So where does everyone sit on GLOW vs NO GLOW? We'd like your thoughts! Time to try a Series S size 0, or replacement detail brush? 10% OFF THIS WEEK! : store.artis-opus.com/products/series-s-individual-brush HUGE* Halloween stickers in every S brush order while the offer runs. *we're not kidding, they're impractically big, we definitely ordered them that size on purpose 🎃🎃🎃👀
@@ArtisOpus did the classic evil sunz and mephiston etc. Wild Rider red in place of ice yellow and Yriel Yellow for the white underline, khorne red glaze in the top corner. The OSL looks amazing, I'm very beginner but always happy to take my time with things like this
My question / video suggestion - is it possible to paint a human face using primarily drybrushing and washes? I feel like if anyone could show us how to do it, Byron is the man for it!
it might be a lot of work, but a video that states every technique that can be done with a dry brush, like a library of all of the techniques you've covered in the past. You could link those videos in the description too, I think that would be a huge help to anyone getting into drybrushing for the first time. Also amazing video, great explanation!
Would be great to see a video on painting white armor. Apothecaries are a pain to get looking right and highlighting them feels like an impossible task. Would love to see what your take on one would be.
Something you do that i can't figure out for the life of me, is which colors you choose to mix and blend. There must be a system or learned recipes you have. An explanation on why use certain colors together would be helpful.
Since you guys are in my opinion the king of drybrushing i think a video on doing nmm with drybrushing would be very interesting. I know people do it but i never been able to find a great tutorial for it that goes as in depth as your content always does
A video about different ideas to integrate a model with its base would be great. Making the feet look dusty/dirty with the same colour as the base texture is my go-to approach but it gets a bit boring. Thanks for the tutorial!
Nice one, Byron. Thanks for this. I have an idea for a video for you: paint additives/mediums. I recently bought some Golden Fluid acrylic paints. It is the most glossy paint I've seen. I've read that there are mediums that can change the finish of paints. The different types of these mediums and how to use them could make for a good video. Another suggestion: acrylic pencils. I recently bought some AK acrylic pencils, but I haven't worked out how to get the most out of them.
Great video, thanks for the tips and tutorial! Just one note I would add, your hand will be steadier if you breathe in, then breathe out and hold the out breath rather than the air inside!
Space Marine eyes are a major bugaboo for me, one of the most common places I will go "eh it's good enough" when I don't really think so. Looking forward to trying out these techniques. Suggestion for a future video: brush care! I feel like there's a lot of information about this scattered all over UA-cam (some of it bad) and it would be nice to hear from an authority on the subject.
@ArtisOpus, I love all the help you offer the mere painting noobs like me. Thank you for all the hard work. Can i suggest for a future video, perhaps show us how you would approch a fresh model, how to choose a style/s and why or how to decide when or where to use these different painting techniques? Thank you again!
I have suggested it before, but I would like to see a tutorial on how to paint a heavily weathered Space Marine Drop Pod. Love the eye lens tutorial. I've been using a smaller brush. So, I was probably making my life harder for no reason...
You always have quite interesting setups for mounting and handling miniature pieces that differ a fair bit between videos. In this video you're using a grip with a nicely fitted cork piece with what looks like a pinned sprue piece to mount the Space Marine head. It would be very interesting for you to dedicate a video to go through your approach to prepping different sized bits and miniatures as it can vary a lot for both base coating prep and actually painting the models.
Useful video, thanks! I have a problem getting highlights on bolters or gins in general to look good / clean, would love to see a future video on that.
I will try this, as I have been struggling to make my eye lenses to look realistic, thank you! For a video idea, could you do one on how to paint realistic in-scale details? As in scrollwork on banners/purity seals, graffiti on terrain, kill markings on lasguns, and tanks, etc. I have a really difficult time with the above because I think I don’t know the technique and would like to paint these tiny details to make my minis come to life. You explained the eye lense process so clearly with this video, I reckon you’d be able to do this very well. Cheers!
This is brilliant thanks. Will be using this on some blood angels, never been very successful with lenses! Would love to see a video bringing different styles together, to get the optimum out of each technique combination. Something like airbrush for shadows and volumetric highlights + edge highlight drybrushing?
