The GLAZING TRICK eBay pro-painters don't want you to know about!
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It's a frustrating sort of relief when someone shows you that one thing that you were missing, despite watching tons of videos. Legitimately, the best educational content I've watched on youtube. Straightforward, multiple approaches, covers everything from the ground up. Thank you so much for putting out the content that you do.
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@@JuanHidalgoMiniatures I second this. Subscribed halfway the vid!
These types of videos are great. B/c they are the hidden techniques "pro" painters dont even think about. Learning how to load a brush, and even properly hold a brush.. were game changers for me, and stuff that were so basic, it wasnt even occuring to the person trying to help me, it was a problem.
Exactly, most of the problems we the more "pro" side of painters, is that we do things without thinking and thus makes it difficult to extract the key parts of the techniques.
I try
Agreed. This is fucking amazing. Sorry I couldn’t think of a another word. The senor Hidalgo. Favorite vid….the brush lick. Legendary. Ha!!!
What video shows how to hold the brush righr?
love this. i stumbled into the rules of lightly loading and pushing paint to where you want your glaze to be the most opaque by total accident 20 years ago and it answered literally every mini painting challenge i ever had since. then it's really just about developing a good understanding of how light volume zone lie and it become almost paint-by-numbers
EXACTLY
This video is perhaps the biggest advertisement for a wet palette I've ever seen. The ability to go back and forth between adding paint and water to get your glaze consistency just right is such an awesome thing to have and that is just so easy to do on a wet palette.
I love me some smooth glazes. Blades and armour both look so awesome when that colour transition is silky smooth.
I agree! A wet palette is a must for all painters
I've tried glazing before, failed more or less completely, and had no idea why until now. I watched scores of tutorials on glazing and none of them (save yours) ever mentioned just loading the brush with a tiny amount of paint. THANK YOU!
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There’s no way I can thank you enough for how much you’re making me improve on my painting skills. Thank you so much for what you do. People rarely can appreciate how difficult is to explain something to other people making them getting the concept easily, and you’re great at it! Juan’s hands down the best channel I’m following on yt
Most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me
This is hands down the best video on Glazing in UA-cam. And believe me...I've watched probably several dozen. Most of the information here I had to figure out on my own or piece together from multiple videos and tutorials. No one ever teaches you brush technique. This is pure gold. It would be great to have more videos like this on this level of detail for other techniques. I can't really thank you enough Juan. Great job.
Thanks, I have another one on Feathering coming soon. And have a deep dive into thinning paint too and the best Contrast Paint technique.
Check out the full Technique 101 playlist in my channel
Glazing is one of those techniques that really leveled up my painting game. Want to give that drab military green a bit more punch? Do a punchy dark green glaze. Want to unify some highlight that got a bit too bright? Make a glaze of some of the midtone paint you were adding the highlights to. Want to unify shadows, midtones, and highlights a bit? More glazing! Want funky metallics? Funky colored glazing!
Glazing really is a useful skill to learn, even if you just go for the basics like I have.
For sure, it's one of the most useful and fundamental techniques in miniature painting
I'm so glad someone finally made this video. It took me years of watching youtube to realise this, because most people making videos don't show them rubbing off the paint on a paper towel or a closeup of the brush to see how loaded it is, or rather is not. So often people got the dilution just fine, but they were using a loaded brush, had no control and their glaze turned into a wash, or left coffee staining ( a wetting agent (surfactant) can relieve this somewhat ). It comes so naturally to people painting a long time, that they never mention it when teaching others.
A good exercise to improve, is to try glazing with just water on an unpainted, even un-primed miniature, with a strong light and just water, or water with surfactant in. The strong light will show you where your brush connected and how controlled the application. While it will also show how quickly the water evaporates, so you can tell if it isn't evaporating fast enough and you have too much loaded in the brush. This is also helpful for practicing things like edge highlighting, without putting paint on your model.
Great idea!
@@JuanHidalgoMiniatures I wasn't feeling very confident about my edge highlighting ability. So I got some spare primaris that I had underpainted with the airbrush wrong. Took a white ink, because it flows better and smoother than paint, while it wont be so bold and I just went around them doing edge highlighting, cleaning up mistakes, trying different things out. Really improves your confidence to see it playing out, without ruining a paint job you just spent a lot of time on.
