 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we are going to talk about using oil paints on Flesh Town. So this is a really exciting thing for me. I love using oil paints, I think they're a lot of fun. Obviously when we start learning miniature painting we often stick to acrylics because they're more fitted to task that is to say they require not much other than water and a brush to work and they dry very quickly and in general most of the sort of techniques and tutorials you see out there are suited to them. However when it comes to something like Flesh Town we can really benefit from some of the elements that oils have to offer us. Specifically oil paints take a much longer time to dry, they're very easy to blend with, they're very easy to create really translucent layers with to create washes with that kind of stuff and they can be cleaned up anytime. There's no mistakes, that's the beautiful part about oil paints is that they come with a built in eraser because they do take days to dry so you can always just remove your work if you don't like what you're doing. So here we've got a big giant that I'm putting together for an army of giants basically and his skin is pretty flat so what this is right here is a zenithal and then I shot some whole red from below so you can see that like red tone that's there that's pretty weak and then I just put a flesh tone on from above, that's it it was a single color flesh tone something out of like the game airline like a middle flesh tone out of that line. I just wanted to get it to a nice neutral flesh tone so all the what you the variation you see right now is just nothing more than the zenithal and the sort of anti zenithal of the red color and then the normal flesh. So what are we going to use today? Well we're going to use a lot of fun stuff. When you're working with oil paints the first thing you need to have is a good selection of synthetic brushes. You don't want to use your any nice brushes any sables you want to have something that's synthetic and so I've got a couple different varieties here it doesn't really matter some of these have very very very long handles outrageously so because they're meant for canvases but that's okay they'll still suit our purpose. You want some that's a little flat some that has more of a tip so on and so forth. Now obviously you also need oil paints now I have a whole bunch of oil paints here chilling on a piece of cardboard and they've been chilling here for about I don't know maybe 20 minutes and the reason I put them on cardboard is because it saps out some of the oil that's in there and will help them to reduce the drying time a little because I take the the oil out the drying time is still really long still in days now the oils I'm going to be using are and by the way if you're curious about colors here which okay this is a burnt sienna right here this is a phthalo blue right here we've got a little ivory black we've got a cadmium red deep hue over here we've got some permanent green light and then finally some cadmium yellow pale okay now if I want to do so those are gonna slide off here I've also got myself a little plastic plate just for if I want to mix them I want something that's gonna be relatively easy to work with where I can mix my my paints without I don't really want to you don't want to mix them on the cardboard because then they'll start leaching out too much oil so having a non porous surface like the plastic that you can mix on is is generally beneficial that's about all you really need now if you want to go farther or have other things of course you can have stuff like you know you can have a little traditional like paint scraper thing like this where you can pick up a little bit and mix them together you can also do that with a brush up to you the other critical element is of course some white spirits now my brand of choice here is the Mona Lisa odorless paint thinner you can get this at various art stores and online it truly well at least my nose it's pretty darn near odorless I don't have much of a sense of smell but when I'm using this and other people walk into my office they don't get repulsed because paint thinner is obviously a very strong smell so I've just put some of that over here into a little metal cup so I can dip my brush in there and work with that okay and then obviously we need our mini and that's about it now in addition to those paints you saw there's also some other little items I'm going to be using today specifically I'm going to be using the oil brushers these are from ammo by mig right here I have the flesh set which is a pale flesh a pink flesh and a basic flesh so kind of interesting or was it sorry sunny flesh and then I also have the rust set here or two of them so I have rust and I have dark brown all of these these are kind of cool we'll be using these I'll show you how we integrate these in the process as well these are nice because they actually have flesh tones you can mix your own flesh tones pretty easy out of oil paints it's actually not that hard but I thought we'd use these because they're really fun and it'll give you a chance to show those in action as well alright everybody so I'm gonna film this is a quick pickup because I realized as I was watching this back that in the middle I said it's very easy to make your own flesh tones and then I did everything with the oil brush or flashes which if you don't have it's gonna be tough to do a natural flesh tone so I'm gonna show you how to make your own flesh tone in the middle of this so here we go you want to start with a solid red and a solid yellow basically anything that's in the middle there's lots of oil paints that are red and yellow what you're aiming at is getting a nice solid orange so we just take that we mix it all up basically you want a nice mid-tone orange okay now once we've got that orange and I'm realizing the problem of working on a little plate as I am right now grab a little bit more yellow in that so we mix out an orange then we bring in the white so skin tone as I've mentioned in previous videos is actually basically orange it's just a lighter version of orange so a little more white in there and you can see how basically we're getting toward a flesh tone color like that's a pretty tan flesh tone right there now we're getting a little more pale now we're quite pale right so