How to speed paint faces

What’s up, guys? Let’s get some quick painting done today. Uh, so we we have our head. We did this a while ago. Uh, the head right now, uh, the the dark part or Let me get this guy out of here.

I think he’s throwing off our focus. What am I What am I even talking about? Okay. No, it’s bad bruise. This was very, very watered down bad bruise.

The super dark spots are the tenorous gray that was just left over on our wet palette. Uh, we’re going to try something crazy today. Um, I want to do this fast if I want to look good. And I’ve been playing around with the sunny skin tone on these Infinity models. And this I let this this is a wet palette, but it’s currently dry.

I didn’t want it to get moldy, but I I just didn’t want to waste this sheet right here. So, I’m still using it for when I I don’t necessarily need the wet palletness, if that makes sense. So, I’ I’ve got some of that just straight from the pot. This is Vallejo model sunny sunny skin. It is a very peachy white, like a very very warm white, like a very orange orange peachy flesh tone, obviously.

So, this is way brighter than where we are and where we want to end up on this thing. But, uh, we want we want these like dark and violet undertones because we want these we want them to look undead but alive at the same time. like like maybe something maybe that like at first glance they look like they’re alive and then the longer you look at them the more uncanny they look and we want to try to achieve that effect and this brush is starting to curl on me. Uh we want to achieve that effect uh on these infantry models as easily and as quickly as possible. And of course, on like the the Warcasters and the other figures, we’ll spend more time doing it, but I want to try and see if I can get away with doing this.

So, we have this this violet undercoat, and I’m going to hit the very bright edges with this. And we’ll see. And again, Oh, don’t drop it in the paint. That could have been terrible. Probably should not be painting over my wet palette.

Uh, this is still very much like I’m just sketching in like the ultimate highlight tips of the ears cuz we’re going to see if we can get lucky and do this and then just do a pass of a glaze like one or two layers of a glaze over it. So then we’re going to do this. We’ll hit the very top of this bald head. We’re just kind of like sketching the values here. of this head.

And hopefully we’re in focus. I think I fixed my autofocus and focus lock problems. So, painting the brow. I think it’s definitely time to give this brush some deep master’s treatment here. I’m going to paint the nose.

And like I’m not painting the whole nose with this color. I’m just painting that very bright, the final point of the nose. And then eyes and cheeks. And maybe there’s a better Here we go. So, you can see uh I definitely need to get a better camera, I’m realizing.

or one better suited to this kind of thing. But it’s it’s pretty rough and hopefully you can tell it’s right off. I’m going to hit the lips. I’m gonna hit this like sharp jawline. Follow this little cl that jaw is in shadow.

It’s that’s you can tell. So it needs to be a little bit darker. And then now I’m going to go back and just do a second pass here. on the parts I think that are the brightest spot because you can see hopefully you can see as this is drying it is getting a lot less bright. Okay.

So, now I’m I’m washing my brush out because I need to get my masters. I need to clean this poor thing. Uh probably give it give it a little bit of a rest here cuz I love this brush and I don’t want it to become my next dry brush. All right. So, now I’m going to get a bunch of water out of the paint cup.

Just a little dot right here. Very actually I’m going to probably need all the paint I have on the pot on the palette now to get it to this consistency. So, see it looks it looks pretty thick there, but when it’s on my hand, uh you can see it’s like going into the cracks. So, this is very watery. So, now we need to get a lot of this off the brush so we don’t make a big mess.

Now, we’re going to glaze this. We’re just going to glaze it up up from the shadows to the top. And we’re doing this. We just want to make sure we deposit our paint. And we we got to be careful [clears throat] down here because we don’t want it to look like she has a beard.

And we don’t This is very wet. I almost probably need to take a little bit more off. And we definitely want to get this back head right here. And we’re just glazing that so that it’s not as obvious that we just threw color on. And like in the from looking at it in the camera like the head already looks pretty good from just that.

So I think this is going to work. I’m I’m worried I probably won’t use to nebris because it’s definitely going to look like she’s got a 5:00 shadow. So we got to I’m just giving that area a little bit extra love. A little bit of cheeky love. And here we’re just 420.

Glaze it. Five. What’s today’s date? Five 59. Glaze it.

And we’re not going to glaze all day. We’re just I’m gonna show I’m gonna let this sit now because I just put a ton of paint on this model and I don’t I don’t want it see like it looks we’re getting like when you look at it you’re like oh yeah that’s a face but then the more you look at it you’re like hey there’s some there’s some colors in there that aren’t entirely natural and that was after just like a couple of dabs of paint and a quick glaze. Uh, we’re gonna we’re gonna give this a little bit more love, but I gotta stop for now because if I keep touching it, it’s gonna tear and it’s gonna look bad because we want this smooth. But you can see just from using that watered down bad bruised purple and now just straight from the pot, sunny skin and and a dab of water, the face is like it looks pretty good without without messing around a lot. So, uh, we’re going to do a lot more to it, too.

But, let it dry. I’ll stop talking while Okay, we’re dry now. Um, so I’m just going to come back in and I’m just going to build up on these cheeks and the nose here and this cheek. And I’m going to hit the chin just a little bit. And just a little bit more here.

I like how the ears are. Okay. P3 bad bruise again. Um we’re not going to need barely any of this. Just a little bit right there.

Um water. This is going to be very watered down because we just we want to give the eyes like this dark shadow. Like it’s really going to help reinforce. So this is this is mostly water at this point. So I got to get a lot of it off the brush or it’s going to flood the model and just totally ruin our day.

So, you see there’s barely barely any paint on it. So, I’m going to paint in the shadows of the eyes with this. [snorts] Um, eyes are hard. There’s no no if hands and butts about it. But look, this is a size What is this?

I think I’ve worn it off. This is a size one. It’s got it’s it’s still got it’s a stable hair. It’s got a good tip on it still. It’s starting to curl on me, but it’s not like I’m just saying it’s not it’s not a pristine straight tip.

I’m going to get some white here. And I’m going to work it into the bristles. Maybe a little bit more. And I’m going to work it into the bristles. And you’re doing this because you don’t want it to dry on the brush.

And now I’m going to spin it like I’m rotating the pen in my hand or the the brush in my hand. So that brings us to another point. And you can see even like the brush is curling. Maybe you can. I’m gonna use that that very tip of the curl to come in here and poke an eye in.

And I talked too much and it got dry. So, let me like you need more paint on your brush than you need than you think you do. And you need a thicker brush. All right. So hopefully hopefully you can see.

And if it doesn’t like you don’t have to put the whole eye in first time. I’m I’m hitting the outsides of it and I’m leaving a dark to kind of give the effect that there’s an eye in there. Um, I think those are pretty good. They’re halfway, you know, like again, this is infantry model. If I was painting a Warcaster, uh, I’d probably try pretty hard.

But, uh, table level. There we go. It’s in there. Can I get a good picture of it? Very creepy.

That’s what we were going for. She’s staring you down. Uh, as somebody like she’s on a mission. Might need to tone them down a little bit, but I don’t know. We’ll see.

There we go. Uh, I did some painting. I actually do know how to paint. I have remembered how to paint again. I’ll see you guys later.

Okay. They’re vampires, so I had to put a little bit of red on the lips. Very creepy. Very uncanny valley.