How to Paint Classic DRAGON Skin: Drybrush + Wash: Warhammer Monster Painting
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2023
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Today we're learning how to paint ANY dragon/monstrous skin or scales, these techniques will work on any colour, and we've gone as far as showing how to do a dark and light variant, using the same paints!
The model used is the Stormcast Stormdrake Guard kit, but you can use this on anything!
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In today's tutorial we're looking into how to paint Dragon Skin for your Warhammer and Warhammer 40k monsters, these techniques will work for all scales and thick textured skin, and the techniques are transferrable.
We're going for dark burnt red and lighter red, but using the same steps and our rules you could apply this to any colour you like!
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Hey just curious because I didn't see it announced anywhere but were winners chosen from the previous video???
Also super great work as always!!!
I wonder if you can help.
I have a project to start, a copper dragon. I'm not sure if I should go down the metallic route or keep it more rusty orange (matt). Please please help.
Please do a grim dark video!.. would love to see youre take on it.
I'd love to see you tackle a video discussing what are good base colors to use to make colors going on top of them pop more... especially for colors like yellow and white
This is a great idea, and a way to sell a video on a very important (but not sexy) subject - basecoating.
Good one, my dude!
About to be dragon these.......Nice brushes across this model, I know what yall thought at first and yall need to go down to the river and sing spiritual hyms
HAAA, you'll have more opportunity to not sully our minds when we drop Ionos :)
This is the exact video that helped me win a local Warhammer painting competition today. Thank you Byron! I can't recommend the Series D brushes enough. Upgrading to Artis Opus is one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I want to see an elder copper dragon that has patina. I think that would lend really well to a dry brushing tutorial to really have some great verdigris on it.
A tutorial on doing an "organic" bronze and/or gold would be awesome and make it much easier to paint all the weyrs of Pern.
😁
I would love to see a video on how you go about picking base colours depending on what you intend the end colour to be and how that effects the process of choosing the colours in between. I am having trouble creating smooth gradients and I think it’s down to picking the wrong colours for the desired affect.
Another excellent and concise tutorial! Now it seems I have finally found another great way to paint 25-28mm scale dragons that is not too complicated for my D&D sessions.
Great video, I find these tutorials really helpful
Love this video on the dragon skin. Lots of great ideas in there. Would like to see something more in the greenish range. Maybe not as bright green as shown on the box art for some of the dragons, but more of a natural darker green. Love the videos guys.
This sounds absolutely lush. Consider me tempted by a half-way between your idea and this, all-natural colours, autumnal-ish.
An updated in depth how to with tips and tricks for smooth drybrushing including everything from how damp etc, hard to show on camera but very useful!
I think the dark one really turned out awesome. Especially after the last wash. I could imagine it on a yellow dragon where you let the yellow encapsulate the leathery wings. Great video as always.
Very nice as usual. The brown is definitely my favourite soley because i intend to use it for a lot of leather items. So its a two for one!
Cheers buddy, I was particularly pleased with it, I think over an army it'd look really nuts... It's dark enough to leave room for highly contrasting armour and flames/OSL, too, which is perfect.
Huge fan of The Painting Coach and his tutorials on Karazai and Krondys. Would love to see some takes on how you would theme a base for different types of dragons.
The darker wing turned out incredible. The variety in shades really adds dimension and interest 👍
(can't wait for the purple one though 😅)
You need to make a tutorial on dragon fire. There are a thousand fire 3D print files for stormcast dragons. But also alternative brands. Really Cool.
Contamination Police throws great parties, so there is that.
Well, we know which camp we're in 🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂! :D
The dark coat I like, the light I also like for colour variants on dragon models or scaled-covered monsters.
Good painting and Merry Christmas!
I'm mostly paint models from a dark undercoat, however I'm more on the middle ground with those two colour scheme wings.
I like the arch from the old GW arcane ruins box on the shelf there. 👍
Works nicely, right? :) We'll play more with this theme in the future
Great show as always! The wing that was more "leathery" was amazing!
