Easy Edge Highlights - HC 414
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through how to Edge Highlight, from thinning your paints to application and how to correct pesky errors. Hope you enjoy!
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0:00 Intro
1:50 Paint Consistency
2:33 First Application
6:21 Intermission
7:20 Fixing Mistakes
8:20 Second Application
11:22 Outro
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Thank you for spending a lot of time on your palette and explaining paint consistency. So helpful! It is a critical component of painting minis that 90% of TH-cam painters skip for some reason.
Glad it was helpful!
the amount of times I've had too much moisture in the brush when trying to edge highlight... you'd think i should learn at some point, but the tedium always wears me down and i lose concentration, making the same messy mistakes as the day i started painting... nice summary and reminder of good practice here, as always. Thanks Vince.
I can truely relate to this ❤
You can do it!
There aren't many hobby TH-camrs who'd cover edge highlighting as their 414th weekly video! There's nobody better for learning not just the how but also the when and the why - you're the best!
I think you make the best hobby videos online. I’ve been binging all morning. My favourite parts (other than the really useful advice) is when you make terrible puns and when you make whispered remarks. Those mix ups in tone make it super entertaining
Thank you 😊
Yay! Thank you! Glad the content is enjoyable and I promise bad puns will forever be part of this channel. :)
thank you so much for this! Every time I hear something about edge highlighting it's just "you highlight the edge" but this tutorial is actually one of the helpful ones
Glad it was helpful!
Back in my days, we had dry brushes which were super stiff brushes for this purpose, so that you could put some pressure, but the brush hairs wouldn't bend.
i like to use a little flow improver to thin the paint. i find it helps to make the paint come off with a very light touch and it helps the paint not dry out as fast
Thank you so much for posting this. More specifically for showing the error correction step. I honestly believe that this is the most frustrating thing for painters when a mistake is made people just give up, not realizing how easy it can be to fix the mistake. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it helped
Great summary of the methodology of edge painting. Always fun to watch you work and hear your clear advice. Thanks again for your time and efforts to help us all get better at the hobby!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video and very timely as I'm working on three sisters of battle at the moment, and had my 000 and 00 brushes ready for my edge highlights, you've saved me thanks heaps.
Thank you Vince for this great video, great efforts from your side and also calm downs which are very useful for this delicate phase 😂. Many times as newbie I felt like an over stressed sniper, then I learnt about control and dilution that make a giant difference
Outstanding video on a subject I've been having problems with for a while, thanks so much! I will give this a try.
Glad it was helpful!
Always stoked when Vince posts a new hobby cheating video! :D I was having some trouble today with getting my edge highlights down consistently, and luckily enough, this video brought up some great tips for resolving those issues. Thank you for another great tutorial :) Oh and AWESOME looking farsight paint scheme!
Love that color scheme. Gonna steal it for a future project
Man I really suck at doing this, but this helped a ton. I still suck, but I'll just keep on practicing. Thanks Vince.
Thanks again Vince, good topic.
Thank you unvailing the secrets of the edge highlight!
Oh man I've been waiting to see these models in a video!
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the video~! It was very useful!
Glad it was helpful!
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
Thank you 👍
Hello Vince! Really love your videos.
Glad you like them! always happy to help. :)
I was so busy soaking up the advice that it actually took me 9 minutes and 15 seconds to recognize that this was a melee tau model
This was so relieving to me. This hopefully doesnt sound too offensive but I can see a ton of imperfections in the paint, here. I truly thought with your skills, this would never happen and I had to get to a consistency like that to ever paint something really good. I appreciate being able to see a model at this stage look like something I could potentially achieve.
Quick question if anyone knows: What is that wet palette or whatever he is using? A piece of marble?
Its a wet pallet, highly recommend one if you don't have one
Oh no, I take no offense at all. Getting to no errors or "perfection" is a huge effort and only really for competition pieces. These are for tabletop and that means we live happily with little errors. :) - The wet palette is a Game Envy exemplar wet palette.
Another great video Vince. I was wondering how many value jumps do you typically do when highlighting? Is it just the two or do you do more than that to get the different light effects on the edges. Thanks again for all this great works of reference for the hobby.
