Hedge highlighting... absolutely love it and it is now what it it will officially be called. :)

One thing I will say for other new painters, and painters who feel like they're stuck in a rut - You'll never learn how to edge highlight, glaze, NMM, or any of these more complicated things until you actually try them - You just have to understand that it's a skill like any other - Pro painters weren't divinely chosen at birth to be able to edge highlight. It takes genuine work and genuine time to improve as a painter, and the best way to learn is to just go ahead and do it! Watch videos like this, then copy the technique. Your first result will probably not look perfect, but with edge highlights you can always neaten up your lines with the basecoat. Keep doing it, and i guarantee you that within a couple of hours you'll have made absolutely insane progress. I have incredibly unsteady hands, and nowadays I'm finally able to edge highlight, and it honestly it didn't take me too long to learn it once I just decided to, you know, actually do it. I have really bad ADHD so it's incredibly easy to get discouraged when your first edge highlight looks like a sadge highlight, but just keep going, keep working at it and you'll be amazed how much you can learn :) Also, this video really spoke to me - I haven't been the biggest fan of all of your videos but you've really grown as a creator and I hope you manage to go full time! Anxiety is an absolute pain to deal with, and my ADHD came with a ton of it, so seeing someone actually present on camera despite the anxiety is really inspiring. And since you mentioned coaching, I absolutely encourage anyone to do it - It's a bit expensive in most cases, but I did a few coaching sessions and they helped me out an absolute ton!

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This just got recommended to me out of nowhere and just wanted to say thanks! I have struggled edge highlighting and this finally got me to a spot where I felt comfortable doing it with models I care about

I read ur channel name as “Ataxia painting studios” and I was thinking Ahhh, perfect, the painting teacher for me.

You are absolutely delightful. I love your personality and delivery. Best of luck going full time!

Good luck going full time Alice! If you could do the cloak video about highlight placement, that would be awesome.❤

Heck yes, good on ye!!! Here’s to lots of good growth!

As a beginner, this helped immensely and kind of put my mind at ease, because ya know, ANXIETY. SUBSCRIBED!

I’m happy to see this video. This is where I’m at in my personal development

Good luck with going full time! I just discovered this channel because I was looking for help after having had a nightmare of a day trying to get smooth blends on my space marine terminators. I'm fairly new (NOS, really. I was into fantasy battles as a kid), and I've been having a blast, but some techniques are really difficult to get a hang of. There are so many factors at play at any given point. I won't be able to glaze until I'vee managed to properly thin my paints for glazing. I won't be able to do detail work and nice edge highlights until my brush control is on point, and I won't be able to wet blend until I've gotten the blessing of sigmar or promised my soul to the Chaos god of smooth blends (or whatever). Your videos have given me a fresh new perspective on some off these topics. I'll give my terminators another go tomorrow :)

Great stuff, as always!!

Great video, thank you for showing this off. It's something I struggle with

This was great, I enjoyed the way you presented the information and it was entertaining too!

Algo love! Good topic, and good advice!

I like your Videos. And thank you for taking us on this ride. I'm looking forward for what is to come.

Really good video, thank you for your advices!

Thank you for this video!

Hope your situation works out, I've been following since your first videos

I'm subscribed. I hope this works fulltime for you. I like your videos, great advice. I've been painting minis for 40 years and I'm still learning.

I love your videos they make so much sense 🙂

Best of luck going fulltime! Your content is great!

I haven’t painted any models yet and find your videos very informative. I look forward to seeing more!

I love everything about this video! Perfect timing. im practicing edge highlights and im having trouble finfing the right shade. New sub! Good luck!

90% of edge highlighting can be achieved with a drybrush before detail (and I don't mean uncontrolled brushing of the entire model). If you so wish you can use a larger brush and the same base paint to first brighten the tone, then add a small amount of some brighter shade (white can be too bright for some colours, and wash out greens and turn reds to pink, so look to yellow and oranges) and run around the edges and brush over the most prominent features. A final small brush over with a true "highlight" tone can be used after to pick out fine edges. A wash can then be used to bring the tones in line if needed. This whole painting fine lines to accentuate a 3 dimensional object is objectively clunky, just like the old "black line around edges" was.

Subscribed and commenting for the all powerful algo!! Best wishes, great video. I have never used edge highlighting, tbh, but I do drybrush lots, :)

Cool video - you are doing super good videos, funny, honest, great painting and nice editing - keep it up

Thanks for another great educational video! I am a subscriber and hope you can do this full time.

I like the point about paint consistency.

Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the very helpful tips

Great video! Best wishes for the future!

Subbed and commenting for the algorithm! This was a fantastic video and very well explained, shows tou know your stuff especially to someone that is now getting into the painting side of the hobby and im very excited, so far ive only painted about 10 minis and a few other smaller things and I think for my second time ever painting minis i did a decent job. I'm looking forward to your new videos and I'll be checking your older ones out!

The bit about highlighting cloaks has been...Enlightening... *ba dum tsss*

Great tips here - nice work

Subscribed, super good advice. My hands are super shaky due to drinking when i was young, so edge highlights are quite the challange for me 😆 Wish you all the best going fulltime!

Nice video, really liked the vibes !

I like your expression :) Good luck with full time YT!

Great Video, hope you can go fulltime!

Good luck!

Good luck going full time, Alice. Love your content.