You give me confidence in abilities I’ve never had 😄
YOU CAN DO IT
Sick in bed LITERALLY watching paint dry
No but seriously watching the red paint actually dry up on the black base is amazing and shows the desired effect/thickness/amount of paint super well. Great work!
Thanks! And get well!
It is not disgusting to link your brush after cleaning it, in fact this is how I keep myself hydrated while painting
That's also my opinion, it's the best way to keep your brushes in tip top condition.
The only time it feels good to have hair in your mouth, is when it's on the end of a brush.
Until you lick a brush you dipped in the wrong cup
Going in depth on the absolute basics like brush loading, brush grip, paint consistency, etc. is really really useful info especially for newer painters but also intermediate painters who have some skill but who’s lack of fundamental technique is holding them back
This is honestly the best video on glazing on youtube. It took me a long time realizing load was the key to controllable smooth glazes, if I had this video it would have saved me so much time!
The other lesson I learned the hard way is that using mediums instead of water for dilution helps quite a bit preserving the color intensity. Maybe another video of this series could be about mediums vs water?
I rarely use mediums but I can give it a thought
I’ve watched dozens of videos on glazing & none of them have made as much sense or been as practical as yours! THANK YOU!
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Juan, I have heard your name referenced a lot over the years I have been painting but for some reason I have only just started to watch the videos (and yes I have subscribed now) and these basics videos are really what even semi competent painters need. Glazing is something I have only started playing with in the last year and usually on bigger display pieces and I always used the pallet dilution method but this makes far more sense even if it will take some more practice. Plus I agree - paper towel is bad for the environment/expensive, my mouth is free! Glad to join you.
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Painting already for quite a while, and implementing glazing for quite a while, and also working on a good amount of commissions by now...this still was so useful. Simply because it was explained so well, thanks Juan. You're a true pro painter. If we ever cross paths, beer's on me.
I will honour that
Thank you for this outstanding video on glazing! I have watched lots of videos on this topic, but this video is by far the best and instructive, since you explained glazing from a different perspective!
Above all I loved the most common mistakes you explained
Thanks and kudos!
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This is what I was afraid of, I heard so much about thinning your paints before I started that all I've been doing was essentially glazing. That explains why every model takes me months to complete. But hey, at least I was doing glazing correctly! XD
Always look on the bright side of life
Thankyou for explaining and demystifying this core technique. Absolutely golden advice.
Thanks mate 😘
Still think GW really missed out not giving you the tap. Learn something new everytime with your videos and always feel more accomplished with my models. Top stuff.
Thanks mate 😘
Picking up a smaller amount of glaze instead of unloading it after a heavier load is a brilliant idea. I can't wait to try this! I'm always looking for ways to speed up my painting process.
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Thus is so timely. Ive been playing around with glazing recently, badically the second time ive given it a go. When i first started and things were coffee staining i was convinced it was all about finding perfect glaze consistency and it would magically work... only recently really appreciated what you said about brush loading being the key... something that really helped me was getting a glazed white ceramic tile recently for a dry palette - the perfect surface to test the glaze and appreciate how it will look and behave on the model.
What a great idea!
@@JuanHidalgoMiniatures Well I nicked it from Duncan Rhodes I think
Great video Juan, I think the most important lesson I learned with glazing was that it isn’t about how much of you mix into your glaze that matters, it’s actually how little water you have on your brush that matters. I think the best way to imagine it is that if you’re trying to learn glazing, you should have barely any water in your brush when applying it, and when applying the glaze to a miniature, you should push the glaze across the miniature until there’s zero visible ‘height’ to the paint. Make it almost as if there’s a small layer of film across the surface, rather than a super thin wash,
That's exactly the lesson I want people to extract from the video
Yeah, once I learned to dab the water off my brush on to some paper towel when loading my brush my glazing drastically improved.
Amazing video, i wish i had this when i started! Its maybe the single most important topic in painting, but it is rarely explained, so good job!
I have learned so much from all of your videos, but this one was a serious game changer for me. The red on black glazing example was so clear and informative!!! I've been so frustrated by glazing, but finally I feel like I've got a proper handle on it.
