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I’d be interested in a more in depth tutorial about volumes. A lot of videos/tutorials on blending and glazing mention volumes, knowing and understanding them. I think this would be good to cover in conjunction with this glazing video. Great video as always!
Love the combination between stippling and layering. Pretty much exactly the type of painting I was planning on trying next so this tutorial is a godsend!
Great vid! Glazing is one of those terms thrown around by a lot of painters without it ever really being explained. When I got into painting minis a few years ago, it took a long time before I pieced together an idea of what it meant, it was often assumed knowledge in other painting videos. This has been the best explanation and tutorial for it I have seen to date. Really helpful.
I’m getting into using dry brushing a lot more and it’s love to see how you’d do a land raider. I’m starting one for my custodes army with a brass and orange color scheme. The LR is going to be a test before doing a bunch of dreads so I’m still figuring out the metals, especially the steel bits like treads on the tank or the joints of the dreads.
Followed your instructions for glazing, and my cake turned out great! The acrylic paints tasted a bit odd, but some of the brighter colors had a very refreshing aftertaste. Only 4 people died due to paint toxicity, so all in all I think the birthday party was a great success
Great video, as always. I have just started to experiment more with glazing, and I have found it to be really useful for getting my models to match each other across a unit. Since I do so much stippling, dry brushing and therefore blending in the brush, I often find some models will be too mush toward the highlight, lowlight, etc. colors and a quick glaze or three can bring them right in to match their buddies.
Thanks for the emphasis on no definitive ratio; I have a tendency to look for that golden ratio whether it’s applicable or not, and this was a good reminder to pay attention to the behavior of the glaze instead of blindly trusting that I am putting the right number of drops in the mix. Is there any additional advice you have for glazing off a wet palette?
Thanks so much for this, very helpful. I wanted to brush up on my glazing (pun not intended) and youtube started bombarding me with videos, and crazily enough you published this the next day! Very weird, but awesome. I like the confident glazing. I've definitely been glazing incorrectly all these years, so its time to give it a proper go again. I am trying to do a nice job on a flesh heavy mini, and am trying to figure out how to glaze in some shadows by adding purples, I'm sure you have a video on that too I will have to find!
@@ArtisOpus kind of everything? I think especially how to get texture that looks right when the model is smooth, which techniques to combine and use where, etc.
If somebody is Talking about room temparature/climate and the effect of it on different painting techniques, i am obv not skilled enough to be the target audience 😅
Hey, don’t sell yourself short! The target audience for knowledge is always “people who didn’t know that thing.” Are you going to use that info tomorrow? Maybe not, but now you know it!
Riiiiiiiiight, we want to avoid that lift off dab of paint. That single tip was the missing piece of the puzzle for me! I've been forcing a lift off point in all my glazing and it just resulted in rougher and rougher gradients.
I was about to ask you if you could do an ork flesh video, but vibrant and not just an all over wash. Thought I had better check your video history first… there it is only a few videos ago!! Subscribed.
The place I struggle with glazing is in the proverbial "smoothing hard transitions between colors." When I attempt to glaze over these spots even after a ton of coats I end up with a hard transition that just has a filter over it. That termie looks pretty amazing though.
I think the fastest gradients ways are: 1: Airbrush + mask. 2: Premix one on a wet palette. 3: Repeatedly glazing smaller areas until you've built up the final color.
One question I have is when glazing with low pigment paints, like yellows and whites - is that a case of being more patient or can you push things with less dilution and still get that smooth finish? My WS successor chapter is mostly white and I've done a couple of techniques for squads like layering and dry brushing. but characters I want that smoother finish so have been cautious about pushing it. Citadel whites aren't that good either, but tamiya xf2 is also a bit chalky sometimes.
I've been dying to get my Opus brushes and get cracking at some new techniques, but the tracking service you offer Via Royal Mail stops working as soon as the shipment leaves the UK, and I have had no idea where my brushes are for the last 10 days :( wish you guys would offer UPS or something
Please could you explain in more detail what you did with the varnish? What type if best for what uses etc? Also if you have any thoughts on spray on varnish versus paint on? I overdid a matt varnish spray on a model and I'm scared to use it any more 😅
Hey, I wonder have you ever considered selling like practise plates?? I had an idea for like 3d printed practise plates?? A small plate with 30-50 faces on it one with bodys / helmets / skin / fur different texture. You could market the STLs and would allow people afraid of ruining there shiny grey plastic to practise without the huge cost? Or I would love to see a video on budget practise models ❤ amazing video as always you are a gift to this community!
