Paint Your Large Panels Using DRYBRUSH (No airbrush? No problem!)

[@ArtisOpus]

We'd love to know if you found the colour-selection discussion at the beginning of the video useful or not, please put your thoughts (and suggestions) below! 👇👇 Buy the best and original domed drybrushes used in this video here: store.artis-opus.com/

[@ChaseDaOrk3767]

I'd really like to see you tackling drybrushing/stippling Chaos Space Marines from each Traitor Legions, similar to your older Space Marine Drybrushing tutorials. I'd especially like to see you do some painting tutorials for either Death Guard or World Eaters using drybrushing and stippling

[@ltjamescoopermason8685]

Excellent talk through never realised how expensive paints have become since I payed for my sons citadel paints back in the late 1980s to 1990s really enjoying looking at a master at work at the master Artisan level ! My eight year old grandson wants to start is eight a good ages as my son was thirteen year old skill full green stuff model maker

[@meadowlarklemonist8712]

Once again, you have produced a video on a technique that I am confident I can replicate and use to improve the quality of my painting. Incredible work, you're the best in the business.

[@spice6828]

I watched your original Rhino videos where you explained the fundamentals of this approach, and will gladly watch this same content if you made it another twenty times; there's always something new you include which helps me refine what I've learnt and the results and the speed with which you achieve them is spectacular. I've used this method on a few vehicles and can't stress enough how attainable it is. (Plus, I'm sorry to say I use your videos as white noise when I work from home; the music you use and the timbre of your voice is very relaxing)

[@brent_the_programmer9108]

Thank you for talking about how you're loading your brush. That's super helpful!

[@ArtisOpus]

Our pleasure, Brent. After all my time teaching in person for the last year there's some big things I have learned I need to emphasise more, this is one of them!

[@derianardor]

I have to agree this is one of the toughest things I've had issue with getting right!

[@brent_the_programmer9108]

@@derianardor Absolutely! Every time Byron asks for suggestions on future tutorials, I want to ask for one on "How to load a brush"; it seems like a fundamental skill that I just haven't completely figured out yet.

[@Jodamanify]

I am just getting the hang of dry brushing because of your videos, and it never occurred to me that I could do a huge piece like that with almost exclusively stippling! Definitely going to try it out on my Hekaton Land Fortress.

[@ArtisOpus]

Do it! It's very fun, and all you really need to avoid is overloading your brush with paint/water (take paint carefully and test on your texture palette first). Ignore any impulses to speed up as it is fast already :) Enjoy!

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

I wish this knowledge had been widely out there when I started 40k in 3rd. Drybrushing was taught as a beginner technique that wouldn’t look good on large panels, and I shouldn’t have listened to my friends.

[@zakai631]

Thank you for the tutorial. This must be a sign for me to start dry brushing my kits

[@Astra_Martarum]

Definitely beyond the realms of a mere mortal like myself, but that looks superb! Love it.

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

Give it a try, mate. We can only improve by trying. You'll definitely need good quality drybrushes for the stippling technique, I tried it with The Army Painter brushes, and it looked terrible; I think the bristles on those brushes are too soft to get a good result. My Artis Opus drybrushes are much more rigid and produce a much nicer result. It's not as good as Byrons, but it's better than I expected for my second attempt at the technique.

[@ArtisOpus]

Give it a go, buddy - try it with black, grey, and white, and on a simple terrain piece - it's a good starting point for learning, and removing the colour can help a lot.

[@ArtisOpus]

Thanks for this comment, we put a lot into trying to design and produce the best quality brushes possible! Keep practising and observing and you will continue improving 💪

[@samuelsanfratello4617]

Awesome video! Love your pro-tips presented in such a humble manner! Helps knuckleheads like me feel less knuckleheadish!