I'm so happy to hear that! The red on black was a last minute inspiration to change the white background and it was extremely effective to see the paint drying as it's applied
@@JuanHidalgoMiniatures Question about that red on black glaze. Did you change how you moved your brush as your layers progressed? When I want a perfect transition, I move my brush like you do, but I change my starting point to be closer to the brightest point with each layer, which I felt helped make the transition smoother. But watching that sequence, you appear to make the exact same brush stroke each time. With the way your brush was moving, I would have expected a bright red spot right at the end, but it's actually a dark red *line* at the top of the brushstroke where the tip of the brush was. Was there anything that didn't get caught on camera there? Was the cut only hiding many many more layers, and no change at all in how they were applied?
@KICKFIST0 no chang on how they are applied and yes, you start closer and closer to the final point with each layer.
The red line on top was an accident caused by how I have to hold my work for the camera, as the brush is not in the ideal position
Its midnight, im watching a video about how to load a brush and my god, this has instantly improved my painting so much.
Ive been over loading my brush forever...
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Juan, I've always considered you a painter of beautiful minis, you mix this with an entertaining delivery (see Blue prejudice) and so your vids are very watchable, I seldom miss one.
That said this is the first vid where I've thought, my god what a gamechanging analysis and insight that will very likely change my acrylic painting game.
I've a bad hand tremor so use oils a lot because they're erasable so I can try again as many times as needed. Using them this way has led to me base coating with acrylic and then instead of glazing I have two drawers full of artist grade oil paints. One is opaque paints to use similarly to acrylics (sort of) and the other is oils carefully sought out and chosen for their natural transparency, to act like glazes and filters, applied as tiny dots, and buffed outward to make a gradient with/over the paint underneath. If the glaze is too strong I can let it partially dry and partially erase it overall or in part with a clean brush and white spirit, it takes patience but offers immense control and is entirely forgiving of mistakes. This meant learning to mix accurate colour matches and wasn't an easy endeavour at all, and though the tiny amounts of paint needed dry/cure much more quickly than acrylic painters imagine, it does mean painting has more downtime, so I'm usually working on a unit, or several projects at once - not for everybody.
Now after watching your vid, I will still be doing that much of the time, but I'll also be able to bring acrylic glazing back into my choices of technique and I really thank you for that.
I've watched glazing advice from some really good painters and creators, and this one explained brush stuff in a way I've not seen before. Abiding respect for that and I'll definitely be looking out for more of this deeper analysis and corrective advice from you in the future, you do it so well
Mate that's amazing, thanks for that it really means a lot
Great tutorial. Glazing is something ive not really tried yet, mainly as previous efforts have been rather patchy in the results. But this has given me the confidence to go at it again. I got an idea of painting and glazing the wings on my Celestine and feel like im up for the challenge now. Thanks!
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YOU CAN DO IT!
I recently realised the key to glazing is how you load your brush just a few weeks ago, so it's nice to see a video like this!
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This perfectly demonstrates an important piece of knowledge that a lot of new painters lack. Acrylic paints will, by and large, deposit the most pigment at the end of your brushstroke, where you lift the brush.
If you're using oils, though, it's the opposite. The start of your brushstroke is where the most paint will remain.
100% true
There are a lot of foundational skills that more common tutorials and beginner guides don't try to teach because, I think, there's a concern about "vagueness". Simple, on-off, yes-no techniques and guides are presumed to be less intimidating.
In reality, some basic techniques that people assume are advanced aren't hard. Glazing is one of the simplest things to learn because it's so forgiving! Loading up a very faint, mostly water color and swiping it across underlying color doesn't run the risk of instantly smearing something obvious all over the color and shading you want to preserve.
100%
Ugh, this has been holding me back from levelling up for a long time and I couldn't figure it out. Thank you! You are an excellent teacher.
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Oh! The brush loading illustration is great. I really want to try this now. I've been using the unload on a paper towel method. Yours looks much easier to control. Off to experiment.
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With a title like this i was 100% sure this was gonna be clickbait. Great info was well worth the watch!
That's the joke!
Glad you liked it!
