I've been painting minis off and on for years and this is the first time I've ever seen drybrushing thoroughly explained. Tutorials always assume you know the very basics, like how paint should be on a brush, how much to wipe off, what part of the brush to get the paint on, etc, but if you've never done it you need a guide like this. Perfect video! Thank you so much for covering this!
This is my one issue with Artis Opus videos. He's undeniably talented and clearly interested in helping people start out (heck he got me into drybrushing which saved my hobby experience) but I think in his videos he tends to gloss over some things.
Non a miniature painter, but I work in interior design and this video helped me so much with creating an antique/aged, gilded finish on modern mirrors & picture frames!
My son got a 40k starter kit for Christmas, I painted one… I’m now hooked! I used to paint Necrons when I was a teen but I now I want to get really good results. Found your channel and I’ve watched 3 videos this morning, thanks for explaining so well and having really good visual comparisons.
And drybrushing is SO much quicker than line highlighting. And looks more accurate to how light actually plays across a surface. Also, been watching since the first Titan video came out. Those videos have helped with my Imperial Knights.
Thanks for the tutorial. Learned a lot, and I feel especially on the stuff I knew (or thought I knew). Will be putting this into practice with my 40k Necrons and Imperial Agents :)
Thanks for adding that last bit about drybrushing as a 'beginner' technique. It makes my blood boil when i see others denigrate the technique so im very happy to see skilled painters shoot down the elitist myth.
Dry brushing is like most any technique, if it's the only one you know, or you don't know when, and when not to apply it, you may not get great results.
Dry brushing is a beginner technique, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful. Most beginners use dry brushing as a crutch. And that’s okay. Eventually you will get away from it entirely, then magically come back to it. Painting is a journey, and every tool is useful. Also: If your “blood is boiling” over people’s opinions on painting models, maybe this hobby isn’t for you… Go punch a wall or something. 😆 Then you can fix that wall , and paint it. Just keep punching, patching, and painting, and you can even dry brush the patch!
I don't do any mini painting, but I've started doing a ton of Gunpla recently and the amount of drybrushing I use for metallic details and weathering is nuts. It's super easy to do, but incredibly effective in making those highlights pop. Great video!
I forget where I learnt it from (probably Byron on Artist Opus) , but i remember hearing that for drybrushing you shouldn't move your wrist to paint but move your arm with your wrist locked in position to brush. Also, holding the brush closer to the ferrule will have a heavier brush stroke, and holding it further back enables a lighter "feathery" stroke.
I’ve been drybrushing for years but still found this video very beneficial. I’m glad the TH-cam algorithm finally worked in my favor. Instant subscribe.
I’ve only been painting for a few months and this is by far the best video on this topic I’ve seen. Answered all my questions and made it so simple. Absolute game-changer for me. Thank you. ✊🏻💚
I know a tutorial is excellent when I go to add to my playlist of Mini Painting advice and find I'd already added it to that playlist earlier the same viewing. I did that twice in this video. Seriously, excellent work Guy. I used drybrushing all throughout a recent skirmish force paint job of classic silver Stormcast. Zenithal drybrush from a dark color up to my main steel color, gloss varnish, oil wash to darken the recesses, matte varnish, zenithal drybrush up to the second highest highlight (silver) and pick out the final details with a regular brush for the highest highlight (chrome). Boom, all of the metal was done super easily, to a really high level, with plenty of contrast and shine.
Just got back into painting a little over a year ago (after a break of 25 years), and drybrushing is my go-to for almost any project. I've discovered that there's virtually nothing that an silver drybrush can't help if you're stuck on what to do-it exposes all manner of detail you sometimes can't spot until you start painting the model, it's sympathetic to most any color you want to put on afterward, and as you note in the video, it's even beneficial for metal pieces on the model. Just discovered the channel about two weeks ago and have been really enjoying the tutorials!
