How to Make Dirty Pour Dice!

Dirty pours are one of my favorite resin techniques. There's so much variation in what you can do, and so much variation in the results you get! In this video we pour some dice together while I give some tips for doing your own resin dirty pours, and go over a couple different ways to do them.
MATERIALS
Split cups - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B...
Resin - (Art 'N Glow) - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Alcohol inks - inks from www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07... and www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...
Make sure to use gloves and a respirator when you work with resin!
0:00 Intro
0:38 General Advice
1:39 Mixed Resin Pour
2:50 Ink Pour
3:42 Split Cup Pour
4:34 Other Options
5:10 Outro
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[@DerChef]

I have been watching dirty pour videos for a little bit today to learn how to do this, and your explanations and pacing are some of the best i have seen. Thank you!

[@alchemistsattic]

My pleasure! I hope it goes well for ya :)

[@jayburtz]

Gorgeous looking dice with some crazily creative patterns. Such low views for how good you present! Well done

[@fizzingcola8201]

Woah, this is super informative and inspiring 💕 great work as usual!

[@alchemistsattic]

Aw, thanks! Glad it was helpful :)

[@IcsulX]

Try this for dirty pour: in the 5 or 7 compartment split cup, do rainbow colors. Pour them slowly on one side of the mold for interesting looking rainbow dice. P.S. Thank you for making videos, and keep it up!

[@alchemistsattic]

Oh boy. I have a video coming up that I think you're gonna love, lol

[@francescadelre7406]

Super useful!❤ Thank you!

[@alexbien8638]

Thanks for your fantastic video. Do your dice come out that glassy or do you sand them somehow?

[@alchemistsattic]

Yeah, they do actually come out that glossy (I made my masters really shinny so that my molds are really shiny), but I still sand down any lips or flashing and polish my dice after this point, too.

[@VijinandJirham]

How long do you wait before pouring when you do a split cup. I'm still trying to find that sweet spot where it won't blend, but isn't so thick I have trouble pouring.

[@alchemistsattic]

I wait quite a while (and sometimes I also accidentally wait too long and it's hard to pour)- usually right before or around the point where my gloves that have a little bit of resin on them start sticking to the stir sticks.

[@evanpennock1301]

Maybe a silly question, but is there ever a concern for getting your cap on all the way/not enough? I know you don't want to push down as it can cause air to get sucked back in, but I sometimes worry I won't get it on completely and there will be a weird gap

[@alchemistsattic]

That does happen sometimes, yes. That's part of the reason I cut my mold lid keys so long now, so I can make sure my lid is sitting right or will sit right as it cures. I still get dice every once in a while with either really thick flashing or large bubbles where the resin didn't fill in right- that's just kind of something you have to expect will happen sometimes. You can mitigate some of it by making sure you put your lids on straight up and down (if you have the lids on at a slight angle it sometimes doesn't pull the lid down evenly), and making sure to get the lids on while the resin is still runny (I tend to run into those issues more if I take too long getting the dice poured and the resin is starting to get super thick).

[@IcsulX]

Is there a place a fellow creator can share dice even if not a patreon? Since I found your channel, I have managed to create a few masterpieces that I think might inspire you. Working on 4 more dice symbol designs before will hopefully open a company to sell dice full time.

[@alchemistsattic]

Oh, I forgot to put it in the video description (I'll go fix that), but I have a discord here!: discord.gg/ERyjsVFrKB Feel free to show of what you're working on over there in the arts-and-crafts channel :)

[@IcsulX]

@@alchemistsattic Oh boy. This is exciting. i'll make sure to get some good looking photos before I give you guys a sneak peak :)