How to Paint Skin - A Beginner guide to wet blending
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2021
- How to Paint Skin - LEVEL UP your painting. Using Game Workshop paints and Warhammer Warcry miniatures, Ciara shows you how she paints skin. Ideal for beginners or experienced painters, she uses wet blending to paint light skin. This technique can be applied to any skin types, just use different colours. The grip Ciara is using is The Grimm Gripp.
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Zenithal works best if you don't do the GW standard Basecoat. If you start with a value sketch and place your base tone on the grey parts, a highlight on the white parts and your shade color on the black parts, it provides you with a nice outline of what to do. Alternatively, if you use contrast paints or inks, you'll get that effect for free since they're transparent. Most skin tones are opaque, so it does defeat the zenithal effect.
Good point. And if one does want to do the GW base coat, take some pics of the zenithal before the base coat goes on to reference later when highlighting 🤳
this may be the clearest, simplest, description of blending I've seen. I've watched a lot of videos on it and they always make it seem a little mystical. Good job on making this accessible
This explains so much that expert painters wouldn't think to mention, good effort :)
We need a tutorial on how to paint Ciara's hair colour - it is amazing.
The poke, poke poke is called stippling. It is a great technique. Thanks again guys! Always entertaining and fun.
Love this format! Ciara is always entertaining, but being able to see what's going on on the palette was a new experience which I really enjoyed!
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Man, Ciara's come quite a way since that "Painting your first model" video from last year. Those skintones are really nice - and those Darkoath dudes and ladies are pretty perfect for someone who enjoys painting skintones.
this is honestly one of the better videos i've seen on wet blending.
Thanks 😀
As a beginner I absolutely love this! Learnt so much in this video that the "Pros" havent been able to teach. Thanks!
Great video. I really like the way you referenced real world makeup techniques to explain what you are doing and why you are doing it. Brings a fresh insight to painting skin tones.
I zenithal prime then basecoat using contrast paint. It tints but maintains the prime colour shifting. Then you can use that as a "key" for where to place highlights etc. 😊
A very insightful video, really turned what is a tricky subject into easy steps. Great job Ciara
So glad I found this video. Great guide on wet blending and skin color. Being a newbie, this totally helps!
Glad it was helpful!
Good job Ciara. Been great watching you develop and level up your painting skills
Amazing to see how far you've come along since your first few videos! This looks amazing!
Always great to see Ciara in action! Thank you Oliver for the name of the "The Grimm Gripp". I was going to ask about it but I saw that you put it on the description. Keep up the great work you two!
YAY for a Ciara video! Your painting has moved along very nicely in a short time.
Great video,thank you.I always struggle painting flesh tones so this was a great help.
Great work! I usually have issues with skin tones, so this will help immensely.
Your nails are on point! When you're zooming in on the mini, you gotta rock those nails, and you do!
Thanks for the video, you made something which i had trouble wrapping my head around easy to follow. Keep them coming
hi there. best (and funniest) explanation of wet blending I'Ve seen so far. Thank you!
Great work. Really informative and strangely relaxing to watch said skilled paint smooshing. The Bob Ross of fleshtone blending. Other skin tone how to's (olive, Mediterranean-y etc) would be cool
Follow exactly the same process, but instead of buying GW products, head on over to Foundry paints and check out their skin-tone triads.
The best broadsword videos is ones with Ciara!!
She my souls Mate I think! 🥰🐶❤️
Ciara's presentation style is spot on.
Very nice! And that Grimm Gripp looks deadly!
Just “smoosh it”…yes! 😜 you have come so far with your painting in a year, truly inspiring! Happy New Year to you both!
SMOOSHING INTENSIFIES.
this was very fun and relatable
as others have noted it is easier to understand than other videos
Ciara guides are so good!
Excellent tutorial - inspiring!