One of the few actually useful tutorials I've seen. Thank you for sharing, the way you explained things just made them click. I can't wait to put this into practice!
Good time to notice that drybrushing looks smoother the less white pigments are in your color, but mind the overall transparency of the color you want to use
Awesome! These are the cheap makeup brushes I showed in the video, they're pretty decent for the price considering how many you get! geni.us/makeupdrybrush
The only thing i want to add which might be a bit of a problem for a new painter is using an absorbent thing to remove paint, like a paper towel. the issue is, that more moisture is sucked out than pigment is deposited, which results in a higher risk for that "caked" look. Yes, a bit of moisture helps, but ive seen a few new painters running exactly into that issue :)
Something I've learnt and works well is that if you'd like a less chalky look to the drybrushing finish, dip the brush into the paint as usual but do NOT wipe it off on a kitchen towel or cloth afterwards. These are very absorbant, which means that it'll absorb all the moisture very quickly leaving you with dry pigment.That's the point of drybrushing, but if you instead wipe it off on a textured palette or whatever tester surface you've picked until you have the amount of paint you want, it'll get rid of any excess paint, while keeping just the right amount of moisture for a much smoother drybrushing finish!
Great video! I started using dry brushing with my Kimera Kolors paint to help with highlights and I'm loving the results! The range has some great mixing guides to help give me highlights on a mid tone.
i honestly appreciate these kind of videos, taking a relatively well known technique and both explaining it in a general sense as well as expand on it. It adds a lot of value to the video I think and makes them useful to both old and new painters, which I'm sure was your intention. TlDr great video, keep up the good work!
I have been painting miniatures for years and I discovered dry brushing on my own and use it all the time. I did slap-chop before i ever heard people painting like this. I think dry brushing is what makes painting fun!
I really liked that you put stuff about "over brushing" which i figured out on my own its better in a lot of situations. Everyone only says. "Rub most of it off until almost all paint is off." Which i thought was cheeky at the start of the video. Because thats literally every other dry brush video ive seen in 5 years painting.
As someone who's been following you for a while (but only just started painting) this is super helpful, and perfectly timed! Super helpful and well explained. And as a Battletech fan more then 40k, the Atlas may be my favorite piece you've done. Can't wait to see your painted Lances!
It has been suggested to me when dry-brushing, *never* use a paper towel or actual towel to remove extra paint from the brush, acrylic paint consists mostly of water and a paper towel will wick away the moisture rather than getting rid of the pigment. Use a paper bag instead.
Fantastic video, thank you. I feel like a lot of tutorials just *brush* over simpler techniques. I've been painting for less than a year and found this really helpful!
thank you for showing all sides of mini-painting. accessible methods leading to great results, as well as how it looks when too much/not enough paint and soon. love it. you can only learn from mistakes. thank you for educating like you do. I learn somethig every time :)
My number one tip, is to avoid wiping the brush on a paper towel. I recommend glueing some extra bits to a sheet, then use that to wipe your excess paint before going to the model.
Great video! Dry brushing is my favourite techniques. I find it can replace airbrushing a lot of the time - especially for someone who doesn’t have time to setup and clean an airbrush in my short nightly painting session. The idea dry brushing is for beginners has always been funny to me - if painting competitions were about pure technical skill with a brush they would ban airbrushes which give you insanely smooth blends relatively easily - but aren’t they are about the skill using any technique to achieve the ‘best’ paint job.
Really helpful video! Note that if you clean your brushes with shampoo, make sure it doesn’t have hair conditioner. Conditioner will coat the bristles with a synthetic oil, and I have no idea what that will do to their effectiveness.
