrusing and I'm absolutely sold. I find drybrushing messy and chalky a lot of the time, so I'm going to pick up a couple of these brushes and see how I get on!
Amazing, thanks for the kind words, dude! You won't believe how quickly you'll up your game, it's a very fun and organic painting style, too! Let us know in another comment if you have any issues or questions, and we'll sort you out :)
Love it! Thanks a bunch for all your videos. Gotta be my favourite painting channel to watch and learn from. Always well explained and filmed excellently! I purchased some dirty down rust to use for the weapons on some nighthaunt stuff I'm working on and ran into a snag / issue which you may or may not know about! Kind of obvious really in hindsight - It recommends sealing with a varnish before painting over it to prevent it being reactivated... what it doesn't mention is that doing this ALSO reactivates it before setting! I was quite happy with the placement of pigments etc and went in with some Citadel Stormshield to protect it so I could do an edge highlight on some scythes. In doing so it moved my patches around and even streaked with the brushstrokes I was using and ruined to look somewhat :/ managed to move it around whilst the varnish was wet to where I liked it again, but it was more unplanned work. Heads up!
Wow ! Absolutely amazing. I'm just getting back into painting and found your videos. Brilliant and easy to follow. I can see how the tools have changed - textured pallet and round brushes. Thank you for your tutorials !
Amazing technics and I thought it was so much more difficult, and it doesn't! Started training here and the results were good. Now I'll order the Artis Opus brushes to have a good set to work with. Thank you so much! Best regards from Brazil, Luis
You can have a like and a comment already. I'm that confident in the quality of your content. Plus really looking forward to your video covering the basics. I may have been doing this for nearly 30 years (depressing) but I bet I still learn something from your video.
How did you find it? You're never too experienced to be able to learn from the basics. i've done some classes with pros that have really led to me questioning fundamentals.😊
@@ArtisOpus Brilliant, as usual. Still plenty to pick up as I was an old school drybrusher so only now learning your methods. I also like the longer video.
honestly this is something of a revelation! Im currently painting up an Iron Hands Army so I watched your Black Templar video and the drybrushed armour looks just amazing. I never knew that slightly damping the drybrush beforehand helps, always assumed it would be contradictory to the whole idea behind drybrushing but obviously not!
Hi Artis Opus-Team. IT would be wonderfull if you can Do an Video to Show how an tyranid swarm could Look like with your D series brushes. Some warm and natural looking. Brown and khaki coloured. See you next vid. Greetings from Germany.
It's the first set of brushes 100% designed for the technique, you won't regret it! If you're looking to dip your toe in you could always pick up an XL, and if you like it get the others in a set, XL is my boy
You know what might be good Byron? Extra tips on batch painting. I had to learn to focus on individual models or very small batches switching between models often to make sure I kept good transitions between colours (ultramarines in this case) otherwise it can be easy to loose the blend, particularly on flat untextured sections (looking at you, shoulder pads!). Great vid as always.
Thanks so much, Nathan! Very good suggestion, extremely relevant to our core techniques on the channel. You'll get some batch painting fairly soon and I'll hold in mind this specific request for future content :)
definitely going to have to give something like this a go, as it is I am heavily biased towards the airbrush, so now that you have out out such a comprehensive guide I think i might just challenge myself to paint something completely with the drybrush technique, start to finish, and see what I come out with! It will be interesting to see the differences against a model painted largely with the airbrush and a drybrushed example once I have slapped a crap ton of weathering techniques over the top! (weathering is literally the only point I would beg to differ with you on this one, I'm personally not a fan of drybrushed dust effects, nothing does dust, streaking, and splash effects as well as humbrol enamels!)
Thank you so much for this guide! I feel like this is a watershed moment for drybrushing technique - I haven't seen anyone else do a guide with these methods; really looking forward to giving them a go on my Warcry terrain
Another great tutorial. I've spent time watching this video (more than once) AND HAVE FOUND LOADS TO INTEREST ME. I might be watching it again (and again). Thank you. Tony
Our pleasure! There's plenty more drybrush action on the rest of the channel :) If you're up for another thorough one, the first part of this contains some real gems! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_OSAbpLhY-0.html
Saved this for when I could really sit down and digest it. I have a feeling that this is going to be extremely important for my development as a novice painter.
Another amazingly informative tutorial, thanks for going back to basics as my AO brushes recently arrived and absorbing this content is building my confidence to get cracking... just need to find the time now :)
So glad you made this, got the Series D set coming soon and ive barely used dry brushing on my models, can't wait to give it a go and try doing a dry brushed Salamanders army and incorporate some dry brushing into my Death Guard. As per usual an amazing paint job and guide, looking forward to the next one :D
Looks amazing and its so accesible to be able to do yourself its mind blowing. I have been struggling when getting into this hobby because I am not the greatest when it comes to painting and the way my head works is finding a system that can work across most of the minis i paint. I like the building them up and getting them ready but as soon as i go to put paint on them i am lost so this really helped to show that it can be simple. I would personally love to see you do a start collecting box or something along those lines where there is a large variety of models and there is a scheme for the army because i feel this would help people like me tackle a large amount of models in one or a few sittings. Loving the vids and may be investing in those nice brushes soon cos they look really nice to use.
Apologies for the delay, Robbie, no idea how we missed this one! I'm very possibly going to be doing that across a vampire counts army, I've just releasdthe Vampire Lord tutorial, perhaps blood knights next! I also have a slaanesh army which I've Vlogging (it's a personal army) if you'd like to see something that covers a wide range in a particular scheme :)
This was great to watch it all unfold. I’ve been looking for alternatives to airbrushing F1 drivetrains, and brakes. This has given me some ideas. Thanks!