Yeah this is a really good tutorial and helped me alot. Thank you. Would love to see how to get a glow heat tutorial on the jet packs on the assault intercessor or anything that would use jet fuel or gets super hot. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Started building my BA army and this puts things in perspective! If you don’t mind me asking, what colors do you suggest for red lenses (death company)? Looking forward the next one!
Love it! I like how you push it that extra 50% to really make the glow effect. Most of us (i do) just put a colour in the lens and a white dot for the shine, but ill defo try this next time i opt to.paint the helmet over eyes, but i really enjoy painting eyes! I am a bit odd 😂 You havent done a reaction video to submitted painted models in a good while. Is that something you'd do again?
I notice there’s no Primarch in your video collection Byron. I’m thinking Horus, either the one on the staircase or the ascended version on the big pile of bones please. I would be interested to see how you would take on such a model. Thanks.
my preferred method of marine eyes is a horizontal line that goes through the middle of the eye this makes it look like a rounded lens instead of scuba goggles paints wise its much the same, but you need 3 bright colours or 1 bright, 1 dark and the skill to make a gradient on your pallet base the whole eye in your dark colour do a thin line of your 1st bright colour that travels the length using your 2nd bright colour do the same line but cut 30% of each end (getting smaller towards the center) then hit the same line with your brightest colour but only do the very middle of the line, about 10% total if you want to go full hog, you can put small white dot at the high back and front low of lens let it dry then coat the entire eye with a gloss black wash the end result is a deep glass look
I would like to learn a) how to paint eyes on miniatures or b) NMM. I've tryed NMM with different techniques but I would like to see your method. Thank you
Hi Byron, love your vids. Im quite new to the hobby, bough the starter pack for WH40k with SM and tyranids Any tips on how to make the aquilla good, I feel it's so easy to mess that up
Last week I painted my first squad of space marines, painting those tiny details is quite daunting. Since I'm in my 50s now my main problem is even seeing the eyes! I need to find some form of magnification so I can see what I'm doing :/ Thanks for the tips though.
When you say drying out your brush too much, do you mean that the paint dries too quickly on your brush? Retarder medium will help with that issue. You could use flow improver if you have that, but it is more fluid than the retarder medium, so it can make it more difficult to get sharp pupils.
Very cool. My only issue is nobody will notice it on the table top. For a personal effort thing it's awesome for challenging yourself. Just in my experience an opponent can have dog crap painted models and I don't notice it at all when playing.
Would love to see some NMM guides. I was talking to the element games guys and getting recipes from them and a bunch of help like artists books and what not and will 100% give what they said a go. But I would love to see your take on it.
I'd be interested in a video on how to do clean white glossy but also interesting armor. I'm trying to paint Star Wars Legion Clone Troopers and they just aren't turning out how I want.
Well since it’s Orktober I feel like it’s only fitting to paint something orky. Maybe ork skin, ork vehicle with weathering, or do a sweet kitbash of some sort!!
Order of operations for dry brushing. I'm painting sacrosanct stormcast and they have bits over robes over armor and I am freezing up trying to figure out in what order I should paint them to reduce how much pain I spill over from one surface to the next.
Byron, do you have any tips on doing the under eye glow when the helmet is a lighter colour? When i try to do it with the Reiver masks, with the white skull paint under the eyes, the glow always looks too bright.
base coat it grey , wash it with black until it reads as black (making sure to let it completely dry between coats), then highlight with light grey this will give you the same depth of colour as your normal painting steps but it will read as black same goes for white , start with grey, wash black, layer up light grey, then highlight white
this might be a silly question: But what are you using to pin the heads? My 1mm hobby wire or my 1mm brass rods are too bendy, so if i even apply the slightest pressure the head moves
Thinking about tip paint drying time. Has anyone experimented with air brush flow improver on in the mix? It might increase flooding issues as it lowers viscosity, but it greatly increases drying time with air brushes. I wonder if it would be of use avoiding that issue on hair brushes? My suggestion for a video is terrain. That's always my favourite bit of a table-top when it's done well. Maybe a short series. Vid one - how to bash out a passable terrain paint job with minimal time and resources. Vid two - upgrading that to something eye catching. Vid three - what takes it to a showstopper piece.
