Thanks buddy, me and Ian (editor) have put in a lot of time into 'distilling' them into the most helpful learning we can, so this is always really nice to see :)
Don't worry buddy, you've seen my typing in live streams 😂. Thanks, once you've got a good weapon and shield you're one base away from 'cheating' a nice army :D
Oh this is excellent timing, I was just about to begin stippling a space marine but now I think I’ll wait for this to drop, perfect - thanks Byron, I’m looking forward to this 👍🏻
I can't believe how effective patience is. It's been mentioned numerous times and it makes so much difference! Appreciate all the tips however, it always looks so simple! 😅
This might be too minor for an entire video, but I would like some tips on using existing washes, in this case from Pro Acryll, and altering them to use as substitutes for Agrax, Sepia, etc. in these. I have a feeling it is just adding in some brown and wash medium, but getting comfortable with making custom mixes seems like a great thing to be comfortable doing. Love the videos!
I'm really liking how awful the model looks after the first shade on the amour given how good it looks after the rest of the steps. Shows how OP stippling is for blending.
Yes, this! It looks crap doesn't it! The faith and trust in the method is one of the most difficult things to teach remotely, we're still working on it :)
10 or so years ago (back before I dropped out of the hobby) stippling was this super niche technique that was only useful for getting a spotty texture like rust. Just today alone I've watched three different videos on using stippling to blend as smoothly as glazing and/or wet blending.
The possibilities are endless buddy, our hobby is so new by 'art' hobby standards, so it's still evolving so so fast. It's in a good place, enjoy! We'll be doing plenty more in the future, and our channel is a great place for the 'fast' or starting steps for fancy stippling done with larger brushes.
Nice vid, but my main takeaway was how much I like that green/gold scheme. Definitely stealing that for a future project, with maybe a bit more of that burgundy as an accent colour.
:D love to hear it, me too! You're in for a treat: 1.) We're making that colour, you'll be able to buy it at some point in the future 2.) We've done a cloak, a stormcast, and next will be a skaven, all using that colour, with some variation in schemes! Skaven should be next tutorial
It's our dampening pad buddy, it's how I release a small and predictable amount of moisture into the top of the brush (and top only). Keeps my drybrushing and stippling smooth :) It's the wooden-topped pot you can see in any of our sets containing drybrushes: store.artis-opus.com/en-de
It might be time for an update on black skin or armor. I get that this video was supposed to encompass all colors but black is a special case. Stippling highlights and transitions but keeping them small so the model still reads black would be helpful.
Super looking forward to this! Stippling is something I struggle with and can't imagine trying it on armor, will be really cool to see your approach. I've been really enjoying your dives into "grimdark" painting, hoping to see more of those soon. Speaking of, you sometimes ask for suggestions, have you ever played around with drybrushing oils? Would be interesting to see the blending and other effects given the long working time. I've seen it talked about from a couple of grimdark painters, but would be really neat to see how you approach it with your drybrushing skills and experience.
Another great video. This one has made me realise that, with the right dilution of medium to paint (or water), I can potentially stipple glaze. Although, I'm wondering if it would give the control you want for glazing.
I have tried to dry brush the way you do in your videos and those models are some of the best models I've ever painted with low effort and high speed following the things you've said in your videos. But lately I've been experimenting with oil paints and I'm curious if you have tried dry brushing with oil paints. The properties of oil paint I think would go pretty well with dry brushing. Blending might be amazing with them and it might be even faster (although slower drying). Maybe having a separate blending brush like the way Mended Brush Studio uses with his oil painted minis would work. Well, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks for all of the great content!
I'd love to try them, it's just the time investment of learning something new... and then the additional time investment of learning it to a level that I'm happy to produce content on, which is very different! :D
I have an airbrush but honestly stippling is way better for realistic transitions that have authentic looking texture. As always, mix and match as the job requires
Great timing I've just primed the lord vigilant from from my skaventide box, would love to see you do a gryph hound or the lord vigilant on the gryph stalker as everyone seems to be just doing rats, so glad your not .