I use my mouth because I am disgusting.... dude that scene. So funny.
Thanks mate 😘
Thank the gods. I was 100% overloading my brush.
Gonna make use of this on tonights painting, for sure.
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7:43 now my coffee is everywhere but not where it belongs - 😂
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Very informative for someone without any foundational education. Exactly what I have been looking for! Thank you!
Thanks
I feel like it's important to re visit the basics every now and then. When I started painting, none of the glazing videos said anything about loading the brush like that.
I tried to be as comprehensive as possible
The creepy eyeing the camera while licking the brush made me laugh so hard and was an instant subscribe
Thanks 😘
Always enjoy your tutorials Juan !! ❤
PS I has soem candy brushes… 😅
Thanks mate 😘
This was probably the best video on the fundamentals of glazing. Can't wait to try out the tips & improve my technique.
That was the idea when I made it. Thanks
So helpful and very informative to see how to build different types of glazing and then the differences in the results. Thank you for putting it together.
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This is a really useful video. I've been struggling with wet pooling glazes a lot lately.
Thanks! I think I'll subscribe. 😮
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Thank you so much Juan. No matter how many videos I have watched, that was the most useful by far. You are truly a remarkable teacher. Any way you could do a video about layering for us noobs?
I might do in the future, these are easy videos to make and it seems people love them.
Really enjoyed watching this as a newbie painter. Especially watching the red over black! Thanks for this!
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Amazing Vid, thank you for another fantastic tutorial, the painting community salutes you Sir.
Thanks mate 😘
This video is so perfectly made and explained and just wanted to know what is the red paint that you used it looks perfect
The best red paint ever made, Mephiston Red
I NEEDED this video. Thank you very much for sharing your expertise> Succinct and informative. Looking forward to future videos.
Now I have to go practice...
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Oh god THANK YOU. I've been struggling for years with glazing and this helped a ton.
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massively helpful, been trying glazing for so long, but this video showed me exactly what i was doing wrong.
I didn't realize you were so close to 100k subs!!! Here's hoping more people catch on to your great tutorials!
Thanks! It's so close I can almost smell it
Muy bueno Juan, uno de los mejores videos que he visto para aprender bien como aplicar glazing
Gracias!
Thank you, brother. I was glazing wrong for 2 years now. I can't wait till tomorrow to paint.
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It sounds silly but it took me months to descover the importance of brush loading/unloading. Great videos!
Gracias 😊
This is really helpful, I had to figure a lot of this out for myself, especially the loading then wiping of excess paint, just as you demonstrated (I also clean the brush with my mouth like a freak, so that made me laugh).
It was almost an act of faith at first, slowly building up color as my first glazes were always so thin, but this eventually lead to a more confident loaded glaze.
Making my own wet pallet was the real game changer though for me.
That's awesome! Let's hope this video helps people out so they find the key to glazing easier
Really useful and instructional mate, cant wait for the rest of the series
Thanks mate
A most excellent explanation. One of the better I have seen.
Thanks
THIS exact info I needed , and never found anywhere else !
Great Idea !
Sometimes thé most simple and important things are very hard to teach, but you nailed it .
I am pro musician, began to play at 7, and this video inspire me a lot,
Because I need to think liké this when a newcomer ask me questions liké thé one you talk about : they ask about symptôms , conséquences,
and I should answer about the causes !
Happy to help! Thanks for you kind words, they do mean a lot
This video changed the way I paint. Thank you so much Juan.
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This is the most interesting tutorial on glazing ever!! Thank you so much 🙏 this is so useful
That was my intention, thanks!
Genial el vídeo, Juan. Gracias por la clase. 👏👏👏
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This is one of the most useful painting video I’ve ever seen
Thanks
Thanks, this was REALLY helpful, and your demonstrations on point, thanks again and again!
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brilliant tuition thank you very much 😊
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Thanks, Juan. This video makes Glazing clearer (pun intended).
I like the new 'Palette-Cam'. It makes the lighting right for us, as we look at the palette.
Looking forward to the next one.
