Blood for the Baron!

Ok, this may sound a but silly but-

When painting figures I water down the paints and do multiple costs but should/shouldnt I water down paints for dry-brushing?
Only used dry-brushing a couple of times and it was only a small detail but I'm looking to do a whole torso.
Any advice appreciated.

Double-Tap wrote:Ok, this may sound a but silly but-

When painting figures I water down the paints and do multiple costs but should/shouldnt I water down paints for dry-brushing?
Only used dry-brushing a couple of times and it was only a small detail but I'm looking to do a whole torso.
Any advice appreciated.

Up until a couple of years ago I was a long term Warhammer player/painter, with drybrushing all you do is dip the brush in the paint then remove as much paint with some kitchen roll, best gauge of the effect is to brush the back of your hand, if loads comes off then there's too much still on the brush so take it off. Best tip is to practice on something. If you're going to use GW paints then they even do a specific drybrush range now which are thicker than the normal ones. There's also a technique called wet brushing where you remove some paint but leave the tip wet, that way you get more paint on the figure as a solid colour without the powdery effect, hope that helps

Aye,
for the best results the brush usually looks to have hardly any paint on it @ all using as little pressure as possible & slowly build up the effect rather than trying to hurry the job.

Oh @ don't use your best brush for dry brushing (it kills 'em), old ones that have gone 'bushy' are ideal, best to use the ones that resemble soft make up brushes.