Just at 1:22. Something I’ve always wondered about is ‘the lifespan of a full dry brush kit’. Seeing the dampening pad like that in my head will ring alarms but clearly it’s still fine for a professional. Will be interesting to see someone illustrate beginning, mid life and end of life of a full kit
Could you guys do a video showing how to paint using contrast-style paints in a way that doesn’t leave a spotty or streaked effect? Particularly on flat panels like space marine armor or vehicles.
Any chance you could do a tutorial for contrast paint on armour as iam finding it difficult to get a smooth finish on my salamanders ps thanks for all the tips and guidance videos 👍
I would love to see you paint some Kroxigors. I'm thinking about painting my Seraphon Warcry warband in Starborne scheme but I can take any scheme from you ♥. As always great video, this stormcast looks awesome! I'll try to copy this on my Rotbringers
It’s the small tips for me, that a highlight can clean up a messy area. I used contrast paints over a zenithal for the first time. Rattle cans for the zenithal. I don’t like the quite dirty look after using greens over it. Let’s see what highlights can fix
It’s just now occurred to me to wonder - you don’t use a wet palette, where it seems like 90% of the other painters I see on youtube do. Maybe you’ve addressed it in another video and I just haven’t seen that one yet? But if you haven’t I’d love to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons of wet vs. dry. Maybe a general tools video?
That's an interesting point dude, and while it's something I've mentioned in passing (UK is cold & humid) it's definitely something I could plan and script a future video on :)
It isn't that I am in a cult that loves to buy paints, but those paints look like great colours. The technique you showed is a great results, and definitely something I want to try. As for a tip or question, have you found more uses for Newsh? Have seen Next Level Painting use it as an additive when he does edge highlights, since it gives him more time to work with it. Perhaps also a way to prevent paint from drying when adding the battle damage.
It's so nice! However on actually holding it I realised just how many different textures there are on it, I've currently got some huge issues with over-detailing on GW models, which is a shame, because disciplined design used to be one of their strongpoints... and set them apart from 3d print mini companies. I hope it's something they fix fast, people have armies to paint!
@@ArtisOpus unfortunately yes. Overly complicated models are quite contrary to their new 'quick' and 'introductory' approach with Spearhead and it might get worse with every refresh of a faction. But it is also a nice opportunity to find out where to cut corners and still get something to a presentable state :)
So I've only recently discovered these stippling/drybrushing techniques and I already have a fully painted army in flat colours with basic washes and highlights. What would your advice be to somebody who want to add shading to miniatures painted like that? I'm not quite sure how I'd go about drybrushing shadows onto a model. My minis are painted with Mech Standard grey recess washed with drakenhof nightshade and highlighted with dawnstone if that helps.
I'd use drybrushing for some careful additional highlights, stippling could be used for either shadows or highlights, and done our way goes over anything pretty well, without standing out looking weird or wrong. Take a look at the last cloaks video, we're doing there what I'd recommend :D Any questions just ask in a new comment under the latest video, we'll get you sorted. (replies get lost)
As I'm about to start the Nemesis Claw Nightlords Killteam I'd love to see your take on varieties of flayed skin. I've done the Mandrakes and Hand of the Archon (I swear I don't have a weird flayed-skin fetish) and while I'm happy with the results, I tend to drift entirely to caucasian skin tones and 'fresh' looking skin. A tutorial on how to do different skin colours and, for lack of a better word, 'freshness' of skin would be awesome. I'm totally on a watchlist now aren't I?
I have a suggestion for a tutorial but IDK how to share it. If you search "Nighthaunt Spirit Torment, a homage to Richard Gray" you find an image with a really cool NMM yellow armor on top. I've been trying to replicate that. It's probably done similar to what you did here and in your metal video
Couldn't help but think that the shading step is very similar in effect to using oil or streaking grime for grim dark just different media and application. The desired shading effect is quite similar once you wipe away the oil.
Are there particular stippling or drybrushing techniques you find work best on flesh? Skaven would be the obvious choice but maybe Flesh-Eater Courts would better match your style and techniques?
