How to Paint Yellow & Why You Should Never Ask
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Test #1 Paints:
Left Leg: Citadel Nazdreg Yellow, Right Leg: Citadel Iyanden Yellow, Right Arm: Citadel Snakebite Leather. Left Arm: Citadel Snakebite Leather Diluted w/Contrast Medium, Head: SC75 Sulfur Yellow, Shoulder/Chest: SC75 Full Healing, Back: SC75 Rotten Pus
Test #2 Paints:
Left Side: SC75 Sunset Purple, Right Side: Kimera Red, Zenithal Light: Vallejo Ice Yellow, Citadel Nazdreg Yellow wash
Test #3 Paints:
Left Side: Kimera Phthalo Green, Right Side: Kimera Phthalo Blue, Zenithal Light: SC75 Artic Blue, 10:1 Yellow to Green Ink applied with airbrush, wash with Sennelier Payne's Grey Oil Wash
Test #4 Paints:
Golden High Flow Chartreuse basecoat, Right Side + Head: Citadel Magos Purple thinned, Left Side: Citadel Volpus Purple thinned
Test #5 Paints:
Vallejo Brown Leather Basecoast, MIG Medium Rust Drybrush
Test #6 Paints:
Citadel Averland Sunset Basecoat, MIG Deep Violet Shader shade, Citadel Aggaros Dunes recess shade
**Pretty much every test was Edge Highlighted with Vallejo Ice Yellow
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All the paint recipes I tested are written out in the description!
*tasted
Love the video. I would love it if you did a series of these where you combine different approaches to the “same” color. Great for inspiration when looking for the next scheme! Keep up the great work!
And what about for those bases. They are technically "yellow"....
Yellow Hammerite or a yellow Tamiya would do the job
@@RPRsChannel what job?
But Scott, how does the yellow paint taste? Inquiring minds need to know. Hopefully its not as bad as yellow snow.
Scott: pronounces “Drukhari”
Me: Gesundheit
Not gonna lie, before looking it up I thought it was spelled "Druhikari" :|
@@Miniac i just say Drew Carey
I normally go overboard with trying to match foreign words as I think they should be pronounced, so I call them "Drew-kah-ree" with the drew part pronounced in a sort of japanese accent.
Me, who’s firmly stuck using the old non-trademarkable names: Dark Eldar
Step one: prime your miniature black
Step two: get the most watery, mustard yellow paint you can find. Citadels Averland sunset will work fine
Step three: Apply one thick, blotchy coat. Make sure it's patchy and the black primer shows through in places.
Step four: Ummmm. Cry yourself to sleep.
Oh God, Averland Sunset....
Honestly I'm surprised I don't have nightmare about GW's yellow paints.
@@dwi2921 am I the only one who ever had good experiences with Avery and sun set
@@Selzor
Yes. Lol!
@@Selzor Same here lol it's my go to base for yellow. Averland, Agrax earthshade, layer/fix mistakes with more Averland and highlight with a lighter yellow of some sort.
I kind of like how the drybrushed yellow came out. Like the warrior was clad in a tarnished set of ancient bronze.
Same. It looks awesome and probably not too time consuming I hope.
**Laughs in Lamenters Glaze**
Here I thought Mephiston was monstrous creature in power armor.
**laughs in FW Brilliant Yellow**
Hope your feeling better valrak chaos can't keep you down.
You will run out EVENTUALLY, even if it's in 20 years
"Iron Neck" Valrak is here too 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Piles of kabalite warrior test models in yellow!? I love u bro. Pumped to see you back onto that dark Eldar force!!
Prepare the 1000000 shoulda painted yellow like goobs comments 😉 lol
Followed by Casey upset by those comments
Yes more of the pale boys!!!! Can’t wait to see this finished.
@@tabletopapprentice233 Shoulda painted yellow like goobs :D
But Brent, you already called dibs on Drukhari!
Noob painter: “how do I paint yellow well?”
Veteran painters: “that’s the neat part.You don’t”
Why use yellow when metallic gold is a thing? Lol jk
Mix your mid tone with white or flesh tone pigmented paint as a undercoat. Easy peasy.
I like Vallejo bronze flesh tone and then literally any other yellow over it
*me, simply printing figures that are mainly yellow using yellow resin*
Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of my power.
