Hate Edge Highlighting? Try These 5 Alternatives!
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Are you tired of spending hours upon hours meticulously highlighting every raised edge on your model? The good news is GW style edge highlighting isn't the only way to paint a model, hell it's not even the best way to paint a model! Let me take you through 5 alternatives to highlighting your Warhammer models like the box art.
The Space Marine I painted in this video is in the color scheme of the Wardens of the Fang, a homebrew chapter thought up by Longfang whom is a VA, streamer, and mod for @SnipeandWib . You can find them at @longfang91 on both Twitch and Twitter. There is an upcoming video that will be published on Snipe and Wib's channel showcasing community renditions of this chapter if you want to know more!
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Indeed, drybrushing is nothing to be frowned upon. If done right, you can achieve smooth gradients and crisp edge highlights just as good as you would with layering.
Idk if I would go as far as to say "just as good", nothing will ever replace the precision of a good sable brush for me, but dry brushing is definitely more capable than a lot of people give it credit for.
I started a Night Lords army last week. My therapist quit.
*Laughs in Thousand Sons
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You should have thousands more subscribers. The information you just gave it is so much more in depth than a lot of the creators
other channels in the community out there with 50 to 100,000 subs. Much appreciated. Thank you. Oh yea, subbed.
Appreciate the kind words and the new sub. I'm a little late to the party in terms of mini painting youtubers so hopefully it's just a matter of time and effort before I get there.
Great video, you are a good teacher. Skilled painters are a lot more common than skilled painters who can explain a technique well.
Glad to hear that. I am always concerned about whether I'm making my points well since I have to balance information with brevity.
I expected “edge highlight, but less” to be on the list, but i was more thinking “don’t go crazy with 3 full layers” as opposed to “selective highlights w/ other methods,” but i guess i was fairly close.
My go to is one edge highlight to make the model pop, with some light weathering- usually in the form of dry brushing with a very small brush, or sponge stippling. Works a charm on larger surfaces like panels/shoulder pads, and i enjoy making a sort of vignette effect. Looks great without feeling overly tedious
Sometimes less is more. Though I've never been a huge fan of the sponge, the patterns tend to be a bit to predictable
I like the stipple with the domed brush idea.. i have used that rarely, mainly because I dont do a lot of GW models. DnD forever!
I'd say give it a try, it should work on any kind of model. Also, got any recommendations on where to get good DnD minis? Doing some DnD content has been on my radar for a while; I was thinking of maybe mixing the two worlds together a little bit and do a video where I try to kitbash a Critical Role character out of Warhammer minis.
Dammm you can really paint ❤😮 well done. Thank you for the tips.
Wow, just wow. I really loved the end result. Subscribed
Welcome aboard!
I’ve been painting for about a year and a half now just eyeballing stuff but this has legitimately helped so much!
Very good to hear
This is another level man. I need to take some art classes. The college is so expensive. Even if you just observe.
My Patreon is only 7 dollars and I'll teach you ;)
That's an incredible looking model.
I appreciate that! While I can't deny I enjoy a little bit of showing off hopefully the rest of the video was informative too.
i absolutely despise edge highlighting because my hands shake and the only thing i can really do that would be hard is freehand, thanks man
Beautifully painted sir!
Exceptional video! Thank you for this, you’ve got a sub and I’m headed to binge watch your videos. I’m glad to be here early before your channel gets so much larger, and makes me want to start mine (though I can’t paint like this, just starting!)
Glad to have you aboard! And no reason not to start making videos if you find it fun!
Love your explanation and demonstration of weathering!!
Thanks! If you're interested I have an earlier video about painting vehicles where I talk about weathering in even more detail!
Just discovered your channel thanks to this video. Compliments, you are really great in both painting and teaching!
Thanks!
Brotherman, this was incredible! subbed
Thanks so much!
1 minute in and I like this guy. Liked and subscribed
30 years in and I also like this guy! Thanks for the support!
G'Day, great work...I seldom edge highlight, I have found that less is often more, if you edge highlight everything the effect just gets lost ...subbed and hope to see more of your work
Yep, "sparingly and targeted" I think I said in the video, or at least something close to that lol. Thanks for subbing, I'll do my best to continue to make interesting videos.
amazing work and instructions. Subscribed!
Glad you liked it
Really appreciated this video, I’ve never particularly liked the ‘eavy metal style and am trying to go more realistic with my new Space Wolves.
Hopefully you'll be able to try some new things going forward!
Great video, can't wait for more
Thanks! I'll get right to work!
These alternatives combined are like thrice the work than edge highlighting :D
It may seem that way at first, but once you are comfortable with them it can actually be pretty quick
You are an incredible painter, got a sub from me. Tutorials are always good for people like me who are a bit intimidated to trying new things and new techniques. Having videos where you can follow along are really the best ever, and far beyond useful for new painters. I look forward to looking at your other stuff.