Would like a tutorial on how to paint horns/claws etc. Can´t seem to get those as I want them.
Ooh, shiny!
Just the video I needed to see as I am tasked with painting a blue dragon. Hopefully everything translates to blue just as easily. Thanks for the tips!!
It absolutely will! You might want to watch our next dragon tutorial, too :). Coming soon!
I'd love to see your painting methods for Bel'akor. His model seems like it would incorporate every skill your channel has shown.
It's be great to see a video on how to get a good undead flesh, I'm thinking more ghouls than zombies or vampires for that slow putrefying look.
This may be a bit out there but I feel like wings can be such a good canvas for freehanding and customising minis. Doesn't have to specifically be crazy detailed frescos but a tutorial on lightning/fire effects/crackling energy through the wings would be awesome! Thanks for all the tutorials so far.
This was great, thanks! I think I can use this technique for my Fell Beasts, just lean more black/brown.
Absolutely man, should work perfectly!
That oxblod wing turned out amazing! Will have to try it out next time i'm painting a winged monster.
I know it's short notice but we really need a halloween themed model/video. :)
:D we should do next year, there's actually some awesome options, or just clasically horror-y stuff!
@@ArtisOpus That would be awesome!
I'll try and remember to remind you a little earlier next year ((-:
Another fantastic video, and very timely as I'm painting some drakes right now! I'd love to see maybe a shorter video talking about the underside of the wing- GW and a lot of other painters do a two tone effect on the wings and body of the dragon. It's generally an off white or khaki/cream color that contrasts with the primary color of the body and tops of wings. I'm kinda stumped if I should just do a warm, off white, wash with a sepia, then dry brush over it. Or maybe a pink or purple wash for a translucent wing effect?
Thanks for another great video!
I'm pretty new to miniature painting, got into Warhammer late April and have been obsessed with improving my limited painting skills.
I've been working on a Tyranid army, and I've gone with green skin (hexwraith flame) with purple carapace (magos purple) over a slapchop base. I then cover the skin in biel-tan green, wait for it to dry, and then cover the entire thing in nuln oil. I think it looks really good, but I know it could be better.
I'd love if you could do a video covering that sort of colour scheme. I'm so bad at colour theory that I have no idea where to start to get a similar outcome that looks fantastic.
Anyway, thanks for reading this if you do, love the videos! Keep em coming
For mixing paints get some medicine syringes without needles.
Easy to get a mix exact so you can make it again later.
My vet has them.
Clean easy as well.
Also Flex Seal spray makes a great texture pallet covering, easy to clean.
Thanks for this Byron, I can definitely take the method across to my winged Tyranid. I'd like to see a video on metallics if possible, specifically gold. Thanks again
You absolutely can! They're perfect for it, I've done a few in my time :). Noted, in fact you might get your wish in the second half of an upcoming video!
Thanks
I’d love to see a video on creating colour transitions from shade to highlight. For example, is it more effective to work around the the colour wheel, or to shade/highlight with complimentary colours?
I'd like to see a tutorial on doing the undersides of a stretched wing membrane, the way they become semi-translucent when fully stretched.
A lot of dragon wing undersides are just beige/flesh colored, which I think often looks somewhat flat.
This is is a legit hard one to execute, I've yet to find a way that doesn't involve fancy glazing and colour theory, the flat thing is a real issue, it's what we fought hard against here, I think it's why their wings tend to be so detailed/wrinkled generally.
Firstly, thank you. Your tutorials have been more helpful to me as a miniature painter than everything else I've watched combined. I've been working on dragons recently and have not been able to sort out the various greens I should be using for a green dragon. I quite like the look of the Lupercal Green (base) color - that sort of dark emerald look, but am worried this would make adding any sort of shading/contrast nearly impossible. (dragon is for a D&D game, not 40k). **Could you make some recommendations on colors to accompany that (or some selection of greens that would work)?