Can't hear smooshing without thinking of Doug Judy 😅
Lovely job though Ciara, well impressed
Oh nooooo now I hear it too 😂
Great work on the vids, nice easy articulation of the method and you make it accessible for all 👍
Aww great work ciara! If only I knew this when I started out :)
Thanks for these videos!! Always find them very useful. Happy holidays.
I'm facing the daunting task of putting together and painting my first army. It's quite a lot to take in, and Tau has a lot of variety in its materials, even if there aren't a lot of complex details (thank goodness). I'm looking forward to watching the rest of your tutorials.
Best flesh painting tuto i have ever seen. You rule ! I hope i'll get there someday.
Really nice tutorial, thanks a lot! It was clear with a good demo, thanks a lot
Loved the simplicity of this video. I've been painting minis for a bit but blending was always intimidating. This vid made it seem more manageable. Btw interesting painting handle never seen that before.
wow thank you so much what a great video this is beyond helpful! merry christmas! :D
This was extremely helpful! Thank you!
Nice video. Keep up the good work.
Stipple, great tutorial. Happy holidays
Great work! Keep up the great work.
Great stuff friends 👏 👍
So good. Enjoyed it
Useful tutorial, good A/V quality and a competent and adorable host. Good tutorial will watch more.
Thanks alot, I hope you enjoy the rest! 😀
Amazing as always :)
Love that paint handle!
It's a Grimmgrip! 😊
Ciara has no right to be painting this well in such a short space of time since starting lol!! :) Great job with the mini, looks awesome :)
Very handy and helpful. Cheers
This was awesome; practice geared for a person like Ciara (who's definitely better than me, by a ways!) was *exactly* what I needed. Thank you!
PS: I have EXACTLY the same issue with zenithal. Particularly if I'm only brush painting and not airbrushing, what difference does it make?
Ah, so glad you found this useful. I find zenihtals more useful for armour etc, but mainly when I'm airbrush. I do find you still get a slight tonal change with a zenithal.. but I think it's main use (when brush painting) is just as a guide for highlights. 😀
@@BroadswordWargaming thanks!
Thank you , Mr and Mrs Broadsword .
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All the best for next year .
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Nice paint job , Credit where it's Due ,Thank you Ciara .
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Really great work Ciara! :D
Woo, thanks dude! 😀
Superb. Really helped a lot. Thanks.
Zenithal highlighting is a simple type of under-painting that quickly establishes tone and lighting and is supposed to show through the other layers. That means for it to be effective you have to use transparent or semi-transparent paints or else thin your more opaque paints with some kind of medium to give them transparency. Citadel confuses a lot of beginners by labeling their more opaque paints as "base" colours and their semi-transparent and transparent paints as "layer" paints instead of using the more obvious and traditional artistic terms, but they are trying to describe their use instead of their properties, so once you know that it's not a problem.
When doing a lot of flesh you can use a cool or warm reddish brown can of primer or manually painted base coat and then do a zenithal highlight in a cool or warm tan, peach, or yellow ochre and then model in the midtones and highlights manually, using that process as a time saving strategy.
Priming in black and then zenithal highlighting in white as you did, only to have to base coat the flesh tones again, wastes time and clogs the details of the model more than necessary, but you've probably seen it done since sometimes the rest of the model needs a black under-colour anyway and often the model will have less flesh exposed than say black armour or whatever.
Also many artists find that a zenithal highlight helps them to understand the way the model should be lit even if they just end up covering it with opaque layers later so will sometimes do the unnecessary.
Again terms can confuse people. A zenithal highlight is just one type of directional lighting. But it isn't true directional light because it's done around the entire model in a circle so that the model has no true shadow side.
Another kind of lighting used for model painting is actually just what Hogarth called sculpted lighting in his book. It's meant to express the volume of each geometric form so most miniature painters call painting that way painting "volume," but 3d artists call it "volumetric lighting."
Really great video! Thanks y'all!
Our pleasure!
More painting videos! You’re REALLY good,
This also works on armour!, currwntly painting some CB Infinity models, and using similar technique.
