Painting Secrets Revealed: Thinning your paint, Layering, Wet Blending + more

[@LylaMev]

What Is your favorite painting technique?

[@asdsadadasdads5755]

Dotting ! .......... . . . . . . .

[@TheBlondiekitten]

My favourite is glazing and I always use at least 5 layers to a highlight. Try to get a lot of contrast .... even to a point where the lowest is black and highest is white..

[@LylaMev]

As you should!

[@LylaMev]

What is dotting!?

[@jesusbuddhaman]

Do you glaze like adding a filter?

[@evilwarpuppy]

dont normally comment on vids - but how you described glazing and layering made something click in my head, think ive been looking at these techniques in the wrong way for a long time haha.. great vid, will stay tuned :)

[@SuouEtsumi]

After watching dozens of mini painting video's, I'm finally painting my first one! I'll be sticking with your videos to guide me through. You're the only one I've come across to actually explain how to thin the paint.

[@LylaMev]

Thank you, I do my best!

[@aegil-]

I would like to thank you for being such an excellent teacher. This video is gold for beginner painters

[@douglasfazzani269]

I've been painting for 15 years and this is still incredibly helpful!

[@HpacEastern]

Painting again after a long absence is what I'm looking forward to.

[@epictetus7910]

As with the last video I watched from you, no word of a lie, leaps and bounds more helpful than any other tutorial ive seen since starting painting. Felt stuck and bored and this allowed me to try stuff out for myself, understanding the basics and just applying them. Why do other youtubers not bother with the basics, when clearly, many of us are just starting out painting? Well done, seriously. Subscribed.

[@rogueguineapig]

Sound isn't bad! I'd say check your "squeeze" or compressor settings and maybe dial those back a bit? Try it, see what you think! Thanks for a the tips--I REALLY (and I mean REALLY) appreciate the "when it looks like this, it's right, but when it looks like THIS it's wrong" kind of approach. I'm still struggling with loading the brush correctly, but this helps! Thank you!

[@LylaMev]

I’m literally working to update my audio right now! It’s by far my greatest weakness.

[@HomelessOnline]

Again, your video does a better job of teaching me than all of those other channels. I like them, they're awe-inspiring, but this channel is just inspiring, something they're not.

[@dracosummoner]

I think this is one of the best tutorial videos I've seen. Thanks so much for this advice, especially for giving each specific tip its own individual video section. Those video timestamps are extremely useful. Even though I'd seen a lot of the techniques, I was having difficulty putting "names to faces," so to speak (for instance, I'd heard of glazing and I'd heard of the color-blending technique, but giving a specific definition really helped). I'd never actually seen the loaded-brush technique at the end before, but I really liked the cranberry-looking color gradient.

[@legacymindpilot]

I like your videos! I keep coming back and learning new things each time; and I've been at it since 1983!!

[@bitzbox]

You explained every technique really well but your cat was the real star of the video :D

[@writeheroics7490]

After the seventh video on layering (what I was looking for) from different mini-painters, I found this video that had so much helpful info; not just on layering. The thinning paints explanation was SUPER useful. Thank you for the clear explanations and visual demonstrations. Top 10 best videos for beginner painters I've found so far and one I will be coming back to over and over again.

[@chrishowker8431]

ive watched tonnes of vids on ALL of these subjects but finally you have combined them all AND explained them clearer. Thank you!

[@tonydavies4482]

I have been looking on internet for days for someone to help me start painting thankfully found you. thank you Tony

[@lornevirgin410]

A wonderful guide for beginning and intermediate mini painters. Some of the best explanations of terms and techniques that I've seen yet. And a good documentary of the chaos that is cats.

[@fredwanders2448]

Thankyou for explaining each of these steps, this video is more helpful than you may realize as alot of others just harp on about what they are doing as opposed to explaining how they do it. 😊

[@evanmurphreegamble575]

The diagrams and visual aids you include for each technique are so helpful! I also really appreciate the level of detail you go into for creating the base coat: I've never seen it described so well before!

[@PENFOLD1962]

Yeeeeah someone who I can understand from start to finish! Thank you for sharing your clear concise video it's been a joy to watch. Don't you just love cat's lol, we have 5 of em. Take care 👍😷👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@Rocktag0nal]

i love your videos, they appeal to me perfectly and your minis are awesome, but the best thing about your videos is that you have helped my wife learn and get better and most importatnly more interested in mini painting. thank you so much and keep up the good work!