Thanks for sharing this great vid. I watched it from start to finish, something that I don't do frequently 😉. I just need to share what I do after i clean my brushes ( i like your shampoo cleaning idea). I Dip them in Hair conditioner , smooth the bristles with my fingers & leave them like that until next time . The conditioner dries & doesn't effect the paint or just rinse in water before using. This helps the bristles to remain as good as possible. Enjoy
Thank you, this is excellent 20:17 DAWN dish soap, cleaning jar with spring and quickly remove the paint without using towels. Well almost without still gotta dry it ☺️
I've been using dry brushing for a while (especially after I started slap chopping) and I love how it gives you great details within a short time. This video was really helpful in how I can improve my dry brushing technique.
This was absolutely fantastic, well done. Will probably be sharing this on a near daily basis on reddit to new painters freaked out about painting vehicles
I'm still pretty new to drybrushing, but the metal highlights that its given my Ballistus Dread to simulate damaged and worn armor makes it one of my best looking minis. Wonderful technique.
I have a pretty bad hand tremor. It makes mini painting extremely frustrating sometimes, especially when trying edge highlight and get fine details. Dry brushing is pretty much a lifesaver, and even though I've been doing it for a while now this video has taught me a lot more. Thanks Guy!
Very useful video. I'm basecoating my Yaegir Kill Team to make "slap-chop", and without know it is called "overpainting", I made that with the first darker base colour. The resoult is very smouth, fast, and has grest coverage. I've used Zandri Dust for this step. Tomorrow I'm going to drybrush a 50/50 mix of Zandri and White Scar for the first lights, and for the last drybrush layer will use pure White Scar with my smoller brush. I'm using 3 make-up brush for this process, the biger has the size of a fingertip, another is like a half of it, and the smaller is like a half of the medium. And, because I love to build my own stuff, Sunday I made a texture palette with a few almost free material I had in my house. And I'm loving to unload my brush in it and see exactly the load and coverage I'm going to have over my model.
Im only 1 year in with my dedicated painting. And I have learned SO much from drybrushing. All your videos with finding out where the sun or shadow falls, and figure out which part i should or shouldn't highlight was so difficult for me to understand. But drybrushing showed me, by my own hand where to look and what makes most sense. I have become a generally better painter because it gave me such a good understanding on highlights in general. So I can only recommend drybrushing for new painters :)
I use Make up brushes specifically for drybrushing really large surfaces. For example the first few colors on bases. Or my Chaos knight skeletons that I drybrushed with a dark silver for the metallic look. Usually the make up brushes are relatively big and it basically takes not even a minute laying the groundpainting with it. For everything that needs more "fine tuning" i use those flat drybrushes You showed here. Also thanks, as always really helpful even for people that paint for a longer time
This is probably the single best tutorial on drybrushing i have seen. Is the technique shown around 14:40 applicable to mecha painting as well? I don't have the space or ventilation available to set up an airbrushing station, and the investment seems a bit daunting as I build 1 model per year. I have a very dull, plasticy and grey model with a large surface area I really want to modify. Could that work? Not sure if you're replying to comments, but anyone with experience are welcome to help!
Great guide to dry brushing. Got turned on to cheap makeup brushes for dry brushing from Sonic Sledgehammer and Tabletop Minions. Use them along with my beat-up brushes for my core dry brush tools.
thanks for the tutorial will defenetly try to drybrush correct now ... watched some other toturials but never in so much detail and i think this will improve the quality of my minis
Perfectly timed for everyone getting the Skaventide box at the weekend. Drybrushing is great for painting all the feathery gryph-creatures the Stormcast love!
I am so happy you made this video. I always worried that I was doing this wrong some how. Glad to see if I’m doing it right and seeing the other skills I can do.
I kind of discovered this myself with no real knowledge of techniques before I started painting my tyranids. I started by loading my brush up and painting the back of the tyranids, where the chitin is and I wanted a thick, consistent coat of paint. Then I brushed down the tail, and along the top of the legs, and by the time I got to the limbs where I wanted to more just highlight the bits that stick out, there was so little paint left on the brush that I could dry brush the rest for a better effect.