@@zigfaust based
Scott: Not really a fan of yellow.
Also Scott: I’m doing an entire army in yellow.
Classic! 😆
It’s a thing. If you master it, you can hate it more thoroughly, and explain what it is you hate. All while gaining control and experimentation on something that could be a weakness prior to experimenting
38 minutes is great time for your final scheme. Your scientific approach to choosing a time-efficient yet good-looking scheme really paid off. Hats off to you, Scott 👏👏👏
One of my burning questions since starting to paint minis. Thanks for this one. For what its worth, surprising to myself, I love all the yellows you did.
Happy to hear that!
Since I've actually painted some 7k points worth of orange, I'll give my *practical* advice without the weirdly resentful explanation on everything except a solid yellow coat:
First off, painting an army in these colors is a challenge and not something you should do just to have a different looking army. Orange and yellow cover extremely poorly and by applying more layers, it'll look thick before you've covered a dark primer or base with it.
If you insist, here's how you do it:
The absolute easiest way by far is to buy an airbrush, prime white, batch paint your unit in thin layers of yellow from one model to the next and you'll have a very nice fully painted yellow unit of models, then simply layer on top of that for anything you don't want to be yellow.
For orange, prime white, layer yellow once, then orange on top - This is literally what I do with my army and through hundreds of hours of methods and testing, it's the single best one. The time you save will mitigate the cost of the equipment. I promise you, that unless you're only painting a few hundred points worth of models, this is a life saver.
For pre-shading use pink on white very lightly, then yellow on top, which will look a darker/shaded yellow instead of that weird green-ish effect you get from black.
For post shading you want to use a light brown.
If you're preshading for orange, you still use pink (a lot more), but you'll need the post shade as well with something like a 'beasty brown' from vallejo and burnt umber for really dark shadows.
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IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GET AN AIRBRUSH: Use an Averland Sunset primer rattle can and build up the layer color you want with 2-3 thin coats with a brush.
If you need it to be a lighter tone, prime with white instead and you just do basic layering, but pay more attention to it. You can use a "cheat" layer like a thin layer of tan and/or bone (you don't need to cover 100%) before applying yellow, but it'll be slightly desaturated, which you may or may not want.
How to layer yellow/orange/white on top of black/dark colors or rather, how to use as few layers as possible to get a solid light color: Use a thin layer of any brown you have on top (no need for a 100% cover, just give it a thin coat), then a tan (zandri dust, just a thin coat - optionally a thin layer of bone as well) and then the light color you want. Very practical for fixing color choices on something you've already painted, without having to use 12 layers and making the model look thick (in a bad way).
For edge highlighting, use a bone color, like Screaming Skull, to get bright highlights without them being too sharp. Use white on the very tips.
Which paints: Averland Sunset (Base - sort of mustard-y but covers extremely well), Yriel Yellow (slightly warm), Flash Gitz Yellow (very bright yellow, use sparingly).
For a "true" orange; Prime white, thin layer of yellow (or mix of a 1:1 yellow and orange) then Troll Slayer Orange in thin layers until it's solid
This is the mvp comment, also nice to see a mention for basing in pink (which I'm surprised wasn't in the video).
Your yellow Drukhari colour scheme was one of the first things that made me like your channel years ago!
I have to say that, after all this time of watching your videos, my favorite part is still the death metal cry of paint more minis followed by that sick guitar riff. Never fails to improve my mood.
To be fair, I really dig that sandy-brown yellow warrior. It looked really cool to me.
Explaining how to ask a question is not taught enough. Probably the best advice you have given on the entire channel no joke.
I have Vallejo bronze fleshtone and honestly it's such a good orange-brown-yellow and you can paint yellow very nicely over it, especially the bright ones like sun yellow
Nice, thanks Scott, I did a video on yellow last week but definitely lots I missed in here.
I agree, infinite amount of ways to paint everything. All comes down to experimenting and trying stuff out. Great video
I like the dry brush over brown ochre colour. He’s like a dark elder tendie.
Big fan of this vid. Inspires experimentation with not just yellow, but with other colors as well. The range is limitless.
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It's so rewarding to do tests like this, you learn so much! It's good to sometimes paint miniatures that are not intended to be used, but rather just as colour tests.