[@Hallzor]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm very new to painting and this video gave me the courage to try layering. It's not the best result but something "clicked" and I kinda understand the process. Thank you for helping me imrprove! I will check out more of your videos for sure.

[@TheOrganicOverdose]

Nice video and great example of a dark tip loaded brush method. Ben Komets (an unbelievably good painter) typically uses a light tip with a darker load in his brush.

[@markmontag162]

Lovely! More useful info than the last 6 videos I've watched combined.

[@PK-64427]

A must video for everyone that is starting the hobby!

[@derek9218]

This is my go to "brush up" video. Ty

[@Tamasora]

Nice video. The explainations were clear enough to try directly. Thank you ! But I'm not gonna lie, when I heard "and most importantly" at the end, in my head it was like "don't forget to PAINT MORE MINIS" !

[@luurankoiset9120]

This was super useful - I had misundestood some of these. Not anymore!

[@SeattleFira]

This is a fuuuuuucking blessing. Thank you so much for the "load up the brush" suggestion. Your Layers is awesome as well!

[@neovalley]

Hi Lyla, thank you very much for your hand work on these videos

[@dagdamar2000]

TY for leaving the crazy cat I could not stop laughing. just 2 min in. love it ..

[@LylaMev]

Thank you! I love my cats, they are full or mischief and chaos!

[@dagdamar2000]

ok watched it all now and just wanted to add..it was a great vid you explained it all rather well. one of the best I have seen. please keep up the outstanding content. I am going to try the things you showed as i just usually paint to table top standard. thank you for the video., it helped alot.

[@craigcotter7476]

I know right, it was so funny I literally could not stop laughing. I'm crying here. It was one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen on you tube. I've watched the video 11 times now just to see the cats antics and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

[@bbugarschi]

Nice video, i finally get what wet blending feathering and loaded brush are :P So this is was i understood: 1) Glaze (just thin paint, more or less) 2) Feathering (Glazing but on make the glaze on the model) 3) Wet blending (Feathering but with two wet colors) 4) Loaded Brush (Wet blend but on the brush) :P

[@gregmurray4169]

The snowplow analogy was really helpful, thanks for that!

[@natelay7244]

Thanks for explaining layering! Dig the pyramid analogy.

[@TheStoicArmyPainter]

You are first to finally explain to me difference between base and layering and what layering is. Thank you so much for these great videos!

[@boreos3499]

This is excellent! Worth it's weight in gold for effectively condensing all these techniques into one clear video. Also your painting is really excellent.

[@Caleena1989]

Great overview for a beginner like me to see the different techniques in one video. Thanks a lot!

[@salemrashed1]

I have watched other painting tutorials but your videos are honestly hands down the best thank so much please keep posting more I am working on a new kill team squad and thos really help up my game thank you 😊

[@declanmckearney879]

Great video! It's nice to get a concentrated overview for beginners like myself. I just wanted to note that inks come both as pigments or dyes depending on which you buy, so don't assume they're all dyes.

[@RoebixS]

I'm just going to start thinning my own paints, as currently I get my partner to do it... Thank you for this video, will be good to learn all these skills, in time :)

[@gergokerekes4550]

For me the best thing is zenithal highlight, as my hands love to shake I am pure trash at edge highlights so the spray can that is now replaced by an airbrush is my savior, and the wet palette, it is soo out of this world amazing.

[@TheSzybas]

Zenithal priming, yes!!!!! I tried this and white drybrush before putting a basecoat. Black spray from underneath, then grey spray, then warithbone spray, then white drybrush everywhere. Finish with contrast paint. And that's all. (I can't do a proper highlight to save my life...)

[@gergokerekes4550]

@@TheSzybas yeah, when I was reading about it first I was like yeah this can't look that good, but then having tried it I was like damn that is pretty good with minimal effort.

[@michaelwakefield605]

Excellent video Lyla! The wet blending is what I want to do more of. Thanks.

[@ayonmetar2301]

I am definitely not a beginner anymore but still pretty pretty far away from being a veteran at painting miniatures. This overview gave me a nice overview of what I know and what is worth looking into. Thanks a lot =D

[@Ms_Ink]

Thank you so much! All of these techniques were so clearly explained!