Wow. Just wow
I confess bemusement that I have not seen this channel before. Very enjoyable. I’m nowhere near good enough to criticise anything and it looks good to me.
This is cool. I always struggled with blending flesh colours.
Woo. Hopefully you'll find this useful. :) I think she did a great job on it
Great vid. Very informative. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
You are so helpful and making me feel like having a go. I'm still on starter kits. I will keep watching.
You can do it! Glad it helps :)
Yesterday 31st August 21. I bought citadel paint rack,age of sigmar paints + tools set, age of sigmar mag with figures, starter set warrior age of sigmar.
Your skill has really improved in a short amount of time. I also kiss my minis. They have such hard lives, and they can use the love.
This was super helpful. I cant really articulate what made the difference, but I've watched several guides on wet blending and never really understood what to do, and within 10 minutes of finishing this video I've got some very nice hair on a model in front of me... sorry I didn't use it for skin tone, I'll get to that next :)
About to paint some humans and dwarfs and have only done lizards which I think are a bit easier so this is very helpful thanks!
Awesome stuff, adobarle intro haha.
I waited the whole video for the moment when Ciara would say something about chest muscles) By the way, the video was really helpful for us, thus thank you so much, merry Christmas!
It happened. 🤣
Try zenithal undercoating in colours other than black and white! Dark reddy brown with a pale flesh or ivory zenithal is really good for "natural" stuff, like skin, leather, warm fur tones. I think zenithal undercoating is still in its infancy as a useful concept, but using it as a form of understanding or value sketching makes the final steps really snap together
It’s hardly effective if you plan on putting opaque paints over it
@@ralex3697 even the thickest and most heavily pigmented acrylic paints still have a degree of transparency and will be influenced by the colours and tonal variety underneath, especially if you're thinning your paints.
Love it ❤️❤️❤️
Most times when I get zenithal highlighting to work is when I thin my paints with contrast medium and then do a evenly distributed glaze. That usually leaves the lighting from the zenithal coat intact but at the cost of the model being somewhat desaturated.
Damn this is some skill
Looks great. Feel like people sleep on the opposite approach too. Faster dirtier highlight layers washed with a 50/50 flesh shade/lahmian medium mix. Ties everything together and might be a bit faster. Not sure.
Good paint job and tutorial, one thing though, the sponge on that Redgrass games wet pallette you're using has mold retarder in it, you don't want to be putting your brush in your mouth even after cleaning with that pallette.
Eeeew that's so gross 😅
Good tips.
Great explanation of wet blending. Without the "scary" stuff.
You sound like the female version of Duncan 🙂 (and that is a compliment)
Ah yes Smooshing 101, very nicely done.
OLIE .......GREAT.THANK YOU ...CIARA.WELL DONE.I PAINT THICK SOME TIMESSS....
Oh wow, I wasn't expecting an Irish accent. Galway or Mayo I'd guess (from Galway myself, and in fact see my own first name on the wall). Kinda new to wargaming/mini painting and have no idea how popular it is in Ireland, so this at least gives me some hope! Looking forward to checking out the rest of the channel after this as I'm loving this tutorial so far.
Spot on! Glad you're liking the content. If youre ever after new toys, we have a shop over here in Castlebar (Mayo) too. :)
@@BroadswordWargaming Thanks for the reply!
Since I left that comment I've done a bit more research and was already making plans to drive up to ye! My local gameshop is great but have less of a focus on the crafting aspect of the hobby, so I'm dying to see what ye have!
A beginner bah, I've been painting for years and Ciara's already better than I am 😂
You can do it! aha
Aye, I've been painting minis for 25 years and Ciara is far better than me. But you know, that's OK. We all decide the level that we want to achieve. Tabletop ready, display quality, or contest standard - all absolutely fine, we just do what we're into. :)
Same
@@BroadswordWargaming Let's face it Olly Ciara's the better painter now :P
@@-Benedict Yeah, I reckon a large part of how far you develop is how far you push yourself. Like most stuff I guess. For me, the pleasure in painting definitely stops before 5-6 levels of smooshing. 3 smooshes is plenty for me.
