Easy Mode Goblin Faces

Making Goblin Faces Pop

I’m going to show you how to really make goblin faces look good. We’re starting with a face that’s already got Shamrock Green speed paint over the yellow and black preshade. I’m using a big thick brush just to show you that you don’t need some crazy detailed brush.

The Teeth Process

First, lime green glaze consistency (think skim milk, maybe a little less). Hit the raised edges, starting in shadows and pulling out to where light hits most.

Then Vallejo air white—any white works. We want this pretty thick on the brush. The yellow and purple from our underpainting already did most of our work. Spin your brush into a point and very lightly hit just the tops of the teeth. Leave some yellow showing. Don’t take it all the way to the gum line.

The Wash Step

Now burnt umber (or any brown)—very thin and transparent. Come back in on the teeth and let it pool in the ridges. Use capillary action to pull excess off. Now the teeth look nasty but still pop from a distance.

Refining the Teeth

Mix a bit of white with the wash color for an off-white, then dab just the very bottoms of the teeth. Keep the brown in the cracks and near the gums.

The Gums

Squid pink, thick because it’s hard to get where you want it the first time. Angle your brush with any imperfections in the bristles and carefully hit the gums. It blends with the purple from our underpaint.

The Lips

Arctic blue from Scale Color on the bottom lip using the curved tip of the brush. See how crazy it looks with that blue against the pink? Then stipple carefully to create lip texture and highlights without getting paint where you don’t want it.

Optional Pink Glaze

If the green is fully dry, you can hit the underside of the nose with a very transparent pink glaze. Be careful—if it’s not dry or you go too thin, it’ll water stain.

The Result

About 8 minutes per face gets you a focal point that distracts from simpler paint jobs elsewhere. When you have 90 goblins, having faces that pop makes a huge difference. We didn’t even paint the eyes and it still looks great.

These vlogs are really what’s keeping me together right now. Thanks for watching.

Transcript

All right, I’m going to show you how to really make this face uh look really good. We’re going to start with lime green. So, this is just our right now our face is just um shamrock green speed paint. And I’m going to use a big thick brush just so you can see like you don’t have to have some crazy detailed brush. And this has been sitting on the wet palette for a little bit.

So, there we go. This is the consistency that we want. [snorts] Tip of the nose. and off the side. And this is we definitely want to make sure we’re in this like glazed area like skim think skim milk consistency a little bit less than skim milk probably.

See on my thumb and we’re just going to hit these raised edges and we’re starting in places of shadow and just pulling it out to where the light is going to hit the most. All right. Now, we just have uh Vallejo air white, but just literally any white can do. Uh, and we want this uh this is a thin paint, and white’s hard, but we want this pretty thick on the brush. So, you can see.

And now, because we came in and started from that yellow and purple workup on the teeth, we already have most of our work done for us. And again, I’m using this gnarly thick brush just to show you that you can do it. Just hold your breath. Spin your brush into a point. And you see, you can see how I have that this tip of the brush.

And we’re going to just very lightly hit the the very tops of the teeth. We’re going to leave some of that yellow in there. And you can get a little bit on the lips. There’s a reason that we’re doing this step right now, but definitely don’t get it on your finished green skin. And we we don’t want to take this all the way to the gum line.

Okay, there we go. So, see that’s how we are with our straight white and we’re taking it all the way to the white because now we’re going to just use a a very simple wash to take it back down. So, burnt umber, but it can be any brown. This is my favorite brown. And then just a dot of water over here from a dirty paint cup water.

and very very thin very thin like so like now it’s going to like very transparent it’s collecting into the ridges on my skin so now uh I haven’t this is real time I haven’t even taken a break to make sure that this white is dry a A little bit darker. Maybe too much paint. And if you you can when you’re doing paint this then you can get a lot of paint in your brush. So just drop it off on your thumb. And again just come back in here.

