HOW TO PAINT GLOW EFFECTS: A Step-By-Step Guide
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In this video I will lead you through step-by-step the process I use in order to achieve quick and easy glow effects, without the need of an airbrush.
This video will show you the recipes I use to achieve Red, Blue and Green glows but it will also explain how you can use the process to achieve any colour you want.
Perfect for painting anything from glowing instrument panels through to magical runes or even glowing eyes.
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Hi, Mr. Stroke!
It was good and easy to follow as always, don't worry! ;)
I have just one question: when you mix the technical/contrast paint you use for the glow with their relative thinners, do you mix them on a dry palette?
Because to my experience, using a wet palette already slightly thins the paint, so I wanted to know if I should take that in account when doing it.
I use everything on my wet palette.
If you're finding your palette is actually diluting your paints rather than simply maintaining their moisture levels then I would suggest looking at using a different membrane paper.
As it is letting too much moisture through.
Let me guess, you're using an Army Painter wet palette?
Give this paper a try and see if it make everything better?
amzn.to/3ngaKi4
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides No, I usually use either the RedGrassGames ones with both reusable and on-time membranes or Masterons Sta-wet palette with parchment paper.
Now that I think about it, it mostly happens with already thin paint, like shades and contrast it was just my impression?
I'll take a look at those you poster though, thanks.
Man it's actually crazy how difficult it is to find a good tutorial for this sort of thing that doesn't require an airbrush. I knew it was possible!
Thanks man
Glad you found this video then. 👍
Please do help others find it too and share it with your hobby mates 🙏
Perfect timing. I have just started watching glow effect vids as I want to have some glowing androids.
Oh cool
I hope you find it useful 👍
Awsome video ! Nice editing, nice music, nice skill... Love it !
Thank you for checking out my channel 👍
This is by far the best painting tutorial CZcams channel. Simply phenomenal work.
Thank you
Amazing praise
Really glad you’re enjoying my channel.
Please do let others know and help spread the word about my channel 👍
Am I the only one who would try this with black?
Now, it’s not as bonkers as it sounds.
It doesn’t produce a “glow” as such as your mind doesn’t interpret black as a possible light source but it does make for a cool effect nonetheless
So, no. You’re not the only one 🤣
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuidespictures?
Now that could look amazing...
Interesting!
Let him cook
Yes
I have to say this is the best glow tutorial I have seen in the 2 years I have been back to the hobby. Thank you for making it.
Thanks so much 🙏
Really pleased you found it helpful
I just bought some of the tesseract paint to start the process earlier today. This helps a lot. Ill try duncans white - will pick up tomorrow
I’ve been painting off and on for over a year and I learned soooo much about what I’ve been doing wrong from these videos.
Oh, good been waiting for this one to come out. Thanks for posting this!
Hope it's worth the wait. Let me know what you think
For the green glow, I’d use dorm yellow or ice yellow. That or fluorescent yellow then glaze tesseract or fluorescent green over. Makes it pop!
Absolutely!
Changing the undertone colour as well, is a great way to produce different results for sure.
Yellow under the red produces a brilliant warm orange too. Hopefully this video will encourage people to play around with different colours and discover how fun and easy it is to produce cool looking effects. 👍
This was fantastic. It'll help slot when I start my Necron army in a grey knight color scheme with purple glow
Thanks for watching
Look forward to seeing that scheme, sounds great
Brilliant video. Just what I was looking for.
Thanks!
Love your work!
Thank you 🙏
Your tutorials are amazing and help out tremendously! The amount of work you've put into the video graphics to underline your examples is top notch
Thank you
Really kind of you to say.
I’m pleased to hear you’re enjoying the channel and finding it useful 👍
Very happy that CZcams recommended me your channel, these are really unique and detailed tutorials.
Just in time for some heavy plasmas I was getting ready to paint for my astraeus
Thank you
Welcome to the channel, really glad to hear you’re enjoying the content 👍
Thanks for the video!
Cheers for watching
I would love to see a video about assembling sub assembled models after they are painted. I’ve seen countless videos outline how to set up minis for sub assembly painting but not many on how to assemble the model after it’s all painted. Cheers!
You know, you’re absolutely right.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video on that before and it would be useful for people to see.