Would you be able to do a step by step tutorial - or a tips and tricks video - on dry brushing? I've tried all the techniques you have shown in all your videos and I can't seem to find that immaculate balance of dry/damp that you get. I'm eather always too dry or too damp! The dragon skin looks awesome
I'm not doing a dragon I'm doing Nycaloth he's nearly ready for primer , this video should help me with his wings 😊
It's perfect, should compliment his flesh nicely, too!
dude.. that more looks like awsome old oxe hide leather. like damn.
Now I feel the urge to paint some dragons
Great video, would this be a good method to try on the Angrons/Mortarions wings? With Mortarions you would start from a far lighter base and move up? Yes i have two chunky Primarchs sitting in their respective boxes :)
Hey Byron! Would you consider doing a video comparing Artis Opus dry brushes to Army Painter masterclass dry brushes and the Artify A.O. knock off set?
Thanks!
Thanks for the fantastic tutorial. What would you advise for tackling giant dragon wings (like the Smaug model for example)?
Nothing changes! If there's texture to be painted it's all the same (lower texture needs more care like we did here, higher texture helps you out more).
The darker of these two would be perfect for smaug, it'd showcase him so nicely!
Awesome video, you make it look easy but I just don’t have that confidence to mix and blend like that. Is there a way of stripping back the paint without damaging the model if it looks bad afterwards? I have a dragon but just don’t want to paint and mess it up.
Perfect timing for the new army of renown I just bought :DD - does the stippling method work for making the wing membrane and body different colours/finishes?
Absolutely my dude, it works for everything! Ionos is coming up and he went so quick considering, it was the detailing that took up most of the time, which feels crazy to say, given how funky his flesh was :)
Byron a suggestion how about a sample of the new Bretonian Foot Knights and painting a few of them in different heraldic schemes using different colour combinations for the heraldic colours. This would not just be useful for folks collecting stuff for The Old World, but for us RPG painters.
Would love to see how you transition between very contrasting colours naturally.
Eg the underbelly of an allopex which is much lighter than its top or a the belly of a drogon that’s skin coloured compared to its red scales. Something similar to this
nice video as always! when is the winners for the last video gonna be anounced? did my chaos comment not win ?
We'll announce them in an outro soon, there's been plenty of votes, but things seem to have settled :)
Would love to know how you would tackle something like a white dragon, similar to traditional Chinese dragon colours, whites and golds. I always find getting shades and textures when it comes to whites difficult
Hello, great video! Where i can find the Texture Palette of the size of the Halloween one you just showed? I can't find it in AO shop.
Thanks!
Hey buddy, it comes with every Halloween set :) - store.artis-opus.com/collections/new-releases
Love this tutorial, although not dragon, I'm going to emply this method for Be'lakor wings, I've been struggling with the thought, this looks perfect for those though. Also, the Halloween set looks amazing!
He's a perfect recipient, maybe leave the chains off until done, though, they look tricky! Thanks, we love it :)
Need to convince the husband that I really do need this set! 🤣 would go perfectly with my elminiaturista special set! (Which is the best set of brushes I've ever used) 😍
So when are you releasing the most needed hobby tool - Byron's hand? Sees more action than the texture pallet!
I'm very grateful for my XXL TP, it saves my left hand being *entirely* paint for half of my life :D
@@ArtisOpus I picture you sat down to watch TV with your partner, hand resting in a tub of biostrip.
As it’s dragon month, I’d like to see your take on dragon breath effects, fire, ice, acid, ECT.
I’d go a middle ground between the two reds personally.
Middleground is very often the best idea :)
When painting larger models like dragons would you then paint the individual pieces before assembling the model?
It is Halloween, and i paint a Corpse Cart... but i would like to see, how you would paint the Flayed Ones Necrons, with heavy Gore and realistic Skin, from fresh to rotten.