You can buy a retarder medium that lengthens the drying time of acrylic paint. Most of the brands we use to paint miniatures make it. I have some made by Vallejo and some from Golden.
Space marine lenses? You mean easy mode lenses? Try Eldar Guardians. Smaller, more angular and often overshadowed by the conical helm that limits your ability to come in from above with a brush. Yes, I can fail at both easy and hard lenses with an ease that is indistinguishable from incompetence. It's a (lack of) gift. Suggestion for a video: novel and interesting paints like the colour changing ranges to give iridescence. Got to be useful for Eldar minis, surely? Or Tyranids?
Abteilung 502 Magic Potion For Brushes is my favourite brush cleaner. It is safe for sable brushes, but it is still more effective than any brush cleaner I've used, and I've used most. You'll still need a brush soap to clean the cleaner off. For that, I'd recommend Jentastic's Drunken Brush Goop from Monument Hobbies. A huge advantage of the Abteilung 502 stuff is that it is a liquid, so it can remove dried paint from the ferrule, whereas normal brush soap really struggles doing that. I've cleaned brushes with splayed bristles with this stuff and recovered brushes that I thought were dead. If you've got a brush with splayed bristles, grab a clothes peg, put the brush in the 502 cleaner up to halfway along the ferrule, then use the clothes peg to hold the brush in place and leave it there for 10 minutes or so. Don't just drop your brush in the cleaner and leave it like that as it will bend the bristles. You'll see all the dried paint start to flow out of the ferrule into the cleaner.
Not sure if anyone else does this, but instead of adding the white lines, i prefer to leave it in when doing the green stages. No clue why, but i have better luck As for a vid idea - insect wings! I have a really hard time with them.
everything is great, but the equipment works very poorly if the air humidity is low... a thin layer of paint dries almost instantly on the brush :( there is only one salvation - a humidifier
it's a great tutorial, but please stop telling people to hold their breath! it does NOT help, and will make getting those sharp points and lines way harder than it needs to be. Think of it like this, Snipers and marksmen don't hold their breath, because holding your breath amplifies the heartbeat and makes your body shake with each heartbeat, and with targets as small as the lens of a marine, that's even more important. Long slow breaths are instead far better, control the breathing don't stifle it.
So where does everyone sit on GLOW vs NO GLOW? We'd like your thoughts!
Time to try a Series S size 0, or replacement detail brush? 10% OFF THIS WEEK! : store.artis-opus.com/products/series-s-individual-brush HUGE* Halloween stickers in every S brush order while the offer runs.
*we're not kidding, they're impractically big, we definitely ordered them that size on purpose 🎃🎃🎃👀
Go’ on glow 😊❤
The Ayes have it 😜
100% on team glow (helps that now I know how to do it easy-ish)
Always got the glow.
@@ArtisOpus glow 100%
Finally I found someone who embraces their mistakes instead of editing them out. Thank you!
I followed the process but swapped the greens out for reds and just did the best lens ever. Thank you!
Yes, buddy! What colours did you use? So pleased for you 🙌
@@ArtisOpus did the classic evil sunz and mephiston etc. Wild Rider red in place of ice yellow and Yriel Yellow for the white underline, khorne red glaze in the top corner. The OSL looks amazing, I'm very beginner but always happy to take my time with things like this
I think this is the most comprehensive and actually well explained painting tutorial I've ever watched. Thank you very much. (:
My question / video suggestion - is it possible to paint a human face using primarily drybrushing and washes? I feel like if anyone could show us how to do it, Byron is the man for it!
“Byron needs you to think about your angles!” would be a great t-shirt… or texture palette image!
it might be a lot of work, but a video that states every technique that can be done with a dry brush, like a library of all of the techniques you've covered in the past. You could link those videos in the description too, I think that would be a huge help to anyone getting into drybrushing for the first time. Also amazing video, great explanation!
Agreed!
the innuendo bingo in this video is phenominal. ALMOST as good as the tips, almost.