Do you think you could come up with a clever way to do a cell shaded style? I’ve got a blood bowl team I thought might look good looking like borderland characters but honestly the only way I can think to paint that style is going to take years to do across a whole team let alone if used as an army scheme. If you can I’d love to see it as a video.
Sorry I’m a bit confused, Is the base coat on top of a primer? Looks like there’s 2 colors right from the jump. Is the green base coat over a black prime?
All good buddy, correct, it's just flat green :). Check out our recent cloaks video for some good info on how to achieve and vary basecoats (black vs white prime, etc)
If we were looking at it and light were above that's where we'd see it (I tested out holding it under my lamp), it's not always about the light soley, viewer angle plays a part, too. Sometimes though it's just about making stuff easier to read/paint (e.g. dark side next to light side, etc)
I’m gonna watch this video, promise to myself to use this technique the next time I paint, totally forget what he said, and do my own thing and then wonder why it turned out bad 😂 It’s a really bad habit of mine to not use the techniques I’ve been studying
How do you avoid the texture building up when stippling? I’m thinning everything light pressure and so on but I can’t help but see texture. It’s very obvious on space marine armour. (Specifically dark colours)
I just wanna say I use your library of techniques to paint effects on my oil painting frames, which I manufacture. So little out there on this craft that I had to go into the wilderness to find it. Very useful stuff, even outside the realm of little toy soldiers.
Even his " mistakes" are glorious....
Thanks :D. Once you've made enough you learn to roll with them... and there's Biostrip for everything else 😂
The editing on these videos is always top tier
Thanks buddy, me and Ian (editor) have put in a lot of time into 'distilling' them into the most helpful learning we can, so this is always really nice to see :)
That was good stippling over Liberator. The details over the shield and warhammer got more thinking of how I may paint them.
Thanks Byron.
It got me thinking of how I can paint them. Thank you Byron, sorry for the spelling grammer! 😅
Don't worry buddy, you've seen my typing in live streams 😂. Thanks, once you've got a good weapon and shield you're one base away from 'cheating' a nice army :D
Your videos are amongst the best on the net. You are precide, to the point, explain well, zoom on the zone you paint, ...
Thank you!
Thanks buddy, we've worked hard on all of this in the last year, it's amazing to hear :D
Oh this is excellent timing, I was just about to begin stippling a space marine but now I think I’ll wait for this to drop, perfect - thanks Byron, I’m looking forward to this 👍🏻
Serendipity, love to hear it! We'll catch you there buddy :).
I can't believe how effective patience is. It's been mentioned numerous times and it makes so much difference! Appreciate all the tips however, it always looks so simple! 😅
The one rule we can't teach enough, and no one understands fully until they experience it themselves :D thanks man
"Less is More"
Famous last words.
I've always hated that phrase. Less isn't more, more is more. Less is simply often the better choice.
Tell me about it... I'm still not sure if I preferred before or after the weathering, honestly :D
Came for the stippling, stayed for the dirty puns
No idea what you're talking about here, we just talked about painting 👀👀🖌️
This might be too minor for an entire video, but I would like some tips on using existing washes, in this case from Pro Acryll, and altering them to use as substitutes for Agrax, Sepia, etc. in these. I have a feeling it is just adding in some brown and wash medium, but getting comfortable with making custom mixes seems like a great thing to be comfortable doing. Love the videos!
Hi Byron, thank you for this video. It’s always a pleasure listening to your instructions.
Dave! Our pleasure my dude, it's a pleasure seeing your painting improve month-on-month, keep smashing it, see you at NOVA soon :)
8:59 '"It's always really important to control your stroke" Truer words have never been spoken.
Wait, we are still talking about painting, right?
All the advice is always ALL about painting 👀👀
Another outstanding overview. Thanks for the informative and well explained tutorial.
Squeak-squeak! 🤩🐀🌠
I'm really liking how awful the model looks after the first shade on the amour given how good it looks after the rest of the steps. Shows how OP stippling is for blending.