I've seen a lot of people say that glaze medium is better to use than water because it helps hold the pigments together better... Is this the case? Or is water actually better for creating this kind of glaze?
I find when I glaze the water retention becomes a problem. The paint won’t lay down a smooth thin layer over the surface, it dumps a tiny droplet which wants to stay a droplet and all you can do is push it around on the model. Do you have any advice for this?
The amount of liquid on your brush is just as important if not more important than the dilution. Your brush should be close to being dry. Most people use too much and end up doing washes rather than glazes and this leads to coffee staining because of how much fluid pools wherever your brush tip leaves the mini. Once you realise this then you will do much better. When you're doing entire areas like in the video it matters less, but when you're trying to actually blend and so aren't covering full areas it's vital to not overfill your brush.
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What should we tackle next as a tutorial?
I’d be interested in a more in depth tutorial about volumes. A lot of videos/tutorials on blending and glazing mention volumes, knowing and understanding them. I think this would be good to cover in conjunction with this glazing video.
Great video as always!
Love that you take scary techniques and make them not only accessible but actually achievable!
Love the combination between stippling and layering. Pretty much exactly the type of painting I was planning on trying next so this tutorial is a godsend!
Great vid! Glazing is one of those terms thrown around by a lot of painters without it ever really being explained. When I got into painting minis a few years ago, it took a long time before I pieced together an idea of what it meant, it was often assumed knowledge in other painting videos. This has been the best explanation and tutorial for it I have seen to date. Really helpful.
I second this right here. Seriously this channel has helped a bunch. Alot of people don't go into detail and explain correctly.
I’m getting into using dry brushing a lot more and it’s love to see how you’d do a land raider. I’m starting one for my custodes army with a brass and orange color scheme. The LR is going to be a test before doing a bunch of dreads so I’m still figuring out the metals, especially the steel bits like treads on the tank or the joints of the dreads.
Followed your instructions for glazing, and my cake turned out great! The acrylic paints tasted a bit odd, but some of the brighter colors had a very refreshing aftertaste.
Only 4 people died due to paint toxicity, so all in all I think the birthday party was a great success
Great video, as always. I have just started to experiment more with glazing, and I have found it to be really useful for getting my models to match each other across a unit. Since I do so much stippling, dry brushing and therefore blending in the brush, I often find some models will be too mush toward the highlight, lowlight, etc. colors and a quick glaze or three can bring them right in to match their buddies.
starts to have a sort of deeper blue version of the robocop chrome look to them with this paint style. very cool.
I'd love to see an Ultramarines method like you say at the end. That'd be awesome. Thanks for this and all your work
Summer in Queensland Australia - need to try some glazing :)
great video mate. So efficient.
Agreed the terminator looks amazing. Curious on what colours you might use if it was a Dark Angel scheme and going for that almost shiny appearance.
Thanks for the emphasis on no definitive ratio; I have a tendency to look for that golden ratio whether it’s applicable or not, and this was a good reminder to pay attention to the behavior of the glaze instead of blindly trusting that I am putting the right number of drops in the mix. Is there any additional advice you have for glazing off a wet palette?
Thanks so much for this, very helpful. I wanted to brush up on my glazing (pun not intended) and youtube started bombarding me with videos, and crazily enough you published this the next day! Very weird, but awesome.
I like the confident glazing. I've definitely been glazing incorrectly all these years, so its time to give it a proper go again. I am trying to do a nice job on a flesh heavy mini, and am trying to figure out how to glaze in some shadows by adding purples, I'm sure you have a video on that too I will have to find!
This is so good, thank you.
Might I beg for a horses tutorial soon? I'd love to see your method for it and I have a whole lot of Bretonians to get through!
This is long requested and definitely a good idea. Different types (colour), or highlighting etc?
@@ArtisOpus kind of everything? I think especially how to get texture that looks right when the model is smooth, which techniques to combine and use where, etc.