Thanks, I’ll add it to the list 👍
Love it! Great work!
Thank you 👍
awesome vid as always ! love it !
Thanks man 👍
Finally! been waiting ages for this!
Sorry man, hopefully it's worth the wait. I wanted to make the video as useful as possible and include multiple colours etc.
Ended up being much more complicated to put together than I expected
Let me know what ya think?
I have been waiting for this video :D great Job as always! Looks so easy when you do it but I have been struggling with Plasma glow. Going to try this out some time
Hope it's worth the wait.
The process is really just that simple. Give it a go, I'm sure you'll get a good result
Best, simplest glow-tutorial I've seen.
Thank you
You seem to be working through the whole channel
Hope you’re enjoying the guides? 👍
Really good video. I would love to see you paint gray knights.
Thanks man
I’d love to paint Gray Knights
Watch this space 👍
Gave this a go on an old space marine model that a friend gave me and was quite pleased with the results. Great video and easy to follow the process. Would love to see a video on painting weapon scopes/lenses or how to paint faces please 🙏
Nice one, really pleased to hear the process worked for you. What colour did you go for?
Lenses and scopes is a great shout and I must confess one that I have been promising to do. So, good to hear it would be popular.
And yes, faces / skintones is one I really want to get stuck into. As I think it's an area people quickly get frustrated with.
So, stay tuned
Yellow eye glow on a dark blue helmet. I probably need to thin the yellow down a bit more and I only had citadel white but for a first attempt I was pretty happy. Might try an orange next.
Love your videos and how you use drawings etc to explain the processes.
Thank you 🙏
Really appreciate you taking the time to comment 👍
Very clear explanation.
I also like your calm tutorial style.
Thank you
I paint to relax, so I figured I should make my videos the same.
Besides, there's already loads of full octane, thousand mile an hour painting channels out there 🤣
If you get a chance, please do check out my channel, I think you'll like it
Awesome tutorial. I'm trying to make a glowing effect on a 1/6 scale base that has 4 plumes of fire.trying to make the rubble have a glow effect.
That was an excellent video James. I will put those ideas to use on my next build. Thank you for the great series of videos.
Thanks John.
I think you have a few videos to catch up on.
Glad you’re still enjoying the channel 👍
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides You are right, I have a lot to watch. I have been watching a lot of Jon Bias' videos and was reminded of your channel when he mentioned your channel in an older video on brush cleaning. Somehow I was not getting notices on your videos. I will try to encourage the tubes of you to send me notices about your material.
@@jhoodfysh well, I need to thank @jonbius for the mention and reminding you about my channel then.
Yeah, I don’t understand how the notifications work on CZcams. I thought all you had to do was click the bell and you’d be told about all posts but I don’t think that’s the case. On mobile there’s more steps regarding notifications in app settings too I think.
Either way it’s good to have you back 👍
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides Jon is having his wisdom teeth extracted today, so he will not be responding as quickly as he usually does. I am sure he will be happy to hear from you.
Super cool
Thanks 👍
Thank you 🙏🏻
You’re very welcome
Glad you liked it 👍
Really looking forward to seeing the 40k World Eaters video, thank you very much
Oooo World Eaters, good call
Love the tutorial ty
Thanks for watching
Hope it proves to be useful
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides my brother loves painting necrons so i am going to show him and i hope he uses these techniques
@@thunder_bolt9869 nice one
It’s not just for Necrons though
This works for anything glowing
Fantasy mummies with glowing eyes or wizards with magic glowing runes
You name it
Even control panels on military vehicles
Really good tutorial. A bit different from my method, so i'll give it a try. :)
Thanks for this awesome tutorial !
What are the differences between the Lahmian and the contrast medium ?
Thanks again for your awesome content ! Definitely one of the highest quality on this platform.
Thank you
So, contrast medium and Lahmian medium have different chemical makeups.
Think of them as paint without pigment.
So, when thinning down paints like contrast / speed paints it’s important to use their corresponding medium so as to not imbalance them. As it can result in them “splitting” meaning they no longer hold together and apply blotchy and patchy or streaky and dry very ugly.
Likewise, Lahmian medium should be used to thin down GW’s washes and technical paints because it matches their chemical structure.
