Ive always used the palm of my hand for drybrushing. skin is naturally water resistant. if i can highlight the tiny ridges on my palm then i know i have enough to transfer it to the model without getting a chalky texture.
Hey Lyla, your videos have always been super informative and polished, but I think you've really hit your stride in terms of your editing style lately (pacing, graphics etc.). It's been super cool to see your journey as a creator!
For the absolute best results, use the BIGGEST, and SOFTEST brush you can find!! I've pinched all of my wife's make up brushes, they are the by far the best brushes I've ever used for dry brushing!!
You can dry brush with a small flat and it will be easier than that giant makeup brush you're using. Also, you can use a piece of stiff cardboard to smear out the paint on the palette to avoid getting a lot on your brush for the initial loading of the brush.
For those wanting a cheaper version of the texture pallet, use pieces of pound/dollar store toys instead of miniatures or even bits of sprue. Texture pallets made of mini bits are great IF you have the bits already and don't mind them going spare, which means you've been in the hobby for a while and have those parts to spare, which is unlikely if you're just starting out. Also a lot of mini wargamers will likely hoard bits for any prospective conversions, meaning there isn't a lot going spare. However you can always pop down your FLGS and ask if they have 'bags of bits'. It's not common but some gaming stores will sell just mixed bags of miniature bits on the cheap.
Remember, though, EVERYTHING has "texture" you don't need to go to your FLGS for bits when you have stones, sand, bark, sticks, bottle caps and a myriad of things just laying around the house you can use for a texture palette.
I'm pretty sure his texture palette is just an mdf board, which I started using after a piece of my furniture came with one. But before I was using cardboard that I scored a bit, glued some bits to, and primed. Definitely tons of options for a texture palette.
My drybrushing changed totally after Byron started doing tutorials on Artist Opus, I'd mostly been an airbrush painter but you really can get fast and interesting results with a drybrush or makeup brush, with a little practice. Way less practice than an airbrush too. (Side note, the artist opus drybrushes are pretty good, they don't shed bristles and mine are still going after a year of misuse, though the results are the same with a nice makeup brush)
I have the Artist Opus brushes and I really enjoy them. I find that I mostly use the 2nd largest brush the most. It makes drybrushing my minis so easy.
I got to see him demo in person at Adepticon. He barely dabs any paint onto the brush before hitting the texture pallet. Light touch on the mini with a swirling motion. It was great to see up close step-by-step.
@@jorgemontero6384 I just checked the website. What is the name of the set? Rosemary has similar kolinsky prices to competitors. I don’t see any drybrushes on their website.
I would definitely have to disagree with you that the results are the same with the Opus brushes versus a makeup brush. The Opus brushes are much finer and softer bristles and leave a much better application than just to makeup brush. Maybe some very high quality makeup brushes are akin to Opus but most people aren't going to be using those lol. For very very fine detail and delicate models Opus brushes really overpower the competition
In the 80’s we use flat brushes. And just A cloth to whipe the brush of. I see now the New skills and prints are so much better. It is al lot of fun now to paint. But it did get me gold medals in the 80’s. Greetings from Belgium. 👍🏻😉😃
Your kitties didn’t have their say this time 😊😂 Yeah the texture pallet instead of paper towel is a bit of a game changer for dry brushing, unless you want a more chalky/dusty look (which you do for some things).
1:25 with too much moisture in the sponge, and getting paint off the wet palette, the results are not unexpected. At that point you've got so much moisture in the brush that it's not even really drybrushing.
1. Doesn't that contaminate the water in the sponge? How often do you change it? 2. Isn't your application (the red on the marine) more of an overbrush, than a highlight-picking drybrush?
I haven't had any problems with mixing colors or needing to replace the sponge. Ive used it on and off for several months. I did the technique in the space marine to show the texture from the technique. You can definitely do all these steps on texture areas!
Vince Venturella on his channel recommended using makeup brushes for drybushing to avoid the chalky appearance. Even the cheap makeup brushes have bristles that much softer than the dome brushes. Bought a small makeup at the grocery store and it looked so much smoother and even than I have ever had with a domed brush.
Makeup brushes are all I use for dry brushing and with so many different kinds made you can always find one to suit. Wet 'n' wild from the dollar store are my personal fave, or they have one with rainbow crystals in the handle that is even denser and cleans a bit better. 👍 I want to look into nail art brushes because of their tiny size and see how they are for edging weapons, clothing, etc.