Would there possibly be a way to drybrush a dragon to make it look metallic without using metallic paints? Basically a quick and easy way to do NMM on a dragon without taking 10 years to complete lol.. If not, what would be the best ways to paint metallic colors without making it look derpy? That would be a good video I think, since I know a lot of ppl paint a more classic style Fantasy dragon with metallic colored wings... Just a thought. I think another cool color that you don't often see is a Pearl colored dragon, that would look pretty sick.
See tonight's video ;)
I have always been a huge fan of the metallic dragons from the D&D and DragonLance universes, particularly from the novel "The Legend of Huma" by Richard A. Knaak, which I read as a youth. Would you approach metallic dragon skin any differently? Would your product selection change? Perhaps we could get a video of it! All the best.
Me gustó mucho el primer ejemplo, en el segundo ejemplo creo que es mas fácil equivocarse.
Hi! Any tips on wings base coated in grey seer / wraithbone? What would be some colors you would recommend?
You can literally follow those with *anything*, just depends what your desired finish is, generally picking something with a reputation for good coverage is a great start, like our mephiston here.
I love black dragons, check out a few of our different previous black recipes (from anything, could be from armour, too). Blue-black into blue-grey looks incredible, and is very forgiving and effective.
Sorry if that’s a bit long one.
I discovered your channel recently and already went through some tutorials - they’re great, making me think and hopefully better understand what I’m doing (I’m a beginner painter). Thanks to you and your videos I am starting experimenting and slowly and painfully accepting that experiments = mistakes != end of mini painting. 😱
Thanks for this one - the leathery wing is amazing and the process explanation was very informative. For me the different result depending on base colour was quite a surprise- didn’t though it could be such a difference!
Watching your videos I couldn’t help but notice that you rather select big models (or their parts ;)). Is this because those small, nasty-spikey-spindly minis (I’m looking at you Namarti Thralls) have not enough space for dry brushing? ;)
I would like to see some more OSL, on surrounding objects of various base colours and with light source of various tones.
And question (probably someone already asked this somewhere): do you use wet pallete? What for?
Wet pallettes are designed to keep paints useable for longer. Very handy if you are painting lots of the same colour mini (think squads) or if you want to blend colours in a small area (faces)
Hey buddy, for something like that (thralls) I'd use Drybrush on a particular aspect, like their flesh, fast and loose, not worrying about control, and then go in and neatly do the armour around it, gives you the best of both worlds.
Darren's pretty spot on about the palette, they're great for keeping a lot of colours and mixes usable for prolonged periods.
Don't worry about the mistakes, they're the best bit, they teach you lessons you couldn't learn as deeply any other way, embrace them, understand them, and adapt next time!
I go fast, and they slow me down... Also the UK is pretty humid and cool, so my paints stay workable for a long time on my primed palette, I like being encouraged to go quick :D
I know contamination is a trigger 😂, but Im curious how you look after your dampening pad during and in between sessions? During sessions I tend to just clean the brush on the pallet like you do in your videos, and then when I finish I wash the pad out under the tap….it can of course stay wet for awhile. So yeah just wondering what you do with yours?
Nothing really dude, just don't seal it in the lid to get muggy! :D I pull it up sat on its edge like a coin balancing, in the pot, to make sure it dries fully before the next session, that's it!
Contamination is a lie, almost! meming myself here 😅
How deep does the texture on the pallets go? I saw one in a store and it looked quite shallow, so was wondering once theyre primed and used, how long is the image around for?
You buy them from day one and both add and remove texture by use, they mature like a fine wine.
I tend to do 'heavy' work top right (right handed), the mid and left still have the same texture they did a year back, which is where I do heavy cleaning, and lighter testing, both of which don't add/remove the texture too much.
You don't want a high texture (3dish) surface, you encourage dust, and lose the practical elements of a traditional palette, which are numerous.