Depends on the overall project and goal, for something like this, which is just tabletop and a pretty fast paint, this is about the effort, if it's something for competition, more. :)
As always, best video of the whole youtube on the topic!.
Would you do both edge highlighting and volumetric highlight on models with large flat panels like space marines and t’au, or do the two techniques work better in isolation?
You can combine them, but then you want to have the edge highlights also reflect the light (having those upwards facing ones being more strong and so on). You can do them in a more realistic way.
One thing that happens when i edge highlight is the paint can gum up too quickly and not flow off the brush smoothly. Adding a tiny bit if retarder to the water i thin with helps alleviate that.
I appreciate the great how tos with this technique. As aggravating it can be for some new painters to go after it can be rewarding but equally difficult to master. One thing I try to tell people is…. You don’t have to edge highlight every edge. Think about how light hits the model.
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for this video. im starting to learn the edge highlighting process and found your video. also what model is that and where could i get one? it looks wicked
It’s the Tau commander from Games Workshop. In the combat patrol box.
Thanks cuz
Thanks for the video, awesome as always. Not going to lie, I was a little disgusted by how easy you made that all look 🤣
You can do it!
Hey Vince! How do you avoide rubbing off paint with gloves while rotating miniature around? I found paint rubs off if it was applied with airbrush or if layers are thin applied with the brush. Thanks!
Varnish, and use a painting handle
The above response is pretty good. In general, I avoid touching the model at all with my hands unless absolutely necessary.
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The best edge highlighting I pull off are always the first time I use a brush. I don't quite understand what I'm doing wrong when cleaning / shaping brush once it loses its factory shape/condition.
It could be your cleaning routine or something like that, but ideally, with a little soap to continually shape the brush, you should be in a place where you can do it with brushes for a long time.
@@VinceVenturella I use the master brush cleaner for years. It helps. I want to say it has improved, but it's likely combination of getting better and looking after nicer brushes in a proper way.
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Loved this! +1 engagement
Which paints were you using for the edge highlights? Have been doing the tron paint scheme on my models! Thanks❤
Just a blue/grey, don't remember specifically, but anything mid-value will work.
To get thinner lines, does it help to use a smaller brush size such as 000, 0 ?
Not really, it actually can work against it. a 0 is fine, or a 1, but the real key is a sharp fresh point. Any smaller than 0 and the paint will dry too quickly.
Thank you so much for this video I cannot wait to get back to painting my Death Guard army..
Hi Vince! I'm relatively new to the painting hobby. One problem I have when trying to edge highlight is I get what seems to be a dot or tiny build up of paint at the very tip of my brush (W&N series 7 00) and I'm not sure how to prevent that from happening. I've tried thinning the paint down a bit more, making it thicker, loading less, loading more, but I can't seem to prevent it reliably. Sometimes I only get 1 or 2 brush strokes in before I have to wash the brush to get rid of that build up. Any tips for that?
The problem is you are using too small of a brush. Its about the right paint consistency, but then you also need a relatively larger but sharp brush with a good belly to keep the paint liquid.
I guess fixing your mistakes is much harder if you are edge highlighting an area which already has some volumetric gradient. Is it usual to combine volumetric lighting with edge highlighting?
Yes, you can do both, but it's still not as challenging as you might imagine, if you pick something close to the upper mid-tone, it's easy, then you just glaze down into the lower color.
what paint did you use? what sort of paint is good to use?
In general? I used several different brands. If you’re asking me for paint brand recommendations, Pro Acryl, AK 3rd Gen and army painter fanatic are my 3 favorite.
A bit late to the party, but there’s one point I’m a bit confused on: should you edge highlight before building your glaze? The correction with the midtone process sounds a bit undoable if the glaze is already there, though I’m also slightly worried the glazing itself would somehow cover (and ruin) the edge highlight, when glazing a Space Marine’s shoulder trim, for example. What’s the best process for you?
A great question, and the answer is yes. What I mean is its a back and forth process. I usually set the edges early, so I can correct easily, then glaze and then have to fix up some edges, then clean up again (you can generally still get close enough, even with the glaze in place) - it's a back and forth, its not a straight line.
Thank you! I will definitely feel better about going back and forth!
