Hobby Cheating 260 - Exploring Colors - Yellow 

Watching a Vince Venturella video always makes me feel like part of a secret elite cult. Hidden in plain sight only 'those who can see truly' recognize its worth : seems like out of seven billion people only some thousands know how quality content looks like. After following Vince for such a long time he still keeps on uploading new and interesting tutorials.

You just saved my life... 3 month in the hobby and I´m right now working on a gold NMM but was struggling so bad with the yellow coverage on my black primer that I was almost in tears. This is exactly the kind of explanition I was looking for! I was not leaving a comment on this vid cause it´s 2 years old and maybe you have already forgotten about it but I´m so happy right now I guess it´s the right thing to thank you. I´m gonna prime back the mess I´ve done on the mini, make a good mid tone brown as undercoat and enjoy again my painting sesions!

I love these color videos. It shows me that I paint way to safe when it comes to color combinations and mixes. These videos show me that I'm holding back my own potential when it comes to painting my miniatures and I want to thank you for showing me that 😀

I’m sure someone else has said this, if you want to sell your house, paint it yellow. Sell it faster and for a better price. Use a complementary colour at the proper percentage, perhaps even faster(could probably sell a crack house with a fresh yellow paint job with a cool blue trim). I worked in the mines for years and everything large and dangerous is painted yellow for a reason. Humans instantly take notice and pay attention to it over all other colours. Hence hazard stripes.

This has been so good for learning how to get the yellow I want, everytime I mess up I come back with another question that gets answered with a rewatch. These colour vids are amazing Vince, thanks so much.

This may be the single most useful video, in one of the most useful series on painting, in the hobby. Major 'aha' moment.

I don't like yellow, but I actually found this to be the most interesting video on exploring colors so far. Never would have guessed that flesh tones would make a great undertone to make the yellow pop. Thanks a lot for the info!

How about a video about painting miniatures that look like they're out at night? - kind of a follow up to a part of a subject you talked avout with Sam iirc? A series exploring times of day in general would be cool now that I think about, but especially what setting the feeling of night / out in moonlight would be great!

So much time I lost trying to paint yellow on black primer... So much pain :) Thank you very much! I ordered colors you showed and can't wait to try them asap!

Yellow is also a great colour to use at 2-10mm painting. Because it contrasts really well with almost anything darker you get great definition of it and it is a great way of adding some pop or visual interest to smaller figures that have fewer details overall. Redcoats with yellow cuffs and collars for example. An Imperial Fists army tends to look better at 6mm than a Ravenguard army will due to the greater visual interest and differentiation against the base (which is a greater %age of the models surface area when they're small like that).

Man I love this series! I keep coming back again and again, especially for yellow!

Love the look of deep, rich warm yellow Imperial Fists. I got an ok result but it took me too many layers to get them done to want to do an army of them. If only I had known your tricks first!

Again a great video in my favourite series of yours! I am happy that I've discovered some of the tricks by trying to make a BB team in the colors of the 80s LA Kings, but i realised that I did not even started to scratch the top of the tool box to get nice vibrant yellow. Thanks Vince!

Always love the color exploration videos!

Thank you sooooo much! I'm new to TCG alters and miniature paint, and I was struggling about white and yellow for sure! This is driving me nuts, searching the whole YTB about a nice yellow coverage (even already playing with Vallejos). You saved me some bucks, spending in paints that is really expensive for me (I live in Brazil and everything here cost 5x) just to try if it will have a reasonable opacity. THIS IS really a hobby cheating! ♥

this was soo helpful, thank you so much Vince!

Excellent video, many thanks Vince!

Thanks for continuing to share your experience.

Your content is, as always, a gold mine!

Once again, a great tutorial, thanks! I like the color yellow, but had the same results that you illustrated in the video with using the basic zenithal highlight...sickly greenish yellow. This made me back away from using yellow as a base color for my figs. This video has solved the problem, much thanks for that.

Thank you very much Vince. This was another very enlightening video. I struggle with yellow so much, that I decided to never paint it again until I watched your video. Imperial fists is my favorite chapter, and I tried many paint ranges to find a good yellow until I recently gave up. I hope you continue to explore colors, these videos are my favorites. Thank you.