it's actually pretty easy to just make your own flesh tones it's just orange any kind of orange you mix through red and yellow and then white now there's other things you can do to enrich your flesh tones so for example if you want it to be a little colder you can grab a little blue so here we'll just and only when I say a little I mean like a little like that's gonna end up being too much so there you go you can make a more shadowed flesh color through the addition of blue you can add more red back in if you want to get a more pinky flesh tone like something more cold you can actually add red back into your original mix something that's a little more little more warm or well should say warm it'll make the skin look a little more like as though it's in a cold temperature even though it is in fact of a warm temperature but that's all there is to it so mixing your flesh tones is actually pretty simple you can mix in a little white spirits to them then or something like that you can get lots of different tones a very natural flesh tone so even if you don't have the oil brushers paints or anything like that you can still certainly create your own flesh tones as long as you've got a red a yellow a blue and a white so basically your primary colors you can mix all sorts of flesh tones out of it that's really all you need to do the majority of your your flesh tone creation if you want to go super pale you can even bring in like some more white and you can see how you get a real real bright flesh so for your sort of pale flesh highlights right so that's it that's how you mix a flesh tone I wanted to make sure I had this in the middle so that that way if you folks don't happen to have like the oil brushers flesh colors and you still wanted to play around with making your own flesh tones this gives you some options for doing so so it's really cool because you can play with all sorts of different tones you can bring in you know like sepias and stuff and have it be have it be sort of a darker shade of skin tone maybe more Mediterranean or something like that there's just all sorts of different options to it so play with that orange or sorry yeah start would get to orange red plus yellow and then just the additions of white blues reds and browns and you can pretty much have a field day with just about any kind of skin tone you want so there you go now back to the video and the nicer part about these is that they're kind of like ready right out of little bottle they're sort of like a little almost a lipstick type thing or you can just pull them out and go directly to work so pretty cool you still want to use white spirits to clean them up but they're they're real handy I like these quite a bit they're worthwhile investment if you like oil paints and they have a hole this is just two of the ranges but they have a huge number of different colors and options out there okay and then finally need some kind of paper towel because you're gonna be wiping like crazy oil paints are all about the white be lots and lots and lots of white be white be white be okay so with all that preamble out of the way let's get our miniature in here so what do we want to do with this guy well we're gonna want I want to give him a really nice interesting skin tone so what we're gonna do is we're gonna start in the shadow areas and then we'll kind of work from there so for the shadow areas what we're gonna do is we're gonna take especially on the side sort of away from the light we're gonna take a little bit of that we're take a little of the burnt sienna okay we're gonna mix in just a tiny amount of that phthalo blue okay and a little bit of the cadmium red and that'll give us a very very dark basically almost black color let's pull that up just a little bit more into the brown now first thing you need to notice about oil paints is yes they are very very very thick that's just the nature of the thing that's why we have the white spirits so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna take our brush we're gonna go into that white spirit and we're just gonna kind of mix that around and if you want to go faster if you know you want to really get this working you can use a little pipette okay and we can actually just pipette some of that oil or some of that white spirits directly into our color and you want to be kind of careful here cuz you can overdo it quite a bit so we're just gonna put two little drops of that in there just mix that around we're not trying to make a wash we're just trying to make something workable that feels more like paint now you will notice that this will almost always be much thicker than your normal sort of acrylic paint as it were even when you have it thin way down just because that's the nature of the thing there are other oils in other thing other additives I should say you can add in to oil paints this video isn't going to specifically cover oil paint additives there are a lot out there they have a lot of value you can do things like short and drying time or even extended drying time I don't know why you'd want to do that in our particular line of work but you can so there you go you can see we got a nice deep brown hue there okay all the fun thing about oil paints is making a mess this is a very messy thing by the way so just you know get used to it if there was ever a time to wear your apron or your gloves this is it okay cool wipey wipey wipey on our brush and what we're gonna do is we're gonna leave a little bit of white spirits in that brush but not much think of when you wipe off your brush and you see you want to have like a moist brush this is the same sort of thing so we're gonna take some of that thinner thinner oil paint that we've made up here get a decent amount on the brush let's grab our homeboy here and we're just gonna drop some of this deep shadow way down into the the deepest areas so wherever he has like under his big old belly maybe under his hanging I don't know what would you call that a move maybe under his hanging move there and then up under his his torso maybe a little bit up there okay so you can see how that's you know a real thick line just like any paint we would put on if we put on a nice thick paint we would expect much the same the trick is then we're gonna go ahead and clean our brush so again go back into my white spirits here rinse my brush around and I'm