Crucial Brush Control Techniques for Miniature Painting
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This week we're talking brush control: why we need it, how to practice and some specific techniques. We'll talk stability, why the direction you paint in matters, controlling the amount of paint flow off your brush. We'll also touch on some other important techniques to practice.
Video chapters provided so skip around as needed.
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BRUSHES:
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AIRBRUSH:
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WET PALETTE
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VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction and What Is Brush Control?
0:35 What Is Brush Control?
1:22 How to Get Brush Control: Stability
3:28 Understanding How Paint Flows off Your Brush
4:05 Placement and Direction of Brush Strokes Matter!
6:32 Paint Control
8:51 Other Brush Control Techniques
10:05 How to Ensure Right Amount of Paint On Brush
12:24 Summary and Conclusion
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This is one of the most underrated videos I’ve seen on painting. I’m starting out and watched countless tutorials but always wanted someone to cover placement and direction. You did a phenomenal job!!! Thank you so much.
Wow, thank you very much! We really appreciate the support.
Totally agree, seriously needed this vid I've been painting for a little while bit still find it overwhelming just to pick up the brush sometimes, this was so helpful
I ordered the first model that I'll ever paint. It's arriving on Tuesday. I've watched enough CZcams videos to be sure it'll turn out perfect :)
I agree. Ive just watched this video, and I know SO much more as a result. Thank you for this!
Honestly, after 20 years in the hobby and considering myself skilled, I wish someone had described me the brush control and basic principles regarding where you take the brush off the model decades ago.
Obviously I have learned this this intuitively over the time, but it would have helped a lot in the learning process and I will teach my son like that.
Thanks!
The simple wetting of a bit of toilet paper wrapped around the base of my thumb now means I don't have to go to my texture palette all the time anymore and for that I really thank you
Just a really worthwhile vid
This is great! As someone new to the hobby, these are the kind of really elementary essentials I need, but nobody else covers. Thank you!
Some of the finest advice I have heard in quite a long time. I take it for granted, but much like an instrument. It is the Time spent that makes it automatic or muscle memory
Keeping it in mind allows it to become second nature.
Well said.
This was brilliant. It took me years to realize that where you lift your brush is one of the most important aspects of painting. This should be viewed by every painter - beginner and veteran alike.
One of the most straight forward and well put together explanations of painting models, you could ever watch. This is most definitely one of the single most important thing you need to understand to take your painting to the the next level. Well done sir!
Really great break down. As a new painter I wish I had seen this a lot earlier. Will definitely be focusing more on that control. Thanx for sharing your knowledge
I actually just figured out the wet paper towel thing particularly for edge highlighting literally yesterday. Very nice to have that validated so I know I'm on the right track. Great videos, keep it up!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you. Thank you.
I really needed this.
Super useful!
Great advice. Thank you.
Brilliant video. Thank you for making this. Very informative
Really superb, concise advice. Thank you
Excellent. A very clear presentation here. Thank you.
This is a treasure trove of mini painting workshop
This was indeed helpful for a beginner, I kind of do this unconciously and you brought it to my attention, something I should be aware of, thanks
Wonderful!
Excellent video. Right to the point. You're a pleasant presenter too! Subscribed.
the content you have is absolutely amazing. Great work and knowledge about the hobby. You do a great job delivering the information. I just got into the hobby and really enjoy you're stuff. keep it up!
Thank you so much 👍 we really appreciate it!
Thank you for making this video. It is more than helpful to someone like myownself.
This is an extremely well explained informative video, I found this advice to be so very helpful. I do reverse painted intaglios but everything he says about painting applies to my particualar art as well. Thanks for the great tips!
Thanks for the video! Great tips. I'll be sure to share them.
Glad they could help!
Extremely helpful video. Underrated channel! Thanks for being around.
I appreciate that!
Great video! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, I've recently got back into painting so its really useful to understand the effects my brush stroke has.
You're very welcome! and thank you for saying so!
Thank you for this video!! Finally, a good explanation on how to load the brush properly... and so much more I needed to know!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for this video bc I really struggle with this
You got this!
This is very thought provoking, thank you. Now to check your other videos to see what else you have been sharing! I would be very interested to see the techniques you use to paint 'hard to get at' areas of a mini.
Awesome, thank you! I generally paint in those hard to reach areas first, so i don’t get paint everywhere.
Absolutely brilliant video, helping me getting back to mini painting after about 10 years! Felt called out by the thumb painter bit 😂
Glad it helped and thank you!
Been painting for nearly two years, with good results highlighting and dry brushing and layering, never crossed my mind brush strokes(🙄) I may do this subconsciously sometimes but will deffo work the mindset to see outcome. (Still class myself as a beginner)
Always good content and always taking something away from your vids 😎 appreciate d
Thank you! We appreciate it!
Great vid, many people assume it's obvious and skim over this topic and then suffer.
BTW do you remember which colours were used for the cloth at 8:05? This is the exact palette I'm trying to nail with my undead < 3
I've been painting warhammer for over 10 years now, and even though the quality of my paint jobs isn't lacking, I know there is a ton more for me to learn, evidenced by this video alone. Subbing just cuz of this video.
Glad you found it useful and thanks for signing up!
@@WrathofMinis you're welcome! Just watched your vid on flat vs volumetric. Loved it. Can't wait to watch tutorials, but unfortunately, time.
3:10 - Particularly fine indeed ...
Haha
I SCANNED THE COMMENTS LOOKING FOR YOU i knew i wasnt alone
Please do more technique videos
We will be, don’t you worry about that!
Im interested in what brushstrokes are needed to paint different materials to give the illusion of texture but having problems finding a good guide
These videos are great!, any tips on painting a whole army that doesnt take 5 hours a model and still looks good?
Thanks man. My main tip for painting armies and doing it in a faster way would be buying an airbrush but that does come with its own set of learning issues. One day I’ll do a paint an army speed paint challenge type thing but that wont be for sometime.
This was fantastic in so many levels. I hope you turn it into a series about brush control.
Thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it! Any thoughts about how it could become a series?
Is there a video, or if there isn't can you make one, about how to create fluid transitions of colour on pieces of armour, skin etc. ?
Basics are edge highlights, shadows, chipping of base colour on top of damage colour etc. That's all nice but your work looks totally different. When you paint say a shield it has lots of tones on it.
Obviously I understand how this is created by adding more thin layers of different shades of base colour or nearby colours if we go for some reflections etc. Although, if there are any tips, tricks or just stuff that can help - I'd love to see that. I started out like 2 months ago only painted.. 13 minis I think. Iron hands marines and eliminators. I feel that the improvement is quite fast but I'd like to start improving on the technique I really want to start learning.
Amazing content, thank you. Really way more helpful than another generic do this and that with this citadel paint and voila you're a pro.
Hey, so it really sounds like you’re really taking in the whole painting thing, thats awesome! Interestingly what you’re talking about is a much more intermediate set of ideas, which i think is very cool. At this current moment we are still pushing out our beginner friendly videos but we are definitely going to get to the more complicated topics that exist in the future. What are the techniques that you really want to start learning?
Also thanks for the kind words, we really appreciate it!
What is the metal curve on the paint handle for? I've always wondered.
Hey, its just a bar in which you can place your painting hand fingers on whilst you are painting so you have more stability!
Which Paint did you have on the Palette? Scalecolor Artist?
I use Scalecolor artist and Kimera Kolors as my main paints but in this video its mostly Scalecolor.
bump
Taking your thumb out of the control of the brush seems alien to me. Painting with your thumb sticking straigt-up in the air? Umm no
Dude, what is that model you weirdo?