Ethereal technique help

[Dibidoolandas]

Hey guys. I'm trying to use Seth's ethereal technique on my hexwraiths because I like the look and I'd like to go a little faster than I normally do. That being said, I just coated two of them in green and I'm not sure how in love with it I am. They're a little grainy from the drybrush and the wash seems a bit splotchy. Any advice? Or anything I can do to dress these up a little now that there's already a wash on them? I'm going to paint over the metal areas again because I've seen that done to good effect... Sry for the cell phone pic.

 

[Zhatan]

I have not used that etheral technique but in general I would say that if you get alot of grainyness when using drybrush you might be using too much paint on the brush. Try wiping the pain off more and apply very little pain on each stroke. Be patient.
Also washing usually removes some of the grains.

 

[Adam_Barrow]

Z has the right of it. Less paint at a time for a smoother drybrush.

 

[Santawraith]

points at zhatan he kinda stole what I would of said,

But here is our ethreal thread if you wanna take a look.

ethreal thread

 

[Dibidoolandas]

Sounds good... How about these two? Part of me feels like the green could be stronger, and a second coat could dull some of the grain, but I'd be nervous about going over it all again with green wash... Anyone done this?

 

[Santawraith]

I use washes all the time to meter things out as you can see in my ethreal tutorials I think. I even did it to my sethdrac stolen one.

 

[Santawraith]

 

[Adam_Barrow]

Maybe thin that next wash with some water to tone it back.

 

[Tomfoolery]

Well a smooth paint job comes from applying the paint smoothly. This isn't me being a smart ass either. Work with thin paint. Thick paint is notorious for going on looking like 400 grit. If you want smooth coats you need to apply them as thin as possible regardless if you are drybrushing or fine lining it.

I hate pimping my own work but my models are smooth like silk and I use layer after layer of watered down thin thin paint to get the effect I want. There aren't shortcuts around doing a good job, it's going to take the time it needs.

 

[Dibidoolandas]

Well a smooth paint job comes from applying the paint smoothly. This isn't me being a smart ass either. Work with thin paint. Thick paint is notorious for going on looking like 400 grit. If you want smooth coats you need to apply them as thin as possible regardless if you are drybrushing or fine lining it.

I hate pimping my own work but my models are smooth like silk and I use layer after layer of watered down thin thin paint to get the effect I want. There aren't shortcuts around doing a good job, it's going to take the time it needs.

Oh I can be smooth baby. These ghouls have felt my velvet touch. ;-)

Alas, my normal style takes too long. But I'm new to the concept of drybrushing with thin, watery paint. Whenever I've has too much paint on the brush in the past it goes down in way bigger areas than I want. Well, I very rarely drybrush as it is so maybe I can just break out some test models with "wet" drybrushing.

 

[Tomfoolery]

Well a smooth paint job comes from applying the paint smoothly. This isn't me being a smart ass either. Work with thin paint. Thick paint is notorious for going on looking like 400 grit. If you want smooth coats you need to apply them as thin as possible regardless if you are drybrushing or fine lining it.

I hate pimping my own work but my models are smooth like silk and I use layer after layer of watered down thin thin paint to get the effect I want. There aren't shortcuts around doing a good job, it's going to take the time it needs.

Oh I can be smooth baby. These ghouls have felt my velvet touch. ;-)

Alas, my normal style takes too long. But I'm new to the concept of drybrushing with thin, watery paint. Whenever I've has too much paint on the brush in the past it goes down in way bigger areas than I want. Well, I very rarely drybrush as it is so maybe I can just break out some test models with "wet" drybrushing.

Normally I just go with whatever works. Drybrushing isn't a strongpoint of mine so I try not to do it when I don't have to. I can fineline and wet blend with the best of them however. So instead of improving a weak area I just got much better at a good area. A HW takes me about 2 hours start to finish now which I think is pretty fast all things considered since he's cav.

Since your Ghouls look great I would just get better at doing what you do to them.

 

[Zhatan]

Your ghouls look good and I assume you have some painting experience to pull them off. If you just follow the advice and keep trying I'm sure you'll get the hang of drybrushing too as it's not a hard technique or you can try overbrushing instead and see if you like that better.

 

[xFallenx]

John Shaffer's are pretty awesome: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=&pIndex=3&aId=4400033&multiPageMode=true&start=4 I'm using it on my Bret army & I have to say that they turned out really well.