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This is a basic, I STRESS BASIC, tutorial on how to thin down paint. Please leave some feedback if I missed out on anything or how to improve future tutorials.

Please also note I may this tutorial a while back.




Thanks for watching

This is more of a showcase of thinning materials than a guide on how to thin. You also contradict your 'golden rule' within 10 seconds of saying it.

As a guide it falls down on the "follow me to do this" factor. You mention pots being bad and why but then skip straight onto the thinning mediums. You don't mention the alternatives (placing the paint in the dropper or buying paints in droppers).
As a showcase it's all right but it doesn't mention whether or not it's for brushing or airbrushing. It ignores some of the other options (medium, varnish, acrylic thinner, alcohol [white spirits et al] etc.) but that can be forgiven due to the more interesting properties they have. What you do have you do list the pro's and con's with details on them (aka drawing attention to the 20:1 on flow aid) and you do leave it open for the viewer to decide, which is a good thing.

If going for future tutorials give a step by step with worked examples and don't give as many options out. Tutorials should be "here is my way of doing things, here's how to do it in lots of detail and this is the results".
If going for future showcases call it a showcase, list the pro's and cons with maybe some examples of the end results. Diversification of the products can be good but if you want to showcase thinners for brushing, limit it to only brushing thinners.

Hope this has helped.

 Blaggard wrote:
This is more of a showcase of thinning materials than a guide on how to thin. You also contradict your 'golden rule' within 10 seconds of saying it.

As a guide it falls down on the "follow me to do this" factor. You mention pots being bad and why but then skip straight onto the thinning mediums. You don't mention the alternatives (placing the paint in the dropper or buying paints in droppers).
As a showcase it's all right but it doesn't mention whether or not it's for brushing or airbrushing. It ignores some of the other options (medium, varnish, acrylic thinner, alcohol [white spirits et al] etc.) but that can be forgiven due to the more interesting properties they have. What you do have you do list the pro's and con's with details on them (aka drawing attention to the 20:1 on flow aid) and you do leave it open for the viewer to decide, which is a good thing.

If going for future tutorials give a step by step with worked examples and don't give as many options out. Tutorials should be "here is my way of doing things, here's how to do it in lots of detail and this is the results".
If going for future showcases call it a showcase, list the pro's and cons with maybe some examples of the end results. Diversification of the products can be good but if you want to showcase thinners for brushing, limit it to only brushing thinners.

Hope this has helped.

Awesome feedback and thank you. I will look into all of your suggestions to make my next videos better. I have always been planning to make this topic more detailed but believe it or not, you are the first person in 2 and a hlaf year since this video was up on my original channel to give me constructive feedback.

Thanks again for the input.

Hey do you actually have any pugs? I have two....hence my username lol

Lovepug13 wrote:
Hey do you actually have any pugs? I have two....hence my username lol

When I created my channel (original one), I had one but he passed away around this time last year.