And you can see it’s kind of pooling over here. So I’m going to use the capillary action of the brush to just come back get it off and wash the teeth again. And now look at how nasty the teeth look, but they still they they pop from a distance. And now what we can do that we still have this white over here [snorts] and come back in, grab a little bit of the white. Come over here a little bit more.

So now we have this compared to our normal white. And now we can do the same thing that we started with. And now when we tab or dab the just like the very bottoms, we want to let the keep keep the brown in the cracks and at the like towards where the gums are. Now we got squid pink thick because we don’t want to have to come back and like it’s going to be hard enough to get it where we want it to go the first time. We definitely don’t.

So now I’m just I’m rolling my tip. All right. So now, and again, like if you have a smaller brush, you can use it. I’m just showing you it’s possible. You can see my my brush is forking right here because there’s paint up in it.

I’m just going to use that one fork like this part right here that’s touching my finger. And now I I’ve got my brush angled with the curl of the messed up wick cuz I mean this is going to happen to you in real time. And hold my breath and hit the gums. >> [snorts] >> Now just the top right on this on this specific model really the gums are only visible on the top. So now like that and it’s blending in with the purple from our underpay too.

All right. So uh it’s going to seem like maybe that was a little bit silly just putting that bright ass pink in there. [snorts] And also when there’s a bajillion of them that adds time but I promise you it’s going to be worth it. So now Oxford blue putting paint also arctic blue skele color. So maybe I didn’t actually need water.

All right. So now bottom lip time again. Wonky brush. I’m curling it in the paint to get this this tip. And I’m just going to use that curved out tip to come in to this bottom lip.

and now you see how like crazy it already looks with just that blue in with our pink on the lip right there. So back uh back over here. So now again, no water on this cuz we just we want just loaded paint up [snorts] and like we’re super raggedy now, right? So, we’re just going to come in and very carefully so you can see me. My head’s not in the way.

We’re going to paint. This guy’s got a bigger lip. So, we’re going to paint our lip highlight almost like stippling. [snorts] And we’re stippling so we don’t get paint anywhere we don’t want it. So, it’s a very careful stippling because this is also where you’re kind of creating that texture, of course.

And again, I’m just showing you that it’s possible to do this with a busted up brush. If you have a nicer brush, it’s going to be way easier to get in there. All right. So, there we go. So, now what we can do, like we can wash, if we wanted to, we could like get some pinks, the squid pink back on our brush, a little bit of water, cuz by now that uh green is dried.

So again, very this is that pink very transparent glaze. You can hit the underside of this nose. And with this, you’ll have to be careful because if the if the if the green wasn’t fully dry or if you aren’t familiar with how thin you can go with your paints, it’s going to look like ass cuz it’s just going to water stain the nose. But there [snorts] we go. I think we’re going to call call that a day.

[snorts] So now that face is our focal point of the model where everybody’s going to go look at it. And uh I’m seeing six minutes. So I guess probably like 8 minutes to do the face, which is is crazy when you have 90 of them to have faces that really pop the model. And it kind of like it kind of distracts you from how we just painted these robes black contrast paint and the arms of black contrast paint cuz this arm kind of sucks. But you’re so busy.

Hopefully you’re so busy looking at the face or really the mouth cuz we didn’t even paint the eyes, right? Uh and I that’s just because I hadn’t figured out how I wanted to do the eyes yet. But you can really see just how easy it is to do that mouth. Hey, thanks for watching. Uh tomorrow is Monday.

I think I’ve hit 60 days. I think tomorrow today might be 60 days and I should have done something cooler for the video. So, either today or tomorrow, I’m going to have a 60-day extravaganza. I don’t know what I’m going to do yet, but uh something cool. This last like I don’t know.

It’s been It was real iffy today. It was real iffy today to get time to paint, but I I made it work. And this is something that I wouldn’t have done before. I would have given up. So, these vlogs are really like they’re really what’s keeping me together right now.

So, thanks for watching and I’ll see you