How to Dry Brush, The Basics

[@disunsnogoot3319]

Vids from DO and 6+ on the same day? Gork (or Mork) has blessed us greatly! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Ti's indeed a blessed day 😇

[@EssexBoyz]

Dynamic, demonstration of drunken, dry brushing, displayed here. Top stuff mate and that Grotsnik conversion looks bang tidy❗️

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Cheers bud, finally managed to get some use out of those god awful painboys 🤣

[@calvinryder3195]

Awesome!! Ive always had a hard time with dry brushing. thanks so much!! well done!

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

No problem bud, hope you get something from it 😊👍

[@6Stevo]

Top class tips. I love the drybrush palette idea. That's really clever! Btw those really large make up brushes are invaluable for dusting miniatures.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Cheers man, those really big brushes are a bit too soft for painting but, yeah, would be great for dusting 😁👍

[@6Stevo]

@TheDrunkenOrk I use them all the time as there is usually big gaps between my painting sessions, so i need to give models a good dust before I start painting them. Espesially usefull for large vehicles.

[@keithgroce9983]

They absolutely are !

[@duacot6633]

I recall learning about dry brushing miniatures and wish I could find the article I had read back around 1986. This was with enamels. The brush used in the article showed brushes absolutely destroyed from neglect, their hairs clumped and splayed out in the worst way. The results were outstanding! I wonder if that technique is why I use brushes as consumables. I do not purchase brushes that cost more than $2 or $3 and often go for the packs of brushes with 5-20 costing as low as .50cents per brush. I have tried to approach things differently in the last 2 years or so. No longer using enamels, or extremely rarely using them, I keep my brushes cleaned daily. Windsor & Newton Brush Cleaner & Restorer has restored life and renewed quality of my brushes.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Absokutely, drybrushing can be a really effective tool, though I haven't used enamels since airfix kits back in the 80s My brushes tend to fall into 2 groups. Decent ones that are cared for (still all under 10 quid each mind), then a bunch of cheap ones (paid about £8 for 50) which get hammered 🤣

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you decided to show us how to Dry Brush

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

My pleasure 😊

[@Wastelander2281]

Best homemade texture pallete ever. Can't believe I never thought of that and recently been planning on buying one so guess I'm saving some money. Noice.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Excellent, glad it helped mate 😊

[@jdatkin8601]

It was the millions of tubes on the painboy that got me, really irritating model to paint. Thanks for posting this. I have been attempting to dry brush since I started painting back in February of this year and have failed terribly each time. I'll follow these tips and hopefully crack it next time.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Nice one bud, keep at it 👍 it just takes a bit of practice to pick the knack up, you'll get there in no time 🙂👍

[@andyf1702]

Thanks for the video - lots of useful info. I have recently got some speed paints to paint my Skaven blood bowl team and will be trying your dry brush techniques

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

That's great Andy mate, best of luck with em, I've fancied a ratty blood bowl team for a while myself 😁👍

[@marksminis]

I stumbled onto The Drunken Orc and I sub'd! Seems like you're just getting rolling! And I'm always looking for drybrushing tips, they can often get me out of trouble

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Good to have you on board 😁

[@erikbrown8738]

My all time go to.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Very kind bud 😊🙏

[@erikbrown8738]

Well it’s Friday, off work. Cocktails anyone?? I’m having Vodka and Grapefruit on the rocks. ;)

[@6Stevo]

That Painboy looks fukkin' awesome mate! 👌

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Cheers Stevo, doing a few with the painboy as a base

[@MostlyZen79]

Thanks for this Sid - I am trying to get better at Drybrushing - I can do metals and rust nicely but struggle with other stuff. Will try the dry palette thing

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Dead cheap and easy to make Tom, well worth doing 👍

[@MostlyZen79]

@@TheDrunkenOrk I went ahead and made one. It’s working well so far

[@orkstuff5635]

Always used to buy brushes from art shops when they had the sales on, ended up with shedloads of flat brushes and they do work well for what I used to call 'underpriming'.

