 Hey there guys Matt here from Mantic. So today I am bringing you a quick tutorial on how to paint leather So today we got this Bacillian crossbowman We're gonna be painting the boots of his his uniform in a nice worn leather So to begin we're gonna put dark base down and I'm gonna start highlighting up through an orangey brown And then I'm finally up to a really light pale color just for the scratches So to begin with I'm gonna start with a mix of charred brown The Vallejo game color range and a little bit of matte black This will just give us a real nice dark Dark brown color to work off of you can use any sort of dark brown for this if you have a darker one in your range Or just take any nice Medium maybe slightly de-saturated brown just add a touch of black to it I'm gonna get a good solid base down on these boots Interested this miniature holder is a prototype from Redgrass Games As is this size 2 brush the size 2 brush is available on the website But this is still a prototype just finished on Kickstarter It's important to get a good solid base down first So now we've got a good solid base for them boots down. What I'm gonna do is we're gonna write a small about beastly brown From the Vallejo game color range What this will do this just adds a slight orange tinge I'm gonna start picking out The higher areas of the boots up to be it on the the brim at the top and then you're working on areas where the lights catch Also areas where the leather will wear So down the front of the boot across the top With the insta where the leather would crack. Okay, so that's the first highlight down So what I'm gonna do now is keep adding small amounts of the beastly brown To my base color The second highlight now It's like touch more orange to it now and I'll switch over to a side of one brush from Artisapus And you can see we started to get some nice color variation into that leather We're gonna go in with a straight beastly brown now I'm gonna be a little bit more sparing with this highlight You can also start to stipple this from this stage onwards stippling is just adding very small dots Just add a touch of texture rather than just straight highlights It's very gently with a tip of the brush Just add a little bit of texture want to add a bit of texture to leather as it's a Natural product. It's not gonna be smooth in all areas particularly under light areas because that's where the leather is Worn so now we're gonna start moving into the final highlights where we start putting some scratches in So now what I'm gonna do is to the beastly brown. I'm gonna add some pale sand Again, you can do this with any sort of ivory sort of color or It's best not to go with pure white as de-saturates the It would de-saturate the brown a bit too much My liking anyway I'm gonna do some very small Scratches and lines to the leather and all go the same way You can add some little dots Don't need to look too uniform. You can really start to see the war on effect when you start adding these little scratches and Little dots in so it's a great technique for leather bags coats And trousers I suppose anything that's made of leather quivers Good for this technique Yeah, if you don't fancy doing an orangey leather, you can do a red leather Differences is rather than using the beastly brown. I've had a reddish sort of brown in so maybe mahogany or Cavalry brown from the belay her range, but the process is the same now finally I'm going to take some pure pale sand very very small amount Just making some extra light scratches This is just a quick tabletop Sort of standard shows them wanting to go a bit higher with this what we'll do is I'd add a couple of glazes With a medium sort of browns just to pull these back slightly For a tabletop standard Good enough And if you're doing these tiny scratches, you wouldn't see them from two three foot away And a very very small increments in color There you go guys There's just a quick tutorial like I said, it's a very very quick technique Just adds a little bit of texture to the model This makes it look like a little bit like one level up a safe I was going to go a bit higher and that what I do is I start using some glazes now to bring them back in again Maybe again going some more small scratches just over the top I hope you got something from that guys I hope you like that just another quick tutorial there and we'll be doing some more of these soon See you soon guys