Just so you know I really look forward to these videos every weekend

Ok... It's the second time I watched all your Exploring color (so far) in less than 2 days. It's , I think , the best series I see on miniatures painting for a while. I have taking note this time, so I don't need to watch it 10 times more to learn and I really hope to see new exploring color often. I'm Kind of curious about Black (not for the higlight but the shadows. White and how to proprely highlight (if possible). True Metalic Metal and True Metalic Gold... Blue green and so and so... Thanks for these video.

Super informative as always thanks for the vid I’m painting a 100 kingdoms army in the style of the Holy Roman Empire and I’ve never used yellow before so this is really helpful

Its like you're in my head...working an Escher gang and was having issues with my yellows...no longer! Thank you for a very timely video!

I always learn something from these color videos.

I have to stop the video to thank you for this clear explanation. Ive never seen covered this topic with ducha depth but still very easy to follow. Second, Ive just started my ImperialFists too and that vid is godsend. Thank you again

Now I know why my yellow colors always need not 2 but 20 layers before they look anything close to what I want, thanks Vince

Thank you Vince, really appreciate the video!

Sunlight is actually slightly blue once it has passed through our atmosphere and reaches everything down below, because of rayleigh scattering. Our eyes have a natural white-balance (like in photography) which dulls down the excessive blueness in the world around us, and enhances reds and greens (and thereby yellows and colors in between). Evenings and mornings, light reaches us by passing through the atmosphere at an angle, and thereby scatters into the yellow-orange-red range, because of the extra air and particulates that it must move through.

Quality content Vince. Cant wait to try it out.

Yellow time! hope it can excite me over yellow as the brown did ! :D

Thanks Vince! I never would have thought of using skin tones for yellow.

Always seem to have problems with yellows. Thanks for all you do Vince.

Thank you very much for educational videos! I have also seen a vid (if i remember correctly - it was at goobertown hobbies), where pink with a white zenithal was the undercoat. And after a yellow layer it created a really nice tone. It was as mindblowing - like your suggestion to use (very thin) purple :D

This is by far my favourite hobby cheating series

Fantastic video Vince! They always open doors that I didn't even know existed. Shading yellow with purple? Well yeah look at the color wheel! Damn, I want to paint my imperial guards a bright lemon yellow now. Must... resist....

Amazing video! I was having trouble doing orange base coats for yellow so this helps a bunch

I've been using that yellow + purple mix for shading skin tones. Can't quite explain why it works, but it does!

This really did pass muster (ok, I'll show myself out now). I had horrible problems with yellow, painting the yellow sections from old Blood Angels helmets and other parts over red. Or making a horrible mess by putting thick coats trying to cover whatever is underneath. I found the hard way the importance of the undercoat, but this was a totally different level of understanding.by using skin and light browns. That really makes sense but it never occurred to me (not an artist by any measure) and that would explain why most of my yellow models look bilious. I did find the purple combination doing some patzing around with those Blood Angels shadows, but didn't find a way to make it work!

That Ice Yellow and Pale Yellow from AK are just too good. It's perfect for a muted yellow on grimdark styled paintjobs. I used it on my King in Yellow from the Cthulhu Boardgame and on a Belisarius Cawl, where I then continued with the Streaking Grime technique, which feeds into the whole play of yellow with orangy-brown shadows. So Pale yellow base, Ice Yellow Highlight and then brown tones as shadowing. Their robes pop so much, without looking neon

Who would have thought Vince could teach me the importance of color better and faster than my college professor?

I've always considered doing a "good" yellow to be the hardest color to teach someone how to do. This really makes it easy hah. Great vid as usual.

Great video,and about finishing the "yellow touched" with the yellow cadmium oil paint range ,it could be nice too..😉

LOVE this series. Always excited when a new one comes out. What about looking at CMYK primaries like Cyan and Magenta? I’ve fallen in love with magenta recently for whatever reason. Thanks again for all the great content!