Amazing as always Byron. I would love to see another video of finishing it with battle damage, rust, corrosion etc but to be fair it already looks like an amazing piece where you left it. I'd love to see more Star Wars Legion models on the channel though. There's some amazing models in their range and they don't seem to get covered often.
HUgely appreciated again, Patrick! We've been asked this a lot. We also really enjoyed the SW model, especially the plastics and we'd love to return to them in the future! 😊
We're currently waiting on a product that's being assembled and got delayed due to the world situation. We're going to launch brush care video very soon though! 😊
Thanks dude! Our other brushes are pure sable, it doesn't make sense for the chunky-boys though, you're after different properties (and also they'd be £100 each 😅)
Hi Byron, what eludes me a bit is the visual difference between regular dry brushing and the technique you advocate with the dampening pad. Did you already visually show the actual difference between regular dry brushing and the semi-moist dry brushing achieves in some other video? Just wondering.
No idea how we missed this man, sorry! We haven't done a 'side by side', but it's just the same as thinning layering/not thinning layering basically, all the same principles for all the same reasons :)
Been using the damp brush method for a few years but not to this level. I get a lot of people with a negative attitude to dry brushing, way I see it is its another tool in the arsenal and a valid one at that. I just ordered the Artis Opus series D set from Element Games, they are waiting on stock but hopeful I don't have too long to wait. Really enjoying the videos. Been on a year long hobby burnout but got back to it about a month back and have the bug back bad! Would love you guys to do more techniques such as loaded brush wet blending glazing etc Thanks for the videos. Subbed and liked.
It's absolutely valid! I think a lot of people are coming around to the idea exactly as you said. I am sure your brushes will be worth the wait! Thanks so much for your support
@@ArtisOpus Received my Series D brush set today! I am very impressed with the quality of the set! Beautiful! Just used the small brush and dampening pad on a Chaos Cultist's robes and I am blown away with the smoothness of the finish, okay its not buttery smooth like a wet blend but it took seconds and its on a mini who is supposed to look a bit ... used? Thanks for the videos and for providing to us lovely brushes and equipment to further our enjoyment of this amazing hobby!
First of all, great work, it encourages me to start to use the drybrush techniques to improve my models painting. If it's possible ¿could you share what colors you would if you were painting a green grassy field instead of the terrain in the video? Thanks in advance.
Where would one go to get this model? Probably has been asked before over the years, but cannot search the comments. I purchased series D and would like to "play along at home" with this video.
omg that's beautiful work!! thank you so much for sharing this technique! i so very much appreciate it! you're an awesome artist and a very good teacher!! Kudos!!!
I ordered a set of your drybrushes last week (plus the XL) and am looking forward to receiving them and trying them out! So far I've been using makeup brushes (which are decent) or the Army Painter Masterclass drybrushes (which work nicely but shed like my cat).
We've cut far less than we would do normally dude, so there's a lot of content in this one about during-process cleaning (incidental cleaning during painting) especially, I hope it's useful! Loads on how I negotiate switching between colours, too, as I jump back and forward between brown and grey on the base a lot, and use the same brush for a lot of it :)
It actually happens in the center, I wish I could post a picture. It's almost like I'm pressing to hard so it removes the paint from that area, but I tried another model with no pressure really and the same thing. Mostly wheb stippling. I am not using your brushes, though I'm not 100% why it would happen with the ones im using and wouldn't with yours. Wanted to practice with some others before I bought nice ones, brand new to painting!
Byron. Hope you don’t mind a few more questions? I use metallic paints for shading/highlighting/edge highlighting (Iron hands black armour) progressing from Iron warriors through leadbelcher to iron hands steel and spot highlights with stormhost silver. How do the dry brushes handle such loads of metallic paints? Any tip on intermediate cleaning (other than as per the video) and/or brush technique and any tips on impact on moisture pad (and its cleaning)? Thanks.
Hey dude, you're going to enjoy our next video! The brushes handle it fine, and you can get amazing resutls with metallics, they're very forgiving for multiple stages, and don't 'cake' nearly as much as non-metallics. I would genuinely consider getting the silver I use (Vallejo Game Air Silver) because it is the bomb, and is incredibly effective, you can just add black to make it darker, it mixes nicely too - have a play with it! Cleaning as you go - another thing you can do is put a piece of paper over the edge of your texture pallet, and flick your brush back and forth on the edge, you'd be surprised how much paint you can coax off :) you can also just do this on the edge, with no paper. Moisture pad: Let it dry fully between sessions (lid off) You can always turn it over for metallics/a 'clean side'
Great video, Im not into miniatures (yet?) myself, but technique was brilliantly demonstrated and the result absolutely spectacular, and made in very little time! I will definitely apply it in tanks and dioramas in the future
Bravo Bro>>? from 1 type (AirBrush) Artist 2 Another! I used to have a Biz; 'Kustom By Kacz', but due to Conditions (Arthritis & Tuff-Life) beyond my control, it , Sadly, is No More.. When I did work On Commissions, freelance, Bike shows, I Also Taught for 7 years at all Auto assembly/manufacturing Ford Chrysler, Chevy, LTV (local Steel Palnt in Cle) which rounded my Self taught Airbrush History of 23 years, don't regret a bit of it, Loved doing All forms & Factions in ART!
I can honestly say that following these steps will 100% improve your painting, I have zero experience and the only reason my models dont look like trash is this channel. Thank you, and please continue the content.
Amazing! Shouldn't take long dude, may already be in the post, if you're curious you can check with live chat on our site, or email support@artis-opus.com for an update :). Thanks for your support!
