 Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video today. It's time to get creepy. It's time to get googly We're gonna talk about painting ghoul flesh Let's get into it. Let's strict techno man sir. That is Vinci V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V's now. I love painting flesh in general I think it's a really interesting fun experiment You get to play around with different colors soft tones a lot of different transitions It's really something to do if you want to improve However undead flesh can sometimes be challenging because we have to work in these unusual different tones We need to make it look alive enough to read is like a being up and walking around the world But dead enough to look like some carrion corpse eater That's harvesting the bones of the fallen and scraping the meat off of them for sustenance Sounds fun. So today we're gonna paint the new special edition ghoul king That came out from GW. This is a super cool model sitting on a throne. I couldn't resist painting it He is just awesome and we're gonna talk about the skin So let's head over to the desk see what we can do Let's get started with the actual paints and these are gonna be a bit unusual But I want to explain why we have this rotting flesh from war colors Nostalgia We have two scale 75 colors resurrection flesh brain eater Azure and then dark flesh a greenish tone a Pinky skin tone a purple tone for shadows and then a deep red to warm up the shadows We're gonna use these to create something that really doesn't look or feel like much of any of them But you'll see how it all works Now I do begin with just a little bit of airbrush here I'm being very directional with this lighting it mostly over his top right shoulder The nature of how the figures leaning forward and in this chair Does very much behoove this sort of directional lighting I don't go super strong with it in the execution of the mini but This is one of those minis if you've watched my previous videos on doing like extreme lighting This would actually work really well for that sort of thing I'm also then going to go ahead and colorize the shadows with this dark flesh with the airbrush This is just really sort of erasing the Deeper dark gray black that's remaining and toning it Basically, none of this red this pure red will remain But since our highlight is going to be that cold rotting flesh that cold green color I want our shadows to be nice and warm All right, that's all the airbrush stuff. You wouldn't have to do that with airbrush. Let's get to the actual painting The first thing I'm going to do here is set some just general shadows And I'm so I'm covering all of that red and a little more With a thin Version this is still a layer paint, but it's quite thin. It's still transparent the scale 75 fantasy and games colors are all quite transparent And I'm so I'm covering the shadows a little bit more with a mix of purple This purple and the red and that's really my actual shadow color Right and I'm just relying on the warm red to sort of tone that up and keep the shadows warm My next step is just very simple. It's just two thin coats of brain-eater azure over the whole Model now I don't cover necessarily the deep shadow areas But everything that still doesn't have a color and into some of the area I just painted Again, just two thin coats and now he's a little happy purple man So here's our happy purple man and I promise you when we're done. He's not going to feel like this much anymore But when you're building up skin tones, you really have the ability to start at a color That isn't going to be what the final color is It's going to feel very different, but you can use Those initial tones that you're going to put a lot of layers over to just kind of set The warmth that the environment that temperature the feel Of the miniature knowing that you're going to do lots of layers up and on a small figure like this It honestly doesn't take a lot of time But what i'm doing here is working up the actual Sort of main mid-tone skin tone building toward it So i'm being pretty aggressive with this layer, but I am still leaving some of that purple around I do want some of it, especially Uh in the deeper shadows Because that purple is so important to that ghoul to that undead flesh That bruised deep purple color just feels Really really dead when when humans see purple in skin. It doesn't feel good. It feels bruised. It feels dead It feels sick. That's what we want and I used that color you saw previously I applied that multiple times. I applied it all over the muscle structures. You saw then did it again When you're modulating with thin layers as you see me doing here I don't have to I don't have to change my paint mix necessarily to get a new effect I can keep layering up the same thin color Over and over again Intensifying it and increasing the opacity in certain areas to smooth those transitions I really can't impress upon you enough the importance Of multiple passes of thin transparent layers when you're working with skin without changing your recipe or your mix Everything you see me do here at least one of you'll notice I go over two three four times building that up Now why the rotting flesh? I use rotting flesh with the resurrection fresh because it's green The resurrection flesh is a pinky tone meaning it has some red in it Green is the complementary color to red both are highly desaturated But the green help cuts it helps to cut the pink and it introduces a dead gray tone Into it pushing my highlights into both a pseudo normal flesh tone by mixing that neutral together While also making it feel just a little dead a little gray a little goo Now remember I can't reinforce enough that the particular paints I'm using here aren't the important thing Okay What matters is using these kinds of different tones And you see how I'm shifting the pink with this light greeny tone How I'm incorporating those off purples to make the skin feel more bruised and dead So it doesn't matter if you don't have my paints Anything like in this color range in general any, you know soft purples Any off light greens any pinky flashes all of those are going to work to achieve what you see me doing here So now we're going to just work on the refinement And the refinement means these final highlights and here i'm coming in Lacking any of the purple and just hitting those really key areas those top highlights This isn't over the whole figure. I'm focusing in on the top of his chest the top of his shoulder Heating that original directional lighting so where that knee is sticking way out whereas knee cap is there right Trying to really really pop So i'm expanding the volumes of this big lighter color up on the the his you know sculpted chest and This dude really pushes some plates. I think for being so dead. He's you know, he hits the gym and good for him The next step is just to bring start bringing everything together no matter how thin and transparent our layers are They're still not going to be perfect. It's acrylic paint and acrylic paint isn't made for blending So we have to go to thin glazes And so all the rest of this work is just me taking some of the various layers that i've had Thinning them down to a glaze. I'm working with the same mixes that are sitting on my palette I'm just introducing some more water thinning them down and then pushing the paint in the direction I wanted to go notice when I push these highlights see how my brush is moving Towards the area that I want the light. That's because this glaze is so thin And remember with our glaze we thin it down We wick off the excess and then we move our brush Toward the highlight area Toward the area we want the most paint to deposit And so that's how you'll see me sweeping my brush here And all these glazes back and forth down into the purple and up into the lighter tones in various mixtures It really is just me moving around the previous mixtures are just there to refine and smooth I don't do a ton of this. This is meant to be a fun project Now that not really a competition piece. I could certainly spend hours more smoothing it out But for me this hit exactly kind of where I wanted and I'm really happy with the sort of effect This skin produced you can see how if I showed you the four colors You wouldn't think you would get to this place But by using the complimentary nature of the green in the rotting flesh against both the reds and the purples We produce something really unique and interesting and there we go He's all done. Let's roll some pictures of him over the top This guy was super fun to paint. I really really enjoyed this model This is exactly what I needed to kind of kick up some good hobby mojo for myself It's always fun to sit down give yourself four or five hours tops to paint a mini like this No, it's a single character and and just experiment have fun play around with the colors See what comes out of it and I was really happy with the the skin tone we achieved here And I'll be you know trying this again in the future Maybe adding some additional tones or colors and seeing what we can get to As always, thank you so much for watching this give it a like if you liked it Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already There is a patreon down below if you want to support the channel and take your next step on your hobby journey That patreon is focused on review and feedback and gives you a Membership into an awesome discord community full of enthusiastic hobbyists As always, I thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time