You got something wrong/incomplete there. Makeup brushes are way better thantypical (GW) dry brushes that are usually flat and stiff bristled. Correct so far. BUT dedicated domed dry brushes frok army painter and especially artis opus are an enormus step up over makeup brushes. I would really strongly recommend using one of these (army painter if on a budget) over makeup brushes unless it is for terrain.
@@andreashuber5594 I used the Army Pianter ones because they were cheap, about a quarter of the cost of the equivalent set of Artis Opus. And you can tell. I did my AoS buildings using the AP ones and they were destroyed after only 2 medium size buildings. I bit the bullet and shelled out for the Artis Opus ones and the difference in quality is night and day. The AO ones did the entire rest of the buildings, 6 or 7 buildings including 2 big ones plus scatter terrain, and you couldn't even tell they had been used. Like most things in life you get what you pay for.
I'm not a miniature painter. I learned dry brushing when I was a kid who used to paint ceramics close to 30 years ago. Instead of creating a texture pallet I was taught to use old blue jeans. paper towel was not tough enough to hold up to the "drying" of the brush for dry brushing. Now I use dry brushing to paint engines or any metal parts on my car models.
sponge - get a make up brush cleaner. They are very cheap and come with extra sponges. While you are getting them also pick up makeup brushes (make great cheap dry brushes). Also get some makeup sponges (great for removing excess oil washes without leaving behind fibers like a q tip does). Some of the best hobby materials aren't made for us guys!
Would love a video or short elaborating on the moisture levels of paint. My collection is mostly Reaper and ProAcryl so I'll confess I'm lacking a point of comparison. Is it related to how thin the paints are?
Right! Consider the "pooling test." Put paint on your palette: if it holds it's shape from the squirt from the container, that's a thicker paint. If it turns into a liquid pool, it's thin. You can make a thin paint "thicker" by letting it dry a little bit and putting it on a dry palette instead of a wet palette
I actually prefer to test my drybrush against my fingernails. The texture is much more akin to the plastic I'm painting than my skin, and it gives a much better indication of how much paint will transfer and whether it will be chalky/dusty.
@@LylaMev I want to specify that I meant vs the back of your hand, not your awesome drybrush palette (of which I've begun making my own based on this video, so thank you for that!)
Good suggestions. I made my pallete from textured vinyl wallpaper. I may glue bits and sprue on it. I like the test palette idea. Excellent suggestion on the slapchoptop. Though I think a full prime of the lid is in order. The black and Grey tops that are so common will cause the paint to behave a bit differently than primer. Airbrush makes that pretty easy
Huh. As a scale modeller rather than a mini painter, this is the first time I've seen dry-brushing used as an actual painting technique. In my world, it's used almost exclusively for edge highlighting and bringing out raised details. Fascinating!
As a scale modeler lately come to miniatures, I'm with you. Plus, this is the only time I have seen anybody do that. Everybody else I've seen does it the way I expect it to be done more or less. Some times it's a bit heavier to provide volumes, but never as what appears here to be a base coat.
I love the texture pallet. Thanks for this guide. My dry brushing has improved immensely with just practicing this system. I was doing it so, so wrong. I love your spells you fantastic witch.
Thank you for the reminder on your Kickstarter. I had almost forgotten and would've been devastated if I'd missed the chance to support your minis. ❤ Also, I use dry brushing a lot so I'll have to try this method out. Love to you and the kitties. 🤗
At 2:15 you showed the perfect red smooth Drybrush colour and on the right the bad one with to much paint. Thats exaclty my problem. No matter, how often i tried to remove the red colour from my brush, i NEVER have the "right" smooth colour on the left. What am i doing wrong? I always have to much red and when i try to smooth it down its totally transparent, that the red is gone. -_-
I think the texture palette is such a great tool. You can use it as a test palette for your primer too, which then resets it for the next time you want to dry brush
What's funny is I've always drybrushed a bit too wet, and struggled to make that signature grainy contrast like when drybrushing basing sand. But then on the flip side I've used it to lazily highlight my models and had decent results since the paint was thin and still slightly wet, so it blended pretty easily.