being I'm showing you like all these weird steps you wouldn't normally show so you get a real sense of working with this stuff I'm trying to be really detailed because I think a lot of people are intimidated by oil paints and it's not actually that scary so there again we wipey wipey wipey okay and there it's nice and clean now there's still a little bit of white spirits in there you can test this if you have a glove on your hand you see how when I run my hand across there can see that slight shine there's still a little bit left there that's what you want just a little bit in there okay then what we're gonna do is we're gonna come in and we're just gonna start smoothing along the edge there pushing that out and every so often I'll bring my paper towel back on a frame so you can see what I'm doing here basically what I'm doing is pulling it down and then every so often just why be wipey wipey painting with oils is almost a more subtractive painting process than it is additive so like right there we've got that little spot where we probably don't want it cool and just wipe that off if we feel like we really want to get it we'll go back into our white spirits and we'll just soften that right out this model was varnished before I started painting okay in general it's a good idea to varnish your your acrylic paints oil paints won't really destroy that quickly your acrylic I think there's a lot of people are very paranoid about this and feel like if you even get white spirits or oil paints near a miniature that that hasn't been varnished they will get destroyed that's not really true but I do like to varnish in between steps just as a save point and in general like it'll kind of make your life a little easier if you haven't varnished especially if you're really working in sort of dry with a dry brush and scraping around a lot so you can see how that's nice and soft now still not perfectly smoothed out but that's okay if you ever want to smooth further you start when you go to a different brush it's completely dry so this has no white spirits on it whatsoever this is just a dry brush and you can just kind of feather the edge and it will always pick up all of this but it won't do much more and you can just feather out that edge okay alright so you get the basic process so now you've seen how that's going so now we're gonna have some fun okay now you've seen kind of how we apply a basic color now we're gonna start we'll get a little nuts let's play with our oil brushes here because as much the same thing as what I have on my palette it's just sitting in this container so here I've got the pale flesh we're gonna put some of that right there on his the edge of the move let me move this closer to myself it's like applying lipstick now let's go to our basic skin tone now the fun part begins because you don't actually have to you don't actually have to wait in between steps you can just kind of dab on the next one there we'll get a little bit across there and we'll get some down on that side of the belly there there sure okay I'm just doing this one side of him and then let's so let's take some of this rust color sorry take some rust color here this is just the oil brush or rust a little drop out there put some of there just kind of getting some colors where we want them where they seem like they're gonna be fun okay so now what we do is we again we're gonna take I'm gonna take my slightly sharper brush here I did run it into my white spirits but then wiped most of it off again we can test on the back of our hand and you can see I've still got a slight shine there a little bit left and then what we're gonna do is we're just gonna start working that in and again subtractive process then I just start bringing that out where I want it you notice that as I just keep working it around drawing the colors together it's just such a nice pleasant process because there's no pressure you can always just erase anything you don't really like and just push the colors together if you need to grab more of a color you always can just add it into the mix the model itself becomes your so oftentimes when we think about mixing colors we try to do all this mixing before we ever come near the actual model you know we sit there and we try to blend all these different colors onto the on the palette whereas here you notice all my mixing was done just right on the model let's say we want to go for a little bit more of a brown hue we want our giant to be a little more tan I'll grab some of that sepia tone so this is my this is my burnt sienna for my normal Windsor Newton wind and oil colors just wipe that off you can see that's the actual base color there so let's get this bad boy a little more tan and again anytime you were painting normally this would be so scary like just dropping colors like that on to something that you would spend a bunch of time blending on whereas here it's no big deal it's just like magic you notice that like the most common thing I'm doing is wiping my brush off because again this tends to be a subtractive process so now we've got his get as big old get out there a little bit more well tanned look a nice hit they've got the guys bronze on we can grab a little sunny flesh sunny let's lighten him up a little bit here up top to do just get some spots on there you know it's just keep working it in those old layers that are there are still perfectly wet perfectly interactable perfectly smooth to blend into just like butter just all comes together okay we can even work in other tones other colors like I'm focusing obviously on this area right now just because this is a nice part show on camera it's a big old belly big old belly but we could grab other stuff so for example let's say we wanted a very slight yellow hue on some of our more sunnier flesh we want you know people talk about having yellow and skin tone all the time okay we can do that let's grab a little bit of straight yellow hue here now that's real yellow again would be scary sometimes it's not scary for us not when we're not when we're rolling with oil paints there is no fear is now we can just softly blend that right in give it a nice if you if you think of like the lot of the art you see from the 80s from fantasy stuff like Frazetta and stuff like that they'll have these bright yellows and blue tones and stuff like that in the skin you can really