This was fantastic. I started painting a couple years ago and hit a point recently where I really hate how I painted my earlier projects. I've been trying to figure out better ways to approach color and working out different ideas, and your test process was pretty eye opening. Now I want to get an airbrush.
After years of lusting after minis your channel made me finally dive in. Been having such a blast painting orks and building terrain! Thanks for the content
My go to for a nice golden yellow is a wraithbone undercoat, 1 coat of 50/50 Magos purple and medium. Then 1 coat of 50/50 Iyanden yellow and medium. Highlight with Yriel yellow and edge highlight with Dorn yellow. Easy to do and really pops!
This felt like watching the equivalent of a chef explaining all the ways you can use spices and special noodles to boil gourmet ramen.
Interesting video. But it goes more into the method and theory with actual application, splicing it into your own color schemes and different methods and their drawbacks.
However it doesn't answer the age old question of painting flashgitz yellow.
Your comment about every soldier not needing to look the same reminded me of a thing that was recently brought to my attention about the Roman Army. They had multiple different styles of armor worn by their soldiers that had a uniform appearance from a difference but were majorly different up close. Just a fun little thing that when I am done with college I might explore.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours. Thank you for taking us through your color testing process, I'm starting to use more inks in my process and seeing stuff like this is really helping me figure out how they work.
I normally don't paint yellow at all, and I've yet to jump on the oil washes bandwagon or succumb to the Contrast Plague, as I lovingly call it, but this gave me some really good ideas as to how I can go about it. Thank you, Scott!
Very nice, Scott! I really enjoy the color yellow but never wind up using it enough, so seeing how you managed to bring it to life with so many different personalities was super awesome!
I really liked the cold yellow with the purple undercoat. Need to try that. Thanks for the video.
Oh man I needed this video, my iron warrior hazard stripes won't paint themselves.
This is one of the most useful/helpful painting vids that I have ever seen.
Just a quick tip, Scott: I wouldn't advise reaching into a running ultrasonic cleaner too often, it can make the nerves in your fingers separate from the bone, first causing intense pain, then a loss of all sensation.
I have some drukhari sitting unpainted because I couldn't decide on a scheme. After seeing this they are definitely going to be yellow as yours look awesome!
Man alive, I love your content Scott. You have an analytically artistic big brain 🧠. Your angle never fails to be refreshingly relevant. Cheers
My best advice is find a good base yellow you wanna use, do not base in black unless you want your yellow to be dark, I use from army painter a sulfur yellow as my undercoat, just apply it watered down like you would contrast paint let it set then BOOM paint whatever yellow you want on said model, this sulfur yellow is a very ugly thin yellow but it will make all other yellows put on it show up as YELLOW not, dark yellow, or faded yellow, or a slight off color of the yellow your trying to use but YELLOW!
Great video Scott! Great reminder to dig deeper when thinking about color and scheme!
Fantastic video. Love seeing the various tests in figuring out what yellow you wanted for your army. Great explanations as well.
I just did the same thing with a slyvaneth army box set. I tested everything I've ever been curious about & it was well worth it
I like this video. It's kinda fun watching others go through an army painting scheme process
I think generally when the "yellow question" gets asked it's people who want to know about true yellow (or within a few degrees of that) because that seems to be the one that's the most problematic. If it's ocher or chartreuse for example; sure there's yellow present but it's not *true* yellow. The problem as I see it is that if you want true yellow to be your midtone (as you put it - to read as true yellow) it's hard to maintain this effect without giving up contrast as whatever you shade with will pull it to that part of the spectrum and whatever you highlight with will desaturate due to white. It's not impossible to get this balance of course but my point is that it might be what people mean when they ask the question. Though I could totally be wrong.
Super informative video, love the interesting schemes you've created. I've recently had some success with an orange tone from GW call Averland sunset as my lowest value but I might give your ocher scheme a try.
Base/undercoat with PINK!! Seriously.. it does WONDERS!!
This is the kind of video I look for on this channel! Thank you for your dedication! This was awesome!
Final model is great.
I also like the green-yellow version, would make a great scheme for Striking Scorpions...