I used to do dry brushing but kind of abandoned it. Dry brushing lacks any amount of control and if you try to get rid of the paint the process just takes too long for me and is just cumbersome to me. What I do now is something in between dry brushing and "highlighting" with the side of a round brush so the paint doesn't get into the recesses. When trying to get rid of the paint I use a sponge / sponge cloth (which has a large enough area so I can use it the whole painting process) and it works I find the best, because it simply soaks in the excess water. I don't use a "dry brush palette", because that process doesn't make sense to me. What do you do when you used all the area? Dry brushing is great for terrain and has it's place, because you apply paint on the highest edges and don't fill the recesses, but I try to avoid it somehow, because it's cumbersome and not really reliable.
Honestly the Drybrush-Palette is more useful for testing prime plus transparent paints. Because you never know what you really get until you applied the "tint" and let it flow into the recesses. Instant paints can be annoying without proper testing.
Brush with paint to a sponge. Doesn't the sponge release the initial color when you change the color you want to apply? I'm thinking scenarios where I drybrush two/three different colors in a consecutive order. But yeah this finally made my lazy ass prime my dry pallette 😄
The best I have come to find out is to use the cut side of a 4 by 4 piece of wood. It's gotta be a kind of wood where the rings are really close together and the wood comes from a soft wood tree like fur. It's literally the best. It takes the perfect amount of paint off the brush so fast and easy but is still easy to control how much paint you want taken from the brush.
I add a very small amount of retarder to the paint before drybrushing and it makes it very smooth. But you need to let it dry between colors longer so better for batch painting
What is slap chopped?! I'm sure I've been dping it but not sure what it is. Painting some Storm Troopers and of course highlight was dusty...well, damn GW white airbrush made it all dusty to begin with :(
This is the best idea I've seen in years; thank you for sharing! I've been using a clean, slightly damp kitchen sponge to drybrush and the results have only been OK. Definitely going to try your advice and make a texture palette of my own to experiment on. To the bits box!
Some good tips in this video. I like to keep experimenting with big brushes. Vary the paint, moisture, brush pressure and direction to get all sorts of interesting effects. With so many variables, no two people have the same drybrushing technique.
What is slap chopped?! I'm sure I've been dping it but not sure what it is. Painting some Storm Troopers and of course highlight was dusty...well, damn GW white airbrush made it all dusty to begin with :(
maybe a stupid question, but if you make a texture board, for priming can you prime it with spray paint instead of hand painting it on? I'm still learning to paint, but it seems the process of dry brushing is a little wasteful, or am I just not understanding correctly?
Drybrush as always been kinda frustrating for me, and' I've used it only for bases, pieces of terrein or model I didn't care (I see you, rat swarms from cursed city >.> ). But surely I will try again now!
Please, i don't know what's going on right now. When Slap Chop was the big thing, at least everyone said where it was coming from, but now everyone is an expert drybrusher out of nowhere? The NUMBER 1 drybrush channel is and will always be Artis Opus. They are the one's that told people to stop using paper towels. Please check them out for more in depth tutorials. This video is a nice guid in the correct direction but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what proper drybrushing can achieve.
Wouldn't what you are doing be called wet brushing as opposed to dry brushing? I mean, after all you are using a tiny amount of water so your brush is not completely dry. Not a judgement, just an observation.
This is some brilliant shit, i love this channel...thank you for your contribution to the hobby. I had been using a paper towel for drybrushing...gonna have to switch it up now
hmmm, the texture pallet is an interesting idea, sadly I don't really have the extra bits to make one! There's other ways to do it though, so I'll have to look into that. The real best tip to me was slap chopping the caps to the speed paints. That's freaking brilliant.
Bits of sprue(if you don't use it for terrain tec.) Pva/school/wood glue with sand/tiny pebbles and dollar store green army men/whatever broken toys you come across from your or other people's kids that you know (or really any old broken junk) will do a fine job to make one.
You've inspired me, I'm making one of those trays immediately. Saw Dave over at MS Paints make one too but this one sold me.
love your texture pallet
That texture pallet is classy af
Right?! That’s the highlight for me, too. The rest of the video is helpful and good, of course, just the tray is so unique and amazing.
I just wanted to say "Thanks a lot" 🤩
You really helped me to improve my painting skills 🤗
Thank you!
Ive always used the palm of my hand for drybrushing. skin is naturally water resistant. if i can highlight the tiny ridges on my palm then i know i have enough to transfer it to the model without getting a chalky texture.
