I Fixed My Contrast Paint Problems

The Breakthrough

All the robes are done and now I’m switching to the normal clothes guys. These will go super fast—I’ve already done 10 of them in 15 minutes.

The Secret: Synthetic Brushes

Shout out to Jay for letting me know you’re supposed to use a synthetic brush with speed paints. I didn’t know that!

I was using a sable brush and the paint was wicking up into the ferrule immediately. The synthetic brush with a pretty long well doesn’t wick up and doesn’t dry as quickly.

Now I’m zooming! Just give it a quick rinse every three models and it comes right off into the water pot.

So Maybe Contrast Paints Don’t Suck

I was blaming the paints, but it was a me thing. These are Speed Paints 2.0, so it wasn’t that either.

Going to get all these done in the morning and might be able to get close to done today. Then two days to paint an actual orc for Orctober.

I’ve kind of abandoned getting this army done in October, but now I’m thinking about the rest of the year.

Transcript

All the robes are done and now I’m just switching to the guys uh in normal clothes. So there’s still like I’m still going to paint it black still. Uh but these will go super fast. Like I’ve already done uh 10 of them in it like 15 minutes. So it’s super fast.

Also the other thing that’s making it faster, I switched to a synthetic brush. Uh so shout out to Jay. >> Shout out to Jay for letting me know you’re supposed to use a synthetic brush with speed paints. I didn’t know that. I was using the stable brush, but the synthetic brush uh it’s not wicking.

Also, I got one with a pretty long It’s pretty long well pretty long well on it and I can it doesn’t wick up into the fereral and it doesn’t dry as quickly. So, I’m zooming now. Like I just give it a quick rinse off like every three models and it comes right off into the the water pot and now I’m zooming. So, I wish I knew that before. Uh definitely a me thing.

So, maybe contrast paints don’t suck. Like I I guess technically these are speed paints. Uh oh, and they are 2. 0. Uh that was the other question.

They are definitely 2. 0. So it’s not that either, but uh zoom in now. So think get all these done in the morning and then we’ll see. Um might be able to get close to done today.

Probably get very close to done today. Go to client offices tomorrow and then finish them on Wednesday. And then I’ve got two days to paint an actual orc for Orctober. I’ve kind of abandoned getting this army done in October, but now I’m thinking about uh just kind of the rest of the year and what that’s going to look