work in colors like that super easy if you're doing you know OSL work or anything like that it's a joy it's an absolute joy to do it with this because again it's just so smooth and simple if you want to make the skin a little more red let's say we want to let's get a little more red tone into some of this shall we I'm just using the back of my brush to grab little parts of this by the way oh where shall we put some red I think here under his shoulder should be a little more red maybe up here should be a little bit more red maybe here on the side maybe down here by his waistline okay again oh dear Lord what are we going to do with that bright annoying insane red color how will we ever mitigate it have we ruined all of our good work no obviously not and we that nice soft red tone in there easy so we can just keep working it like there's no limit to what you can work in here that's what's just so amazing about this is that you can just keep pushing those flesh tones around every time achieving just a perfect blend stuff you'd have to spend hours and hours and hours on if you were painting with acrylics to get you know a thin glazes and stuff like that that now you can just achieve in minutes so it's really that simple folks be careful you don't do like I just did and put your paint into a different color that's on your paper towel you have to be careful with your white be action you can see how we can get such a nice range of tones there so I'm going to clean up for just a second because this is very much like I'm messy my paper towels messy I'm gonna clean up for a second I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna show you how we do finer detail because a lot of what I've been doing so far is this very big stuff so what happens if we want to do something small then what back in a moment all right we're reset you can see a little guy here is all you know smoothed out again what is that eight different colors of paint I used and it looks like I spent hours glazing and that was no time at all it's truly an amazing thing to paint with oil paints is just nothing else like it for for stuff like this especially for big sections of flesh but the challenge we might sometimes run into what do we do with little stuff like this where or like his collarbone or these little stretches across his moves or over here okay like on the folds this guy's got a lot of folds I don't know what to call them all you get the idea how do we handle those small spaces well something like the oil brushers is nice because certainly they have a pretty fine tip so we can come in and do a nice gentle careful application of those but that still doesn't help us truly in the longer depending on the size of the thing the question is then what do we do with it from there so the answer is pretty straightforward it's just a smaller synthetic brush now this is actually where I like a couple different types of budget brushes so something like a super small wedge tip like this is pretty nice or a triangle tip or anything like that because what you can do is you can come in and you can just kind of skate right down the edge there pull it out with that tip and then wipe okay come up underneath and you just tend to have a lot more control with something that's shaped like this okay you can see how we got that nice and smooth in there we can keep pulling it down same up here on this line we didn't get his collarbone so let me see if I can just instead of wiping we'll put some of that paint to good use right so we can bring out that collarbone just smooth it right down we want to get a little deeper darker color in between there we can do the same exact thing so maybe we'll take a little bit of our sepia or sienna mix it with a little bit of our red get a nice middle tone there something like that we can use a little edge brush and we just take that tip just drop it right down in there maybe we'll get a little bit here under the under the moves get some coloration some moob coloration then I bet you did not guess when you clicked on this video that you would hear the word moves like 40 times but yet here we are you know life is full surprises that's what I say then we just go to some white spirits with that make sure it's nice and clean again we can test see a little bit of still reflection there and we just blend together okay easy and of course the final thing you can do that is really nice with these is besides everything I've shown you so far which is working a bunch of different any kind of color you want into there like I could start putting blues over here to bring down the shadows on the shadow side or under his neck or something like that there's so many different options of what I could be doing we forgot to smooth the moob shadows you always smooth your moob shadows everybody knows that but beyond what you've seen me do so far the other thing you can do is take and make a wash so like let's take something like his feet his big ugly feet so obviously these have a lot of little texture in them stuff like that so we can always just take a whole host of white spirits you get a nice thin version of some of our colors here I'm just gonna work over I'll bring my palette on to view so you can see what I'm doing so here I've got we'll get rid of that reflection you can pre-make a whole bunch of this into a into a container or you can just kind of make it spot as you need it if you're gonna make if you're trying to wash a whole figure then I highly recommend that you you make something like in a cup like I've got my white spirits in mixes out like that in a little mixing cup or a ramekin or something of that nature you can test it beforehand so you can grab the back of our hand we can run it like that to see make sure it because it's using oil not water the capillary action will be a lot stronger and you can just wash that out we'll wash both of his we'll wash both of his big feet while we're down here get that area all near his toes he's got he's got a bunch of folds here on the back of his foot we'll grab those we can also take some of that let's up the red quotient on that just slightly again we can test yep looks great we can just hit his whole face now this is gonna be pretty strong and powerful you notice how but you'll see how it just runs down in the cracks now you're probably thinking yourself yes Vince yeah I get it man