Don't worry about use though, mine's literally 200% heavier than when I started with it :D
Hey Byron
Excellent video yet again . I loved the first dragon wing the best , although the red one was good. I would like some help on how to paint a black dragon, I don’t want to make it look chalky , and I’d like to do a lava effect on the throat and belly , similar to your lava bases that you did . Any advice would be great 👍🐲🐉
Hi Vicky, have a little look at 'Elminiaturista' on Instagram, he did a dragon bust (the same one we did... might have been my suggestion ^^) a while back, and it looks like a glowing coal.
I think for me it's important to go to a cool black-grey, to contrast with the firey bits, but also to give you room for a transition that doesn't easily get chalky, like neutral grey/white does.
You could use deep orange for this, too, but then you'd not have contrast for the lava bits, unless you used very different shades.
@@ArtisOpus thank you I will check that out , great advice as always 👍
Oh my goodness , I’ve just seen the dragon head , it’s perfect … I have seen some of his stuff before , but didn’t know who it was by . Well it’s something to aim for 🤣🤣🤣
I'm trying to paint a Grenadine Platinum dragon from 1985. I'm having trouble with painting the underbelly and was look looking for advise on colors
What colour are you going for buddy?
I'm struggling between getting too little and too much paint on my brush when dry brushing. Can you give some tips?
We have a video coming very soon (watch out for something big and green) that will help you on exactly this.
For me it's put less on, take less off, your aim isn't to work it *into* the brush, it's to leave it on the very tip of the bristles, load the brush vertically, not using it like a spoon to take too much paint.
Great video! Although I’ve painted one of those giant Stormcast dragons, I fancy a second…
Ionos calls, Tom, he's these, but 9.X/10 instead of 6.X/10, I promise!
@@ArtisOpusmake it so! Or failing that a Kroxigor - they’re kind of dragons!?
Looking for colours to put under orange like you did when you painted the grumpy cabbage and you used the purple to pre shade it
Purple or blue would be legit here, green would possibly be very interesting (and result in a very natural world looking dragon...
You've got me thinking! :D
The grumpy cabbage worked amazing on mine was very impressed from build priming and to get the main body done took less than 3 hours (iv got 3 kids 😂) I'm gonna try do cryptborn in orange just don't want to mess it up
And thanks for the reply dude 👍
Check ark survival evoled wyvern on Google. There are some pretty cool orange patterns.
Dragon that is nuts? That joke practically writes itself.
:D far be it from us to miss an obvious queue!
How do you manage to hold onto all those edges without your fingers smudging all the paint off?
Basecoated by hand: better protection :)
Can you do Megaboss on Maw Krusha? its a Dragon.
It is, and we have painted a Mawcrusher, bright yellow in fact :) ruclips.net/video/pA06AMSPKbg/видео.html
Hello, I'm trying to paint a Drasolisk inspired by the colours of Goliath from Disney gargoyles (Black, Purple, Purple Grey then lilac. I keep on ending up with a very midtone mess with little definition. Please help
Hey buddy, are you starting from black? It might be giving you a very hard job jumping UP as much as you need to with the brighter ones.
You could always start in the middle, or lighter, and wash with black to catch the recesses, then finish up catching the edges, much like our second wing?
@ArtisOpus black and I tried starting at royal purple too but that didn't seem to help. Thanks for the advice will give it a try.
I am doing to try and paint a Undead Caucasian dragon that has blood effects but don't know where to start
Add a small amount of blue in with your skin-colours, do the blood at the very end, consider something like 'tamiya clear red' for the blood :)
Well, now I want to get Karazai and paint him up like Spyro
Please do this, he can get a skateboard?
@@ArtisOpus I can probably fit one in his left hand
how did you know that I just bought a bunch of wyverns 😄
We got you, bro :)
I am horrified to see how you use the same brush to pick up paint from different pots without cleaning it and leaving residue on other paints.
Why? It's blending :)
@1:53...imagine all the paint wasted because of Citadels Paint Pots...imagine all that $ they make because the customer runs out faster...