Painting textured cloth is a very zen-like experience. The main core trick is just getting in the zone and working it with simple strokes until it has enough fidelity.

I've just watched 10 videos on texturing fabric. Officialy have gone insane again but this has been the bees knees.

This is in my opinion one of the best vids you've ever put out on Hobby Cheating and not just for the technique itself but for how we were able to go on the journey with you from beginning to end and see every little brush stroke while also giving us the rationale of each step. Well done.

My biggest painting hurdle is patience. I want instant results and have it look perfect after 1 coat. This technique has really helped me take my time, and try to appreciate the process more, and relax in a chaotic life. Thanks Vince, you are mine and my wife's painting guru!

Back in 07' I had a Tyranid army I was working on and did something similar like this to the carapace. The ending result looks fantastic and the color scheme was purple and light blue to make them look icy. It took forever to get a box of Hormagaunts and one Carnifex done but man did they look great

Great stuff. I love videos on different textures, they're always so widely applicable to different models.

“Just push those happy little hashes” 👌 - Vinncey V 🥰🙏

This is awesome Vince! I love the videos and I have begun my journey on converting my chaos lord and going to try my best at display quality just for my own personal hobby journey. You and a lot of other talented you tubers have inspired me to pick this hobby back up!

Yeah of course! Thanks. I’ll be using technique. It really helped to visually see this. One can manipulate this to get a subtle effect to whatever degree you want.

Isn't it cool, when you can remind yourself, that it's an exercise in patience. Like most art, the good stuff always takes a little time.

Thanks Vince. Very helpful. I can see me using this technique on my military bust and figures. This will help make their uniforms more interesting.

Fantastic technique! I had some serious issues with cloak painting and now I see a great oppotunity to make it look just fine :) .

Great advice and inspiration for those of us still learning to blend. Kujo uses the same technique for shiny blue armour - worth a look for those interested

Great tutorial! Funnily enough, I was painting standard bearer for my Ironjawz and regular line on the raised details seemed bland, so thinking about what you and Darren Latham say about textures, I added some lines to simulate texture. It didn't come out the best, but it's great to do it for the 1st time! Next time I'll use brush with better tip and thinner paint, also replicating steps you showed. Keep up the good work!

Very much a beginner painter but love your videos, always learn something I can actually use. Thx mate.

This is probably one of my favourite videos so far. Looks really simple to achieve too, so I'll give this a shot - I'm thinking it could still give a similar effect if used on hard edges too, to look like weathering of sorts .. :D - Thanks!

I copied this technique from a photo in FB and love it. Meanwhile capes are the most appealing thing about my minis and I can only recommend it to everyone. Thanks for the video.

Having watched my 50th Vince video in a row, I have finally grasped what reality is!

Coming from the photography world, a "shadow" may also be a reflection of a dark object into the subject not just a area that is less lit. Also reflections from other nearby objects can show up as unexpected areas of other colors mostly in glossy or metallic subjects.

Looking epic my friend as always

super thanks on suggesting this as an alternative to blending. I have some pretty nasty hand tremors, (despite still doing this as a for-fun hobby). So seeing this alternative is something I can actually leverage. =)

Great video. I’m trying this next time I do cloth. Keep them coming 😀

This is great thanks for the vid. Would love to see you do the stiple effect on the other shoulder cloth

The Nocturna purple set is great because most paint ranges only have one or two purple colour pots in their entirety. This is also a great technique for doing chitinous plates. But keep in mind that this method will wear on your brush, particularly the dabbing method mentioned will really wear on a brush, you may also find some tougher synthetic brushes are a bit too coarse for this method and can damage layers of paint your already put down with the dabbing method.

Wow so easy to learn, thanks for it. Going to try it out .

As someone with more time than talent I approve this technique.

Just when i bought the Slaves of Darkness Start Collecting Box with lots of capes 'n cloak to paint ... Thank you very much.

Another awesome video. Thank you for doing these. If I were to use the stippling method instead of lines, would I be stippling with the goal of making lines of dots with the lines being about the same width as the hashes you were making?

Very cool video , going to try this on my arhiman soon !

Excellent video

Useful as always!