[@alexwembridge5961]

Before I watch this, which I know will be amazing so thank you in advance. Just wanted to say the description with the absolute library of tutorials is such a resource! Excellent as always

[@ArtisOpus]

Thank you so much, we are actually going to put some time into revitalising and updating the list in the coming months, our playlists have had a bit of TLC recently also

[@Dewoy1]

This kinda makes me wanna grab my unpainted Doom Scythe and start working, looks so relaxing.

[@ArtisOpus]

It's super chilled! Without the panel lining you can use the same brush start to finish, too :)

[@Dewoy1]

@@ArtisOpus And it looks dope! I started repainting my Necrons already with stippling, but never used a big brush like that.

[@ericlegrue6775]

When I do my biel tan I start with naggarath and work my way up to moot green. I based it off your red from the wraith fighter you did. It works great because of the color wheel video I saw of yours

[@jamesbirch4526]

Saw this piece in the flesh at the Element Games opening in Birmingham, it looks amazing. Such a good technique. Thanks for your time on the day Byron

[@crawbag0311]

That's awesome. My next tank will definitely be painted in an attempt like this.

[@ArtisOpus]

Yes! Let us know how it goes :). Good luck 👍

[@direpants4667]

I loved this vid, simple to follow and understand, really easy golden voice to listen to, and a piece that looks truly awesome. Byron, the original drybrushing badass.

[@ArtisOpus]

Thank you so much for the kind words, doing our best!

[@BadgerBoy59]

I've only just discovered your channel with this video but I already the format of it. Just simple explanations of everything you're doing and personally, I feel like you got a much better result than with airbrushing! The model (or rather, the panel) looks like it's got way more character to it than the sort of neat finishes of the air brush.

[@ArtisOpus]

Thank you so much, this is exactly what we were going for with this one! Would you have preferred it without the colour choices section?

[@LuciousDeMorte]

I was wondering how to paint armour panels on a pair of armigers, this has really given me some ideas, thank you

[@nickkohlmann]

Yes! I might take some ideas from this for my Valkyries and Knights :)

[@darrenj3720]

Let the internet hate me. I request stipplechop. Seriously though this vid is gold and the colour theory is much appreciated.

[@pete104242]

you are correct that a smaller brush has a smaller circumference but I think you meant radius, or maybe just say it has less girth with a sad emojji. thanks again Mr Byron, really helpful tips

[@chucklamb3496]

Awesome Byron

[@benjaminmatthews9911]

"Troll slayer has poo coverage" the most memorable sentence for me. Awesome video as always artis.

[@danielwei3434]

Thank you for your painting course at Spiel Essen. It was very pleasant to watch you

[@kmykz]

Stippling large pieces is my favourite content! But colour-talk would be great to see/hear, too :) like 'why purple is a good shadow colour for green' etc.

[@KimHarderFog]

Watching you work is like magic.

[@jamesperrin3762]

I want to paint some old Mech/Gundam kits using this method to capture the old painted style of boxart from the 80's

[@ArtisOpus]

It'd be perfect dude, you add some masking or stencils and weathering, and you are absolutely rocking and rolling :)

[@geoffreysearby3181]

Great video. Very novice painter here. Scooping paint right up to the ferrule gave me the heeby jeebys. Is that just your crap brush that is just for scooping paint?

[@ArtisOpus]

Always crap brush, he's been on this duty for a while now :)

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

Have you stumbled across Mr Pigments channel, Byron? He makes some very interesting videos that you might be interested in. Fantasy and Game paint is the first paint I bought that wasn't G.W. and it almost caused me to give up painting. It is a very strange paint; the gel medium really threw me off. After moving to Vallejo and the AK Interavtice and ProAcryl, I went back to the F&G stuff and found it is not bad paint, it simply needs to be used differently that other brands. I hope you're well. Thanks for another excellent video.

[@alphaleigpyne]

My thoughts were green from dark to light stippling and drybrushing. I would like to see a red build up. This would be useful for Aeldari vehicle miniatures.

[@alphaleigpyne]

I like the cool blue non-metallic stipple effects.