Yes, this! It looks crap doesn't it!
The faith and trust in the method is one of the most difficult things to teach remotely, we're still working on it :)
I´d love to see a tutorial on Weathering with drybrushing!
10 or so years ago (back before I dropped out of the hobby) stippling was this super niche technique that was only useful for getting a spotty texture like rust. Just today alone I've watched three different videos on using stippling to blend as smoothly as glazing and/or wet blending.
The possibilities are endless buddy, our hobby is so new by 'art' hobby standards, so it's still evolving so so fast.
It's in a good place, enjoy! We'll be doing plenty more in the future, and our channel is a great place for the 'fast' or starting steps for fancy stippling done with larger brushes.
Damn dude......again, breaking down all the steps into digestible snippets. Great work :)
10:30 - *Cohesion. Excellent video again. Thanks Byron.
The wet finger bit got me good 😆😉
:D
That is just fantastic. Your work always impresses me.
thanks so much!
Come for the painting technique, stay for the sexy Byron tank top.
Haaa, summer time is finally here in the UK, we might be getting a few more :|
Nice vid, but my main takeaway was how much I like that green/gold scheme. Definitely stealing that for a future project, with maybe a bit more of that burgundy as an accent colour.
:D love to hear it, me too! You're in for a treat:
1.) We're making that colour, you'll be able to buy it at some point in the future
2.) We've done a cloak, a stormcast, and next will be a skaven, all using that colour, with some variation in schemes!
Skaven should be next tutorial
What colors are those?
This is the first video of yours I have watched, instant sub!
Can I ask, whats the dusty grey stuff in the pot please?
It's our dampening pad buddy, it's how I release a small and predictable amount of moisture into the top of the brush (and top only). Keeps my drybrushing and stippling smooth :)
It's the wooden-topped pot you can see in any of our sets containing drybrushes:
store.artis-opus.com/en-de
Great video A tutorial on how to make make transfers look good on dry brushed models would be cool
There's a single thing that's been holding this up for a long long time, the moment I have it we'll make this tutorial!
It might be time for an update on black skin or armor. I get that this video was supposed to encompass all colors but black is a special case. Stippling highlights and transitions but keeping them small so the model still reads black would be helpful.
Super looking forward to this! Stippling is something I struggle with and can't imagine trying it on armor, will be really cool to see your approach.
I've been really enjoying your dives into "grimdark" painting, hoping to see more of those soon.
Speaking of, you sometimes ask for suggestions, have you ever played around with drybrushing oils? Would be interesting to see the blending and other effects given the long working time. I've seen it talked about from a couple of grimdark painters, but would be really neat to see how you approach it with your drybrushing skills and experience.
Another great video. This one has made me realise that, with the right dilution of medium to paint (or water), I can potentially stipple glaze. Although, I'm wondering if it would give the control you want for glazing.
It absolutely would... think about just how useful it is for volumes (starting and middle steps at least)
I have tried to dry brush the way you do in your videos and those models are some of the best models I've ever painted with low effort and high speed following the things you've said in your videos. But lately I've been experimenting with oil paints and I'm curious if you have tried dry brushing with oil paints. The properties of oil paint I think would go pretty well with dry brushing. Blending might be amazing with them and it might be even faster (although slower drying). Maybe having a separate blending brush like the way Mended Brush Studio uses with his oil painted minis would work. Well, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Thanks for all of the great content!
I'd love to try them, it's just the time investment of learning something new... and then the additional time investment of learning it to a level that I'm happy to produce content on, which is very different! :D
It's a masterpiece 😍😍
Painting from the ISS, extremely rude to assume gravitational effects, downvoted
:D the dangers of presumption!
I am going to be painting some ewoks soon, so I would love to see a tutorial on different fur colours and shading, maybe using different base colours!
I have an airbrush but honestly stippling is way better for realistic transitions that have authentic looking texture. As always, mix and match as the job requires
Great timing I've just primed the lord vigilant from from my skaventide box, would love to see you do a gryph hound or the lord vigilant on the gryph stalker as everyone seems to be just doing rats, so glad your not .