Great video, I'll definitely be putting this technique to use in the future. Two questions, if I may: Firstly, why do you work light to dark when doing this? In my mind it would make more sense to do it the other way around, slowly building up the highlights on the brightest parts, but there's probably a reason here that I'm missing. Secondly, how would you do this for clean white? I'll be doing a Slaanesh Slaves to Darkness army as well, but the colour scheme I have in mind has pure white cloth, probably going towards blue-greyish for the shadows. The final glazing step is what I worry most about, glazing white or near white is always so tricky.

Great tutorial, thanks

Fantastic video : D do you have a video on stippling, like the ragged cloth. I want to use this method to blend colours as I love the way it looks : ]

Nice. Was thinking of doing Batman in this style so this helps. 🤘🏻

Great vid as always Vince. Do you have a video on that armor?

Awesome tech! I'm going to try this when I get home. I agree that most of my cloaks are looking pretty boring, and this might be just what the doctor ordered. One quick question: if you wanted to knock this out on an army or just had less time... instead of using a super sharp tiny brush, have you ever experimented with a bigger, stiff-bristled brush? It seems like you could make a ton of tiny hashes over the raised areas really quick, though obviously not look as organic... thoughts?

Oh wow, I didn't realise how easy this was until I tried it

looks awesome, can you give me an advice on how much the wet palette should be filled and if the parchment must be covered with it or just underneath it

Great video. Can you do it for yellow capes? What would you use for the dark shade?

Hi Vince! I read below that you might cover it in a separate video but what is the color on their armor? Love your vids btw :)

Love this please show how to do the dot method as well

sorry, second question: for a red cloak, would you start with a black base as well? thanks again for all these excellent videos!

Love this - this is a skill I’ve been trying out lately and failing upward haha:) A couple of question: is there a reason you don’t start with the lowest color and work up to the nightlight (versus starting with the highest and working outward to the lowest highlight)? Also, how do you keep this from looking more like brushed metal (I guess more what is the difference between the techniques? Thanks again for all the awesome content dude:)

Great vidéo as usual. Could you use the same technique on big flat muscles, like ogors or helbrute ? What colour would you recommend ?

When you do the darker lines, do you from start 20% into the lighter line and go out or do you draw from the unpainted portion to 20% into the lighter line?

wow. Great video, thank you so much, I´m going to practice it. But I just got a question. Why you use flow improver with paint? To achieve what? Thank you again. Kind regards.

O waw lovely technique.

Great video and perfect timing. I've been pondering on how I was going to paint the cape on my Death Knight Avenger (Black Sun miniatures). I want to do this in a deep blood red, what color should I use for priming? I'm figuring black? Again, thanks for the video this method will be very useful.

This one is going in my back pocket.

Great, thank you. Question - why wouldn't you glaze up to the same color effect?

NICE!! question: when you show the flow improver on the palette, is that PURE flow-improver, or water mixed with the label-instructed percentage of flow improver in it? for example, I have Liquitex Flow Aid, and the instructions say to mix it 1:20 with water. thanks and excellent work as always! :-)

I too have a question on how to do this on white/cream cloaks and robes. I have a Dark Angels Sgt. (One of the old metal ones in a robe) I tried the painting brown, working up with off-whites. Dislike it. I could repaint/tint it with ink and try a different method. Could you do this if you won't have especially dark folds?

Would you start from black basecoat for the alternative colours as well? You talked about highlighting red, green and blue cloth, but they would all start from black?

If the wrinkle/fold is horizontal would you make your little slash marks vertical then or keep them horizontal? The piece I want to try this on has normal vertical folds but also has a a spot where two vertical folds make a upside down "U" like shape at the waist (like the jacket is is fluttering up) and also as some small horizontal folds farther up on the back of the jacket

Could you, easily do some free hand over this texture afterwards? I want to go for a worn cloak using this method and then have some Chaos embroidery to it as well.

Coming from a illustration background I enjoy knowing some techniques are universal. Despite being potentially tedious at times it yield greats results and the main point for me is enjoyment of my craft. Any other techniques you know of, besides freehand, that cross over from other art forms?

Thinking about the overlay version you mentioned on competition pieces and the added visual confusion that introduces; is there a reason (other than ease of mixing and the increased difficulty of thin lines the longer they are) you're not starting with a mid-tone and running, say 50-60% of the area, and then climbing the highlight ladder, reducing the area as you go? It seems like that would both add to the effect (as there would be more lines under other lines), and boost the value of the highlights (because rather than being entirely desaturated by the black base coat they would be laying over existing purples (in this case). If your highlight ladder is already plotted for you (e.g.: a sequence of Warcolours reds, where rather than mixing Orange 5 and Red 3, you could just take Red 3, then Red 2, Red 1 and so on) is that perhaps a more valuable route to take?