Cheers,
Bat. 🦇
Thanks mate 😘
Insane techniques we get taught here… feels like going to art college for free 😍🙏
Thanks
Geez I’ve been doing it wrong !! This has opened up my eyes man Thank you 🙏🏻
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I think the one thing I wanted from this video that I only half got was glazing with or on more opaque colors. Red and blue are very transparent, but the thumbnail is an off white. Im assuming you go the "put in highlight then glaze down" approach, but even the midtone there is....biege? That must have white in it....
You can watch me do this mini in the How to Paint - White NMM video.
The trick is essentially to go back and forth more and use some medium for the more difficult transitions so you can extend the paint more
Fantastic tutorial, and I really enjoy the humour used!
Thanks
This is a fantastic tutorial.
Thanks!
This has been incredibly helpful, thank you so much!
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I feel like this is a lot of foundational stuff that I "knew already" but I still think I learned a lot from seeing it spelled out. And I have golden daemons so I assume its very useful to new and intermediate painters too!
Thanks mate 😘
Aha!! brush licking 'Screen Grabbed' that's for my screen saver. Now there's a calendar that no one knew they wanted............ Seriously though, it's nice to see how others carry out this and so I can try and perfect my own way.
Lol
This is the video you should have sent to GW mate. Excellently explained, simply demonstrated and applicable to any miniature. They probably wouldn't have been interested ;)
Thanks mate 😘
Thanks! This video improved my painting drastically.
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Man, thank you so much for sharing this beautiful video, I really hope you will make more videos for this series, more real time blending examples with glazing and stippling directly on different kind of armours to understand how to create all kinds of volumes, i think that blending is a topic for which video explanations are never enough. Also brush control and paint charghing on brushes for edge highlights with many different white kinds, keep up the amazing work!!
I already have two other videos in the series and Feathering is coming soon.
I will probably do all things, especially stippling in the future
@@JuanHidalgoMiniatures Thank your for your commitment and effort!!
I was shopping on ebay these days...and your video title made me laugh out loud in the office. :D
That was the objective so I'm glad. This series of videos all have OUTRAGEOUS Clickbait titles that are always a joke.
This is so well explained content. Wow. Thank you. I mean, this is a gamechanger!!!
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Thank you! I would always be impatient. This helps!
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Love you man! Love your humour and painting skills. How’s that amazing little cat you got a while back? Must be quite big now.
No way you remember!!! He is called Ron Weasley "Ro-Ro" but all call him just Weasley.
He is doing fine, big and mischievous as all young cats should be.
A lot of players and painters also make the mistake of consuming endless information and videos, but never put it to practice. Or when they try once and it doesn't go perfectly, they just decide in their minds that they can't do it, tell everyone it "didn't work for them" or they "aren't artistic" and give up. They also expect there to be some sort of perfectly magical recipe of "X drops of paint to X drops of water" to get everything right, when it's really about feel. Practice is the only way to do it, and no natural-born artistic talent (or lack thereof) matters without practicing.
Very true, in the end this is about practice and hard work
Thank you! I was just glazing as I clicked on this one. Extremely good advice!
Thanks mate
Fabulous, can't wait to apply the principles
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Juan, this was amazing!!
Thank you!!!
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A perfect video with hyper clear explainations. Thank you
Thanks
This is the best glazing video I’ve ever seen bar none.
Thanks
VERY informative... NOW can get a better handle on my glazing... thanks for a great vid
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@@JuanHidalgoMiniaturesI dont know what that means
It's just a joke referencing Warhammer 40000!
Thanks for the sub!
For me, Latham is a paint god and Juan the hero who stole glazing from the gods and brought it to us mortals
Thanks mate 😘
Thank you. This is the best glazing video.
That was the idea, making the most in depth and detailed video about glazing possible
Dude thank you so much, I'm so excited to try this 🎉
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Not the thickness, but how I use it. Work on my stroke game. Got it.
thank you so much. Great explanation.
Thanks for watching!
That brushlicking face is burned into my brain 😂 great video again
My pleasure 😘
I agree, glazing circles is the most tricky thing
So frustrating, if you sketch the circle first it turns way easier
Thanks again for upping my game! Some ko-fi's for you good sir!! What do you think about glaze medium like Vallejo's?
I always appreciate your tutorials.
Thanks mate
Awesome video. Please keep these coming
Thanks