How to Dry Brush Minis: Tips and Tricks
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มี.ค. 2019
- Dry brushing is a miniature painting technique that every painter should understand and use. Learn more (whether you already know how to drybrush or are a total beginner) in this video and start using this excellent technique today.
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Also for individuals like myself for whom the standard edge highlighting technique is rendered unreasonably difficult due to nerve damage making their hands jerk spasmodically at random, Dry-brushing is a godsend as an alternative.
Realtalk it's nice that a method exists for people with forms of disability. I do it because, frankly, I find other methods too tedious. On more special models I take the time, but if I'm doing a Skitarii unit, that's a time sink. Also dry brushing gives a nice more realistic weathering effect imo.
I shattered my hand in high school punching the lights out of a kid sexually harassing a girl, I’m paying for it now. Can’t keep a steady hand to save my life, you’d think I’m permanently freezing
Yeah dry brushing is a godsend
Respect!
I also have nerve issues - gives me shaky hands, not overly obvious but makes fine painting nearly impossible . Dry brushing is awesome!!
Same situation here. Do you have any tips for tremor painting?
Very important tip I got over the time was: ...
If you want a more "dirty/dusty" look on your mini, wash first and then drybrush. If you want to have a "clean" look, drybrush first and then wash.
It's simple but helps a lot ;)
That is superbly useful!
now this is a very useful tip!! I always have this problem where my drybrushing looks sort of dusty instead of like, a glow. now I know why. thanks!
I'm gonna write this down somewhere, so I remember this tip. Thanks :-)
MVP
How do you clean it?
I remember when I was younger and had just moved to a new school. I made friends with some people who played 40k and played battles during lunch break. I bought my Space Wolves in one day to play and I had dry brushed them to add a snow/frost effect and I was hailed as the best painter in the school :) little did they know the effect can be achieved easily
how did yall have the time for 40k during lunch
Spenser Graham i know right?! i have to eat like 8 slices of bread and an apple in 25 minutes, i wont have time to play an entire game next to that!
@@robbalke6535 Some schools do it so you have 15 minutes to eat, and 45 minutes to do whatever. You can play a relatively small game in that timeframe.
Ricky Zhang yeah that then it would be possible, but i think id rather have less break time so i can be home earlier.
Just looked down the comments and found a fellow space wolf snow lover :D Heck yes, represent.
I know this is an old video, so thanks for keeping it available. This has taken the “chore” out of painting and has brought back some joy!! Thank you.
Reporting in four years later to also say thanks ❤
Take less paint than you think you need, wipe off more paint than you think you should.
Webster’s dictionary defines dry brushing as... I don’t know hahahaha! Love the mix of “dry” (har har) humor and information:)
Really key tip that I almost never ever see mentioned: If you use paper towel it will almost always give a more dusty appearance. If instead you just wipe the brush off on plastic (or other non-absorbent surface), it will tend to give a much smoother appearance to the brushing.
I started dry brushing for the first time 2 weeks ago. This whole hobby is very new to me. I learned quickly that less is better and doing 10 skelly boys at once really helped nail the technique quickly. Newb Tip: Took a cheap brush (that was too big for me) from a multi-pack and cut the end off so the bristles were even. Worked like a charm.
Dry brushing is my favorite technique. Definitely the easiest way to get table ready models super quickly.
Plus if you're like me and you love Spehss wulfs, dry brushing white paint all over them can kind of sell the snow blown look.
'It's got a waist, and it spins'...... that made me giggle a bit lol.
Learning dry brushing is the one skill that made me not completely suck at painting.
Kai Be why are you here?
Thanks! I was getting super frustrated with the results I got dry brushing, but watching this have realised I'm not making my brush anywhere near dry enough. Can't wait to try this out!
Thank you for making the hobby so approachable for new people. Really enjoyed your video, thankyou
Please don't take this as a criticism but it gets said too much that "pro" painters and competition entrants don't use drybrushing. They absolutely do! As you so clearly stated it is one of the best techniques. Never stop using it no matter what "level" you are painting at.
I like this guy, especially that end bit.
Did my first drybrush this weeks, stumble upon this gem 2 days later. This channel is the best!!