[@chrisbarrett1006]

Nice job on breaking down the sections. I've got a few friends interested in starting to paint their gaming figures I think this is a perfect starting point.

[@Hushai1979]

I really enjoyed the work you put in on this tutorial, different methods of painting techniques … special effects.. I will watch it over and over till I perfect it… thank you.. from Aiken South Carolina.✝️❤️🇺🇸🤠😎😸🙀

[@kei86]

probably the best tutorial on thinning paints. great work.

[@Aiviymatoc]

very nice usage of hue/saturation shifting

[@David_necromaster]

Another very interesting video on this channel. In this case the main painting techniques are clearly explained. Very instructive. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. -"Un altre video molt interessant en aquest canal. En aquest cas queden clarament explicades les principals tècniques de pintura. Molt instructiu. Gràcies per compartir els teus coneixements."

[@naroe2001]

Great video. I love how you hold your brush when detailing.

[@MaskedRiderChris]

I'm finally getting a handle on feathering/two brush blending, so since I've not attempted wet blending yet, and I've never heard of the loaded brush technique until I watched this video, I will have to try those techniques. I'm a new subscriber because I'm always on the lookout for new painters I can pick up inspiration and new ideas from, and I really like your presentation and overall demeanor in your videos so far. And as a fellow cat minion, I can relate--every time I get painting, Maxkat usually starts hollering at me, demanding I stop everything and commence worshiping him post haste. We love our little fuzzy psychopaths, now, don't we?

[@werry13]

Wow, first i Thought, this will be a Video about all those Techniques you learn everywhere, like, laying wet in wet and Drybrushing. But there are so many things i head never heared of and i am very excited!!! At Least the Loaded Brush Technique look amazing. Gread Job you earned the Subscribe and Thumbs up!

[@adamholt5395]

I'm glad that your moniker is The Mini Witch, because once you did the glazing on top of your layering I knew it was witchcraft! Thank you so much for this breakdown of different techniques! I still have trouble understanding how to layer properly, but the pyramid breakdown was brilliant. Thank you!

[@edwardcote2440]

This is a better explanation of some of the basic techniques. I still struggle with thinning my paint to the right consistency. That is one reason why I also tend to prefer the Reaper paints. They're just less finicky about it, and frankly one of the cheaper lines anyway. I don't like their metallics and I use their washes for weathering and lining instead, but their opaque regular paints are very good. Especially the reds- those are the best I've found so far.

[@jordan8909]

This was super helpful for brush loading, thanks!

[@edmilo5968]

This is some good detailed painting tutorial.

[@SuperTexasBlues]

Just stumbled across your channel... you do great work, i hope you are still active thanks for the lesson and explaining it so well... it will be a big help at the bench!

[@marcolaos5568]

Great video! Thanks! Watched over and over again....

[@BlackDevilMamba]

You are the very first person to explain all these techniques clearly. Thank you very much. You have reinvigorated me to start painting minis again.

[@sandracreeth6510]

I am a beginner at this painting and it,s helped me a lot

[@ltGargoyle]

your video is helpful. in fact i just share it with a friend so he could have a good explanation and visual

[@NathanielMyers-g7x]

Late to the party, but thank you so much for the video! It really helped me to put an image to the techniques people have been describing :D Just getting into mini painting, and am excited to try glazing.

[@CorbinatorLoL]

I'm looking forward to trying wet blending. Thanks a lot.

[@tsw11385]

Amazing you have given me the urge to try wet blending and glazing again 🙌🏻👏🏻ty

[@nathanielball3719]

I've watched a lot of videos on these topics, so maybe its just finally hitting me, but they never really connected like this one did. Thank you!

[@Lamefoureyes]

This is such a great tutorial, I really appreciated your breakdown of loading the brush and why lighter paints seem to have so much better coverage. The cat making a racket is also a huge bonus!

[@thatoneginger]

I just found this channel and love your videos. Thanks so much! And Mochi is the cutest!!

[@omarmunoz6975]

Awesome video, especially for begginers

[@Jeffs40K]

Very good explanations of Painting skills

[@michaelkilby4046]

Congrats on the views and on the growing channel!