That is an awesome video. I love it :D

You're killing me Vincent! Last week I'd just finished a bunch of heavily armoured Orcs before the Steel vid, and this week I've just finished a gang of yellow armoured Palanite Enforcers.

Thank you for this video Vince! I wish Pro Acryl was sold in Australia, really want to try it out.

Another awesome video

That's an awesome video! I'll those tips on my Space Wolves yellow bits. I usually started from VGC Opaque Heavy Bluegrey, but it was usually off. Also idea with shading, I'll switch to brown-ish shades! I've given nadiral glaze to my SW dude and it got on his yellow shoulderpad, I have to say that it also works, when it's a thin glaze. Thank you!

Easy yellow: Prime Duplicoat sandible red/rust Duplicoat sandible white top down Where the speckling is spray/paint tentacle pink. Pick your yellow golden or mid tone yellow. Done. Add more yellows if you want for depth. I’m not the first to say it but the best under coat for yellow is pink.

Today I learned a lot I also learned that Vince has excellent taste in space marine chapters

Purple is such a great color...

Thanks for the video, super informative and interesting! I'm painting up a dark blue Space Wolves army with yellow pauldrons right now. For the pauldrons I've been using a flat brown to undercoat, then orange (i know, i know) to glaze a shade on. Would you recommend going with your purple suggestion instead or might that just fade into the dark blue and therefore take away that 'pop' that people look for in minis. Thanks!

I painted an Imperial Fists lieutenant as an experiment and while it didn't work out that well, I did try Liquitex's muted violet ink to black-line the armour and create some shadow areas, and it really made the yellow pop.

Ok this is strange. When you did a episode on white, I had just started painting a white space marine (mortifactor). Now you drop a yellow & I'm currently in the process of painting an Imperial Fist space marine. Works out though! Thanks!

Thank you for the video!!!

Painting a yellow version of the delta 7 from Star Wars for a local painting comp (you can Google: "star wars yellow delta 7 " if you want to have a peak what it looks like). Looking for some pointers of how to go about that. Maybe airbrushing the yellow and brush painting the grey makes more sense compared to the other way around? Also planning on doing a very bright side (right side of the ship) to a very dark side, as if he flies close to a nearby sun. So the "zenithal" highlight is rotated ~90 degrees.

I promised myself I’d never willingly paint yellow again, getting too old for this s**t. Just when I thought I was out, you pulled me back in...great video!

My personal recipe for yellow: Start with base of ochre or pink. Paint a base of yellow, it'll look chalky and that's fine. Then, apply two coats of scale 75 yellow mixed with Vallejo glaze medium. You'll have a very glossy yellow base. Paint a coat of yellow over that to dull it down. Then, highlight with ice yellow and shade with ochre or purple. The resulting yellow is eye-piercing bright and clean. Big issue with this is that it's a lot of layers and it will cover detail, so it's best only with large surfaces. I'd never do this for a face.

Aha, thank you. That explains some things!

Have been real tempted to put together an Imperial Fist army and this video is feeding that temptation. BEGONE AGENT OF SLAANESH! I am weak and can't hold out. ;)

Man I know what you mean about wanting to do a yellow skaven army now lol Never even thought of it but it looks good

I LOVE this series! I'm going to make an Instagram account just to like your Dutchess post.

I hear Clan Eshin makes their initiates wear that color while assassinating an elf as their final test.

Brilliant!

Love the Gilmore Girls Reference

I like using Chestnut Ink fro S75 for pre shading my Imperial Fists, and Screamer Pink for my Orange/Yellows lol

Great video as usual! Quick unrelated question though, would you zenithal highlight a model you would primarily be painting black and metalic?

Gotta say, I really dislike yellow, but those minis looked really good with that color scheme, now I have to try it. Great video.

It's also interesting how the coldest yellow can still be a warm off-white compared to a regular white.

Thanks Vince for another fascinating exploration of colour. I’m now wondering about the colour ivory, is it a yellow, a brown or white (or combination)? Useful to understand in the context of how the colour interacts with the under-shade. From my experience the same rules as yellow seem to apply.

Very interesting. Did you do a video on brown tones ?