Love the painting the bottle top advice, color labels lie. I remodeled a bathroom so I use the back of old tiles as my texture board. Thanks
Blew my mind, A+ idea
Hey Lyla, your videos have always been super informative and polished, but I think you've really hit your stride in terms of your editing style lately (pacing, graphics etc.). It's been super cool to see your journey as a creator!
For the absolute best results, use the BIGGEST, and SOFTEST brush you can find!! I've pinched all of my wife's make up brushes, they are the by far the best brushes I've ever used for dry brushing!!
Sis, how do I make it scratchproof? Is it ok with archylic color?
But everytime you load up the pallet now you have to spray paint it black again? And that build up of paint layers will not be an issue? Really?
really.
You can dry brush with a small flat and it will be easier than that giant makeup brush you're using. Also, you can use a piece of stiff cardboard to smear out the paint on the palette to avoid getting a lot on your brush for the initial loading of the brush.
For those wanting a cheaper version of the texture pallet, use pieces of pound/dollar store toys instead of miniatures or even bits of sprue. Texture pallets made of mini bits are great IF you have the bits already and don't mind them going spare, which means you've been in the hobby for a while and have those parts to spare, which is unlikely if you're just starting out. Also a lot of mini wargamers will likely hoard bits for any prospective conversions, meaning there isn't a lot going spare. However you can always pop down your FLGS and ask if they have 'bags of bits'. It's not common but some gaming stores will sell just mixed bags of miniature bits on the cheap.
Great idea!
Remember, though, EVERYTHING has "texture" you don't need to go to your FLGS for bits when you have stones, sand, bark, sticks, bottle caps and a myriad of things just laying around the house you can use for a texture palette.
Could also be a good way to recycle 3d printing supports
I'm pretty sure his texture palette is just an mdf board, which I started using after a piece of my furniture came with one. But before I was using cardboard that I scored a bit, glued some bits to, and primed. Definitely tons of options for a texture palette.
My drybrushing changed totally after Byron started doing tutorials on Artist Opus, I'd mostly been an airbrush painter but you really can get fast and interesting results with a drybrush or makeup brush, with a little practice.
Way less practice than an airbrush too.
(Side note, the artist opus drybrushes are pretty good, they don't shed bristles and mine are still going after a year of misuse, though the results are the same with a nice makeup brush)
I have the Artist Opus brushes and I really enjoy them. I find that I mostly use the 2nd largest brush the most. It makes drybrushing my minis so easy.
I got to see him demo in person at Adepticon. He barely dabs any paint onto the brush before hitting the texture pallet. Light touch on the mini with a swirling motion. It was great to see up close step-by-step.
Note that you can get basically the exact same brushes from Rosemary and co (yes, same bristles, same everything) for half price
@@jorgemontero6384 I just checked the website. What is the name of the set? Rosemary has similar kolinsky prices to competitors. I don’t see any drybrushes on their website.
I would definitely have to disagree with you that the results are the same with the Opus brushes versus a makeup brush. The Opus brushes are much finer and softer bristles and leave a much better application than just to makeup brush. Maybe some very high quality makeup brushes are akin to Opus but most people aren't going to be using those lol. For very very fine detail and delicate models Opus brushes really overpower the competition
In the 80’s we use flat brushes. And just A cloth to whipe the brush of. I see now the New skills and prints are so much better. It is al lot of fun now to paint. But it did get me gold medals in the 80’s. Greetings from Belgium. 👍🏻😉😃
Thats older than me!
Your kitties didn’t have their say this time 😊😂 Yeah the texture pallet instead of paper towel is a bit of a game changer for dry brushing, unless you want a more chalky/dusty look (which you do for some things).
1:25 with too much moisture in the sponge, and getting paint off the wet palette, the results are not unexpected. At that point you've got so much moisture in the brush that it's not even really drybrushing.
1. Doesn't that contaminate the water in the sponge? How often do you change it?
2. Isn't your application (the red on the marine) more of an overbrush, than a highlight-picking drybrush?
I haven't had any problems with mixing colors or needing to replace the sponge. Ive used it on and off for several months.
I did the technique in the space marine to show the texture from the technique. You can definitely do all these steps on texture areas!
Nice texture palette! And I love the idea of slapchopping the lids!
