today on the hobby grotto we're looking at three different ways to paint human skin on minis!
the first is fair, caucasian skin and i start with a base coat of Cadian Fleshtone, nice and watered
down and i keep all skin paints fairly watered down because they have a tendency to be you know
thicker paints and you have to do a lot of layers with skin so you don't want any thick bumpy areas.
after that's dry i hit it with some Nuln Oil because i like
a black lining effect on my minis but you could also use a brown wash here.
after that i'm coming back with the Cadian Fleshtone and doing the first layer
and this is going to be covering most of the surfaces but we've
still got that darkened area from the wash in all the cracks and crevices.
Now we start highlighting with a 50/50 Cadian Fleshtone and Kislev Flesh mix
and with each of these subsequent layers we're going to be doing smaller highlights but
you can still be quite generous with your distribution on the first layers
and if you're only painting a small area of skin like a face you can just
go straight to kislev flesh you don't have to, you know, blend it as much as i'm doing.
the next highlight here is with pure Kislev Flesh again
nice and thin so you're almost glazing these highlights on in parts
that's the trick to painting skin nice thin layers you can always put more on but
a little bit more difficult to take it off.
the final highlights are a mix of Kislev Flesh and White Scar and these are kept
minimal because they can be quite stark, this is really an optional stage you don't have to
highlight this much for a tabletop standard but it can be quite nice on feature models.
next up is tanned skin and the base coat is XC-88 which is such a useful color across the board but
really good for tan skin because it's a light brown but it's also got a
bit of a yellow tone to it which works nicely with our Kislev Flesh highlights.
once the base coat's dry, and i like to do two layers of this even though it's a color with good
coverage, i'm applying a Nuln Oil wash and like i said with the previous skin you could use a brown
wash here instead or another kind of wash of your choosing i just prefer the look of the Nuln Oil.
after that we're reapplying the XV-88 being careful not to cover up any of that nice shading,
nice thin coats as always with the skin.
now i'm going to be mixing all the highlights here with Kislev Flesh because
it's a skin tone that also has a bit of yellow to it and i'm starting with just
a bit of kislev in there, the beauty of this color scheme is that you can vary how light
or dark you want this tanned skin to be by mixing up more successive highlights with the Kislev Flesh
because we're using a flesh tone for the highlights rather than something like white
you can keep going up to pure kislev flesh highlights depending on the overall look
you want for the skin you know you can lighten it as much as you want.
Now for the dark skin we're starting with a base of Rhinox Hide and this
is a solid dark color so one coat's usually enough,
followed by some Nuln Oil to generate our shading.
once that's dry i'm repainting the Rhinox Hide to bring back some of the color loss from the wash
it's just going to create a better base for our highlights that way.
in the same way as the other skin we're going to be blending up through a couple of layers
first with Rhinox Hide and Doomball Brown which is a great color to pair with rhinox because
it's got a nice reddish hue to it which i think brings some more life to the skin,
and then moving on to pure Doombull Brown quite sparing with these and if you ever
go too light with the highlights it's fairly simple just to glaze back down a few layers.
for darker color schemes i tend to do less highlighting overall because
i don't want to lighten that bass too much and lose the original vibe.
i like to do a few final point highlights with a mix of Doombull Brown and Kislev Flesh
and these are going to be used more on you know focal points like the face
but you can still get something around on the hands and other key areas.
So there you have it, three different skin tones to try out! Thanks for watching
and we'll see you next time on The Hobby Grotto! :)