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Neat video and method - could do with some royalty free music and perhaps a little speeding up during the quite periods between the instruction - at present you've probably only a couple of minutes actual teaching whilst a lot of the video is dead silent sight of you painting (which isn't a bad thing, indeed seeing someone paint and how they hold and move the brush can be of great help to some).
Yes, thank you for the comment. These were things I pondered...and I decided my taste in music may piss people off (lol, not really). In reality, I figured on letting viewers choose their own background noise and as far as shortening video length via cutting and editing...well, aside from drying times I let the clips play for those that like to "Paint along".
I would REALLY like to hear from anyone who thinks otherwise. So my next upload will be for you. I'll add some Yani to the background or something and chop the vid to 15ish minutes.
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The paint along aspect isn't bad, but if you can fade music in and out so that its quiet/muted whilst your speaking and then playing when you are just painting it will mean that people know when to listen. Otherwise if they've got their own music playing they won't know when to pause it to hear your voice.
Also try searching out "Royalty free" music or "creative commons licences". There's fair bit out there - all you typically need is a link in the youtube video to the composers site. By using Royalty free you avoid issues of copyright
Thats gotta be the nicest compliment one can recieve. Not that "Omg! You're the $h#*" isn't a great compliment but to hear that a piece I've done inspires more creativity...well...shucks, you made a grown man blush.
Fyi, ive never been told im the shiznit nor do I think that I am. Twas a scenario to relate something too.
I'm no painting expert, but its interesting to me how you get the effect with basically two colours and the thinning medium. Most other guides result in layering paints of different shades one atop the other to get a glowing effect.
Also a few more video ideas
1) Consider using a text overlay and position it somewhere unobtrusive such as the bottom of the screen. Use this to write out what you are painting with at each stage through the whole stage.
This way anyone following long knows exactly what paint (and combination of drops) you are using through the whole stage. It's a great way to remind people what is going on, esp when you've long gaps of painting inbetween the information step.
2) Consider a text based and spoken final summary at the end of the video.
Step 1 - paint this
Step 2 - paint this
etc..
Again this is a check-list summary to help remind the first stages of the video and gather it all together for the whole process. It's also a neat checklist for those following along.
3) Consider as you are "painting along" with this, using a splash page for when you set the model aside to dry. A simple (royalty free/creative commons licence) image of a clock face and then use a text overlay to denote how long (roughly) you left it to dry.
A 10second or so display of that gives the viewer a clear visual indication how long you left the model to dry before continuing with the next stage. It also helps to act as major breaks in the video which reinforces the idea of stopping and discourages people making the easy mistake of just continuing on and rushing their own panting and thus causing the method to fail.
If you add this to music whilst you are panting (overlain music of course) as well as the spoken parts that you already use then you'll be well on the way to some very good quality panting guides.
Also if you get into doing a series of these consider also adding in the odd how to paint a full model video. Showing people how to use different processes together into a single paint scheme. This way a novice can start to see how they might paint up their own scheme
Nice. Thank you for this reply. Your comments are well recieved. You very well may have just helped me come up with a REAL format. Thank you.
As far as the comment about how others get the glowing effect...truthfully, how did my result compare? As I dont think I have seen a video (personally) on how to glow.
Automatically Appended Next Post: I'm going to do another base video using a 2 color glow effect. The next one will be a burning coal type effect. Give me about 4 days and I will impliment all of your ideas the best I can.
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As for other effects, I think that in painting there are often multiple methods toward the same effect that will visually be a little different. Tools also make a difference as if you bring air brushes in a whole host of other methods and effects become options.
Seeing the differences is probably best done in person seeing it on a real model, but there's load of different methods eg this one from GW
That's a useful tutorial Merdynn, especially since you're using just a few colours and medium. Thanks, I will be trying this soon!
I don't mind the abscence of music. Overread's tip about the text is something that I second. As a starting painter, I sometimes scroll through tutorials. Texts coming up about the kind of mixes or techniques one is using are useful, so watchers don't have to go through the whole video again trying to find out where what is done.
Here is an update. Let me know what you think.
It has been time lapsed down to 14 minutes from 36, added constant info sliders throughout and .... background music, fitting the intro music that I put in.
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