Hobby Cheating 184 - How to Paint Difficult Edge Highlights

In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through a nice simple cheat for doing difficult edge highlights. It's a great way to get a sharp line on edges that aren't very near a real edge while also creating a blend out to the...edge. Lots of the word edge in this description. Hope you enjoy!

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[diverspudph]

When you stop and think -- "Why ddn't I think of that?!" -- you know you learned something awesome. This is awesome!

[mikee]

Awesome technique. I've seen loaded brush and edge highlighting. But Noone has covered it this way. Very useful. And it is deceiving as well. Much easier than it looks. Thanks Vince!

[LoneEagle]

Sometimes watching these things is a nice ego boost... like I actually know what I'm doing with a paintbrush :-)
I've been using something like this for decades to try to "fix" moments of clumsy - and here it's a technique :-)
The loaded brush aspect is new to me (it was always clear to me where I'd "fixed" things because trying to match the highlights never quite worked) and I think it's a really valuable aspect I've been missing all along.
It's great to be reminded that I don't necessarily have to learn whole new techniques, it's not that I've been doing things wrong all these years, but that some of the things I already do have the potential to add much more than I had given them credit for.

[markmih]

This is so useful for more than just edges, as always Vince keep killing it man

[padrespeaks]

That 000 brush remark is so flipping true. Great video!

[OldManRogers]

My next project is raven guard so this helps a lot!!

[Magicwillnz]

I watched this with mouth agape. That's an amazing trick - "sick" as we'd say back in the day.

[zakhoskins]

I could see this coming in handy for veins on big minis like demons and stuff.

[HeroesBosses]

Simple and effective. Excellent advice! Thanks Vince :)

[johnkelley]

That is an interesting technique and I can see myself using it.Thanks for sharing your skill as it is a great help.

[necrolepsey]

I'd always wondered what was going on when I saw a gradient in tones leading up to an edge highlight. Never would have guessed this in a million years.

[flassadar]

Note to self: always watch these videos twice. I forgot the crucial info to use the brush on the back of the thumb to mix the colors better. Now that I watched it again it works much better! Thank you! It looks great and it is fast. (Taking notes is also helpful)

[sadnessinside]

Great video. Really appreciate insight. Thank you

[terrydactyl]

Maybe it’s the medicinal weed but this one was almost like watching a magic trick for me 🤯

[Robzilla]

Vince, thanks for the video but the tab you are running up on drones must be cutting into your profits. I thought this was literally how you had to do it on any edge you couldn't reach. It was taught to me as reverse highlighting or negative highlighting because you don't really try to make it thin as you apply it, you correct it after. Now the concept of using loaded brush to do it so you actually get a mini-fade; that right there is on point good sir! Leave it to Vince to take something you've been doing for years and in that gentle calm Vince voice say, "You're not wrong, but, this is easier, no?"

[Zectari]

Thank you so much for this tip! Perfect

[Erikjust]

Question how would you speed paint Ghouls from the Flesh-eater Courts?
i take it that since that either Zandari Dust or Vallejo game color Dead Flesh would be used and its a brown green... ish color the same baseline method as with the goblins could be used.
Undercoat it with a dark red color, do a zenith highlight of bone, drybrush it with pale sand and then maybe do a wash with either Zandari dust or dead flesh??

[verluc]

Vince, thanks for this great video! May I ask you what is the brand of the brush you are using? It seems to have a very thin point but it also looks stiff which makes this good to paint freehand.
Thanks
Luciano

[surfacetension]

Interesting, would this also work with a clear medium in place of the second colour?

[Bobamelius]

Nice tip!

Unrelated to video: what (if any) extra considerations would there be when painting grey armor using zenithal priming/glazing? I have an army of Red Scorpions space marines (GW Dawnstone as the main color; just kind of a flat neutral grey) to paint and I'd like to make them more tonally varied and interesting than just layering them flat grey and applying lining and edge highlights. When I'm thinking about this in my head it seems like trying to glaze grey over a grey/white zenithal would look either too grey or too white. Should some other colors be sneaked into the undershade or something?