How to paint old school orc skin.

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Today we’re finishing up our Goobins Gits by doing the face and the orc flesh. So, here we go. Starting off, I did the legs and the arms. Uh, a little bit of work on them just so I can I can focus on the face this session. I’ve I’ve painted this guy.

I started on October 1st and I’ve painted the whole model just painting 15 minutes a day. So, that’s been pretty fun. So, here’s where we’re at. Mostly done. We’re going to we’re going to finish up this face, which is a big prominent part of the model.

So, I wanted to be able to really focus on that. This this base green is Alazaran green from Scale Color Artist. Uh just any any normal green. I don’t know. It’s a it’s a orca green.

I’m sure you have one in your collection. We’re starting off by this is undiluted straight out of the tube. I’m blocking in these colors that are going to end up being the brightest area first. So, I’m leaving that purple and red on the face, which we did in the in the pre-shading several videos ago now. And I just have the greens blocked in.

And [snorts] then I’m going to glaze it in. So added in a little bit of water. And you can kind of see in the background how it’s it’s more watery. It’s it is a little bit out of focus. Sorry.

But now it’s glaze consistency. And I’m just glazing it over. I’m going to go into the the shadows. I’m going to cover up those areas I blocked in. Making sure I don’t hit the helmet because if I hit that helmet, it’s going to be very hard to fix again.

So you got to have the brush control for this part. Uh but otherwise, I’m just letting the paint do the work. This is mostly layering. Like it’s not it’s not tricky blending. And after about two 15 minute sessions, we get to this point uh of just glazing that or actually that might have only been 15 minutes.

Now I’m going to come in with lime green also from scale color. And I’m going to do the same thing. I’m going to hit uh undiluted straight out of the tube on these blocky areas, the eyebrows, the nose, the upper cheeks, uh the top of the jaw, and then I’m going to go back in with glazes and just slowly build up the transition. And here we go. Uh this is 15 minutes of just glazing that lime green in.

And I wanted to show you the consistency here. Uh because it’d be super super boring watching me glaze for 15 minutes. But you can see it’s very thin. probably like 5050 paint to water honestly and it dries much less bright than as you’re putting it on. So I do that, I let it dry, I go again.

Um this this took me uh all said and done I think probably 30 minutes. So just two days of painting to get the skin and I hit I hit other parts of the body with it and I I started going through and just doing finishing details on the other parts. Uh, I’m not not totally happy with that yellow, that gold, and I’m going to do something about that on the face, but I left it on the scabbard. But so, here’s where we are. That’s about 30 minutes of glazing that lime green in.

And now, just primary yellow. Just straight up primary yellow. Same concept. No water here. I’m blocking in the very tip top of the lip and the nose and the cheeks.

And you can see there’s a very small amount of paint on the brush. But now I’m gonna go in and [snorts] honestly I did about 45 minutes of glazing that yellow here to this point. Skin is done. Um I painted the eyes red uh from from Warcolor. And I’ll show you what that the bottle looks like hopefully right here.

Boom. Blood red. War colors. Nostalgia colors from War Colors. Company out of Cypress.

I love their paints. Probably hard to get in America now though. I did the lips and the teeth. Pretty standard. Um I can I make a tutorial on that.

But now I’m coming back in with that primary yellow straight out of the tube. Again, it’s hard to kind of tell, but I’m I’m dragging the brush from the outside of the center into the center. So, it’s almost almost like a glaze, but it’s not glaze consistency. I’m just pulling the paint to the center of the eye so that it it’s not just a simple dot like it’s a a gradual fade. And that’s how you get that subtle glowing effect.

And now to really really make these eyeballs pop, I’m going to grab or actually I I did a second coat of the yellow. So now you can see it’s looking good, but we’re going to make it look really good. I’m grabbing a fluorescent orange. This paint is very thin. Like it comes out I think it must be meant to be airbrush or something, but it’s very thin.

It’s glaze consistency. And I’m just I’m leaving the very center of the eye pure yellow, but I’m glazing that transition point of the yellow to the red. And it just makes it look really good on that one big eye that’s not all squished up. And this is what we end up with. Our guy is done.

Took us 14 days to paint him. 15 minutes a day. And I love this model. This is the most fun I’ve had painting. This is my new most fun model I’ve painted.

It’s by Goobins Gits. Uh it’s one uh one of his orcs. Uh and I love it. This is my favorite model in my collection right now.