How to paint a Power Sword - Smooth Blends without an Airbrush!

In this core skills video, we want to show you how important brush strokes are for layering. This video aims to help you with blending, and the power sword is perfect for practicing this on.
* the milky looking liquid on the pallette is water effects that was being used for some upcoming box art!

Edit: I think a base coat of Dark Sea Blue with a tiny bit of Turquoise will give a better result then pure Dark Sea Blue, as it will results in a more saturated shadow. This is why it comes up during the base stage for the paint used.

Paint list:

VMC Dark sea blue or GW Stegadon Scale Green
VMC Turquoise or GW Sotek Green
VMC Blue Green or GW Temple Guard Blue
VMC Ivory or GW Screaming Skull

Paint list key:

GW: Games workshop
VMC: Vallejo model colour
VMA: Vallejo model air
VGC: Vallejo game colour
VGA: Vallejo game air
VMCS: Vallejo metal colour series
SC: Scale 75

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Music: Lands Unknown by Futuremono
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[MagatsuNimura]

I've seen a lot of videos on layering and glazing, most of them way longer than this one, and yet, the information here is well presented and complete, the zoom and the angle of the camera is great to show the technique, we have a clear view of the wet palette and your process doing the glaze, and how it should look more or less in the palette...
So yeah, this is definitely the best video on the subject I've seen.
Thanks Andy, really well done, as the rest of the videos so far.

[jostonpowell]

Best tutorial on how to do this that I have watched and appreciate you took the time to explain everything in depth.

[LowkoTV]

Lovely video! Thanks for sharing. That answered quite a few questions I had about blending and transitions.

[fibojoly]

Some I've been painting and off for the last thirty years and it's the first time I've had this "oh shit!" feeling in a very long time. I've pushing my pigments the wrong way all this damn time! :-O
Can't wait to try this out! Bravo for putting it so clearly out there.

[spacetoy]

Have been using this technique, but you always learn something even if its just small nuances from experts such as yourselves - thanks - very informative

[bananaknight]

Man you became one of my favorites painting channel in like 2 days, your video are really clear and easy to understand, great job

[daveplataok]

One of the best video of glazing and blending that I've seen, congrats!

[thestranger]

This tutorial is quite good. I like that the fundamentals are taught while going beyond the typical light dark pattern found on so many swords.

[tiagoazevedosoares]

This is fantastic. I've struggled with this technique for ages. Thank you so much for sharing.

[christianschmidt]

There are plenty of good tutorials out there but this is unique since it shows all the thought process and 'dont do this' steps. Really good!

[andrewlauptsd]

What you said about correcting loading for the glaze was so enlightening; thank you!

[Spiderdanful]

Clear, concise and well structured video. Thank you.

[eviljoshy]

Ty. I think one of my issues when painting blades is I had too much paint on my brush.

[MentoliptusBanko]

It is not new information for me, but it is really well presented and explained. I wish I saw this video years before, it would've helped me a lot.

[SpenserClark]

I looked this video up because I'm struggling to get a sword I'm happy with on an Infinity model, and hearing the importance of controlling the amount of paint on the brush when glazing was helpful. I was also reminded of some of the brush skills I learned in class from Andy last year. I'm feeling good about going back to that project.

[skatta]

This is the best quick guide for glazing and blending that I have seen. Keep them coming sir! You are going a fantastic job.

[Reyalis]

I've just started this hobby and I've been binge watching mini painting vids for a few weeks, this is the best one I've seen on glazing so far . I've now subbed!

[weatherthis]

Finally a video that shows this in a straight forward way. Cheers mate really going to take my painting to the next level.

[crae]

All the info none of the fluff. Thank you!

[antipopcult]

Definitely the best glazing tutorial on youtube! Thanks for covering key basics like brush strokes & paint consistency.