Just at 1:22. Something I’ve always wondered about is ‘the lifespan of a full dry brush kit’. Seeing the dampening pad like that in my head will ring alarms but clearly it’s still fine for a professional. Will be interesting to see someone illustrate beginning, mid life and end of life of a full kit
has anyone ever said you kind of look like a young martin freeman
They have! I hope to age as finely as he has :D
Could you guys do a video showing how to paint using contrast-style paints in a way that doesn’t leave a spotty or streaked effect? Particularly on flat panels like space marine armor or vehicles.
Any chance you could do a tutorial for contrast paint on armour as iam finding it difficult to get a smooth finish on my salamanders ps thanks for all the tips and guidance videos 👍
This is a very specific idea, but I actually think it's an amazing suggestion, and would be very useful to a lot of marine-players, thank you!
I would love to see you paint some Kroxigors. I'm thinking about painting my Seraphon Warcry warband in Starborne scheme but I can take any scheme from you ♥. As always great video, this stormcast looks awesome! I'll try to copy this on my Rotbringers
It’s the small tips for me, that a highlight can clean up a messy area. I used contrast paints over a zenithal for the first time. Rattle cans for the zenithal. I don’t like the quite dirty look after using greens over it. Let’s see what highlights can fix
always good :)
For the initial airbrush highlight did you use the same green + ivory that you used to stipple the highlight back in? specifically at 5:00ish
Drybrush? Yes buddy :) keeping it simple
@@ArtisOpus I thought so! Thanks for the confirmation and thanks for this video I feel like I learned a ton from it
It’s just now occurred to me to wonder - you don’t use a wet palette, where it seems like 90% of the other painters I see on youtube do. Maybe you’ve addressed it in another video and I just haven’t seen that one yet? But if you haven’t I’d love to hear your thoughts on the pros and cons of wet vs. dry. Maybe a general tools video?
That's an interesting point dude, and while it's something I've mentioned in passing (UK is cold & humid) it's definitely something I could plan and script a future video on :)
It isn't that I am in a cult that loves to buy paints, but those paints look like great colours. The technique you showed is a great results, and definitely something I want to try.
As for a tip or question, have you found more uses for Newsh? Have seen Next Level Painting use it as an additive when he does edge highlights, since it gives him more time to work with it. Perhaps also a way to prevent paint from drying when adding the battle damage.
If we stick to stippling, what about the terrain from the Skaventide box? It's the perfect size for a practise piece :)
It's so nice! However on actually holding it I realised just how many different textures there are on it, I've currently got some huge issues with over-detailing on GW models, which is a shame, because disciplined design used to be one of their strongpoints... and set them apart from 3d print mini companies.
I hope it's something they fix fast, people have armies to paint!
@@ArtisOpus unfortunately yes. Overly complicated models are quite contrary to their new 'quick' and 'introductory' approach with Spearhead and it might get worse with every refresh of a faction. But it is also a nice opportunity to find out where to cut corners and still get something to a presentable state :)
Love your videos! Please look at the camera
The eternal introvert's WIP 🙄🙄. Thanks, buddy :)
So I've only recently discovered these stippling/drybrushing techniques and I already have a fully painted army in flat colours with basic washes and highlights. What would your advice be to somebody who want to add shading to miniatures painted like that? I'm not quite sure how I'd go about drybrushing shadows onto a model. My minis are painted with Mech Standard grey recess washed with drakenhof nightshade and highlighted with dawnstone if that helps.
I'd use drybrushing for some careful additional highlights, stippling could be used for either shadows or highlights, and done our way goes over anything pretty well, without standing out looking weird or wrong.
Take a look at the last cloaks video, we're doing there what I'd recommend :D
Any questions just ask in a new comment under the latest video, we'll get you sorted. (replies get lost)
As I'm about to start the Nemesis Claw Nightlords Killteam I'd love to see your take on varieties of flayed skin. I've done the Mandrakes and Hand of the Archon (I swear I don't have a weird flayed-skin fetish) and while I'm happy with the results, I tend to drift entirely to caucasian skin tones and 'fresh' looking skin. A tutorial on how to do different skin colours and, for lack of a better word, 'freshness' of skin would be awesome.