[@ArtisOpus]

Given that red is probably my favourite colour on minis I think this is well worth doing :)

[@alphaleigpyne]

@@ArtisOpus Yes, this would work on Craftworld Saim-Hann on their Falcon chasis.

[@greimann]

Great meeting you in Essen. Thank you for the demonstration!

[@bigbrowntau]

Really useful video, great brush technique, and thanks too for talking about how to load a brush. Visually striking. Only hassle was with the focus sometimes. Could you give us a second or two without the brush and hand there, so the auto-focus picks up the model? Hard to see the stippling with a blurry shot.

[@ArtisOpus]

We had issued with this one, which hopefully a different angle will help next time, we'll re-record if it turns out like this, apologies for the issues!

[@Ed-xo9pc]

Awesome work, still love to see you tackle a colour shift effect, if anyone can you can

[@eliottturner55]

Colour selection discussion was very useful as it something I don’t know much about. Would this technique scale down to Legions Imperialis, using a smaller brush?

[@ArtisOpus]

Yes, absolutely! We have a video on them from the month of the big box release, it's exactly as you said, and works surprisingly well 👌

[@TwinComplex]

Awesome work as always, congrats. How would you handle the colors for a blueish white vehicle (like the white scars you painted 3 years ago, yes that's old lol) ?

[@ArtisOpus]

OG reference right there! Using colours like ulthuan grey is a really good start, but also considering a little weathering, and save actual white for adding in to finishing touches or final steps. Our next tutorial might include a white stripe which was done using these tips, it's the dreadnought 'arm' from our recent short/instagram

[@TwinComplex]

@@ArtisOpus I saw this short and it was promising, can't wait to see the tutorial ! Thanks for the reply =)

[@diyfireking]

How awesome, such a great work ☺☺

[@ArtisOpus]

Thanks so much!

[@Vicky1138thx]

I found the colour choice really really helpful as I am “poo” at this 😂 would love to have seen the orange colour scheme though 👍 But it was a super helpful video

[@kaneblaireau4864]

Good stuff. Think I need to be more aggressive with my colors when stippling. Also need to do that bright edge drybrush. Forgot that step.

[@bricktop2938]

Challenge for you. Could you paint a scale model (tank for example)?

[@ArtisOpus]

We'd have to find a nice one! The closest we have got is probably Star Wars Legion vehicles previoualy

[@bricktop2938]

Happy to provide a 1/35th sherman, built and un painted. I'd love to see it as many armour moddelers have done 40k vehicles and done fantastic work. It would be good to see and if it works, you could start drybrushing as a technique for scale.

[@nikroth]

"fffffff fffffff", you were quite happy during this edit :)

[@ArtisOpus]

Always!

[@goforitpainting]

Looks cool.

[@kgeo2686]

I have a test request that you might like. Alcohol Inks. They are crazy cheap on Amazon and probably flow incredibly well through an airbrush. I wonder how well they work on minis

[@EVISCERATECHUCK]

Not a fan of the style or look but I can appreciate the use of such a style for a tabletop enthusiast with little interest in painting for long periods of time. Then again an airbrush would probably both look better and be cheaper in the long run.

[@ArtisOpus]

I think it depends how uniform you want things to look, the extra patina can be nice. Speaking as an airbrush user (I love mine) I have a few considerations when deciding which (although both is very good, combining is power): - Do I want to change brush/tool? (Lazy/enjoyment higher if not) - Do I want compressor noise? - Do I want patina? - Stippling is a bit more forgiving for mistakes, they get hidden in the 'noise' a little - Will I be edge-highlighting? - Am I batch painting? (Could I airbrush steps 1-3, stipple/drybrush 4-6) etc You could absolutely have combined and used Airbrush for the shading steps really nicely here, same paint, same angles/application, it would have looked amazing. Thanks for the comment!

[@nickdavis5420]

Hmm blue I got a bunch of tanks I might have to use this method

[@philip6136]

Very nice

[@jesse-got-dolphins-into-heaven]

how do you keep your paInts from drying out on the pallet?