Enjoyed your style and picked up some good ideas

Good luck going full time, I know you’ll succeed, because you’re awesome 😊

Very helpful!

Ideal timing, just trying to up my highlighting game, good luck going forwards 😁😷💪

Brilliant video good luck

The brush does 90% of the work here. I absolutely recommend everyone get themselves a natural bristle brush for their detail works. Eyes, faces, highlights. You will get much more confident very quickly.

The best luck going full time youtuber!

Thank you

Concave surfaces get highlights even if recessed blew my mind. Great tip

The Games Workshop "house style" over time came to push edge highlights to a crazy degree. This was largely done to show off the details of models in close up photography. It isn't at all realistic or logical for light though. This isn't saying it looks "bad" - it's an aesthetic. But it also isn't the "right way" to paint things. One purpose of edge highlights on miniatures is to push readability. To make different models easily identifiable and stand out from the table, scenery, etc. Going by this standard, view specific parts need to be overtly highlighted. For example, on a space marine, the edges of the shoulder pauldrons, top of the helmet, and top ridge of the weapon.

Good luck with full time!

More algorithm -- keep going, you make really good content

I subscribed because you said please. Manners matter. Good luck going full time! You can do it!

Great description and examples of consistency

Nice job and dark angels RULE!!!!!!

i lick my brush to get the right paint consistency

Very informative! I've been putting off painting a squad of robed cultists, so I would love to know more about painting cloth

All best

Good luck going full time!!!!😊

Love the info, subscribed

im interested in knowing the tips of painting cloths and those concave surface stufff painting!! 🎉🎉

Awesome video

It took me a while to realize you were using a sound effect and not just punching your microphone... Very good video, by the way!

Your videos on painting miniatures are inspiring. On more than one occasion your use of color was absolutely astounding! Which leads me to this. Your video about hedge highlights, several times, a space marine, purple in tone, is being painted upon. What paints and process did you use to get that awesome purple?

I think the issue I have with edge highlighting might be how I'm mixing the paint. I don't have steady hands at all, but even when I try every measure to minimise that I still end up with blobs of paint that I have to tidy up after. I think the issue I have is either there isn't enough paint on the brush, so barely anything shows, or it's too thin and acts almost more like a contrast paint and goes everywhere. I think I need to work out the consistency of my paint before applying it.

Hello I really enjoyed this video very much. I'm a beginner at painting miniatures, but not beginner at artwork. I just started painting miniatures in the last two months. Do have any recommendations for types of miniature paints, brushes to use. Thank you

Good tips APS - Thankyou UM40

I drink a beer after i have a coffee. Stops my shakey hands every time

Can you do something on fluorescent paints on something like magic swords glow cast on to the other surfaces of the mini and maybe on the base?

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Yo yo goooood luck !

I've been postponing the edge highlighting of my 95 (too dark) black and red Cadian infantry for a while now out of sheer dread. This video was just what I needed to get started. Thanks for good tips as always! Mh.. Should I use a brighter red, a warm orange, or a warm yellow for highlightning Mephiston Red edges for my black and red lava theme? Wondering if shifting hue would look good or not. Kinda tricky to know with a light red/green colour blindness.

Good luck with going fulltime

If you go in hard and give it your best shot you'll never die wondering.

very nice

Hi! I'm new in this hobby and I'm making a Blood Angels team of intercessors (by now). Which color should I use to highlight the dirty red I used to paint them? Thanks in advance!

Would definately want to see a video just on highlighting robes and cloth. Also good luck with doing this full time!

out of curiosity what brush do you use for edge highlighting? I've been using the medium layer brush from citadel for a while now

Won many best painted. Never edge highlighted the whole mini in my entire life. Drybrush for life.

Good luck

Highlighting 🎉🎉

GL making your way with aa KZfaq Job!😉

Highlight the hedges da!

Ill finally be able to highlight my blightkings! :D

cool vid

So if i highlight my blackprimed Marines, what is the easiest way of getting that blue, green or red omän without destroying that amazing lining? Sponge? Drybrush? Stippling? Awesome video and ill definitely try this with my next model!

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I always rest my hand on something when I doing edging.

im gonna take these tips to my crappy edge highlights.

Good luck going full time.

My hands get so shaky at times that I have to take a break. Or sometimes my depth perception goes away and I put paint where it shouldnt go or put too much on. I think it's a combination of my lamp being subpar and being extremely unhealthy. Anyways, thanks for the vid and I wish you well with your mini painting career I hope it keeps getting better for you

I've learned for black, the issue with volumetric highlights is the gray in the first place. Black gloss materials show a LOT of color. The darker your glossy material is, the more color it will reflect, and black is the extreme of this. Don't believe me? Well your brain instinctually knows this because you've seen black cars all your life. Go look at some, or check some reference images. For black to "read" as high gloss black in a real situation, don't highlight with gray, highlight with what it would reflect. For the upward facing reflections it would be a transition from dark blue to light blue as you get closer to where it would reflect the sun, with a warm spot highlight for the sun itself. For bounce reflections, they would be whatever color the ground around them is

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Alright, subscribing for cloth tutorial. I've got cultists to paint.

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This is educative and intresting a lot i do strugle with this edge highlighting ....@#$%@..But im glad i watched your video i will use it to destroy more models with mine ,,painting,, skills:)

It took me 20 YEARS of EDGING

Best of luck going fulltime. I also vote for a cloak, cloth highlight video.