I'm totally on a watchlist now aren't I?
I have a suggestion for a tutorial but IDK how to share it. If you search "Nighthaunt Spirit Torment, a homage to Richard Gray" you find an image with a really cool NMM yellow armor on top. I've been trying to replicate that. It's probably done similar to what you did here and in your metal video
Can you do a video on flames?
We've got a couple of older ones, but I think it's something I should probably cover again
Hey, so whens the cult of paint brush set drop? Haha
Maybe a tutorial for how to do the Blood Knight (AoS) horse armor
We've got one! It's metallic red though, which might not be everyone's favourite
Couldn't help but think that the shading step is very similar in effect to using oil or streaking grime for grim dark just different media and application. The desired shading effect is quite similar once you wipe away the oil.
Are there particular stippling or drybrushing techniques you find work best on flesh? Skaven would be the obvious choice but maybe Flesh-Eater Courts would better match your style and techniques?
Do you think you could come up with a clever way to do a cell shaded style? I’ve got a blood bowl team I thought might look good looking like borderland characters but honestly the only way I can think to paint that style is going to take years to do across a whole team let alone if used as an army scheme. If you can I’d love to see it as a video.
Fingers crossed that those are not the final bottle choices for the Cult paint range.
You're probably safe there, buddy :D
Sorry I’m a bit confused,
Is the base coat on top of a primer? Looks like there’s 2 colors right from the jump. Is the green base coat over a black prime?
All good buddy, correct, it's just flat green :).
Check out our recent cloaks video for some good info on how to achieve and vary basecoats (black vs white prime, etc)
Good lord Byron, put those guns away.
Can replace with swans? 25 degrees in the UK, summer is here! 🥰
So when are you going to share those mystery colors? 😉
Maybe later this year 👀👀
Scratches make this pop for me. Im going to be stealing the technique for some robots.
Why dark on top and lighter on bottom for the hammer? is that to simulate light from the front?
If we were looking at it and light were above that's where we'd see it (I tested out holding it under my lamp), it's not always about the light soley, viewer angle plays a part, too.
Sometimes though it's just about making stuff easier to read/paint (e.g. dark side next to light side, etc)
Yeeeessssssss 😊
Yeah boy :)
I’m gonna watch this video, promise to myself to use this technique the next time I paint, totally forget what he said, and do my own thing and then wonder why it turned out bad 😂
It’s a really bad habit of mine to not use the techniques I’ve been studying
How do you avoid the texture building up when stippling? I’m thinning everything light pressure and so on but I can’t help but see texture. It’s very obvious on space marine armour. (Specifically dark colours)
What is the green base colour?
It's one of ours that we're working on, more details soon :)
@@ArtisOpus amazing and exciting :D
Saurus Warrior!!!! (Please)
Any excuse for those dino's!
I would have stopped with the model in its state at 16:08
This is fair, I am still on the fence myself 😅
I just wanna say I use your library of techniques to paint effects on my oil painting frames, which I manufacture. So little out there on this craft that I had to go into the wilderness to find it. Very useful stuff, even outside the realm of little toy soldiers.
Man, that's so cool to hear! Thanks for letting us know, it's so nice to hear about this stuff crossing hobby-boundaries!
why do you have to tease me so.. gib me green color plez? :P heh
Later this year, my man, along with 60 other rather fine colours, we can't wait!
Wet fingers 🤭
This looks pre recorded
Tons of edits. Why not just release the video instead of pretending it's a scheduled live stream
It is a premiere, not a live stream. Ofc it is prerecorded :)
Yeh my bad, seemed like a live stream. Kinda weird.
To be fair dude, me saying 'we are live' is somewhat misleading on social media :)
@@ArtisOpus all's good, my feeble brain couldn't comprehend what was going on at the time... Keep up the great content 👍🏾