Drybrushing is so good i barely do miniature painting anymore because gunpla hAs taken over my life but it works so well for getting nice raised metallic details looking gorgeous for no effort
i use overbrushing to lay down a base colour of drybrushed colour down before shading with a wash, then i will redo the same colour with the proper drybrushing method, i will then shade again with same wash but with a little extra water added, this was easier to me to get more subtle shading that the harsh lined shading seemingly preferred by a lot of painters. Cleaning drybrushes, always have 3 or 4 of similar type, every 10 minutes swap to the next brush and wash the brush in water, use clean paper towel to check if its free of pigment if it isnt, roll the brush in the corner of the water pot you are using, this will remove the remaining paint, having 3 brushes means you can have 20 minutes drying time between uses
One cheap alternative to brush soap I've found is to use Arko shaving soap. You can get a pack off 12 for £10 or so. You can then smoosh a whole bar in a suitable container or if you have an egg holder type palette, cut a slice off of a bar and smoosh it into your palette. I've even had it save brushes I'd accidentally let paint dry on.
I've been painting minis off and on for years and this is the first time I've ever seen drybrushing thoroughly explained. Tutorials always assume you know the very basics, like how paint should be on a brush, how much to wipe off, what part of the brush to get the paint on, etc, but if you've never done it you need a guide like this. Perfect video! Thank you so much for covering this!
That was the idea! No assumed knowledge, very beginner friendly. Glad you enjoyed it :)
This is my one issue with Artis Opus videos. He's undeniably talented and clearly interested in helping people start out (heck he got me into drybrushing which saved my hobby experience) but I think in his videos he tends to gloss over some things.
I second this!
This. Thanks for assuming I know nothing, because I don't lol
Non a miniature painter, but I work in interior design and this video helped me so much with creating an antique/aged, gilded finish on modern mirrors & picture frames!
My son got a 40k starter kit for Christmas, I painted one… I’m now hooked! I used to paint Necrons when I was a teen but I now I want to get really good results. Found your channel and I’ve watched 3 videos this morning, thanks for explaining so well and having really good visual comparisons.
I really appreciate you not using an airbrush, every tutorial I run into always uses one and I don’t have the money to buy a whole setup 😂
The most complete dry brush tutorial i have ever seen. Thank you very much!
Wow, thank you!
A friend of mine is just starting out and was nervous about dry brushing their first figure. Then BAM! New vid drops. ❤
Perfect timing :)
And drybrushing is SO much quicker than line highlighting. And looks more accurate to how light actually plays across a surface. Also, been watching since the first Titan video came out. Those videos have helped with my Imperial Knights.
I've watched a lot of dry brushing videos and none of them go into cleaning the brushes after use. Thank you for doing that.
I've been painting minis for 50 years (Truly) - Dry brushing is coming into vouge again ... for the third time ! LOL
Thanks for the tutorial. Learned a lot, and I feel especially on the stuff I knew (or thought I knew). Will be putting this into practice with my 40k Necrons and Imperial Agents :)
Thank you so much!
Thanks for adding that last bit about drybrushing as a 'beginner' technique. It makes my blood boil when i see others denigrate the technique so im very happy to see skilled painters shoot down the elitist myth.
Dry brushing is like most any technique, if it's the only one you know, or you don't know when, and when not to apply it, you may not get great results.
Dry brushing is a beginner technique, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful. Most beginners use dry brushing as a crutch. And that’s okay. Eventually you will get away from it entirely, then magically come back to it. Painting is a journey, and every tool is useful.
Also: If your “blood is boiling” over people’s opinions on painting models, maybe this hobby isn’t for you… Go punch a wall or something. 😆 Then you can fix that wall , and paint it. Just keep punching, patching, and painting, and you can even dry brush the patch!
@@CoreReaper1 But it would be a beginner's mistake to drybrush the said part of the wall ;)
I don't do any mini painting, but I've started doing a ton of Gunpla recently and the amount of drybrushing I use for metallic details and weathering is nuts. It's super easy to do, but incredibly effective in making those highlights pop. Great video!