[@frogblasttheventcore69]

Tell me more about this underpriming techinque, if you will.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Good stuff, can't have too many spare brushes 😊👍

[@orkstuff5635]

@@frogblasttheventcore69 Sorry for the late reply, I used to get notifications of replies but now I'm only getting notifications of new vids. Underpriming was a dodge I came up with to try to cut down on the painting side by priming models black from underneath, followed by I think it was 'Dryad Brown' aerosol matt primer from GW sprayed from slightly above horizontal and then using a flat brush to paint white primer brushing downwards from the top. The idea was to use semi-transparent top coat to allow the different primer shades to influence the top coat and avoid the requirement for having to dry-brush highlights and such to give 'lighting' effects.

[@horuslupercal2385]

Great vid, Sid👍

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Cheers bud 🙂🙏

[@athollmcnicoll1028]

All Model Makers should have a current stock from Boots the Chemists who do an excellent range of Make-up brushes. Just tell the assistant you check out with, that it is for Modelling and that its not for old age revitalization (looking younger with make-up).

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Hey, what ever floats your boat 😉 But it's definitely easier that trying to explain to the breadknife why she left the house with a moot green face 😁

[@B__C__]

5:42 Waddya mean 'it doesn't have a right way up'? That's an original Jackson Pollack that is (with a bit of Van Gogh in the texture). I fully expect that to be hanging in a place of honor in your hobby office when it's finally finished--perhaps behind some museum glass. .... Oh, and the model came out nice too.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

Cheers bud, haha it could be worth a few quid 🤣

[@Gogsnik]

I think I might have to make one of those texture boards. I've seen 'proper' ones, like Artis Opus makes and it doesn't seem worth the money to me, but the homemade, proper orky, one looks great! :D I've got loads of sand and grit and cheap paint I could throw together as well, good idea.

[@JoeHardacre]

TBH the artis opus ones are really not that expensive and they're fantastic. The technique is applicable for any decent shaped makeup brush, but the series D brushes basically changed my entire approach to painting vehicles

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

I see them like wet palettes, really useful and dead easy to make. There's ones you can buy out there, and I'm sure they're great, but might as well try it out first. The sand and grit with a bit PVA would be excellent 👍

[@docrad9201]

What is the power claws made from?

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

It was a standard ork power klaw but with the 'thumb' replaced with a killsaw blade, and the middle claw finger was cut from a killa kan claw. The other two finger klaws were the scalpel 'fingers' off the painboy klaw. Then just added some syringes, also from the painboy, and some greenstuff pipes 👍

[@docrad9201]

Well done!

[@TheMichaellathrop]

I'm curious how well florescent white would work for under painting.

[@disunsnogoot3319]

Since speed paints are simi-translucent it might work really well

[@TheMichaellathrop]

@@disunsnogoot3319 that was about my thought process too, it's just an issue of how they interact with the filter layers.

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

To be honest I have no idea if the fluorescence will still........ fluoress(?) under the contrast. It'd be interesting though, if you try it let me know 👍

[@keithgroce9983]

Ive tried the slap chop method I liked it but I really don’t like the shininess of GWs contrast paints

[@B__C__]

Get yourself a clear matte varnish (or a gloss if you're doing slimy Tyranids) to cover and protect your work when it's out in the wild.

[@keithgroce9983]

I fully intend to do just that .. use mat varnish that is as it’s an ork

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

The army painter speed paint range isn't as shiny, but a matt varnish will sort that out anyway 😊👍

[@keithgroce9983]

@@TheDrunkenOrk what shade green would recommend for orks? In Army painter that is

[@TheDrunkenOrk]

​@keithgroce9983 the ork flesh isn't my favourite, it's too dark yet vibrant. Which sounds a bit funny but if you've seen it you'll know what I mean. If it's army painter I'd go Malignant Green, then 'green it up' with a wash of Biel Tan Green from GW (without it it's a bit too sickly) 👍

[@blairling243]

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[@TheDrunkenOrk]

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