Do you carry a heavy load?

[Ebonbuddha]

I was looking at some previews of painting tutorials on youtube and I noticed that no one unloads their brush. That is when you drag the brush on a napkin or cloth to take a way excess paint. I was told that you were supposed to do that years ago. Is this some new technique?
Do you paint unloaded or fully loaded?

I always go unloaded.

 

[Talion]

Depends, if I can see a might have a bit of a drippy, or I can see I've got to much for the detail I want to paint then yes.

I'm usually the opposite and never put enough on the brush.

 

[Rugne]

Hmmm.. I usually just load the brush from the pallet.. the technique your describing sounds llike it's part of drybrushing more then anything.
The only way I can imagine doing that is if your painting straight from the pot.

Marc

 

[freakinacage]

i tend not to pick up too much paint tbh. i occasionally unload on my nail but not that often

 

[Shawn R. L.]

That's what the good Lord made the back of your hand for! ! ! Mine looks like a tie-dyed shirt by the end of painting sometimes!

 

[Rugne]

That's what the good Lord made the back of your hand for! ! ! Mine looks like a tie-dyed shirt by the end of painting sometimes!

LOL, I'm glad I'm not the only one!

 

[supervike]

depends on what I am painting.

For a heavy wash, yes I unload.

For more detail work, yes I unload.


Oh hell, it looks like I unload.

 

[BPI]

Unloader here

I tend to mix for colour / consistency every time I return to the pallette, so getting a line on a piece of kitchen roll before going near the figure is a must. It is something I've read about other people doing but my main reason goes back to Dave Sim's (Cerebus) How To be a comic-book self publisher booklet where he's describing his inking process: dip pen, get line going on scrap, apply single stroke to page, clean nib, start again. I don't rinse my brush every time but ought to, most of the recent ones I've ruined are because the paint on the tip is wet but in the body is drying! Too focussed on the mini & not enough on the process!

Many moons ago there was a White Dwarf article involving using your thumbnail as a pallette, it keeps the paint really close to the mini for working with swiftly drying blends!

Is this issue going to turn out to be as divisive as brushlicking I wonder?

Cheers, B.

 

[Ritual]

I always unload the brush (on my left thumb). Very little paint on the brush is the key of controlling the paint. You can always apply more paint, but it's not easy to remove paint once you've got it on the mini.

 

[evil tendencies]

I always unload the brush (on my left thumb). Very little paint on the brush is the key of controlling the paint. You can always apply more paint, but it's not easy to remove paint once you've got it on the mini.

Exactly my philosophy.

 

[Hinton]

That's what the good Lord made the back of your hand for! ! ! Mine looks like a tie-dyed shirt by the end of painting sometimes!

Right there with you, brother!

I always unload the brush (on my left thumb). Very little paint on the brush is the key of controlling the paint. You can always apply more paint, but it's not easy to remove paint once you've got it on the mini.

Which is why I always unload.

 

[Sand Rat]

When I can get to the booze I paint loaded.

Oh wait, I just answered the wrong question didn't I?

But loaded - dip and paint .

 

[Necroghast]

Unload. If I have to much on the brush it tends to bubble in the cracks. I dont know why. Maybe I paint too vigorously.

 

[Wren]

Unloaded. Usually on my thumb, I feel like it lets me control the consistency better.

 

[SkelettetS]

not familiar with this unload on the thumb kind of thing, but yes i do unload. i "borrow" some really great expensive non-fuzzy cloth-like paper form my work

 

[Ebonbuddha]

I have been painting long enough to know dry brushing. He was painting base, middle, and highlight layers. He also was using a palette.

Hmmm.. I usually just load the brush from the pallet.. the technique your describing sounds llike it's part of drybrushing more then anything.
The only way I can imagine doing that is if your painting straight from the pot.

Marc

 

[ScottRadom]

I unload. Usually on a towel and always test on the back of my hand as well. I do find myself taking less and less of as I get more experienced, which I think means I am getting a better handle on picking up the correct amount of paint from the pallete inthe first place. Hopefully.

 

[airhead]

I don't load. I've found that only lightly loading the paintbrush from the pallet prevents lots of paint build-up in the ferrel.

I 'test' on my thumbnail. If I cannot pull a decent line, then I unload some more.

 

[Naukhel]

Most of the time, I'll give it the full load for base-coating or brush-priming.
But I'll unload when I'm doing the good stuff.
If I don't, I wind up leaving the painting table half cocked.
Then nobody feels good about what I've done.

 

[johnboyjjb]

That's what the good Lord made the back of your hand for! ! ! Mine looks like a tie-dyed shirt by the end of painting sometimes!

I generally paint without a table and cross my legs to give a place for my elbows to rest. It's not exactly ergonomic but in the end the bottom of my foot ends up looking pretty striped.