I love drybrushing. To be fair, I’m not a good painter anymore (took a twenty year break!) but the thing that made it easier coming back to these hobbies is knowing that I had my old three stage technique - block it in, shade and then drybrush. As you say, it’s amazing for metals, but I love painting a mini with clothing like robes or a jacket like your guy there and drybrushing it. It’s a gamechanger when you start out painting, I think.
Superb vid, mate - thank you!
Lol I'm here after a 20 year break too :)
What a fantastic video, very helpful and i just tried this for the first time using your method and it came out fantastically, i wish there were more tutorials like this out there. very clear, concise, well structured with a very good demonstration too and you can tell a lot of effort was put into this. thank you very much for the help!
This is the first video that I found that actually really goes into how to do dry brushing. Every video I've found so far skip straight to the actual dry brushing step and never mention how to actually prep the paint. Thanks!
Thanks for doing this video. When I got back into painting, this was the best video I found for dry brushing, you are very detailed with logical explanations. Appreciate the video
I'm a huge fan of dry brushing! It makes my tyranids' armored carapace look really nice!
I dry brushed using some thinned down paint off my wet palette the other day, (just because the colour I needed was already on there) and it worked really well! It was a final highlight over the top of some genestealers and the fact the paint was thinned made it go on really smoothly and subtly.
Uncle Atom is the best. Super calming discussions about gaming. I recently got back in and drybrushing certainly is a tool to use in many situations. I used it to get bwtter highlighting on a gun with which layering and edge highlighting was just noy working and it really worked for the model. Thanks for justifying that.
I just started learning how to paint miniatures. Thank you for making this video! It's incredibly helpful.
Thanks Atom, been trying to get my head around the technique this gives me some confidence to go ahead and try it.
Dry brushing one of my favorite methods
Learned something new regardless. Thank you
Thank you very much! This was super helpful. Guy on reddit told me about dry brushing so I searched it and this video explained it so perfectly.
As I was watching this I was drybrushing a bunch of Chaos Cultists to get a new base colour on them; I had started with a gray primer and green wash, now adding a dark gray dry brush layer before doing details.
I love drybrushing. It's just so useful and fun to do. I used drybrushing alot for the bases of my space marine dreadnoughts to paint the scenery bases they come with to make them look like they're all dusty over concrete like a bunch has settled from ongoing battle and, just recently, I was painting a pair of dreads I'm using for Grey Knights and put some of the ol' grey knight steel base paint on the armor panels with a drakenhof nightshade wash and then starting going over it heavily with Necron Compound drybrushing just all over the armor panels. Partially to highlight, but also just get that sort of bright silver color that Grey Knights have in all their artwork and box art while trying to kind of keep that feint blue under glow of the grey knight steel and drakenhof.
Oh my god this is amazing. I’m literally doing a dark grey primer with a dark wash & light grey drybrushing for my 40k models lol. I’ve heard about drybrushing but this has been the best tutorial I’ve seen so far.
Perfect explanation. Thank you. I have never done this before - your video was very well done and informative.
thanks, i needed a brick wall look and this really helped :)
Hi, Atom- I really appreciated this video. I started painting about 5 years ago, not counting the 3 or 4 RTB-01 Marines that a friend’s brother let me try out around 1988, that looked like I painted them with a roller. Drybrushing is something that I just never got very good at. After a while my edge highlighting was pretty precise, but I didn’t like how my Marines were starting to look like they were from Tron. I was okay at drybrushing things like chain mail and Deathwatch pauldrons, with all the little letters on them, but terrible at doing armor edges and the like. Your video really made me want to practice at it, and stick with it until I make it work. Just wanted to say thanks-
i love over brushing as well such a quick technique
I just got into mini painting by buying the Reaper Core Skills kit. They went over dry brushing but you explained it much better. I struggle with dry brushing and you helped a lot. Thanks man!
This is a great item, I will be using this for showing new painters how to dry brush. I use dry brushing all the time on my models (mostly 15mm scale) and armour. Thanks Uncle Atom!!!!