Thank you for the guide for dry brushing
My pleasure 😊
I forget where I learnt it from (probably Byron on Artist Opus) , but i remember hearing that for drybrushing you shouldn't move your wrist to paint but move your arm with your wrist locked in position to brush.
Also, holding the brush closer to the ferrule will have a heavier brush stroke, and holding it further back enables a lighter "feathery" stroke.
Who up drying they brush
Yes
Absolutely drying my shii man, I’m a hobby painter man I got paint on them bristles man…
Me
At the desk, straight up “brushing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. lets justr say. My minis.
Bro is drying his brush
Drybrush and Stippling has become my favourite parts of the painting hobby. Thanks for the guide Guy ❤
Hello! Great guide!
Also, I'm Italian and you are the only mini-painting TH-camr I can fully understand without subs :)
I’ve been drybrushing for years but still found this video very beneficial. I’m glad the TH-cam algorithm finally worked in my favor. Instant subscribe.
I’ve only been painting for a few months and this is by far the best video on this topic I’ve seen. Answered all my questions and made it so simple. Absolute game-changer for me. Thank you. ✊🏻💚
I've struggled with painting my minis a lot, I'm a novice. This gave me a great course on proper drybrushing, now I want to redo all my minis!
This was stunningly well done. I’ve looked at so many to figure this out and everybody seems to assume so much. Magnificent work, lad.
Great guide, respect for showing the same effect and mistakes on various models. Really drives the point home!
I know a tutorial is excellent when I go to add to my playlist of Mini Painting advice and find I'd already added it to that playlist earlier the same viewing. I did that twice in this video. Seriously, excellent work Guy.
I used drybrushing all throughout a recent skirmish force paint job of classic silver Stormcast. Zenithal drybrush from a dark color up to my main steel color, gloss varnish, oil wash to darken the recesses, matte varnish, zenithal drybrush up to the second highest highlight (silver) and pick out the final details with a regular brush for the highest highlight (chrome). Boom, all of the metal was done super easily, to a really high level, with plenty of contrast and shine.
Just got back into painting a little over a year ago (after a break of 25 years), and drybrushing is my go-to for almost any project. I've discovered that there's virtually nothing that an silver drybrush can't help if you're stuck on what to do-it exposes all manner of detail you sometimes can't spot until you start painting the model, it's sympathetic to most any color you want to put on afterward, and as you note in the video, it's even beneficial for metal pieces on the model.
Just discovered the channel about two weeks ago and have been really enjoying the tutorials!
The tip about a thin wash over the top to blend in the dry brushing is a winner.
One of the few actually useful tutorials I've seen. Thank you for sharing, the way you explained things just made them click. I can't wait to put this into practice!
Amazing timing, just when I started to investigate drybrushing a little more. Thanks Guy!
Nice! Perfect timing :) Good luck
Good time to notice that drybrushing looks smoother the less white pigments are in your color, but mind the overall transparency of the color you want to use
Was literally about to get me some brushes for drybrushing, this is perfect!
Awesome! These are the cheap makeup brushes I showed in the video, they're pretty decent for the price considering how many you get! geni.us/makeupdrybrush
@@MidwinterMinis Awesome! Thanks so much!
The only thing i want to add which might be a bit of a problem for a new painter is using an absorbent thing to remove paint, like a paper towel. the issue is, that more moisture is sucked out than pigment is deposited, which results in a higher risk for that "caked" look. Yes, a bit of moisture helps, but ive seen a few new painters running exactly into that issue :)
+1 just stick with the texture pallet for getting the flow right.. you want to keep some moisture to avoid the chalky look.