I've just zenithal highlighted the outer robes of my farseer ivory with brown in the shadows. Should I paint 2 thin coats of orange and then go into making texture or should I just do the techniques shown here and start making texture? Edit also can this be done without flow improver?

Really niche question: How would you go about texturing a piece of cloth that's pointing directly upwards and doesn't have any creases in it. I ask cause i tried using this technique to paint the cape of the Space Marine Captain in the dark vengeance box, and while most of it was pretty straight foward, the top of his cape drapes over the dude's shoulder pad, but not in a way that shapes it. It's more like it's just a featureless curved piece of cloth, a bit larger than a shoulder pad, that's pointed directly at the sky. I ended up cross hatching with the two lightest colours but i don't think it turned out well so i was wondering what you would do it that scenario. Also, more general question, if you have a colour that you know you want to be the main colour of the cloak, do you use it as like, the middle point of the layers of highlights or should you paint it in black and white and grey and just gaze the desired colour over top to tint the whole thing? (I may have combined both approaches) Anyway, great video, this technique is def going in my "Only for characters" painting toolbox

I'm wondering how you'd go about doing a white cloak? I was planning on doing a very pale green silk for my Sisters of Battle army and this technique I think would work, either the line version or the stippling. Should I start with a grey for the cloak or go with a darker green?

Hi Vince, is the Liquitex Flow Improver used straight from the bottle or has it been pre-diluted with water?

What if I were to be doing a black colour? Would I start with a dark grey and use black or...?

Any special highlight tips for say hull red or beige Ogor pants? Or would you still go all the way down to black, using incrementally lighter browns on the way up?

I have a question, why would you start with the brightest highlight then work towards the darker tones? Wouldn't it be easier to go from the darkest to lightest colors / deepest to highest areas?

Really like this might do this to my night goblins

Is there a video of you painting that shield?

i am working on a figure who has old clothing with stitching holding pieces of either cloth or leather together is there a way to it without going crazy doing?

Uh, yeah I'm gonna have to do this for 6 warlocks oh no what have I done!

Can you provide pictures of the minis after the painting? So we can see what the results are ?

Probably won't see this but I wonder how it would look if I tried doing this on a rounded service like the back of a carin wraith with a black cloak

Wasn't happy eith how I painted my chaos warriors cloack and was gonna redo it, so this Video is godsend. I use a bit of streaking grime on my warrior to make him look a bit more "grimdark", does anyone know if going over the cloack with streaking grime will ruin the texture?

What flow improver is used?

White as opposed to Ice Yellow for highlighting cloaks? Who are you, and what have you done w/ Vince!

Vince, thank you as always for the great content! Would you consider putting together a Patreon page where we can support you for making these videos? I don't need more content or any exclusive offerings, simply a place were those of us who have learned so much over the years and appreciate the content you provide can give back to you for what you give us. I'm sure myself and a few hundred other people would gladly send $5-$10 your way a month for providing us with so much outstanding art instruction. Many of us support other youtubers this way and I would really like to support someone who I consistently learn from.

The technique is awesome but I'm not a fan of the result. It may work when you're entirely zoomed in but at arm's length it looks similar to coarse paint.

"they're shadows because they're shadows" :D

If Zordon painted a cloak, this how he would paint it.

Man this is a lot harder than it looks

Awesome video, really starts to make you think a lot more about the material you're painting. Request for an extension of this Video: Comparison of Materials and how to paint each (Summary) From videos like this and listening to your interviews with artists, I'm learning a lot about the importance of textures and understanding them. Kirill has a video posted where he goes into detail on how he paints different patterns, textures etc... ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJhlksiczJ-Up4U.html ). I'd love it if you could go through a summary of each material and the effect to use, stipple vs. hashing, the reflective nature of each etc. You could just link to videos like this that show the specific techniques in more detail.

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love your videos but every time music starts playing my cat screams at night. your voice is almost always is quiter even though it became better as videos go; but if only you could still take that music down a notch.

lol gosh darnit! language!