Watched this video and just tried it on my FoW miniatures. They came out great. Very relaxing and satisfying. Will have to try the elf brushes. Two thumbs up, thanks!
Thanks Atom. Going to be painting some spaceship and jet plane cockpits. I hope to bring out the details of the buttons, panels, displays etc. Great tip as always.
Thanks for this video. I’m new to this tabletop gaming stuff and painting the way I’ve been painting is pure hell.
Thank you for knowledge on this. I have just followed along and dry brushed my warboss in mega armour and it’s made the model pop.
Thank you so much! i have been trying to learn this for weeks now but no one explained it in a way i understood until now!
thank you for this! this quick and easy lesson! It helped a lot and I was able to implement the dry brushing effect to look just like I wanted to!
Such a great intro to dry brushing! Thank you!
Thanks for this video. I did some dry brushing on my necrons and they look good.
Great vid! Such a subtle yet effective technique
Thank you! A great introduction to dry brushing.
Awesome video as always, Uncle Atom! This is definitely one of my favorite techniques!
~ Wolfbrother Methos
just about to do my first drybrushing, will use your video as guide, simple and easy to understand, thank you :)
“So what is dry brushing Webster’s dictionary defines it as... I have no idea because I didnt actually look it up” 😂😂😂
I am a 3d game artist, so also a digital sculptor , and this, is GOUUULD !!!! Thank you kind Sir! I salute you!
It honestly keeps baffling me how Citadel has a whole line of Dry Paints almost as large as that of their Base Paints, yet Warhammer TV treats drybrushing almost as if it doesn't even exist. And while edge-highlighting works for certain material effects, it utterly fails at realistically depicting lighting, so their obsession with it is beyond me - if I never see any edge-highlighted folds again, it will be too soon. Blending and/or drybrushing (depending on context) all the way!
That’s because of the painting style they use for the boxart. It’s to define the model
your tips and tricks are very useful
A suggestion for the absolute noob buying their first bits of gear - make sure you get more than one brush for drybrushing. As the name suggests, the brush must be properly dry for the technique to work and if you're going to be drybrushing more than one completely different colour at a sitting, the paint on your model will be dry and ready for the next step in a handful of minutes, but your rinsed brush won't be.
Thanks that's an excellent tip, I've been wondering why some of my models look different and I think it's because of the fact I eventually have to rinse the brush
I'm totally mesmerized by your voice... I'm now off to watch every videos youve ever uploaded... also very helpful explanations!
You explain dry brushing very well thank you
This guide was super helpful, thank you so much!
Thank you from a beginner at DND. This was very informative.
love this! thanks for a great video!
I am just starting and this was a great video!!! thank you
Really handy video as I'm just trying to understand the dry brushing technique. Thank you
I'm getting into making dioramas and things like that so this really helped!!
Thank you very much, had a hard time getting the concept , now i got the idea, imma test them on my skittari
Like any technique it is just one more to your arsenal in the hobby. Keep painting all. Peace!
Amazing tips and tricks atom smasher thank you so much your vids are very helpful to me as a starting tabletop gamer
i started painting minis today and this is so helpful thanks ! and youre a very likeable guy :D
Excellent video as always! I too use those little makeup brushes, though they're such a pain to get really small ones without having to get an entire set!
Really useful guide, thank you.
Thanks for the tips it really made my primaris captian really stand out beautifully
Love these technique videos. Also the surprise discovery of the soldier's waist mobility was pretty endearing. Keep it up Uncle. You're the reason I got back into the hobby! Sorry, The Hobby.
Super useful, thank you !
Thank You Tabletop Minions! Next time I paint my minis I will try dry brush. 😃🤟
My brush life. Use for it base/layering. Then demoted (or promoted!) to dry brushing. Finally it is then added to the glue brush collecting.
I love Teri's videos! I wish she made some more, if she has the time. ^.^
Whoa you need to be on tv! Very well presented sub
I found out that, for brushes, wide ones sizes 2-4 works best for me. Any cheap brands from Michaels or any other craft store. I usually put a very thin coat of ink(or nuil oil) directly on plastic and then drybrush with zink-based white over it. It creates a very thin "primer" and you can work with whatever color after that.