When edge highlighting red… do you go pink followed by lighter pink/white for the edge or orange followed by yellow/white?
Yes. Joking aside, the answer is what fits with the piece and the tone. You can also use ivory or other stuff and then put a thin red glaze over the top and just make it really intense bright saturated red.
Fixing mistakes is way harder if you have a color gradient on the base color like for nmm and the like... Any tip for that ?
Repair with your midtone, and you just then fix the tiny areas of highlight and shadow, its much less trouble than you think looking at it, because with such a small area, you won't see small differences in tone.
How important is it to be able to edge highlighting with either hand? Can you see the difference in how the paint is applied if a person only uses their dominant hand?
THis is a question I've never considered. I've never tried at all to paint with my off-hand, I couldn't even try honestly. I've never needed to attempt it.
What do you mean when talking about being choked up on the brush?
Holding the brush very near up toward the bristles, toward the front of the brush.
@@VinceVenturella that's what I always do. Is that "not right"?
@@Alf_Hairy-arse It's perfectly fine. You just really want to get up there close when working this.
@@VinceVenturella thanks 😊
One thing I've been noticing: What paper are you using on your wet palette? It looks a lot more water permeable than, say, the RGG stuff. I'm consistently running into the problem of my wet palette not hydrating my paints quite enough for my liking, maybe a different paper would solve the issue ...
Just the standard wet palette paper that comes with the Game Envy Exemplar, I love it.
@@VinceVenturella Huh. Might have to look into whether I can get those in the EU. One can never have too many wet palettes after all.
Totally unrelated question, but where people in the Us are getting their kolinsky? Is been hard to find with the hair ban and I’ve being hearing some people saying things about some sellers selling (that’s redundant lol) fake brushes… I bought some WN a while ago and I was kinda disappointed with the quality, and can’t find other brands to buy, they’re either out of stock or don’t ship to the US.
Jackson Art Supplies in the UK is where I get mine.
@@VinceVenturella thank you Vince! I’ve asked around and people also recommended Jackson. I grabbed a few Raphael 8404, can’t wait to try those!
is it the same thing to highlight clothing foldings? I can't make those look good for the life of me.
No, those are quite different given their soft nature, but I have videos in the playlist (quite recently as well) that deal with how to paint cloaks specifically.
@@VinceVenturella Thanks for the advice! I have a mini with some baggy pants waiting to get some paint, and I'll try the cloak technique. =]
Dear Vince, I commend you on your professionalism by wearing 1 glove while you paint if you like setting and testing your brush on your hand holding the mini.. I have noticed a lot lately how many people look sloppy and childish by slopping paint all over their hand while painting.
Great guide but I'm not really sure I like edge highlighting as a result it kind of looks like someone traced the model (which is kind of what happens) and makes it look unnatural. How appreciated is this technique among really good artists Vince? Is it something that just came about from GW 'evy metal painting?
It's a style, some like it, some hate it. It's a very useful skill all around, some items like NMM should generally have very precise edge highlights even on more volumetric pieces. The all edge highlights all the time is defenitely Eavy Metal, but for those who favor that style, it's valuable. that being said, you can always like whatever you like - there is no right answer with art and our toys. :)
@@VinceVenturella I decided to try some edge highlighting after seeing this. a lot of my models have been washed with nulin oil (black legion) and it feels like the lines either just don't exist or come out fat even though I'm trying really hard to only touch lightly and do small movements. I'm just wondering does the oil makes an impact.
@@OGEETOMO It's just something that requires practice likely, they can always be a little fat that happens to all of us, but the Nuln Oil wouldn't have any impact on that.
Absolutely hate edge highlighting!!! Just one slight mistake with pressure and it turns into a mess! God bless contrast paints …until I can maser this technique.
the thumbnail is more if a light recess than highlight
The pink lines were a previous video, this is the blue lines. Lots of lines in Tau it turns out.
Did you made a reference to "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" dont think many below 40 knows that story. :D
I can tell you with extreme confidence that nearly everyone below 40 knows about that story.
Yeah. That doesn't really make sense.
It's a story for children.
I hope everyone still remembers goldilocks. I use that reference all the time!. :)
@@VinceVenturella I'm just glad that no one said, what's TR0N?