I learned a ton of what I know from YT tutorials as well, however there is no substitute for just going out and trying it. Once I learned how easy it is to strip paint and just try again I lost a little bit of that fear.
@@HereticsHeroes That's a very good point. It's like where do you start though. If I had a check list of things to try and master then I could sit down and do each technique over and over again until I master them, I do have an ultrasonic cleaner after all. Maybe an idea for a video for you if you had all of them collated into one video. That would be pretty cool. This video will help me out greatly anyway, I look forward to sitting down and getting stuck in this month, I'll just have to print a few space marines and practice on them until I get better.
@reddragon4482 imo best thing to try to master ASAP is paint control. Learn how to lay down a buttery smooth basecoat, a clean recess shade, and some crisp highlights first an foremost. It'll look great for tabletop and is really really good practice for the fundamentals. Look up sonic sledgehammer, the way he paints is a great way to practice fundamentals
@@HereticsHeroes Thank you very much dude. I appreciate you taking the time to give advice.
Could always do what I do; don't highlight at all.
I play necrons, space marines, and chaos space marines. For what I have and the style I like, I spray the model on the sprue with lead belcher and I paint with contrasts to allow the metal paint to shine or hide depending where it's supposed to be. I've never liked how there's a "golden angle" on a model. I approach with the method of every angle will look correct so that wherever natural light hits the model on the tabletop it looks natural as opposed to specific areas looking brighter/highlighted.
I'll spray and then glue the body together and will then paint the armor/body up. I'll leave the arms, head, and accessories off and paint them individually and then glue them on. Once they're glued, the whole model gets hit with a wash and it looks amazing.
What kind of wash do you use? I only play TTRPG's but I love painting and have some multi part models. I'll have to try painting before assembly.
@JacopoSkydweller depends on what the model is but it's usually either nuln oil or agrax earthshade. Dip the brush into the pot, dip it into some water, then apply
Lovely work
Thank you!
thats an ultramarine black templar space wolf :D
Kinda, they're a Space wolf successor that leans little further into knightly aesthetics
Am I the only one who like never does edge highlights? I’ve never like either the look of it or the process, I’ve always loved dry brush compared to it, but everyone at my local Warhammer store gives me crap
Edge highlights have their place, but I definitely think the GW box art style has overvalued them in a sense.
F'em do you!
Recently i began drybrushing for slapchop, but even befor i added my contrasts or alternatives, the models look great, drybrushing as long as your careful can allow for a realy good look
This is a great video.
Great video... thank you!
Thank you for this, you've hit on just some of the problems I've been encountering with a project I'm working on. While I'm familiar with Trovarion's videos on the matter, this did show me a few new things to consider.
From my "professional art training", drybrushing was taught as being not literally a DRY brush, it just indicates how much pigment is kept on the brush while painting. The brush is always wet, either with water or (with oils) some other medium in the brush. I'm guessing the "hobby version" developed on its own from people without technique training in canvas/mediums?
I've gotten really good success from thinning the paint with water first, usually like 2:1, and then picking up pigment with a dry brush. Then stipple on over the top. This creates a thin transparency glaze, but with the speckling you'd get from say sponge painting. As the pigment is thinned, it will be very transparent, but sort of acts as a glaze allowing you to build up lighter and lighter tones.
If you're army painting 10-20 figures at a time for Horus Heresy, this is really the only way you can sanely knock them out without a mental breakdown.
I think you're exactly right here about the common mini painting application of dry brushing evolving largely independently from its use in other fine arts. This is actually a broader problem I see in the mini painting community where we so often see ourselves and our painting techniques as separate from traditional painters. It was such a huge breakthrough for me when I realized that actually its all the same, and art theory is applicable across all mediums.
It's understandable why there is this disconnect though, since I think mini painters (especially if they are wargamers as well) consider themselves as hobbyists in a way that's much different from someone who has decided to take up drawing or painting as a hobby. For the letter two there's an implicit understanding that they are going to be engaging in capital A "Art", but for many mini painters they most likely start out just thinking "hey I need to color in my little plastic dudes so I can play a game".
@@HereticsHeroes Seriously right along the lines of what I was thinking. Even classically trained, I have a hard time connecting the two mentally, it really feels like I have to make conscious effort to cross the skills over.
Love to see your take on things like the Zorn Palette; I'll hit you up sometime on your Patreon to see where I can improve things - I've definitely hit a plateau and am having trouble getting to a higher level from where I'm at.