Vince Vince Vince... you havent tried the Warcolours one coat yellow?? Hands down best coverage i've ever come across. i keep referring to it as the holy grail.

Awesome video! I have some ideas to work with now! Could you do a video about green?

Nice video. How would you paint a night ambiance maybe even with a secondary light source like a campfire?

Awesome. :)

We need a magenta/pink color guide!

all those reallys... I thought I was having a police academy flashback :D

Hey Vince, Do you by chance have a video that shows how to do natural weathering on like rocks and such? I'm starting some gloomspite and the loonshrine in pictures has moss buildup in its cracks and crevices and in not sure how to achieve that.

Do you have any advice on highlighting sharp colour transitions on flat/smooth surfaces? I want to paint up some Space Marines using one of the retro halved/quartered colour schemes (like medieval heraldry), where they're split cleanly down the middle, but I'm worried about how to colour match my shades and highlights to make it look right, plus difficulties with getting even highlight thickness across the transition.

Also because of you I've begun to say "mmmmkay " again

I just tried my first Imperial Fist and it came out green, so I wanted to ask you, considering I followed your guide basically (primed black, red/brown basecoat, then yellow and highlight with pale yellow) where that green came from. Did I leave too much black shining through somewhere maybe and that can cause it?

Hey Vince, great video as per usual. two things: 1. Scott mentioned on the podcast you introduced him to Contrapoints, so gold star for you! 2. Is there US supplier I can order the Warcolours Florescent Layer Paint sry? Amazon isn’t caring it and I can’t find it on ebay or locally either. I suppose i can just buy the single bottles of vallejo’s fluorescent range.

It's sad to me that I either have to airbrush to get a true zenithal, use inks which results in less saturation/vibrancy, or layer and layer over the zenithal prime until it's effect is almost gone or gone

Man I wish I had this before I painted a yellow nurgle army lol

So after this i guess you will go into tertiary colours? would like to see a video on magenta/red purple if possible.

Have you experimented much with using magenta as your shade color instead of an orange rusty brown? If so, for what kind of situations do you like that option over the brown?

What are your thoughts on using pink as the undertone for yellow? I have seen numerous hobby painter videos that go over this option, and was surprised to not see you bring up this subject.

So for the record, how many levels of “Really” do I use to thin my purple for shadows ? Lol great video as always, thanks !

Just when I thought I had talked myself out of starting an Ironjawz army....

Hey Vince, I'm in your neck of the woods and was wondering where you get most of your hobby supplies, such as your paints. Are their local stores you prefer or a website you usually use? I love trying new brands out but the stores I know of only carry citadel, army painter, and one kind of Vallejo at the GT, maybe p3 at the soldiery. Thanks ahead of time.

Yellow over Magenta a really great color too.

What sort of brush would you recommend as an “all-around” solid brush? One that I could use for most base coating and layering.

Has anyone experimented with pink primers? Stynyrez has one, as does Mission Models. Seems like it might be good for something like this.

How do you think Bugmans Glow would do as a base coat for yellow? I guess I could just try it, but i'm sure you already have the answer ;)

Is that Imperial Fist mini you showed here done the same way as the one in your 2019 video about painting imperial fist yellow (contrast yellow through airbrush), or did you change your workflow?

Hi vince, would the blacks are really blue be true for kimera black which is pure pigment ( have the set on my Xmas list)?

GW's Averland Sunset (supposedly a Yellow) looks like yellow on their box art i.e. old Ork Dakkajet or Bloodbowl Elfheim Eagles trousers box art / photo promos but in real life it looks orange and IS orange when I paint it on. (I even use Averaland Sunset as an excellent orange wash to compliment GW's Flashfitz Yellow which is more of a true yellow. And yellow always on white Vallejo Surface Primer or it's usually a fail. What I hate about yellow is when you accidently mark it with a darker colour - just try and paintng over that with yellow - it's just too transparent. But I love yellow the colour. Hmm this video may make me change on ocassions my base colour for yellow being pure white, light rust, human skin etc

Hi Vince, which ice yellow do you like more, the one from Vallejo or the one from AK 3rd gen? If you like third option better, let me know.