Hobby Cheating 124 - Loaded Brush Blending 

That's a nice thumb. I really like the crisp clear lines shown on the thumb.

You are amazing at teaching. It is not just the visuals of you practicing the techniques but also the explanations of intent, use and what is happening between brush, paints, miniatures and light. Your descriptions are that vivid that I often listen to them as pure podcast and whenever I refer to the visiuals itself it is "yep, as I thought!"

Bless you for showing the palette, that makes a world of difference. I’m always confused and wonder how much people thin and spread their paints and now I get to see it :) wonderful

This absolutely blew my mind, how quickly and effectively this technique works is crazy, i cant wait to try it out

Killer info, thanks! I found the fact that you use a higher flowing color in the belly and a thicker one at the tip extremely helpful!

Thanks for the tutorial. Also, hot damn is that some beautiful freehand give done on the cape. Took me a sec to realize it wasn't sculpted on the cape, and then that it wasn't a decal.

I am finding I keep coming back to this channel more &more , never heard of this technique will practice soon

Vince , another excellent video! About 30 years ago I used this technique regularly on painting 15mm & 25mm French Napoleonic uniforms. Personally, I have never been a fan of NMM, but the technique works for many things and with variation in colour placement . You'll have everyone painting like a master before you know it! :)

that freehand on the cape looks really sweet. Been changing all my paints for warcolours, really like those paints

Thanks Vince, i've heard this term mentioned so many times but I've never understood what loaded brush blending actually was. 20 minutes later and I'm at the point of "ohhh, okay. I could try that!"

A great tutorial, you not only explain the technique, but the whole process, which makes this tutorial one of the hobby cheating videos to have in the quick reference tab when painting a miniature. :) P.S.You had to be the one who noticed the obvious advantages of the Warcolours gel paints to be used employing this technique. :)

Awesome as ever! And perfectly timed as I am working on my first Masters study (all will be revealed for the end of month submission) I am having a lot of trouble with NMM i.e. it just isn't convincing anyone ! Thanks for the upload Vince.

Vince you explained this and made it look so easy . I'm going to have to try this on my next set of my Death Guard figures. Thank you sir. Mini

Been driving myself crazy trying to get perfect blends practicing with loaded brush. Now I know it is meant as a sketch technique, not a start to finish technique

Bro!!! I just picked up your Dark Jade paint fro Pro Acryl!!! Can't Wait to use it!

Moin! (Means Hello in german ;) ) That's a great Tutorial, thanks. It is the first Video i see on yoir Chanel and it will not be he last. Very very helpfull and great explaining.

Whilst I love watching Ben paint on the Painting Budha channel, he doesn't go into this level of detail explaining what he's doing. By necessity, I think, as Ben is show us how he paints, rather than presenting us with a tutorial. So, thanks for another very informative video. I will try this out, but I'm still learning brush control at the moment and I don't think I'm at the point yet where I could make this work. I just need more practice.

Have to admit I have never heard of this one, defo going to give this a go, looks like it would be a great technique to be able to do and it looks like fun :D

Seriously... your video's have taught me so much... Thanks !!

I absolutely love your videos! They are so damn helpful! I'd say I am a beginner who is working on developing their more advanced skills and your videos are just fantastic! After doing this stage, would you then just glaze over with a blue to get that blue NMM look?

3:07 A+ on the JFK reference lol, thanks for the tutorial

Lovely tutorial! Thanks.

Omg I've never heard/seen this before. It's awesome, and looks super difficult lol.....I'ma try it!

Vince! Your videos have got to be by far the most well explained, clear , comprehensive and informative videos for hobby painting on the web! Every question I ever had about any sort of advanced topic (wet blending and glazing especially), you answered. Is there a patreon or something where you take support donations or such? Thank you sir for sharing all this amazing content with everyone and thank you for helping me finally get to a next level of painting!

Vince, this video has helped me understand this technique so much more. You really take time in your videos to explain every step of the process and don't skimp on the detail. Do you have any tips for using this technique with a very thin paint like Nighthaunt gloom. Would this only work if gloom was the paint that fills the brush?

Awesome tip! Thank you so much again. ;-)

Dude you have a tutorial for everything! awesome!

Thanks!! very well explained

Very usefully as always thank you! Are you just using water mixed with Liquitex (20 to 1 like it says on the bottle) to thin your paints normally?

Thanks for your videos, they're very accessible. I watched Ben Komets use this technique, but he goes so fast, it's hard to grasp what is happening.

Thank you! Great showcase of loaded brush. I would love to see loaded brush on a larger surface. And also, how did you blend the red cape? Loaded brush, glaze or mix of techniques and in what order did you go about doing the darker and lighter colors?

looks like a good technique to fix zenithal highlights or do zenithal highlighting by brush, if one is lacking an airbrush or has run our of spray primer. btw: what kind of palette paper are you using in this video? I find parchment paper is lacking stability

Do you ever use varnish or clear coat on your miniatures Vince? I have problems with it making metallics dull or other things shiny.

So if you made a NMM like that with only black and white, would you just tint it slightly with a thin glaze to get that colour you were speaking about?

Do you use the liquitex Flow aid straight from the bottle or do you water it down like it says to? Recommended ratio?

How would you use this technique with a third colour (eg blue)?

apart from as a guide does the zenithal add much to this or are the paints too thick?

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!

Wow this technique is harder than it looks!

I might have said this before but I like your vids before I watch them so I don't forget. I do have a question though that I've seen many others ask. Why do my brushes bend at the tip? Is it because they're cheap? Someone told me that but I don't know what the reason is and I don't like it. ^^ Thanks again for the great videos.

I know this is an old video but when do I use wet blending vs loaded brush?

What kind of parchment paper do you use?

Fairly sure this is Heretek. But I'll allow it.

fantastic

Vince the Prince!!! Man start monetize ur skills! Aren't u offering seminars? I would come from Belgium to learn from you!

I know I am three years late but any chance you will do an interview with the artist with Ben?

Do you voice hiccup from how to train your dragon

O thats what it is

Ive tried this..waaaay harder than it looks

Pretty creamy

"Mmmmkay"

I beg u Ben, do this with gold please