I've seen a wash before homie you're not you're not breaking new ground for me we have products for this why are you talking me about wash I've got washes they're sitting in a pot right over there beside me they're great hey I agree they are one of the tricks with normal washes unfortunately is that they dry they dry rather quickly and they can pool and they can cause ugly things to happen where they pool and build up interesting thing about interesting thing about washing with oils is that they don't suffer from said problem so instead with oils when we've got that so I went ahead and washed his hands all those little fingies so the interesting thing about oils is that because they take so very long to dry even in wash form which by the way washes will dry faster than big thick paint generally the thicker the oil paint the longer it takes to dry however we can go get ourselves these are little makeup wedges you can buy these in giant packs super cheap and they're perfect for this sort of thing we can just sort of we let that sit for a moment you really only need to let it sit for a minute or two and then you just take your makeup sponge and you just kind of you see how that remains in the low parts and smooths it out all the same time like magic we can do the same thing with his face and you can see how those recesses stay nice and shaded but the upper parts have no staining and it helps smooth it out the same thing with his hands the longer you let it sit before you wipe the deeper it will seep in and sort of the more of a strong effect it will have you can also come back if you've got little areas you want to touch up you can also always come back with your regular brush and you can kind of continue to smooth that out a little bit okay so there you go that's oil paint on flesh like I said it it'll just you'll feel like a wizard when you're working with it because it's especially great for big models like this that have a lot of flesh on them anytime you're painting a big monster or something larger scale this can just be an unbelievably powerful tool it can even work in 28 millimeter but you have to have a much finer control of your oils you want to sort of you often want to pre-mix them a little bit and and have a set of brushes you trust and know your way around because you need to work in a smaller space but on something of this size this is just fun incarnate you can just play around with this all day and again whenever you're whenever you don't like anything guess what you can always just grab a little white spirit strip it right off easy peasy so there you go that's using oil paints on mentors I hope you saw just how you can do this effect and make it work it's a lot of fun painting in this way and a little hair hanging from him it can be whether you're going thick and smoothing out in that standard subtractive method whether you're applying a bunch of different colors and then just bringing them all together as you saw me do multiple times or whether you're or whether you're just thinning it way down and creating a wash in all events it's a powerful powerful tool that because it has so very different properties to the acrylic paints we're used to is just unbelievably powerful now as some final thoughts here are just some answers to some questions how long does it generally take to dry well it varies and depends on the brand if you have something like an obtilung they dry a little faster they're a little more meant for for this kind of painting and so generally they'll be 24 hours ish maybe a little longer maybe a little shorter it depends a lot on thickness and how much you how you apply it for the wind and paints you want to give them one or two days to kind of set if you if you're planning on doing more work over it I will generally varnish over a layer but you can then do acrylic paints on top you don't have to but if you're just starting out I would recommend you do you can put acrylic paints over the top of this in a day or two without any issue they will be a little more slippery is the best way I would describe it like you'll have a little more give than you might be used to with your acrylics but as long as you've given it a little bit of time you can put acrylic straight over top without varnishing it's not going to be the end of the world that being said if I was you I'd wait a day or two varnish it out and then paint you probably make your life easier the do you need to you know use like specific kinds of white spirits will just your white spirits or paint thinner you have that are more commercial grade stuff will it work yes it will but it's going to be very very stinky so you know be aware of when you're indoors this is flammable stuff it's not great you want to make sure you're using all this stuff in a well ventilated area because you know it's kind of toxic don't lick your brushes ever when you're working with oil paints for the love of all things holy in the universe please do you should like as I said at the beginning importantly make sure you're using synthetic brushes not sable hairs or anything like that and basically go have fun mess around there's so much you can do with these you can go crazy with colors you if you've ever had trouble blending big flat surfaces like skin and you want to achieve something that looks wonderfully real and varied and interesting oil paints could be the way that you could find to do that it's so much fun to work with it can go well beyond this will do more oil paint videos in the future but I thought starting with flesh it's kind of one of the places where you can have the most fun so there you go I hope you enjoyed that very much if you did give it a like if there are more questions you have I didn't answer feel free to drop those down in the comments I realize this might be some new territory for a lot of folks whereas some folks this could be very old hat so please do just ask any questions you've got I will make sure to answer all of those I thank you very much for watching this one this is so much fun to do I've been looking forward to sharing this one for a long time because I just love painting flesh with oil paints and I wanted to share with all of you so give it a like subscribe traditional hobby cheating new videos here every Saturday but as always I thank you very much for watching this one and we'll see you next time