Painting Goblin/Orc Skin

[Talion]

Just started painting up some night goblins.

Can anyone point me in the right direction of an article that shows how to paint some excellent Goblin/Orc skin.

Tried the articles section, couldn\'t find anything.

Cheers............

P.S. and article with lots of pictures is better.

 

[Arma]

this is how tidoco2222 paints Orc/Gobbo skin (check his work, he paints Orc so well)

First basecoat Catachan Green, keep it thin and apply in a couple of coats to get a nice even coverage.

Then apply a very tin wash of Catachan Green/Chaos Black mix to give it shading, don\'t make it too dark.

Then reapply Catachan Green to the muscletone leaving a little of the deeper shade showing through,

Then just work up the highlights by adding Cammo Green into the Catachan Green, keep the paint thin and build up the highlights gradually until you have pure Camo Green (this may take a little time).

Add a little Bleached bone to the Camo Green and pick out one or two highspots like veins and so forth, then Lastly if you have it take a brush load of green Ink and add one drop of water from an eye dropper or just keep adding water until you have what looks like water with a slight green tint and apply a couple of glazes over the skin.

That is it, sounds like alot of work but it realy isn\'t that difficult.

 

[Thecadian]

what i do is do catachan to goblin to camo (no blending nothing) then give i a thick black wash then a thin brown wash

 

[Rodnik]

I did this guy--
http://www.coolminiornot.com/100939
with:

--not sure about the *exact* names on the mcs---but
VGC camo green----base
VMC reflective green---shade
VGC camo green---reinforce the base/hide lines/etc
VGC dead flesh--highlight
VMC Ivory---highlight

And various mixes of the colors to get the layers right...

 

[demonherald]

Nice work there Rodnik.
Both Techniques will give awesome results..
It\'s all a mater of taste and what kind of green you want to end up with.
Get all the greens and browns you hve and play around with mixes on a tile keeping a note of mixes until you get the colour you like.
good luck

 

[J2FcM]

@ Rodnik

I\'m still on my quest to figure out feathering... how did you apply the technique and achieve so good results? 2 brushes? high\\low dilution? applying small or large amounts of paint?

I like the effects on your Orc\'s axe blade very much.

 

[demonherald]

I\'ve found the key on feathering is to have a juice of you mid tone mixed up. This will be about ten parts water to one part pigment.
After layering on your new colour. Just moisten a spare brush with this mix and basically blur the edges.
Don\'t apply too much presure as this can lift up paint and ruin the effect. Occasionally it\'s better to break and let the paint dry thoroughly when you get to ertain points to really dry out. pick a point where you can go back.
so an example fo me would be.

Basecoat shadow Grey and black.
Juice shadow grey with a litle black.
highlight with Shadow grey.
Break at pure shadow grey.
Next highlights start with shadow grey work in space wolf grey.
Juice Shadow grey witha little touch of space wolf.

hope that makes sense and helps a little

 

[J2FcM]

So, you apply the juices, between shadow grey+black and pure shadow grey...
and the point of the juice is to eliminate abrupt transition from shadow\\black to pure shadow?

And when handling the juices, use a very light touch and only go over areas where the color change occurs?

I will try that out. But, it still does not seem like feathering... I always thought feathering was applying less diluted glazes, then dragging the color and dilution across the mini. ho hum

 

[demonherald]

There are a million different takes on feathering.
The juice serves no real colour purpose. It\'s just something I find helps when feathering. You are hardly applying any pigment as I say the brush is damp not wet.
I use the juice at all higlight stages to kep the bbrush damp while feathering...not as a wash or glaze.

 

[J2FcM]

So, take for example your first highlight...shadow grey....

Is it still wet, and you moisten the brush with the juice, to smooth out transitions?