Hezekiel Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Hello all, I am hoping you can help!? I am restarting my interest after a twenty year break :woot: , i plan to build my D.A army back up and actually make the effort to paint them properly ( rather than years ago when heaved on some black paint and added a couple of splodges of red!!). There are plenty of painting tips and some amazing pictures on show in this forum , with loads of references to" dry brushing". The burning question's are What is it? and How do you do it? Can someone fill the blanks in my training? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDoc Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 With a quick search I found this link. Seems like a reasonable starting point. You could also try the B&C Painting, Converting and Artwork Section Tutorials sub-forum I'm sure there are some tutorials floating around there. Its a pretty simple technique, but it can take sometime to learn to do it well. Good luck, once you get it down, I'm sure its a technique you'll love. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2965838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Neo Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 dry brushing is when you remove the majority of excess paint from the brush then quickly paint the model in a back and fore motion so that paint is only picked up on raised areas Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2965840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hezekiel Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 Thanks for your help fella's , i look forward to giving it a go! I hate being a 34 year old noob!! :woot: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2965853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Immolator Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 Drybrushing IMHO is one of the basic techniques of painting.You can go without it OFC,but it really helps you out with those highlights and is a neat and quick method of painting with good tabletop results.Most professional painters also consider it cheating. I will try to describe the technique as i do it and because i dont have a camera i will try to use links with models and tools primary of gw in order to make understanding more easy. Now as our esteemed brother said before me it resolves around the fact that you unload the brush of the majority of the paint but lets trace it from the start. Also:WHATEVER YOU DO DONT WET THE BRUSH! 1st of all you need to identify what you need to drybrush and why.Usually this technique is used when you want to highlight an area or leave the basic colour show through the colour that you are going to lay atop it.Lets take this miniature as an example: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...Id=prod1160026a Now what you can drybrush most effectively on him are:his cloak,helmet and feather wings as well as possibly his chest DA sigil. Now that we have identified the parts the second stage is what tools to use and how to do it: I found out that the process heavily taxes brushes so you probably need an old cheap brush for this. I would also suggest that for better results you use a square tipped brush as this : http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod20029a or this http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod20030a depending on the areas size obviously.I use Winsor and Newton as well as Army painter brushes nowdays. Now to the painting. Say you want to drybrush the wings on the helmet.Assuming you have basecoated the model black you want to make the wings white.Grab your brush and dip the tips of it into the white pot.Not take a tissue paper(or napkin or whatever)and gently unload the paint on it.When the majority of it is out use the brush on one of your fingers with a horizontal or vertical motion to remove the rest of the paint.When you realize that the brush is almost devoid of paint do the same on the feathers.This will result in the coverage of tips/raised areas of the feathers with white leaving the black recesses showing.Keep the process until you are happy with the looks of it since it will need some repeating to get the colour consistent. If you do this whithout removing the colour its called overbrushing and it is a different technique for different results.I hope that helped a bit. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2965869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hezekiel Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 Drybrushing IMHO is one of the basic techniques of painting.You can go without it OFC,but it really helps you out with those highlights and is a neat and quick method of painting with good tabletop results.Most professional painters also consider it cheating. I will try to describe the technique as i do it and because i dont have a camera i will try to use links with models and tools primary of gw in order to make understanding more easy. Now as our esteemed brother said before me it resolves around the fact that you unload the brush of the majority of the paint but lets trace it from the start. Also:WHATEVER YOU DO DONT WET THE BRUSH! 1st of all you need to identify what you need to drybrush and why.Usually this technique is used when you want to highlight an area or leave the basic colour show through the colour that you are going to lay atop it.Lets take this miniature as an example: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...Id=prod1160026a Now what you can drybrush most effectively on him are:his cloak,helmet and feather wings as well as possibly his chest DA sigil. Now that we have identified the parts the second stage is what tools to use and how to do it: I found out that the process heavily taxes brushes so you probably need an old cheap brush for this. I would also suggest that for better results you use a square tipped brush as this : http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod20029a or this http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...odId=prod20030a depending on the areas size obviously.I use Winsor and Newton as well as Army painter brushes nowdays. Now to the painting. Say you want to drybrush the wings on the helmet.Assuming you have basecoated the model black you want to make the wings white.Grab your brush and dip the tips of it into the white pot.Not take a tissue paper(or napkin or whatever)and gently unload the paint on it.When the majority of it is out use the brush on one of your fingers with a horizontal or vertical motion to remove the rest of the paint.When you realize that the brush is almost devoid of paint do the same on the feathers.This will result in the coverage of tips/raised areas of the feathers with white leaving the black recesses showing.Keep the process until you are happy with the looks of it since it will need some repeating to get the colour consistent. If you do this whithout removing the colour its called overbrushing and it is a different technique for different results.I hope that helped a bit. What a great post brother thanks, this will more than help!! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2965878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Immolator Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 What a great post brother thanks, this will more than help!! Glad i managed to make it understandable and helpful,i have a way of making my writtings a mess of thoughts :D If i ever manage to get the camera in order to post the photos on my oath page ill post you here two examples i used it. On the company master and ezekiels robes. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2965883 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValourousHeart Posted January 14, 2012 Share Posted January 14, 2012 I don't know if I would call it cheating... but then again I am not a professional painter. But one technique I have found that works wonders is using dry brushing as a base layer that you paint your primary color scheme over. What I do is prime the model black to get the deepest parts as dark as possible. I then dry brush space wolf grey over the entire model in a dusting pattern to pull out all of the high points. At the end of this stage the model looks like a negative... sorta. The next step is understanding the transparency of different colors of paint. Browns and blues tend to be less transparent... Reds and yellows tend to more transparent. Obviously, the foundation paints are opaque... but with the regular line paint this works. So a red painted over this naturally forms a shaded effect... one pass with a slightly brighter red over the highest points completes the shading. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2966966 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Immolator Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 dp look below Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2967981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Immolator Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Heres some pics from my oath wip that i used drybrushing.Parts i used dry brushing:Company masters cape,wings,banner and sword. Ezeks sword,back of the banner,cabling and robe/hood. http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/374803_10150522744009172_596294171_8640169_2082676069_n.jpg http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/379063_10150522744084172_596294171_8640171_1211783481_n.jpg http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/380463_10150522744274172_596294171_8640174_1795391383_n.jpg http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/377862_10150522744319172_596294171_8640175_364102659_n.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/245189-drybrushing/#findComment-2967985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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