Vince Venturella on his channel recommended using makeup brushes for drybushing to avoid the chalky appearance. Even the cheap makeup brushes have bristles that much softer than the dome brushes. Bought a small makeup at the grocery store and it looked so much smoother and even than I have ever had with a domed brush.
Makeup brushes are all I use for dry brushing and with so many different kinds made you can always find one to suit. Wet 'n' wild from the dollar store are my personal fave, or they have one with rainbow crystals in the handle that is even denser and cleans a bit better. 👍 I want to look into nail art brushes because of their tiny size and see how they are for edging weapons, clothing, etc.
I use some cheap make-up brushes my wife bought and didn't like. They're excellent for drybrushing. (And they have bad ass holographic mermaid tails)
@@Psych02K Love mermaid tail brushes! A much better thing to do than just throwing them out. 😀 👍
You got something wrong/incomplete there.
Makeup brushes are way better thantypical (GW) dry brushes that are usually flat and stiff bristled. Correct so far. BUT dedicated domed dry brushes frok army painter and especially artis opus are an enormus step up over makeup brushes. I would really strongly recommend using one of these (army painter if on a budget) over makeup brushes unless it is for terrain.
@@andreashuber5594 I used the Army Pianter ones because they were cheap, about a quarter of the cost of the equivalent set of Artis Opus. And you can tell. I did my AoS buildings using the AP ones and they were destroyed after only 2 medium size buildings. I bit the bullet and shelled out for the Artis Opus ones and the difference in quality is night and day. The AO ones did the entire rest of the buildings, 6 or 7 buildings including 2 big ones plus scatter terrain, and you couldn't even tell they had been used. Like most things in life you get what you pay for.
do you find the circular dry brushing works better? I always read you should go top down so that it leaves a zenithal highlight sort of effect.
I'm not a miniature painter.
I learned dry brushing when I was a kid who used to paint ceramics close to 30 years ago. Instead of creating a texture pallet I was taught to use old blue jeans. paper towel was not tough enough to hold up to the "drying" of the brush for dry brushing. Now I use dry brushing to paint engines or any metal parts on my car models.
You guys do know models come on sprues right? You can just do this... on the sprues... it does the same thing
Sweet. Excited to try
I glued skulls to the tops of my speed paint bottle caps then painted them as a color reference
That last quick tip about painting the lids is huge! Definitely going to start doing that.
Yay!
sponge - get a make up brush cleaner. They are very cheap and come with extra sponges. While you are getting them also pick up makeup brushes (make great cheap dry brushes). Also get some makeup sponges (great for removing excess oil washes without leaving behind fibers like a q tip does).
Some of the best hobby materials aren't made for us guys!
Would love a video or short elaborating on the moisture levels of paint. My collection is mostly Reaper and ProAcryl so I'll confess I'm lacking a point of comparison. Is it related to how thin the paints are?
Right! Consider the "pooling test." Put paint on your palette: if it holds it's shape from the squirt from the container, that's a thicker paint. If it turns into a liquid pool, it's thin. You can make a thin paint "thicker" by letting it dry a little bit and putting it on a dry palette instead of a wet palette
I actually prefer to test my drybrush against my fingernails. The texture is much more akin to the plastic I'm painting than my skin, and it gives a much better indication of how much paint will transfer and whether it will be chalky/dusty.
I've never heard that!
@@LylaMev I want to specify that I meant vs the back of your hand, not your awesome drybrush palette (of which I've begun making my own based on this video, so thank you for that!)
Good suggestions. I made my pallete from textured vinyl wallpaper. I may glue bits and sprue on it. I like the test palette idea.
Excellent suggestion on the slapchoptop. Though I think a full prime of the lid is in order. The black and Grey tops that are so common will cause the paint to behave a bit differently than primer. Airbrush makes that pretty easy
a 6 minute video with a sponsored ad. Yikes. And you're not even dry brushing.
Huh. As a scale modeller rather than a mini painter, this is the first time I've seen dry-brushing used as an actual painting technique. In my world, it's used almost exclusively for edge highlighting and bringing out raised details. Fascinating!
As a scale modeler lately come to miniatures, I'm with you. Plus, this is the only time I have seen anybody do that. Everybody else I've seen does it the way I expect it to be done more or less. Some times it's a bit heavier to provide volumes, but never as what appears here to be a base coat.
I've really been enjoying your past few videos. Thanks for focusing on simple tips and tricks that actually make a HUGE difference to paint jobs!