Hope that helps
I bought a set of your brushes. They are the best brushes I have used. As always keep up the great work. Your tutorials have really helped me be a better painter.
Hm, that good?
@Ouium I have really liked the brushes. The price is not as high as I would have expected for Sable brushes either. If you want to buy brushes individually from artis opus they are decently priced in my opinion. They have some nice cleaning and conditioning products for the brushes as well. The care for the brushes is a more than a standard brush but it will keep them in a good working condition.
@michaelbaron9090 thanks for the detailed response!
I'm currently struggling with army painter brushes (they kind of loosend up almost immediately for some reason) so I wanted to try something new, more expensive I guess. Will give those a try in the near future, thank you!
@Ouium I hope when you get them you enjoy them as much as I have.
@michaelbaron9090 thank you for your support and posting this endorsement.
It’s so great to hear you’re enjoying my brush set and I think it’s really useful to other people to hear your genuine review.
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I am going to try this technique on my storm druids lightning ball.
Great idea
Please let me know how you get on
Great tutorial and explanations. One detail, though, is that the glow is very soft. As in it projects colours onto edges around it, but not really any light. Which I think is reasonably well illustrated by looking at the values of painted areas in grayscale (*): the eyes/chest symbol/... indeed have much higher values, but the areas around them do not, or at least not any more than they would with "regular" zenithal highlights.
(*) which is a trick I believe I saw in one of Trovarion's videos? I can't remember for sure.
What step(s) would you add to further brighten the glow?
Thanks for watching
Yes, you’re absolutely right.
This guide is only intended for glows where the light source is not stronger than the ambient/ global light source.
Occasions where you want to paint a light source which is stronger than the surrounding ambient light requires a very different process.
It’s not a case of adding additional steps, more completely changing the way the mini is painted.
Identifying the affected areas needs to happen before the mini is painted at all and the painting, layering, shading and highlighting of all the colours affected need to be painted with the light source in mind right from the start.
I’d really need to make a whole different video for that I’m afraid.
A great video, thank you!
I didn't see your brush set on their site? Im guessing it's custome made for you?
Thank you
You should be able to find my set by searching “brushstroke” on the Artis Opus website store or even easier you can follow this link 🙂
bit.ly/42NKGLH
Hope that helps and thanks for watching 👍
I normally paint AoS stuff but having watched this I'm now going to watch the three before it and get myself a box of Necrons and have a go.
Nice one
and as an added bonus, those three metal recipes will work brilliantly on AoS minis too
Please do let me know how you get on :)
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides I might be about to try it on a gravestone, I'll let you know if it works.
Just tried it and tagged you Instagram with the result. Looks good I think.
@@DigininjaRobin awesome, I’ll take a look
My Insta is @brushstroke77 btw
Nice video, really extensive information on the subject. Great job!
Btw, what software are you using for editing cause the drawing on the paused video looks super handy.
Thank you
I use Adobe After Effects for the graphics and animations
Fantastic tutorial! One question: i dont have citadel contrast paints, what can i use instead of those?
Thank you
So, to be able to tint like this you really need a strong wash or contrast style paint because they stain the surface too. A bit like a dye, but still being able to see through it.
So, I’d say try and get contrast if you can or maybe army painter speed paints?
Failing that you can try washes, but they don’t tend to come in bright enough colours for this effect and you’d need to apply in multiple thin layers and build up the colour without making it too dark
Hope that helps
Thank you for your videos, they have helped me loads, I am new to the hobby. I absolutely love the scale75 flat black. Where did you get your paint racks? my paints are all over the place.
Thank you, really pleased to hear you're enjoying the channel.
I got my paint rack years ago, but you can get similar from Amazon
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Hope that helps
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides That's great, thank you!
Hello
Verny nicley done are you planning to create any airbrush series with same topic ?
Desperately need a tutorial on your city’s of sigma lethis fusiliers
😊
👍
Could this be done with a wash instead of contrast paint? Im doing purple on my necrons. I dont have contrast paint but i do have a purple wash. Would you need to thin the wash down?
No, not really.
