How to Underpaint Miniatures: Mastering Essential Miniature Painting Skills - Part 1

Underpainting Miniatures is the first step of the method known nowadays as Slapchop. Delivered mostly by drybrushing a miniature, underpainting sets the tones of light that shine through when transparent paint is applied. In this how to paint miniatures video I focus on showing you the basics of drybrushing, the difference between drybrushing and overbrushing, and how to build volumes of light using different colours. Mastering these painting basics will help you on your journey of painting awesome looking Warhammer miniatures. These techniques, developed by the miniature painting community as a whole, really make painting efficient and enjoyable. And that is the whole point is it not, to have fun!

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0:00 Intro
1:32 Equipment and Paints
4:41 Overbrushing - the painting begins
10:22 Drybrushing & how to avoid chalkyness
15:17 Building volumes of light
20:53 Whoops!
23:21 Choosing precise highlights
26:56 Mould line!!!
27:58 The brightest white
32:13 Outro
33:08 Showcase
33:26 Outtake - The most Important lesson!

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