"test it out on an inconspicuous part" Yeah, that's my biggest problem.
I love the texture pallet. Thanks for this guide. My dry brushing has improved immensely with just practicing this system. I was doing it so, so wrong. I love your spells you fantastic witch.
I used chopped up sprues for my pallet after previously trying sand paper 👍
Wet my dry brush? SORCERY!! But now I finally understand the process along with the whole texture palette thing. Thanks!!
Happy to help!
Thank you for the reminder on your Kickstarter. I had almost forgotten and would've been devastated if I'd missed the chance to support your minis. ❤ Also, I use dry brushing a lot so I'll have to try this method out. Love to you and the kitties. 🤗
At 2:15 you showed the perfect red smooth Drybrush colour and on the right the bad one with to much paint. Thats exaclty my problem. No matter, how often i tried to remove the red colour from my brush, i NEVER have the "right" smooth colour on the left. What am i doing wrong? I always have to much red and when i try to smooth it down its totally transparent, that the red is gone. -_-
I think the texture palette is such a great tool. You can use it as a test palette for your primer too, which then resets it for the next time you want to dry brush
What's funny is I've always drybrushed a bit too wet, and struggled to make that signature grainy contrast like when drybrushing basing sand. But then on the flip side I've used it to lazily highlight my models and had decent results since the paint was thin and still slightly wet, so it blended pretty easily.
The kickstarter figures look great-I wish I could have pledged, but alas, the budget was too tight this month.
I used to do dry brushing but kind of abandoned it. Dry brushing lacks any amount of control and if you try to get rid of the paint the process just takes too long for me and is just cumbersome to me. What I do now is something in between dry brushing and "highlighting" with the side of a round brush so the paint doesn't get into the recesses. When trying to get rid of the paint I use a sponge / sponge cloth (which has a large enough area so I can use it the whole painting process) and it works I find the best, because it simply soaks in the excess water. I don't use a "dry brush palette", because that process doesn't make sense to me. What do you do when you used all the area? Dry brushing is great for terrain and has it's place, because you apply paint on the highest edges and don't fill the recesses, but I try to avoid it somehow, because it's cumbersome and not really reliable.
Ok this may be a silly question, but can we use a WET paper towel to moisturize the brush? I don’t have sponges available and I’m on a deadline
Honestly the Drybrush-Palette is more useful for testing prime plus transparent paints. Because you never know what you really get until you applied the "tint" and let it flow into the recesses. Instant paints can be annoying without proper testing.
Brush with paint to a sponge. Doesn't the sponge release the initial color when you change the color you want to apply? I'm thinking scenarios where I drybrush two/three different colors in a consecutive order.
But yeah this finally made my lazy ass prime my dry pallette 😄
The best I have come to find out is to use the cut side of a 4 by 4 piece of wood. It's gotta be a kind of wood where the rings are really close together and the wood comes from a soft wood tree like fur. It's literally the best. It takes the perfect amount of paint off the brush so fast and easy but is still easy to control how much paint you want taken from the brush.
Goodbye dry-brushing, hello MOIST-brushing!!!
I hate that term 🤣
@@LylaMev I am imagining Scott from Miniac when he says "moist" in his videos 😛
Ooh that texture palette is a great idea, definitely going to do that!
This is the way.
That’s awesome. Thanks for these great tips. Just subscribed 🤙🏽
I am totally painting my paint lids now!! Superb tip!
Hi! Does this technique avoid some chalky effect after the dry brushing? Thanks
This is more overbrushing than drybrushing to me. Drybrushing leaves behind basically nothing if done right.
Very practical and interesting ! Thank you
I add a very small amount of retarder to the paint before drybrushing and it makes it very smooth. But you need to let it dry between colors longer so better for batch painting
I know what to do with my left over sprues and melted down sprues now.. Texture Pallet!
its really not so complicated as having to make a video.
in case someone doesn´t own many biz, or doesn´t want to use them: use empty sprues
cut them up in irregular shapes and make modern art with it
That homemade texter palette is such a cool idea. I will have to try that out. Thanks!
I 3d printed my own texture pallet . works very well and its dirt cheap
This looks like "over brushing", which is similar to dry brushing.
I avoided dry brushing because it was always dusty. Maybe I should try it again.