@@Lanessar8008 looking forward to hearing from you. Though tbh you probably have more knowledge in terms of the theory, I'm self taught and definitely still learning along the way. I just had to look up what the Zorn Palette was, but it seems very interesting, I'll definitely be reading more.
@@HereticsHeroes I'll sign up on Patreon after the first. I think your input would be extremely helpful - Art theory versus practical application is a HUGE gap.
Awesome! And just in case you're waiting till the 1st so as not to get double billed, I've set mine up so it rebills on sign up date not the 1st of the month.
I do like using a makeup or ratty old brush for stippling, as you showed.
Makeup brushes are the best! (the brush I was using in the vid was definitely not ratty and old its an Artis Opus series D I got in a set so kind of expensive, but tbh I think my makeup brushes are better)
Thank you for this video! You are now my favorite painter, Samwise Gamgee! Very well spoken, easy to understand even as a foreigner, awesome music choice and the paintjob is "chef's kiss"! 🤌🏻
Consider me as a new fan!
Thank you! Glad to have you along for the ride!
Thanks youtube algorithm, you found me a good one today!
Sometimes it does it's job
Drybrushing gets a lot of bad press, but honestly? i've drybrushed the highlights on an entire series of Death Watch space marines, and the result is totally decent. Usually I'll go for a combination of both drybrushing and edge highlighting for some of the most exposed parts.
woud love to see how you did that word bearer in the diorama in one of your last vids
Unfortunately I was so pressed for time trying to get it done before GD I didn't take any painting footage. I do have a fair few chaos models in the pile of shame though, so I could definitely be persuaded to do another word bearer
Drybrushing is the best part of painting models, for me.
The model is lovely once it's done, but if I'm painting 40+ of these guys for an army I cannot fathom taking so much time on each mini.
Neither would I. I mostly paint display models which is why I spend so much time on them. But you could absolutely adapt the theory behind some of these techniques into a speedier army painting process
What do you mean? I LOVE EDGING!
Clear info and good presentation appreciated, subadubdubbed
Wow ! Great job, what brush do you use ?
Use a wide variety of brushes, but for detail work I have been using Winsor and Newton Series 7 brushes. But I've heard people complaining about QC with the brand lately. I also have a set of Artis Opus brushes which are very nice.
Amazing video! Is this applicable to vehicles without an airbrush?
100%. Though for a vehicle I probably wouldn't go as hard on the directional lighting.
Great clarify on your close ups. What camera do you use, if you don't mind me asking?
It's actually just my phone. Samsung S24 Ultra. It has a shockingly good camera for a phone.
@@HereticsHeroes Holy smokes lol. It's amazing.
oh hey i recognize that sw primaris chapter. which greys did you use its a great base
I did the basecoat and initial drybrusing with skavenblight dinge and stromvermin fur. Washed it with incubi darkness mixed with contrast medium. And then built my highlights up by mixing the previously mentioned greys with proacryl bright warm grey in varying ratios depending how bright I wanted to go.
@@HereticsHeroes thank you kindly
niiice!!!
Imho drybrushing gives better highlights than the thick smeary manual painted edges that people like to present.
That's because most people don't have their brush control down yet.
once I do my base coats and washes, I dry brush the weapon and gloss varnish the armor.
I recommend trying washing after drybrushing and using a matte varnish. It helps with smoothness and visibility.
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What's the recipe of the red? It would look awesome for some blood angels.
Think I based it in burnt Cadmium Red from Vallejo, washed it with a dark purple mixed with contrast medium and then highlighted it up through Mephiston red into vallejo scarlet with the very brightest bits being a mix of that scarlet and some sort of yellowish off-white.
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Whats the song that sound in the end ???
Fight to Win - Sven Karlsson
По факту получается ещё больше работы по сравнению с выделением граней.
Cube, sphere, cylinder... cone.
I didn't really feel the need to include cone for such a basic intro since it behaves essentially identically to a tapered cylinder.
I cant for the life of me paint light colors. Since my marines are a bright red, I have to drybrush to get the lighter color on.
That's an interesting issue to have. What part of painting light colors gives you trouble?
@HereticsHeroes I assume poor coverage of them?
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I think doing a full "every edge" highlight actually looks weird and fake when you hold a model in your hand. Looks great in a photo but not in real life. That said, a limited edge highlight on the tops of things, places where light would catch, you can do some strong work with that.
Only someone who hasn’t seen Byron’s videos thinks it isn’t a great technique or even one that has to be used in the initial steps only...
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Neat stuff, but you kind of lost me at hors and hours. Great video though :)
That's just me hyperfixating. You can spend as little or as much time as you like, just use the techniques as inspiration
Edge highlights? *laughs in mud wash* Can't highlight the edges if they look like they just got done mud wrestling.