My favourite is glazing and I always use at least 5 layers to a highlight. Try to get a lot of contrast .... even to a point where the lowest is black and highest is white..
After watching dozens of mini painting video's, I'm finally painting my first one! I'll be sticking with your videos to guide me through. You're the only one I've come across to actually explain how to thin the paint.
Sound isn't bad! I'd say check your "squeeze" or compressor settings and maybe dial those back a bit? Try it, see what you think! Thanks for a the tips--I REALLY (and I mean REALLY) appreciate the "when it looks like this, it's right, but when it looks like THIS it's wrong" kind of approach. I'm still struggling with loading the brush correctly, but this helps! Thank you!
ok watched it all now and just wanted to add..it was a great vid you explained it all rather well. one of the best I have seen. please keep up the outstanding content. I am going to try the things you showed as i just usually paint to table top standard. thank you for the video., it helped alot.
I know right, it was so funny I literally could not stop laughing. I'm crying here. It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen on you tube. I've watched the video 11 times now just to see the cats antics and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.
I really enjoyed the work you put in on this tutorial, different methods of painting techniques … special effects.. I will watch it over and over till I perfect it… thank you.. from Aiken South Carolina.✝️❤️🇺🇸🤠😎😸🙀
dont normally comment on vids - but how you described glazing and layering made something click in my head, think ive been looking at these techniques in the wrong way for a long time haha.. great vid, will stay tuned :)
Thanks for your videos. Lots of great information about the hows and whys without babbling incoherently. THANK YOU for that. You made a subscriber out of me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm very new to painting and this video gave me the courage to try layering. It's not the best result but something "clicked" and I kinda understand the process. Thank you for helping me imrprove! I will check out more of your videos for sure.
Yeeeeah someone who I can understand from start to finish! Thank you for sharing your clear concise video it's been a joy to watch. Don't you just love cat's lol, we have 5 of em. Take care 👍😷👍🏴
Again, your video does a better job of teaching me than all of those other channels. I like them, they're awe-inspiring, but this channel is just inspiring, something they're not.
Nice video, i finally get what wet blending feathering and loaded brush are :P So this is was i understood: 1) Glaze (just thin paint, more or less) 2) Feathering (Glazing but on make the glaze on the model) 3) Wet blending (Feathering but with two wet colors) 4) Loaded Brush (Wet blend but on the brush) :P
As with the last video I watched from you, no word of a lie, leaps and bounds more helpful than any other tutorial ive seen since starting painting. Felt stuck and bored and this allowed me to try stuff out for myself, understanding the basics and just applying them. Why do other youtubers not bother with the basics, when clearly, many of us are just starting out painting? Well done, seriously. Subscribed.
I'm just going to start thinning my own paints, as currently I get my partner to do it... Thank you for this video, will be good to learn all these skills, in time :)
Just stumbled across your channel... you do great work, i hope you are still active thanks for the lesson and explaining it so well... it will be a big help at the bench!
I think this is one of the best tutorial videos I've seen. Thanks so much for this advice, especially for giving each specific tip its own individual video section. Those video timestamps are extremely useful. Even though I'd seen a lot of the techniques, I was having difficulty putting "names to faces," so to speak (for instance, I'd heard of glazing and I'd heard of the color-blending technique, but giving a specific definition really helped). I'd never actually seen the loaded-brush technique at the end before, but I really liked the cranberry-looking color gradient.
A wonderful guide for beginning and intermediate mini painters. Some of the best explanations of terms and techniques that I've seen yet. And a good documentary of the chaos that is cats.
Awesome video for a beginner like me who knows literally nothing about anything in regards to painting. Anxious to paint my first mini. Your cat reminds me of my childhood cat who would come by purring and playing around your legs then randomly bite your toe and bolt. The mischievous bastard lol
i love your videos, they appeal to me perfectly and your minis are awesome, but the best thing about your videos is that you have helped my wife learn and get better and most importatnly more interested in mini painting. thank you so much and keep up the good work!
After the seventh video on layering (what I was looking for) from different mini-painters, I found this video that had so much helpful info; not just on layering. The thinning paints explanation was SUPER useful. Thank you for the clear explanations and visual demonstrations. Top 10 best videos for beginner painters I've found so far and one I will be coming back to over and over again.
Thankyou for explaining each of these steps, this video is more helpful than you may realize as alot of others just harp on about what they are doing as opposed to explaining how they do it. 😊
Nice video. The explainations were clear enough to try directly. Thank you ! But I'm not gonna lie, when I heard "and most importantly" at the end, in my head it was like "don't forget to PAINT MORE MINIS" !
The diagrams and visual aids you include for each technique are so helpful! I also really appreciate the level of detail you go into for creating the base coat: I've never seen it described so well before!
For me the best thing is zenithal highlight, as my hands love to shake I am pure trash at edge highlights so the spray can that is now replaced by an airbrush is my savior, and the wet palette, it is soo out of this world amazing.
Zenithal priming, yes!!!!! I tried this and white drybrush before putting a basecoat. Black spray from underneath, then grey spray, then warithbone spray, then white drybrush everywhere. Finish with contrast paint. And that's all. (I can't do a proper highlight to save my life...)
@@TheSzybas yeah, when I was reading about it first I was like yeah this can't look that good, but then having tried it I was like damn that is pretty good with minimal effort.
Nice job on breaking down the sections. I've got a few friends interested in starting to paint their gaming figures I think this is a perfect starting point.
This is excellent! Worth it's weight in gold for effectively condensing all these techniques into one clear video. Also your painting is really excellent.
Great video! It's nice to get a concentrated overview for beginners like myself. I just wanted to note that inks come both as pigments or dyes depending on which you buy, so don't assume they're all dyes.
I have watched other painting tutorials but your videos are honestly hands down the best thank so much please keep posting more I am working on a new kill team squad and thos really help up my game thank you 😊
This is such a great tutorial, I really appreciated your breakdown of loading the brush and why lighter paints seem to have so much better coverage. The cat making a racket is also a huge bonus!
Another very interesting video on this channel. In this case the main painting techniques are clearly explained. Very instructive. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. -"Un altre video molt interessant en aquest canal. En aquest cas queden clarament explicades les principals tècniques de pintura. Molt instructiu. Gràcies per compartir els teus coneixements."
Extremely valuable video, thank you, as a beginner, I learned a lot. Of course now comes the most complicated things: try, fail, try again, (fail again?) until a not too bad figure come to life with colors 😊👍🏻
Nice video and great example of a dark tip loaded brush method. Ben Komets (an unbelievably good painter) typically uses a light tip with a darker load in his brush.
I am definitely not a beginner anymore but still pretty pretty far away from being a veteran at painting miniatures. This overview gave me a nice overview of what I know and what is worth looking into. Thanks a lot =D
I'm finally getting a handle on feathering/two brush blending, so since I've not attempted wet blending yet, and I've never heard of the loaded brush technique until I watched this video, I will have to try those techniques. I'm a new subscriber because I'm always on the lookout for new painters I can pick up inspiration and new ideas from, and I really like your presentation and overall demeanor in your videos so far. And as a fellow cat minion, I can relate--every time I get painting, Maxkat usually starts hollering at me, demanding I stop everything and commence worshiping him post haste. We love our little fuzzy psychopaths, now, don't we?