I know you said dry brushing with army painter is better but will it still work with reaper? That is all i have
how confident are you that none of these colors is carcinogenic or otherwise toxic?
Love the slap-chopped lids. That’s brilliant!
What is slap chopped?! I'm sure I've been dping it but not sure what it is. Painting some Storm Troopers and of course highlight was dusty...well, damn GW white airbrush made it all dusty to begin with :(
I have a hard time guessing how much bloody money is on that texture palette.
Here's what I use as a texture pallette: Rough sanding paper. Done.
I made my pallet today, I'll let everyone know how it works. Thank.
This is the best idea I've seen in years; thank you for sharing! I've been using a clean, slightly damp kitchen sponge to drybrush and the results have only been OK. Definitely going to try your advice and make a texture palette of my own to experiment on. To the bits box!
How do you keep your primer from drying up while doing this?
Wonder... A pallet made of 3d printed supports? Would that do the work too?
Do you recover your texture palette with more white after each painting session?
Some good tips in this video. I like to keep experimenting with big brushes. Vary the paint, moisture, brush pressure and direction to get all sorts of interesting effects. With so many variables, no two people have the same drybrushing technique.
Yay, the Kickstarter was a huge success and funded!! So glad I could back an awesome project like this! Congratulations!!!!! 💜
Will you be doing a paint tutorial on the Persephone kickstarter?
Nice. This was uploaded at 2 in the morning for me. Been trying to up my dry-brushing game. #NotificationSquad
You are wonderful!
This was awesome, i will never use papertowel again for removing paint
i see.. I've been using half wrongly.. tq miss
Congrats you finally mastered the skill :)
What is slap chopped?! I'm sure I've been dping it but not sure what it is. Painting some Storm Troopers and of course highlight was dusty...well, damn GW white airbrush made it all dusty to begin with :(
Very good ideas, thanks! 👍
Very clever work on creating the custom texture palette there!
Missed it by a few hours are they doing late pledges for persephone?
maybe a stupid question, but if you make a texture board, for priming can you prime it with spray paint instead of hand painting it on? I'm still learning to paint, but it seems the process of dry brushing is a little wasteful, or am I just not understanding correctly?
absolutely!
I need to let go and dry brush some of my grey minis to just get some stuff done.
So what kind of brush is it? It's not the one in the affiliated link
I've never used it seen anyone else use one of those makeup brushes on minis
Drybrush as always been kinda frustrating for me, and' I've used it only for bases, pieces of terrein or model I didn't care (I see you, rat swarms from cursed city >.> ). But surely I will try again now!
Good luck!
Please, i don't know what's going on right now. When Slap Chop was the big thing, at least everyone said where it was coming from, but now everyone is an expert drybrusher out of nowhere?
The NUMBER 1 drybrush channel is and will always be Artis Opus. They are the one's that told people to stop using paper towels.
Please check them out for more in depth tutorials.
This video is a nice guid in the correct direction but it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what proper drybrushing can achieve.
Rude.
That texture pallet is a heck of a good idea!
I have only just learned to slap-chop lol :)
That homemade texture palette is outstanding.
Thank you!
Wouldn't what you are doing be called wet brushing as opposed to dry brushing? I mean, after all you are using a tiny amount of water so your brush is not completely dry. Not a judgement, just an observation.
That's a term generally associated with overbrushing, which is rather different.
This is NOT the way...GW is crap!!!😊
This is some brilliant shit, i love this channel...thank you for your contribution to the hobby. I had been using a paper towel for drybrushing...gonna have to switch it up now
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I’m doing all painting techniques wrong. Next video.
I believe in you!
not sure about the sponge tactic but sure why not
hmmm, the texture pallet is an interesting idea, sadly I don't really have the extra bits to make one! There's other ways to do it though, so I'll have to look into that. The real best tip to me was slap chopping the caps to the speed paints. That's freaking brilliant.
MS Paints did a great video on building a texture box palette that mostly used "junk".
Bits of sprue(if you don't use it for terrain tec.) Pva/school/wood glue with sand/tiny pebbles and dollar store green army men/whatever broken toys you come across from your or other people's kids that you know (or really any old broken junk) will do a fine job to make one.
I'll try this, I wasn't overly I pressed by the damp brush technique either. Texture pallete is genius!
You have to do it correctly - Artis Opus has some great tutorials and you can't possibly argue with their results.
Love the idea of priming the palette.