Something I've learnt and works well is that if you'd like a less chalky look to the drybrushing finish, dip the brush into the paint as usual but do NOT wipe it off on a kitchen towel or cloth afterwards. These are very absorbant, which means that it'll absorb all the moisture very quickly leaving you with dry pigment.That's the point of drybrushing, but if you instead wipe it off on a textured palette or whatever tester surface you've picked until you have the amount of paint you want, it'll get rid of any excess paint, while keeping just the right amount of moisture for a much smoother drybrushing finish!
Great video! I started using dry brushing with my Kimera Kolors paint to help with highlights and I'm loving the results! The range has some great mixing guides to help give me highlights on a mid tone.
Nice! I've never tried them actually. I should give them a go!
Bleeeeh I can feel the texture when you use the tea towel as a drybrush pallette and it gives me horrible goosebumps like nails on a chalkboard.
i honestly appreciate these kind of videos, taking a relatively well known technique and both explaining it in a general sense as well as expand on it. It adds a lot of value to the video I think and makes them useful to both old and new painters, which I'm sure was your intention. TlDr great video, keep up the good work!
This is the most detailed explanation of dry brushing I've found. Thanks so much!
I have been painting miniatures for years and I discovered dry brushing on my own and use it all the time. I did slap-chop before i ever heard people painting like this. I think dry brushing is what makes painting fun!
I really liked that you put stuff about "over brushing" which i figured out on my own its better in a lot of situations. Everyone only says. "Rub most of it off until almost all paint is off." Which i thought was cheeky at the start of the video. Because thats literally every other dry brush video ive seen in 5 years painting.
How long have I needed this channel!!! Thank you what an incredible channel I have been doing everything backwards and twice as hard!!!
As someone who's been following you for a while (but only just started painting) this is super helpful, and perfectly timed! Super helpful and well explained. And as a Battletech fan more then 40k, the Atlas may be my favorite piece you've done. Can't wait to see your painted Lances!
It has been suggested to me when dry-brushing, *never* use a paper towel or actual towel to remove extra paint from the brush, acrylic paint consists mostly of water and a paper towel will wick away the moisture rather than getting rid of the pigment. Use a paper bag instead.
Moist the tip of the brush and use a dry brush palet. Like this you will avoid sand effect
this tutorial is answering every question my brain comes up with and goes with the tangent just long enough for me to completely understand. damn
This was an amazing overview video of all the types and steps of drybrushing. My non-hobby initiated girlfriend said: “Even I can paint that way.”
Amazing video! This is the only tutorial that mentions what brushes you'd want to use! Thanks for the tip of cheap makeup brushes!
This is truly the best dry brushing video I have ever seen! Bravo sir!!!!
Fantastic video, thank you. I feel like a lot of tutorials just *brush* over simpler techniques. I've been painting for less than a year and found this really helpful!
I was never really good at drybrushing, this has helped loads thank you!
Hopefully this helps you GIT GUD! :)
thank you for showing all sides of mini-painting.
accessible methods leading to great results, as well as how it looks when too much/not enough paint and soon. love it.
you can only learn from mistakes.
thank you for educating like you do. I learn somethig every time :)
Dry brushing turned painting vehicles from a chore into my favorite thing, thank you for showing people the truth!
Best dry brush video on the internet.
MWM really is the Bob Ross of the minipainting world.
Just some happy li'l Orks...
Lol
Really is! Find all the videos relaxing, entertaining and informative!
@@MidwinterMinis"he looks like a rascal, but I think he's just misunderstood"
Not to disparage MWM, but my money's on Bill Making Stuff as the Bob Ross for minis.
My number one tip, is to avoid wiping the brush on a paper towel. I recommend glueing some extra bits to a sheet, then use that to wipe your excess paint before going to the model.
Hard agree! I got a sheet of knock-off lego from the dollar store and it works amazing as a texture pallette!
Great video! Dry brushing is my favourite techniques. I find it can replace airbrushing a lot of the time - especially for someone who doesn’t have time to setup and clean an airbrush in my short nightly painting session.