[@zaneelliot6963]

I was thinking about getting an air brush, but I think I am going to this on my Gunpla instead

[@ArtisOpus]

Give it a go buddy, it actually combines nicely if you do decide to get an airbrush in the future :)

[@AGMiniatures]

love these tutorials your realising. what about on the flip side... removing paint? do you recommend biostrip 20 or is there another product you'd recommend? ta!

[@DoolieRogue7]

I hear people saying "so and so paint has great coverage" or "so and so has bad coverage". Could there be a bit in a video showing the differences?

[@ArtisOpus]

Its a good idea, but what would we call it? 'How to analyse paint' ?

[@BEARDEDAXEMODELS]

What texture palette is that !?

[@jakebeyea3054]

Red progression is always tricky. You either can go pinker by adding white/pastels or more towards the orange - or add more steps by adding a white down again on your brightest spots and cover with the punchiest red you got.

[@michaelwright3886]

Alternative option go from black to red, with red being the highest highlight

[@jakebeyea3054]

@@michaelwright3886 yea, that works too. My favorite is to try to go from cold red into warm if I can, but it doesn't always work. Depends on the sculpt.

[@Eehonda_again]

Just to play devils advocate, Orange… all the way! 😂

[@andreaskesselkaul4786]

Thank you very much for this technique. Unfortunately the close-ups are most of the time out of focus in the video :(

[@ArtisOpus]

We had some issues with this one, it'll be rectified in the future with an angle change hopefully

[@FlowBran]

I would have Chosen Red AS a blood Angels Player 😊

[@GretaThanos]

It takes a lot of practice.

[@ArtisOpus]

Practise always helps, but for learning the most important thing is testing on your texture palette :)

[@GretaThanos]

@@ArtisOpus I meant more of how you blend the color and the combination of over brushing and stippling that you are doing, it’s a good technique, but it’s going to take people a few models before they can really get it right.

[@enochdarkk7871]

Does anyone know if theres a video of him paiinting a helemet in nmm or round object

[@Bridge-Studio-Arts]

Smashing video propper learned a far bit an them brushes am sweet tbh

[@RockinSquat25200]

great video. French subtitles would be greatly appreciated to understand the technique. thank you

[@KamekazeKuban]

I like orange lol

[@derianardor]

....I need to strip my necrons again

[@ArtisOpus]

Noooo/yesss? Good luck 👍

[@SonySteals]

Oof I think the bleeding of dark around the carved runes is way to wide, it looks blurry and unnatural really

[@ArtisOpus]

You could do it smaller/more subtle very easily if you wanted, just a matter of using a more subtle blend, dilution, or smaller brush

[@michaelwright3886]

Like you ever go with anything else if one of the options is huldra 😂

[@ArtisOpus]

The secret is that ALL the options can start with Huldra if you try hard enough 😅

[@garyoneill5648]

turquoise 😇

[@ArtisOpus]

Always! 👌👌👌

[@garyoneill5648]

@@ArtisOpus yes the colour selection was very helpful would love to hear more theory as it helps get a better understanding as to the choices and thought process made prior to starting 👍

[@ltjamescoopermason8685]

NEW SUBSCRIBER NOW RETIRED TAKING UP PRIMARIS MARINES. teach black with a oil on water finish of matalic purples floating over matt black armour . Helmet the COVIS CORAX is red like like the MALAYSIAN BORNEAN BRISTLE HEAD part of the raven family. My chapter is the HOODED RAVENS CHAPTER! Lense is black shining like a birds black eye with raven symbol its head red wings wide open . From the tyranids versus marines box set early Christmas gift from my kids boy paints are quite expensive hence this chapter edge high lights very dk grey ! Please reply have a cool rocking Christmas 2024 got in first with this one Master Artisan!

[@heatherarmstead]

It looks like your cuff is going to drag in your paint 😆