@@ArtisOpus Yes horses! There are so many of them...and they must all be painted...different colors...many times...requesting cheat code ;)
If somebody is Talking about room temparature/climate and the effect of it on different painting techniques, i am obv not skilled enough to be the target audience 😅
Hey, don’t sell yourself short! The target audience for knowledge is always “people who didn’t know that thing.” Are you going to use that info tomorrow? Maybe not, but now you know it!
The beauty of it is that it has nothing to do with skill! It is simply knowledge, and it can be acquired fairly easily :)
I believe in you buddy!
Is it bad that his “bad model” at the start would be considered perfect in most of our armies?
Riiiiiiiiight, we want to avoid that lift off dab of paint. That single tip was the missing piece of the puzzle for me! I've been forcing a lift off point in all my glazing and it just resulted in rougher and rougher gradients.
I was about to ask you if you could do an ork flesh video, but vibrant and not just an all over wash. Thought I had better check your video history first… there it is only a few videos ago!! Subscribed.
The place I struggle with glazing is in the proverbial "smoothing hard transitions between colors." When I attempt to glaze over these spots even after a ton of coats I end up with a hard transition that just has a filter over it.
That termie looks pretty amazing though.
I think the fastest gradients ways are:
1: Airbrush + mask.
2: Premix one on a wet palette.
3: Repeatedly glazing smaller areas until you've built up the final color.
Do I need this vid? Not really lol, but I will always come watch the content to support the channel.
One question I have is when glazing with low pigment paints, like yellows and whites - is that a case of being more patient or can you push things with less dilution and still get that smooth finish? My WS successor chapter is mostly white and I've done a couple of techniques for squads like layering and dry brushing. but characters I want that smoother finish so have been cautious about pushing it. Citadel whites aren't that good either, but tamiya xf2 is also a bit chalky sometimes.
You said about classes, can you supply details of these classes? I feel I've hit a plato i think an in-person class would help.
Adepticon and NOVA Open this year for classes for us :)
@@ArtisOpus anything in the UK?
I liked this but wondered if there is a big difference using glaze medium or similar? Informative as always guys!
I've been dying to get my Opus brushes and get cracking at some new techniques, but the tracking service you offer Via Royal Mail stops working as soon as the shipment leaves the UK, and I have had no idea where my brushes are for the last 10 days :( wish you guys would offer UPS or something
These are well spring painted non-metallic glazed Space Marines over the zenithal. Fine stippling there.
Please could you explain in more detail what you did with the varnish? What type if best for what uses etc? Also if you have any thoughts on spray on varnish versus paint on? I overdid a matt varnish spray on a model and I'm scared to use it any more 😅
Hey, I wonder have you ever considered selling like practise plates?? I had an idea for like 3d printed practise plates?? A small plate with 30-50 faces on it one with bodys / helmets / skin / fur different texture. You could market the STLs and would allow people afraid of ruining there shiny grey plastic to practise without the huge cost? Or I would love to see a video on budget practise models ❤ amazing video as always you are a gift to this community!
How to drybrush a textured base without doing the feet edges? Just fix the latter later or add more dust to the rest of the feet?
I've seen a lot of people say that glaze medium is better to use than water because it helps hold the pigments together better... Is this the case? Or is water actually better for creating this kind of glaze?
I find when I glaze the water retention becomes a problem. The paint won’t lay down a smooth thin layer over the surface, it dumps a tiny droplet which wants to stay a droplet and all you can do is push it around on the model. Do you have any advice for this?
Do glaze mediums, like those from Vallejo and ProAcryl, add to the process at all, or are they just a gimmick?
Glazing is the thing that allows me to take 10 minutes to base and layer everything then 900 hours to fix it all.
Lol seriously
I think the Terminator turned out best :) placement of highlights make him look very dynamic.
And Texans!
The amount of liquid on your brush is just as important if not more important than the dilution. Your brush should be close to being dry. Most people use too much and end up doing washes rather than glazes and this leads to coffee staining because of how much fluid pools wherever your brush tip leaves the mini. Once you realise this then you will do much better. When you're doing entire areas like in the video it matters less, but when you're trying to actually blend and so aren't covering full areas it's vital to not overfill your brush.
I’m an idiot… where is the egg sign up?
Thats when you dip the donut in glaze.
I don’t think the world knows how hot the American south gets.
ua-cam.com/video/akKjcG9yuug/v-deo.html reeeeeeeeally looks like you licked the mini, not the brush in the segment.