Hobby Cheating 36 - How to Paint Detailed Caucasian Flesh 

Awesome, I am not, but that is greatly appreciated and I am happy to help. :)

Thank you, happy to help as always. :)

I totally agree!

The making something look bad phase is so important in every miniature. :)

Thank you, happy to help as always. :)

Glad to help as always, I might have an even more detailed video on this coming soon, so I guess that would be really detailed Caucasian flesh tone. ;)

Don't worry, it was in my head as well, but that was the largest area of flesh to work with for the tutorial, so there we go. ;)

Thank you sir, happy to help as always.

Awesome, happy to help as always. :)

Awesome, happy to help as always. :)

Glad it was helpful! Always happy to assist.

Awesome, happy to help as always.

Thank you, always happy to help. :)

Thank you sir, much appreciated.

I love that set, use it all the time.

Glad it was helpful!

Glad to help sir. Thank you as always.

Yeah, I definitely want to dive into more skin tone videos for sure, they are on the list.

Yep, it's on the list and will be coming soon.

I normally take each section to completion before moving on anyway (i.e. I don't always paint exactly like this), when you are doing 30-40 glazes for flesh, you will just end up at the same place by eyeball. If you are doing less steps, same is true, as long as you follow roughly the same steps, then you will arrive at close enough to the same place.

So I assume you are looking for vampiric type skin (or perhaps Slaaneshi daemon) - something moving very, very pale in tone? I have a full tutorial planned on this, but my basic advice is to move the whole thing up the spectrum some. I would stay away from pure white as the skin, because then you have no where to highlight. I would aim at the top of the spectrum where I was here, and remove some of the richer pink flesh tones. Focus more on the pale flesh, light purples to shade and a touch of pure white to highlight. If you remove the pink tones, and focus on grey, pale flesh, white and purple - you should see some good results.

@@VinceVenturella Hi, again! Sorry to res another necro thread. But.. I'm doing a model as a gift for a very close friend of mine. She's absolutely in love with faeries. I've got the model picked out and kit-bashed, but I'm having trouble with the color scheme. Her favorite color is pink and I'm planning on doing the mini as her, essentially. She is also exceedingly pale. I want to do a transparent / sheer material for the garment. So, conventional caucasian skin' s not gonna work too well. Much like the previous poster, I need to pale it up a bit. My thinking would be to maybe mix in a little Pallid Wych (or something similar) with the types of colors you've indicated? I'm thinking the green in the PW would grey out the overall effect a bit? Or am I totally off-base? Basically, I'm going for more creamy porcelain than undead.

Actually... Now that I think about it. Would some kind of very light bone be a better choice? It would lighten the overall color scheme up, but not wash it out due to cool + warm? I've got a couple of practice minis ordered. So, I'm gonna do some experimenting.

My best advice is find a new mid-tone skin tone. This is one of the reasons I don't like giving paint recipes, then people feel shackled to them. The reality is, you could use a wide swath of nearly any mid-tone caucasian flesh and get a good result.

Retarder medium (which should be mixed with a little water) is then mixed into the paint to make it stay wet longer. It helps with wet blending and getting smoother transitions between colors.

Just some good old fashioned blu-tack.

Glaze, thinner and airbrush thinner are all going to work for you in this case yes. The retarder just extends your working time for wet blends, but you could also replace with more glazing.

I will add it to the list. I am certainly still doing them, You can find the playlist on the channel, new videos every Saturday. :) (Up well into the 200s now).

You have discovered the core messages of all of my videos yes. ;)

@@VinceVenturella I have mate, and boy are you good at what you do Vince. So I've made a list of your videos I need to watch even if I paint WWII they still apply, well almost all, maybe not the blue Tzeentch flesh lol, keep doing what you do, and I'll just keep watching and learning. Cheers Vince.

I like Warcolours to be honest. It's still a liquid (as opposedto Vallejo which is a gel) and works very, very well. There are also some generics you can mix from Liquitex, etc. from the art store that are quite good.

Deep purples leaning into crimson. You need to add the red tones to bring life into the composition and red = life to the human subconscious and will also work to be a warmer shadow to the cold tone.

Hmm I'll need to do some test runs before. Do you have any specific color in mind? Btw. I really enjoy your videos. Keep up your awesome work!

@@letitburn6 I couldn't say specifically, something dark crimson and/or royal purple. Any such colors should work.

@@VinceVenturella Ok I'll do my research on this. Thanks god or better thanks adobe for adobe color and photoshop 😅

Somehow it just works. ;)

So in this case, I didn't really wash and drybrush too much. She's has a lot of soft curves. if anything, just a soft wash with something like an agrax and the normal white. Honestly, though, my current plan if I was doing something like her would be to maybe give it a thinned wash of something like agrax thinned down and then shoot some hull red from below.

@@VinceVenturella cool, wasn't asking so much for this model, just models with Caucasian flesh in general. But that sounds good, I'll try it.

It's from Kingdom Death, I think it was the Hunter if memory serves.

Yep, flesh is one of the most complex items around.

Thank you, happy to help as always, I have more videos on skin coming in the future.

@@VinceVenturella I've learned a lot from your videos, thank you for all the time and effort you put into making them.

I love economics and have studied it a lot, so the terms tend to creep in. Economics is fundamental training for game design. :)