The idea dry brushing is for beginners has always been funny to me - if painting competitions were about pure technical skill with a brush they would ban airbrushes which give you insanely smooth blends relatively easily - but aren’t they are about the skill using any technique to achieve the ‘best’ paint job.
Really helpful video! Note that if you clean your brushes with shampoo, make sure it doesn’t have hair conditioner. Conditioner will coat the bristles with a synthetic oil, and I have no idea what that will do to their effectiveness.
I just tried drybrushing for the first time with your advice and it worked perfectly!! Thanks
Excellent overview of many ways to use drybrushing. Really appreciated the transition blending use of it too, gave me some ideas of where to use it.
Thanks for sharing this great vid. I watched it from start to finish, something that I don't do frequently 😉. I just need to share what I do after i clean my brushes ( i like your shampoo cleaning idea). I Dip them in Hair conditioner , smooth the bristles with my fingers & leave them like that until next time . The conditioner dries & doesn't effect the paint or just rinse in water before using. This helps the bristles to remain as good as possible.
Enjoy
Thank you, this is excellent 20:17 DAWN dish soap, cleaning jar with spring and quickly remove the paint without using towels. Well almost without still gotta dry it ☺️
I've been using dry brushing for a while (especially after I started slap chopping) and I love how it gives you great details within a short time. This video was really helpful in how I can improve my dry brushing technique.
This is the best drybrush tutorial I've seen so far!
Just started and this is easily the best video I've seen. Thanks so much!
26 Minutes of drybrushing!
Thx this actually helps alot
You're right, it should have been 26 hours, haha
This was absolutely fantastic, well done. Will probably be sharing this on a near daily basis on reddit to new painters freaked out about painting vehicles
I am currently trying to learn how to dry-brush, so this was really helps
I'm still pretty new to drybrushing, but the metal highlights that its given my Ballistus Dread to simulate damaged and worn armor makes it one of my best looking minis. Wonderful technique.
The example models really help with the explanation of all the different techniques. Thanks for adding those!
Finaly a true dry-brushing video that has helped me under stand, Hope your doing well Guy and thanks!!
I have a pretty bad hand tremor. It makes mini painting extremely frustrating sometimes, especially when trying edge highlight and get fine details. Dry brushing is pretty much a lifesaver, and even though I've been doing it for a while now this video has taught me a lot more. Thanks Guy!
Very useful video. I'm basecoating my Yaegir Kill Team to make "slap-chop", and without know it is called "overpainting", I made that with the first darker base colour. The resoult is very smouth, fast, and has grest coverage. I've used Zandri Dust for this step. Tomorrow I'm going to drybrush a 50/50 mix of Zandri and White Scar for the first lights, and for the last drybrush layer will use pure White Scar with my smoller brush.
I'm using 3 make-up brush for this process, the biger has the size of a fingertip, another is like a half of it, and the smaller is like a half of the medium.
And, because I love to build my own stuff, Sunday I made a texture palette with a few almost free material I had in my house. And I'm loving to unload my brush in it and see exactly the load and coverage I'm going to have over my model.
Thank you TH-cam, I definitely needed yet ANOTHER craft hobby
Jut getting into Mini Painting and cant wait to try these techniques on my new minis. Thanks for the fantastic and informative video.
Great video Guy! Saved to my painting tutorial play list!
In Guy we trust! Thanks for this bristling video 🎨 🖌
This video was fantastic. Thank you very much for showing us this painting technique.
Inspiring! I love the thorough job you always do Guy and Hattie 💜
honestly in modern day YT and goldfish attention span, the 1 min vid part was well executed!
Im only 1 year in with my dedicated painting. And I have learned SO much from drybrushing.
All your videos with finding out where the sun or shadow falls, and figure out which part i should or shouldn't highlight was so difficult for me to understand.
But drybrushing showed me, by my own hand where to look and what makes most sense.
I have become a generally better painter because it gave me such a good understanding on highlights in general.
