The ONLY Painting Skills you'll ever need! | Warhammer, D&D, Boardgames

Music by Karl Casey @WhiteBatAudio
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The BRUSHES I use, Raphael 8404, Size 1

DRYBRUSHES:

MASTER'S BRUSH CLEANER (keeps your brushes alive!)

My EPIC basing material:

My 3D Printer (Elegoo Mars 3)

I got my Magnifying Glasses from a local electronics store (CONRAD) and they are as basic as it gets. There are some options on amazon:

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UK:

Germany:

The AIRBRUSH I use - H&S INFINITY

OTHER AIRBRUSHES I can recommend

AIRBRUSH COMPRESSOR (SPARMAX TC-610H):
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CAMERAS I use (Panasonic GX80 for the painting segments and Panasonic G7 for the rest)

RODE Microphones

James Gurney - Color and Light (MAD inspiration for miniatures)

James Gurney - Imaginative Realism (even MADDER inspiration)

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This channel is about painting miniatures for your warhammer, infinity, warmachine & d&d games, as well as age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. space marines, space wolves, sisters of battle, stormcast eternals, beastclaw raiders, mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines. Also painting different scale models and miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint D&D figures.

[speaktome]

As someone new to the hobby who's still working up the courage to paint his first mini this is a tremendous help! Thanks for taking a step back to teach us beginners. I'd happily watch more fundamentals of mini painting if you wanted to make it a series. And thank you for your hard work!

[duesexistat]

Mentally, I think it helps to set the bar really low at first. Buy some minis you don’t really care about and just have fun.

[Kampfgrot]

I've been painting for more than 20 years, but these kinds of videos are always a great reminder of things to try, to be aware of, or to reconsider. Thanks for the great video!

[andy.yarych]

Thank you Ethan Hawke, this really helped!

[thesoothsayer]

No one ever explained loaded brush so clearly and concisely thank you. Your videos never compromise the INFO for the sake of the TAINMENT and I always feel like your videos are a good use of time. Keep doing what you do it's important for the community!

[Sinceretony]

I'm 100% disabled veteran who just wanted to find something to get my time in order and my head. I was truly disappointed when I herd this com was great "not saying your com in general" but as a whole the wh40k com was great. I bought my first small paint kit with citadel paints an a mini from wh40k. Wanted to get better at painting and actually trying to learn the game bcuz I love a game where you don't know and strat is key. But when I first went to see some games in person an showed couple minis I did....granted didn't have a army to play but wanted to learn an grow as painter for wh minis an etc bcuz feel in love with how you can get lost just trying to figure out the mini itself. But then first impressions when I went 1....the way I looked I guess they thought diff of me an tbh didn't feel welcomed. More like everyone was waiting for me to leave bcuz how I looked. Yes I got tattoos dresss a certain way but don't mean nothing. Then tried to learn the game and ppl where rude about it. Saw someone who's minis looked amazing an wanted advice on painting an was literally told after they saw mine was.... " oh don't waste your time go back to rapping or selling drugs" smfh but I'll get back into it not to prove a point but.... bcuz it truly helped my mind my ptad anxiety depression it was always exciting to see how it drys an it I got it like I wanted. I'm not near or even close to people I see or yourself on youtube but I truly greatfuly appreciate your vids along with others that truly try an show an teach. Thank you for your content an others bcuz without it after what I delt with from the start with this com wasn't what I expected. But same time I've always been the type to prove people wrong 😂thank you for the vids

[Moriloke]

I really love your teaching approach, how you both explain the theory, and how to apply it. How basics are the most important things, but being rigorous with them doesn't imply being rigid about them.
Thanks for putting out all of this great content, you are the main reason I'm thinking of dipping my toes in this hobby again (after the all too common undiluted blobs of paint on LoTR GW models when I was 12), only stopped for now by the idea that the minis I find the coolest are way too often offered at a price I'm not yet ready to pay 😂

Keep the excellent work, hope you're enjoying making this content as much as I love watching it

[cameronframent]

I’m still very new to painting but I was so surprised the first time I tried glazing in shadows with agrax earthshade rather than just slapping it all over. You can have way more control with a wash than you’d think.

[toms]

This video was SUPERB, really appreciate all the skill and effort that went into making such a clear, digestible and extremely useful guide 🙌 thank you!

[pa_]

This video is worth it's weight in gold. Straight to the point and really usefull. Loved it. Thanks! 👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

[Vorpal_Wit]

Very well explained. I particularly like your emphasis on letting the desired result dictate the techniques applied, rather than the other way around.
Also, I would love to see more about that jungle mossy base - it looks fantastic.

[Bakecrusto]

I'm really glad not only that this video exists, but that you showed that oft-frowned-upon techniques of washing and drybrushing actually can be used at a higher level than just a quick and sloppy "cover everything with zero precision" approach that a surprising amount of people seem to think is the only way they can be used (therefore making them 'objectively bad' techniques, rather than just amateurishly used).

Also, I'll be arrogant enough to say there's an even more important (especially for beginners) skill that you missed in your video (or maybe I just missed it??): Trust in the process. Don't give up just because a half-finished paintjob looks bad, keep going - a lot of art processes, not only miniature painting, go through an "ugly duckling" phase, where the quality looks bad despite an increasing amount of work being put in; it's important to actually see the painting through to the end instead of giving up at that step or thinking you're doing something wrong. Sometimes, the final highlights, the final airbrushed inks, the final glazes and filters, the final details being painted up, or even painting the rim of the base (in matte black) are what actually makes the figure suddenly look good. Keep going, trust the process, trust your own ability to deliver. There's a good chance you're better than you think.

[CharlesWright]

I have been researching for quite some time on how and what techniques to use for miniature painting before I dive into it. For whatever reason how you explained these techniques really clicked with my Photoshop/InDesign experience and I now feel more confident about diving in than I ever did before.

Thank you!

[Anuduin]

Thank you for this video! Out of all the "how to" videos I have seen, this one explains these techniques so much better. Cheers.

[emeraldanvil]

Love all of your videos even when you’re painting minis that I’m not super interested in. Thank you for your incredible contributions to our community! Also, for the love of god please show us how you made this base!

[sstankfish]

The main tips I've gathered over the countless hours of watching anything art related are:

1. Practice. No matter what you're doing, as long as you're trying to do better, you're increasing your skills or your motor functions at the least.

2. Try new things. Goes hand in hand with practicing to be better. Opens your mind to new skills and view sets.

3. NEEDS MORE CONTRAST lol

[zedeps]

This might be buried, but-- Thank you especially for making this video without the use of an airbrush. I have nearly everything I need to dive deep into the hobby (minis and models/figurines) but have decided to hold off on an airbrush for now because of a lack of info online about the effects of an airbrush + spray booth on surrounding electronics. So seeing that I can still have fun and paint good-looking pieces of art is really emboldening to me. I still crave an airbrush but I know that I can get started anyway :)

[arthurdeline]

Would love to see a guide for the basing! Looks awesome.

[tyarkschettler]

Perfect video! Not only for a friend who just started but also for me as a reminder on some techniques

[thatgenericdixienormouspicguy]

You’re such a natural teacher, I’d love to actually be able to sit and learn from you. Sadly looks like you got your hands full since those patreon levels are full. Maybe one day!