Great work man... that being said, he paints a model in 30 minutes and it looks infinitely better than the 3 that I took 33 hours on... It was my first attempt at "batch painting". XC
The first miniature I painted was yellow and it was a struggle also being my first time with an airbrush. I also did yellow on black base coat.
Been waiting for a long time to see these getting more love.
Your last scheme really is stunning (and efficient)❤! It's genuinely interesting to see the thought process that get you there!
As a fellow metalhead I love the music at the end of your videos
The easiest way to get yellow paint on a miniature to look like it does in the bottle is to use an undercoat that is a yellow pigment mixed with a white or flesh tone pigment. I think Army Painter yellows are the best kept secret in the business; Moon Dust, Elven Flesh and Arid Earth all do a great job at it, but you can do it by mixing whichever paints you have on hand.
The oil wash/shading. Apply a gloss or satin varnish first? Really struggling with the oils. Great vid, Scott.
Ah sweet, good timing for this as I've got a tonne of Drukhari to get stuck into! :)
I changed the blue in my army and it looks pretty good, I feel as long as you make units consistent then it looks good
Excellent video. Thanks a lot. Molotow makes a fantastic arylic purple primer.
This is the best video on yellow paint I've seen. Love it!
Super informative! I always like seeing how different painters approach test schemes and you gave me a lot of ideas for tests I want to do myself.
The third one , magenta/yellow looks so so good
The interesting part being that you never actually tried yellow with a yellow highlight. Using a different color yellow to highlight yellow can definitely work, especially with something like an oil wash that holds it's color strength.
Scott: takes me 36 minutes to paint a model which isnt incredibly fast
Me who takes like 7 hours to paint a chaos space marine
I like how other aspects of art creep their way into mini painting discussion - check out cool/warm color mixing in the watercolor world. Might be some content there for you.
I like this experiment! It gives you the ability to really see the different ways you paint yellow, so when you want to achieve an color variation later you have a better idea of how to get there :)
i like painting white and then paiting it yellow and maybe adding another lighter tone of yellow after. But then I do so for painting 18mm figs.
Really like how your final mini looks. I was wondering what this video would be when I saw the title, the title doesn't do this video justice! I'm really gratefull that you shared your proces in this, and I picked up some things that I can use for my own projects so thank you for that.
I like the video as an exploration of testing colour schemes, but I have to agree with others when I feel like it kind of missed the point of the question. I think beginners are mainly just confused as to why the two thin coats method isn't giving them nice, clean results. They are just looking for a reason as to why it looks so bad, or a method to help them get a clean yellow coat, with good coverage, without doing the 50 layers over a pure black primer they were previously doing. I think this is a pretty fair question for a beginner who doesn't understand coverage/opacity differs between every individual paint. On the other hand, I know it's annoying to hear the same question so many times, which is also a fair complaint. I don't mean to be too much of a downer, I still enjoyed the video!
Surprised you did not do a brown primer with a cold white zenithal. Done it before, followed by a burnt umber oil wash. Looks pretty alright
Great video! I love the experimentation, it’s great for people like me that started the hobby looking for the NAMED COLOR that paint companies provide and want to branch into all the different ways they can just experiment and try new things with all the tools they may already have at their disposal. Love it!
Thank you this was extremely helpful and informative! I’m going to be applying what I’ve learned here in an attempt to paint a peep for a Easter diorama that I am making❤
I liked the way you rephrased the "how to do paint (blank)?" towards the end. Well done video. I really like how you format and edit.
Love the test to find what’s best approach!
Excellent video as I find myself using yellow and ochre more. Also, now I know where to buy Chartreuse when I inevitably paint something in that color as part of a larger project.
Fantastic video man. As much as I love the scheme you ended up on… that sickly scorpion green color really felt like thematically more Dark Eldar. Good stuff 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
For some GD reason when I painted my first GW Saurus Warriors, I decided I wanted them to be desert yellow lizards, and I primed them black. I had painted about 12 GW models at that point in my painting career... I remember seven coats of yellow-brown before it started to stick and show. It's a memory that's still painful.
I clearly need a better imagination. I only have about two ways of painting yellow. Saturated or desaturated. All these tinted magenta coats are blowing my mind.
I know this was posted months ago, but I somehow missed it.