So I can only recommend drybrushing for new painters :)
Just started the hobby. Thank you so much for this very in depth guide !
This had a lot of great information in it and I picked up some new techniques watching this tutorial.
I use Make up brushes specifically for drybrushing really large surfaces. For example the first few colors on bases. Or my Chaos knight skeletons that I drybrushed with a dark silver for the metallic look. Usually the make up brushes are relatively big and it basically takes not even a minute laying the groundpainting with it. For everything that needs more "fine tuning" i use those flat drybrushes You showed here. Also thanks, as always really helpful even for people that paint for a longer time
I've been drybrushing a good chunk of my terrain lately. Has saved me a ton of time and using AK paints it has been super smooth too
You did get me.
Get me FIRED UP about starting painting!
This is probably the single best tutorial on drybrushing i have seen. Is the technique shown around 14:40 applicable to mecha painting as well? I don't have the space or ventilation available to set up an airbrushing station, and the investment seems a bit daunting as I build 1 model per year. I have a very dull, plasticy and grey model with a large surface area I really want to modify. Could that work? Not sure if you're replying to comments, but anyone with experience are welcome to help!
Saving this one in my model building Playlist to refer to
Great guide to dry brushing. Got turned on to cheap makeup brushes for dry brushing from Sonic Sledgehammer and Tabletop Minions. Use them along with my beat-up brushes for my core dry brush tools.
thanks for the tutorial will defenetly try to drybrush correct now ... watched some other toturials but never in so much detail and i think this will improve the quality of my minis
the nightgaunt section was very informative !!
Is my favorite technique , thanks for this video, full of tips👍🏻👌🏻
Perfectly timed for everyone getting the Skaventide box at the weekend. Drybrushing is great for painting all the feathery gryph-creatures the Stormcast love!
Thanks! Been dry brushing for 37 years only real way to go
thank you for the video. Very useful and thanks for having Mamikon's cameo
I am so happy you made this video. I always worried that I was doing this wrong some how. Glad to see if I’m doing it right and seeing the other skills I can do.
I mean, there's no "right" really, just do whatever works for you matey :)
@@MidwinterMinis fair point. I forget about that lol ^_^’
I kind of discovered this myself with no real knowledge of techniques before I started painting my tyranids. I started by loading my brush up and painting the back of the tyranids, where the chitin is and I wanted a thick, consistent coat of paint. Then I brushed down the tail, and along the top of the legs, and by the time I got to the limbs where I wanted to more just highlight the bits that stick out, there was so little paint left on the brush that I could dry brush the rest for a better effect.
All these amazing hobby products on display, all I can focus on is the giant shampoo with the pump! I need it! 😂
Best video i’ve watched so far
Those mould lines break my heart. Thanks for the tips!
Great video! Your tutorials are always the best for easy understanding
Drybrushing is so good i barely do miniature painting anymore because gunpla hAs taken over my life but it works so well for getting nice raised metallic details looking gorgeous for no effort
i use overbrushing to lay down a base colour of drybrushed colour down before shading with a wash, then i will redo the same colour with the proper drybrushing method, i will then shade again with same wash but with a little extra water added, this was easier to me to get more subtle shading that the harsh lined shading seemingly preferred by a lot of painters.
Cleaning drybrushes, always have 3 or 4 of similar type, every 10 minutes swap to the next brush and wash the brush in water, use clean paper towel to check if its free of pigment if it isnt, roll the brush in the corner of the water pot you are using, this will remove the remaining paint, having 3 brushes means you can have 20 minutes drying time between uses
One cheap alternative to brush soap I've found is to use Arko shaving soap. You can get a pack off 12 for £10 or so. You can then smoosh a whole bar in a suitable container or if you have an egg holder type palette, cut a slice off of a bar and smoosh it into your palette. I've even had it save brushes I'd accidentally let paint dry on.
3:47 tapping the mini in sync with the music was sooo satisfying in a weird way lol