Almost 👀👀. Thanks, buddy!
Your displays behind you are awesome
Thank you! We designed them :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/artis-opus/cabinets
Would be great to see a video on painting white armor. Apothecaries are a pain to get looking right and highlighting them feels like an impossible task. Would love to see what your take on one would be.
I would love to see an all-in-one tutorial on how to paint black for different materials (metal, bone, leather, cloth, etc). Cheers!
Since you explain things so well, I would like to see you do a necron in non-metallic metal.
Very helpful thanks byron!
I agree that the angle you approach the eye is crucial. So many times just turning the head upside down to change the angle made all the difference.
Something you do that i can't figure out for the life of me, is which colors you choose to mix and blend. There must be a system or learned recipes you have. An explanation on why use certain colors together would be helpful.
really appreciate you tutorials. It's great that you show what you are doing rather than cut to it already done. Massive props for that
Since you guys are in my opinion the king of drybrushing i think a video on doing nmm with drybrushing would be very interesting. I know people do it but i never been able to find a great tutorial for it that goes as in depth as your content always does
Thanks Byron! Gotta grab my AO-00 brush and revisit about 700 pair of eyes now! Yay...
A video about different ideas to integrate a model with its base would be great. Making the feet look dusty/dirty with the same colour as the base texture is my go-to approach but it gets a bit boring. Thanks for the tutorial!
Loved this. Clean results in simple steps.
Nice one, Byron. Thanks for this.
I have an idea for a video for you: paint additives/mediums.
I recently bought some Golden Fluid acrylic paints. It is the most glossy paint I've seen. I've read that there are mediums that can change the finish of paints. The different types of these mediums and how to use them could make for a good video.
Another suggestion: acrylic pencils. I recently bought some AK acrylic pencils, but I haven't worked out how to get the most out of them.
I'd love to see how to do some more cool base effects. Colours to use together, how to make sure your models pop from the base
Grest video! Would love to see a masterclass on lightning. Seems a simple thing but seen some horror stories.
Great video, thanks for the tips and tutorial! Just one note I would add, your hand will be steadier if you breathe in, then breathe out and hold the out breath rather than the air inside!
My suggestion: a basic overview of OSL techniques (drybrushing, glazes etc.)
Space Marine eyes are a major bugaboo for me, one of the most common places I will go "eh it's good enough" when I don't really think so. Looking forward to trying out these techniques.
Suggestion for a future video: brush care! I feel like there's a lot of information about this scattered all over UA-cam (some of it bad) and it would be nice to hear from an authority on the subject.
@ArtisOpus, I love all the help you offer the mere painting noobs like me. Thank you for all the hard work. Can i suggest for a future video, perhaps show us how you would approch a fresh model, how to choose a style/s and why or how to decide when or where to use these different painting techniques? Thank you again!
Great video dude. Always appreciate you content.
I have suggested it before, but I would like to see a tutorial on how to paint a heavily weathered Space Marine Drop Pod. Love the eye lens tutorial. I've been using a smaller brush. So, I was probably making my life harder for no reason...
You always have quite interesting setups for mounting and handling miniature pieces that differ a fair bit between videos. In this video you're using a grip with a nicely fitted cork piece with what looks like a pinned sprue piece to mount the Space Marine head. It would be very interesting for you to dedicate a video to go through your approach to prepping different sized bits and miniatures as it can vary a lot for both base coating prep and actually painting the models.
Useful video, thanks!
I have a problem getting highlights on bolters or gins in general to look good / clean, would love to see a future video on that.
I will try this, as I have been struggling to make my eye lenses to look realistic, thank you!
For a video idea, could you do one on how to paint realistic in-scale details? As in scrollwork on banners/purity seals, graffiti on terrain, kill markings on lasguns, and tanks, etc.
I have a really difficult time with the above because I think I don’t know the technique and would like to paint these tiny details to make my minis come to life. You explained the eye lense process so clearly with this video, I reckon you’d be able to do this very well. Cheers!