The idea of every soldier looking identical is perfectly valid. On the day they arrive at boot camp. Wear and tear will occur differently for everyone though, so the more veteran the unit, the more variation should exist.
Excellent video and nice experimental approach!
and you should take a poll and see if enough people would be interested in the dutchess as a heroic 28mm/32mm model. I'm not into the larger figures but for #DnD she'd be great.
I loved this video. Testing colour recipes so we do have to, and teaching as well.
Love the green/yellow for a striking scorpion! Awsome video man. Peace
Great video. Huge big fan of highlighter yellow dark space elf. You inks video was a game changer for me - never used to mix my own colors because my paint collection was random pots of Citadel only and it always turned brown. Now I don't use any paint without adjusting it with one of the D-R primary colors. So thanks for that hot tip. Currently experimenting with using an ink over zenithal as a first step to keep the light values and pre-load that Mother Color. My biggest question though - "How do I paint white?" 🤪
You paint white by not painting white, but with off-white grey. You then recess shade/panel line with either blue, dark grey, or brown, etc, to give different "warmth" to your "white". And finally you edge highlight with true white.
This was an amazing video! Very educational, and passive aggressive in the absolutely best way. I'd love to see more of these kinds of experiments, they are very cool!
When I hand brush or air brush yellow I first out down a white under coat. After that it's really not so bad.
Excellent perspective.
The end result is great! I hate painting yellow and definitely need to get better at it...
It's like you are in mah head man. Just finished building my 'ardboyz last night. Rock on.
best painting video ever.
Was quite surprised at how well the yellow contrast turned out. I've been using a zenithal undercoat with gryph-hound orange to good effect in my genestealer cult army, though for some reason, a handful of the models it seems like the contrast does not adhere properly. Any ideas?
In fairness, I think most people who ask 'how do I paint yellow?' are beginners, and what they really mean is 'how do I get my yellow paint to cover without ending up thick and horrible?'.
The poor coverage of many yellow paints is the reason why so many ask this question, and why it's considered 'hard to paint'.
But your channel isn't aimed at beginners and I loved your approach to this subject. Just try not to rage too much when frustrated beginners ask the question 😝 Advanced painters should of course know better.
Hey Scott! I met another Miniac fan in the wild because I was wearing your merch. We met at an Asian market and talked about painting minis. I own black legion and he said he collects tau. If you’re out there and see this reach out to me I’d love to play against your tau!
digging test model #5, ive been thinking about doing up some kroot in a really similar scheme
I don't blame people asking such a simple question. Sometimes things aren't as complex as they seem. Sometimes there's a simple answer to the simple question...like coverage. Everyone is aware of how difficult it is to get deep pigment from a yellow. I'm glad you made a video to explain your approach on the matter. I can't help but wonder if you viewed that question through the lense of repetition, and not from what a new painter seeing your channel would. No offense of course, but it is some food for thought. There will always be someone new to the channel. In other news, these are interesting ways to achieve unique yellow schemes that translate many different depths of warmth. Nice job 👍 terped 'n poostik
I don't blame them either. As I said in the video, it's an entirely harmless question that is misguided. It's a very typical question for a beginner to ask in any field. I remember when I was terrible at making videos and posting on forums asking the absolute worst questions. This is my attempt to teach beginners how to ask the question so that the answers can be better.
This is a great video. I always enjoy your methodical process to answering questions like this. It's hobby inspiring and also ends up being a whole buncha tips or starting places for people who are interested in any of the schemes you attempted.
Hate to say this... but the @6:27 version is the best looking one. :) Add in some more specific colouring (gun, gems, etc) and I think it would look amazing!
best outro on youtube
Paint recipe vids are great for drumming up ideas. I've found that trying too find videos for weathering vibrant colors is few and far between and the one that exist are more for veteran painters, maybe there's an idea there?
That green/yellow that was in the middle of the final line up would be an awesome scheme for an elf army.
Okay, but how do you paint blue? /s
I first saw Goobs paint his chaos knights in a similar scheme, I really love the effect you get when using a magenta/pink undercoat.
Very informative! Thanks for the objective lesson in Yellow, Scott!
Odd, I actually preferred and thought the original Nazdreg Yellow contrast with edge highlighting was closest to the original and better yellow. :D