Washes don’t have the staining / dye property needed for this effect
Give this vid a watch and it’ll explain the differences between washes and contrasts
czcams.com/video/mADYQQOH9a8/video.html
@BrushstrokePaintingGuides cool thanks for the explaining that. I will check out the video. You content has been extremely helpful to me since getting back into the hobby.
Wish I would have waited to do my Necron walker now and watched this video first, but I can try again later. I actually ended up kind of doing the same technique here as you did with tesseract glow but I completely botched the white layer so it's got obvious brush strokes. The large orbs are trickier than the small ones in the blaster.
Getting that white applied smoothly is key.
Do yourself a favour and get some Two Thin Coats white. It’s a game changer for white paint.
Thanks for watching, I’m glad you found it useful though 👍
Sounds good! I love my Pro Acryl but want to try the TTC white too. I'm saving this video in my Tutorials playlist for when I do something glowy next. By far the most straight forward and simple guide I've found. Cheers!@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides
@@theorganicshadow ProAcryl is great for sure
TTC I think just edges it as I feel it thins down nicer. Probably a personal thing but if you do get the chance to try the TTCs white I would love to hear your thoughts on it
I've tried alot of whites. I'm gonna get hate for this but ..... I use apple barrel white. Wal-Mart craft paint.. i add 2 drops of alcohol and a few drops of water. You couldn't ask for smoother paint. And ... it's only 50 cent a bottle.
@@nomore2226 no hate here 🙂
If you’ve found a paint which gives the results you want, then that’s a win.
If it’s also cheap, well that’s even better.
Nice one! 👍
There's one part I'm a little confused by - if you go in with white, then paint over with the glaze, then go white and go over it with the glaze again, how does it end up a different intensity the second time? Is it a different ratio of paint to medium on the second pass?
Fair question
So, the way it works is the second area of white you paint is smaller and within the area you painted first time.
That way, when you apply your second glaze you paint not only the new white area but also the previously glazed area too.
This means the bigger area will end up with two layers of the glaze and the second (smaller) white area with just one layer of glaze. The result then being a step / change in the intensity of the effect.
Hopefully that makes a bit more sense now? 👍
5:00 Today I tried to paint my first mini.... Do you guys use something for magnification ? I did notice that I had problems to see some details (in that particular 4cm/1,6in small figure)
What ratio do i want to do for tesseract glow and lahmian medium? 1:1?
yes, that's right
GW owes you a cut of the Necron combat patrol I just bought so I can try this out 😂
Haha fantastic, I’ll expect a cheque in the post 👍
Please let me know how you get on 🙂
Let's gooooo
you mean, let's gloooooow! :D
thanks for watching
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides*Slow Clap* Very good. Oh, and very good video as well!
@@arima01 haha sorry couldn’t resist
Glad you enjoyed the vid too 👍
Any paint recommendations for an orange glow?
As bright a contrast as possible really.
I think I’d try MAGMADROTH FLAME
and do the thinned down process like I did in the video 👍
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides awesome, I will give it a go!
@@jacksonjensen3107 cool
Let me know how you get on.
What are you adding the glow on?
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides I'm going to practice on some Necrons I have lying around, but the main minis are going to be my Varanguard. There are some cracks and other cool details in the armor that I'd like to have glow orange
@@jacksonjensen3107 oh cool!
Yeah, Necrons are great to practice on.
Please send me pics, I’d love to see how you get on 👍
Finally i can paint federal agents with the best of them!
Nice one. Glad you found this guide helpful 👍
That's some smooth glowing 🍑 smooth
Haha thanks man 🤛
What happened to Pro Acryl having the best white lol
I’ve discovered White Star
I swear down, it’s better than ProAcryl
Hard to believe I know
But it really is.
@@BrushstrokePaintingGuides guess I'll have to give it a try 💸🥲
tbh if you want this guide to be more user friendly use paints from one vendor. Or give alternatives from other paint vendors. Both titanium white and white scar would probably work for white part. No reason to get another white paint just to paint glow
It’s nigh on impossible to list all possible alternatives but I do take your point.
I simply show the paints I’m confident will give the best results.
Regarding whites, yes ProAcryl titanium white would work fine. GW’s White Scar on the other hand, I disagree, I wouldn’t touch it ever
Alas I can paint something cool without throwing £200 away for an airbrush