Amazing video, thank you so much for sharing Byron. Would love to see the same kind of video for flesh on faces. Cheers and thank you once again
I'd love to see a video about bloody/wounded skin
great tutorial. keep up the great work
Video Suggestion: How do you go about painting repeating patterns for things like Harlequins?
Thank you
This is brilliant thanks. Will be using this on some blood angels, never been very successful with lenses! Would love to see a video bringing different styles together, to get the optimum out of each technique combination. Something like airbrush for shadows and volumetric highlights + edge highlight drybrushing?
Yeah this is a really good tutorial and helped me alot. Thank you.
Would love to see how to get a glow heat tutorial on the jet packs on the assault intercessor or anything that would use jet fuel or gets super hot.
Thank you
I would really like to see how he did that red armor. It looks really good.
Thanks for the video. Started building my BA army and this puts things in perspective! If you don’t mind me asking, what colors do you suggest for red lenses (death company)? Looking forward the next one!
Love it! I like how you push it that extra 50% to really make the glow effect. Most of us (i do) just put a colour in the lens and a white dot for the shine, but ill defo try this next time i opt to.paint the helmet over eyes, but i really enjoy painting eyes! I am a bit odd 😂
You havent done a reaction video to submitted painted models in a good while. Is that something you'd do again?
I notice there’s no Primarch in your video collection Byron. I’m thinking Horus, either the one on the staircase or the ascended version on the big pile of bones please. I would be interested to see how you would take on such a model. Thanks.
Would be great to have a video on black nmm
my preferred method of marine eyes is a horizontal line that goes through the middle of the eye
this makes it look like a rounded lens instead of scuba goggles
paints wise its much the same, but you need 3 bright colours or 1 bright, 1 dark and the skill to make a gradient on your pallet
base the whole eye in your dark colour
do a thin line of your 1st bright colour that travels the length
using your 2nd bright colour do the same line but cut 30% of each end (getting smaller towards the center)
then hit the same line with your brightest colour but only do the very middle of the line, about 10% total
if you want to go full hog, you can put small white dot at the high back and front low of lens
let it dry
then coat the entire eye with a gloss black wash
the end result is a deep glass look
can you make a video on how to paint muscle fibers?
Video suggestion. Painting food on a miniature (as the new Rattling snipers have roast chicken!)
I would like to learn a) how to paint eyes on miniatures or b) NMM. I've tryed NMM with different techniques but I would like to see your method. Thank you
Hi Byron, love your vids. Im quite new to the hobby, bough the starter pack for WH40k with SM and tyranids
Any tips on how to make the aquilla good, I feel it's so easy to mess that up
Last week I painted my first squad of space marines, painting those tiny details is quite daunting. Since I'm in my 50s now my main problem is even seeing the eyes! I need to find some form of magnification so I can see what I'm doing :/ Thanks for the tips though.
do you have plans for doing eyes on non helmeted heads?
i feel like im drying out my brush too much. thanks
When you say drying out your brush too much, do you mean that the paint dries too quickly on your brush? Retarder medium will help with that issue. You could use flow improver if you have that, but it is more fluid than the retarder medium, so it can make it more difficult to get sharp pupils.
Very cool. My only issue is nobody will notice it on the table top. For a personal effort thing it's awesome for challenging yourself. Just in my experience an opponent can have dog crap painted models and I don't notice it at all when playing.
Would love to see some NMM guides. I was talking to the element games guys and getting recipes from them and a bunch of help like artists books and what not and will 100% give what they said a go. But I would love to see your take on it.
I'd like to see more on vehicles of a 40k style.
I'd be interested in a video on how to do clean white glossy but also interesting armor. I'm trying to paint Star Wars Legion Clone Troopers and they just aren't turning out how I want.
Future video idea - how to create and paint a unique to you space marine chapter.
Well since it’s Orktober I feel like it’s only fitting to paint something orky. Maybe ork skin, ork vehicle with weathering, or do a sweet kitbash of some sort!!
How about a loaded brush technique or achieving something similar as a tutorial?
can you also make a tutorial how to paint gems?
I wonder if you can use your drybrushing wizardy to duplicate a colour shift pait style of effect? If any wizard can Byron can!