[@devin8731]

catching up on your posts, you give such good advice to both newbs and established hobbyiests ou def get it

[@ryanjackson9735]

Really understandable explanations, excellent work. 😎

[@fabricedevos4273]

Extremely valuable video, thank you, as a beginner, I learned a lot. Of course now comes the most complicated things: try, fail, try again, (fail again?) until a not too bad figure come to life with colors 😊👍🏻

[@archfrank]

Honestly, I've watched far too many hours of youtube over the last 9 months-ish since I started painting, and this is the best explanation I have found for some of the more "taken for granted as easy and obvious" stuff. I don't know if it speaks to the quality of your content, or the lack of quality of the biggest channels =/ Either way cheers, I learned a lot!

[@daveshaw2765]

Thanks for your videos. Lots of great information about the hows and whys without babbling incoherently. THANK YOU for that. You made a subscriber out of me.

[@sandipchudasama6889]

Very very newbie to mini painting and love your channel. Really fab hints, tips and techniques

[@dylansovine3343]

Just started painting this month. Excited to try out wet blending and glazing! Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@Plancton5000]

Unbelievable skill

[@caesarralf1828]

Thanks so much for this video! I've been painting for a while, but a lot of times I was struggling with how to properly apply them, specially how to thin my paint now that I switched to a wet pallette! (gotta love Mochi going crazy in the video)

[@stevecam724]

Thanks for your useful channel, I'm definitely excited to try some of the things I've seen in this video. Regards from Perth, Australia 👍😊

[@calebcr6662]

Me: "Look at this great clean footage I'm getting!" Cats: "Hold my catnip" Love it :D

[@andraslibal]

Loved the video it was very informative. I will try lining and glazing next :))) Lining seems to be so much better than just using washes.

[@bigolbearthejammydodger6527]

good vid, nice technique demos. Also... Good kitty!

[@qtpatooty4929]

Your videos are amazing. Thank you for your wisdom!!

[@BarryPilkinton]

Lyla I’m a noob miniature 40K guy and your videos have been very helpful. Could you do some airbrush basics tutorials in the future? Looked through your past videos and didn’t see any...thanks again

[@LylaMev]

I have an airbrush video in the works!

[@michaelbazell7122]

Videos like this are 50% helpful to me. I STILL never know if I’m doing it right because I don’t always know what consistency I need. I’ll think I have it right, but I don’t, and I don’t know how to fix it or what I should have done differently.

[@michaelbazell7122]

Really enjoy your videos though.

[@richardoxford2072]

Very interesting. You made it all very interesting and informative without being boring. Thank you!

[@outofthisworldmodelsandmin898]

Great video! I've known about lining for many years but have never seen anyone use or talk about it! Keep up the amazing work! -John

[@dremmmercer4349]

I really love the way you explain each technique, straight to the point, clearly and concisely. I will put these great tips into practice.

[@FacilityD20]

very beginner friendly

[@ErokLobotomist]

Thanks for this, I've always been a big baby about thinning down my paints. This gives me a bit more confidence to give blending a try. Cheers from Canada!

[@aimz_playz]

Thank you for this video! I've been trying to learn the various blending methods but have been struggling. Your advice of using the belly of the brush I think is the key I was missing!

[@StarPupil1]

Nice! I'll probably send newbies to this video since it's basically a fantastic glossary of these terms!

[@NickPeters-cy3ig]

great section on thinning paint, likely the best i've come across!

[@bkup1332]

Great explanations. Thanks for making the video.

[@thatonetitan8456]

Loved the explanation of what the different blending techniques are best at. Just starting out, and it clicked on a few lightbulbs. Thanks! And here's a like, comment and subscribe. Hope your channel blows up quick

[@GazeboMimic]

Thank you for this. I’m new to painting and have been searching for a tutorial like this for a while now. Thank you so much. Now if I could just find this good if a video about airbrushing I’d be golden.

[@neilbrown2451]

Wow. That was a massive amount of info in one video. Thanks.

[@TheBlondiekitten]

Quality content yet again 💖💖💖

[@LylaMev]

Thank you!

[@kurtkyre]

I use a good bit of wet blending and a little glazing for the most part. I could stand to up my contrast game some.

[@justamurloc2526]

Hey Lyla, I find your videos useful and very easy to follow. Since I started to watch them my painting skills have improved a lot and I'm looking forward for more . Thank you so much and keep it up!

[@LylaMev]

Thank you! These of comments are why I love to do this!

[@Biggabertha]

Awesome, thank you very much for showing absolutely everything from how paint looks too thick or too thin!! Again, thank you very much!!