I have had parkinsons most of my life. I just had 2 operations this Christmas. It is a pleasure.
Love this! Your steps are easy to follow and makes sense.
poking with dots = stippling
the part under the cheekbones = the hollow of the cheek
smooshing = yep that's a great word for it
Painting with dots = pointillism (though stippling is the technique used to create the effect)
Mainly the smooshing.
Im staring at those nails...how on earth you manage to paint with those! :D But anyways good job Ciara and good to see you take over Olly on this channel. :P You manage to paint more in past year than he has :D Nooo...just kidding. Waiting batreps from Olly for games like bolt action and warhammer fantasy :P
Thanks man! It's been really helpful having Ciara on.. I've struggled with hibbying a bit, so at least here I just film and edit. It's all good. Next year will be the year. 😀
Thanks for this! I find painting flesh very intimidating and have yet to try wet-blending. I’ve saved your video for future reference and will be watching again and again when I finally bite that bullet.
You can do it!
Zenithal is usually for use with transluscent paints, so inks or contrast type paints. Otherwise just helps see the volumes.
Looks good, I've been mostly using vallejo skin tones but only because GW stuff is a whole lot harder to get in NZ.
(and quite overpriced here)
Zenithal works best with glazes and other transparent paints/inks. Good job by the way!
Unless your zenithal is extremely stark, chances are you're gonna cover that shit up. Some people just use it as a reminder to be use darker paint or lighter depending on where. Aside from that you can do the zenithal and then basically glaze the colors on. That's where zenithal shading really shines. Pack a lunch tho cause it's gonna be a loooong day. Lmao.
Wont really take any longer then what she is doing now, unless you want absolutly perfect transitions. But in that case you cant paint like she does here anyway because a wash would destroy it and the highlight would take just as long.
Zenithal really really shines when you use colors to underpaint, like red shadows for greens or pink shadows for yellows. So you prime all over with pink for ex. Then zeithal with white and then enhance the shadows with pink again. Then yellow transparent ink zenithal as far as you like but still keeping the shadows. With an aibrus usually but can definatly be done with brush like "Craftworldstudio" does it.
So glad to have a couple of videos in the last few weeks. Love how dynamic you guys are…. Also on a totally childish level, Ciara, you are super cute lol
what painting stand does Ciara use ..i love the ball joint aspect and being able th turn the model without having to hold it ...plz let me know where to get one ....
That's one way to start a video^^
haha. Quality presenting.
anybody know what that little stand they are using is called or where to find one? it seems so much nicer than just holding the mini in your hand.
Old painters will tell a newbie, blending is simple but strangely it's not . Not when staring at your model and thinking "Oh No what if I screw this up?" But fear not fair maiden, for there is a trick to painting and I always have a mirror at hand, so that I can view my own face and see where the light intensifies and shade develops. Your doing okay Ciara, just practice, maybe even on Ollie when he is asleep?
I could do with a good contour.
Hello, very nice video! I think the bracket for your miniature is great. Did you buy it like this or have it made?
Always been on the lookout for a tutorial that shows exactly how to paint skintones, seen some but they were very vague. So seeing this video with it's perfect on the spot tutorial being shown by the gorgeous Ciara has already made 2022 worthwhile. The fiery red hair, bright red lips, gorgeous eyes and that wonderful Irish lilt, WOW ! Going to check out your backlog of videos and Subbed !
Great video! What painting handle are you using there? Really like the ability to be able to tilt like that...thanks in advance!
The smooshy method is the best! #smooshymethod
Really enjoy watching Ciara’s journey from complete beginner to very high standard in such a quick time keep them coming, also really love that paint handle/stand where you get it from or is it you own custom one?
It's called a Grimm Grip 😊
@@ciara7458 thank you
Anyone know who makes that paint handle/holder?
It’s a Grimm grip I think?
Smoosh!