Looks pretty straightforward, thanks for the video..
life changing video :) thanks for making it!
I need to start doing this. Great vid
I have to thank you this helped me out a ton
i love using makeup brushes for drybrushing using a small domed tip and a large domed tip works treats on models
I tried to do the highlight method for a long time (and I still use it when appropriate) but I just went back to dry-brushing a couple weeks ago and I couldn't be happier. I also find a wash and dry-brushing can really elevate the crackle paints from GW.
One last tip. No matter what technique you're trying for the first time, green army men from the dollar store are great throw-away guinea pigs. I've used them to try color combinations, to learn how to decal, whatever. A bag of dudes you don't care about for $1 can't be beat. (lol, I paused the video to type this, and then 10 seconds later he said "army men...")
Awesome tips. For beginner it changed my life ;) cheers
I hate painting and this is my fave technique to do as saves me loads of time and grumbling, I have 3 different types of brushes all from brushes that have has there day. First is a knackered brush cut right down so only about 2mm left and use that one on small areas, second is the standard brush for main areas and finally is my large area drybrush which is a blusher brush that can move (like a lipstick you can bring it down to about 5mm and up to stupidly large) and that blasts through large areas.
Thanks for this! I just got Thanos for Marvel Crisis Protocol and my mind went "I could do that shade of purple on his chair by dry brushing purple over the steel..." Your vid was what I found to do it, so cheers!
9:00 Is right. Best drybrushes are soft and round. The square brushes from gw f.ex. will leave a very rough finish. while the softer your brush is, the smoother your result will be. You also have more control, as you can adjust the pressure you use when applying the paint. Due to the long bristles. Only way I've ever really painted.
Thank you very much!
Just started drybrushing recently, and this gave me some good advice! BTW, have you done an episode on painting camo patterns? If not, would you consider doing one in the future?
Super helpful!!
One of my favorite dry brushes is a citadel medium glaze brush that have been cut half-way down.
Well done, and nice voice - easy on the ears. Subscribed :)
Your micro and voice are amazing
and your explenations too
This video came in good timing. I'm gonna be working on dry brushing some black templar models
I do the same with my deathwatch. Black armor is some kind of special, cuz you cant wash it that good, but edge highlighting takes an imense amount of time. since I brush carefully I finish two times of modes in the same time period ^^
Yeah it is tricky to wash, but I love that you can use black wash to hide mistakes when you think you went a little overboard with the drybrushing :))
Great video man
Perfect Video for me.
It tried drybrushing but i essentially put on another layer and wondered what i did wrong.
Well, putting a wet paint on a wet palette was the first thing.
Then leaving to much paint in the bristles and then doing the wrong motion. (Circular instead of up->down)
Thanks. That will improve the next models tremendously.
Nice focus on the dry brushing. I found out that the "spongy" tiny brushes one can "borrow" from the wife makeup set are excellent for more controlled dry strokes in some parts like shield rims, weapon edges etc and won't overflow at all. Again a great video. Glad I bumped into your channel after making a come back to the hobby.
Yes! Makeup sponges of all sizes are great for dry brushing as well as stippling!
Once again, great advice - I picked up my favorite dry brush at the Dollar Store (it's an e.l.f. knock-off foundation brush). Also, those Dust minis are pretty cool.
Thank you so much this was really useful :)
Having the right brush is key. My best work is the result of using a very soft $1 makeup brush! My other brushes were too stiff and would remove the base coat. The makeup brush also carries a lot of color even when dry.
I’ve done a few videos about drybrushing with makeup brushes, they are outstanding! I use them all the time. Thanks for watching!
Do you know Bohun? World-class painter, absolutely top shelf. Not so long ago he did a tutorial on drybrushing on a display piece. Sure he doesn't use it on the whole figure, but drybrushing as such is a very valid technique even for the best display pieces that can easily win painting competitions. It's just goes to show that there is no technique too "basic" for advanced painting, and a good painter will train and utilise all of them :)
Fun technique. I base layer with a heavy drybrush. Unpopular opinion, but it genuinely is great. Zenathal prime then just dry with the darks and lights