Wait a min. Is that the same song infernal brush used in his vids? I love that song when painting. ;p having
Order of operations for dry brushing. I'm painting sacrosanct stormcast and they have bits over robes over armor and I am freezing up trying to figure out in what order I should paint them to reduce how much pain I spill over from one surface to the next.
Byron, do you have any tips on doing the under eye glow when the helmet is a lighter colour? When i try to do it with the Reiver masks, with the white skull paint under the eyes, the glow always looks too bright.
For the next vídeo I'd like to see how to paint in black some materials as feathers, claws or even skin (some mantic crows on my pile of shame 😉😉 ).
base coat it grey , wash it with black until it reads as black (making sure to let it completely dry between coats), then highlight with light grey
this will give you the same depth of colour as your normal painting steps but it will read as black
same goes for white , start with grey, wash black, layer up light grey, then highlight white
@@nadukkerensky392 thanks
this might be a silly question:
But what are you using to pin the heads? My 1mm hobby wire or my 1mm brass rods are too bendy, so if i even apply the slightest pressure the head moves
Thinking about tip paint drying time. Has anyone experimented with air brush flow improver on in the mix? It might increase flooding issues as it lowers viscosity, but it greatly increases drying time with air brushes. I wonder if it would be of use avoiding that issue on hair brushes?
My suggestion for a video is terrain. That's always my favourite bit of a table-top when it's done well. Maybe a short series. Vid one - how to bash out a passable terrain paint job with minimal time and resources. Vid two - upgrading that to something eye catching. Vid three - what takes it to a showstopper piece.
You can buy a retarder medium that lengthens the drying time of acrylic paint. Most of the brands we use to paint miniatures make it. I have some made by Vallejo and some from Golden.
Space marine lenses? You mean easy mode lenses? Try Eldar Guardians. Smaller, more angular and often overshadowed by the conical helm that limits your ability to come in from above with a brush. Yes, I can fail at both easy and hard lenses with an ease that is indistinguishable from incompetence. It's a (lack of) gift.
Suggestion for a video: novel and interesting paints like the colour changing ranges to give iridescence. Got to be useful for Eldar minis, surely? Or Tyranids?
Is there a way to clean my brushes without hurting them? 😅
Abteilung 502 Magic Potion For Brushes is my favourite brush cleaner. It is safe for sable brushes, but it is still more effective than any brush cleaner I've used, and I've used most. You'll still need a brush soap to clean the cleaner off. For that, I'd recommend Jentastic's Drunken Brush Goop from Monument Hobbies.
A huge advantage of the Abteilung 502 stuff is that it is a liquid, so it can remove dried paint from the ferrule, whereas normal brush soap really struggles doing that. I've cleaned brushes with splayed bristles with this stuff and recovered brushes that I thought were dead. If you've got a brush with splayed bristles, grab a clothes peg, put the brush in the 502 cleaner up to halfway along the ferrule, then use the clothes peg to hold the brush in place and leave it there for 10 minutes or so. Don't just drop your brush in the cleaner and leave it like that as it will bend the bristles. You'll see all the dried paint start to flow out of the ferrule into the cleaner.
Not sure if anyone else does this, but instead of adding the white lines, i prefer to leave it in when doing the green stages. No clue why, but i have better luck
As for a vid idea - insect wings! I have a really hard time with them.
I recognize that face at :40 lol
everything is great, but the equipment works very poorly if the air humidity is low... a thin layer of paint dries almost instantly on the brush :( there is only one salvation - a humidifier
it's a great tutorial, but please stop telling people to hold their breath! it does NOT help, and will make getting those sharp points and lines way harder than it needs to be. Think of it like this, Snipers and marksmen don't hold their breath, because holding your breath amplifies the heartbeat and makes your body shake with each heartbeat, and with targets as small as the lens of a marine, that's even more important. Long slow breaths are instead far better, control the breathing don't stifle it.
I was expecting "how to drybrush lenses in 2 minutes", bummer...
You're using one of the worst white. the Monument hobby bol titaniom white cover so much more ant the vallejo white ink spread better
Great video thanks, was great meeting you in Birmingham on Saturday. I hope you enjoyed the croissants.. 🥐🥐