Acrylic video tutorials

[Babelfish]

Anyone know of any good, easy-to-follow, basic tutorials online for painting with acrylics? Preferably without intrusive thrash-metal soundtracks or other annoying "special effects" that seem to blight some online modelling vids (much as I enjoy a bit of thrash metal when I'm in the mood).

I'd like to improve my acrylics techniques, it's a tool I want to have in my locker, and I know pretty much all the "theory" behind it. It's the practice that I struggle with, other than for base coating and maybe a bit of highlighting here & there. For example I get all this stuff about "consistency of coloured water". It all makes perfect sense. But whenever I try it I just find myself just pushing bubbles about, so I inevitably wind up reverting back to my oils-over-acrylics comfort zone.

- Steve

 

[Nap]

Hi Steve

Good question , there are of course lots on You tube from " non pro " modellers which avoid all the flashy stuff and a good basis

There's some on my thread here https://www.planetfigure.com/threads/naps-references-covering-painting-mixes-sculpting.286002/







Hope this might help

Nap

 

[theBaron]

I can't offer a video, Steve, except perhaps to recommend Dave Youngquist's YouTube channel. But as far as consistency goes, I use a wet palette with my water-based acrylics, and I find that it ensures a good consistency. It's probably a little thicker than "colored water"-a comparison I don't like, either. It's like the common advice for airbrushing, "Thin your paint to the consistency of skim milk." Well, I don't drink skim milk, I drink whole milk. So I don't know what it looks like.

I use mostly Vallejo Model Color, some Andrea, some Lifecolor, and some craft store paints we have here in the States-Americana, Apple Barrel, Folk Art. Using the wet palette gives them a good workable consistency. The only exception to that is Vallejo's metallic colors in the Model Color line: gold, silver, bronze. They tend to thin out too much for me on the wet palette, so I'll use them on a ceramic palette or even on a piece of card, just depositing enough to keep them a little thicker.

That's just my experience, but I hope it helps you. I find working with water-based acrylics pretty easy.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Mirofsoft]

Anyone know of any good, easy-to-follow, basic tutorials online for painting with acrylics? Preferably without intrusive thrash-metal soundtracks or other annoying "special effects" that seem to blight some online modelling vids (much as I enjoy a bit of thrash metal when I'm in the mood).

I'd like to improve my acrylics techniques, it's a tool I want to have in my locker, and I know pretty much all the "theory" behind it. It's the practice that I struggle with, other than for base coating and maybe a bit of highlighting here & there. For example I get all this stuff about "consistency of coloured water". It all makes perfect sense. But whenever I try it I just find myself just pushing bubbles about, so I inevitably wind up reverting back to my oils-over-acrylics comfort zone.

- Steve

Try oils over Humbrol

 

[Babelfish]

I can't offer a video, Steve, except perhaps to recommend Dave Youngquist's YouTube channel.

Cheers Brad, I'll check it out. Like I said, I know all the "theory" to the point I could probably pass a written exam on it with flying colours. It's the actual putting it into practice that I struggle with. I've tried watching demos at shows, but with so many other guys usually crowding round, it's not always easy to see what's being done.

- Steve

 

[NigelR]

I found Man-Jin Kim's videos quite interesting when I was transitioning to acrylics and trying to improve my figure painting. Here's an example:


He did three on the Tommy's War Australian Light Horse and I found the series on painting the ACW figure helpful. However, I didn't find any videos that really "cracked the code" for me. I just had to take the plunge and try some of the techniques I saw and read about. Getting a decent wet palette made a big difference for me (the RedGrass Games one), although I still have a lot to learn.

 

[gazer]

Hey Steve,

Some videos that worked well for me, and were straightforward:


Try the channel "pirate painting basics"

More vids:




Cheers,

Benny