👑👑 I'm in the midst of releasing my dream miniature brush as well as some wonderfully sculpted miniature busts mid June 2020. It's something I'm really proud of and been working on for the better part of the last year. You can already pre register your interest on my Kickstarter page: bit.ly/3dKjmnz 👑👑
Anytime I get stuck trying to figure something out, I always come to check out one of your videos and 95% of the time find an answer for my problem. I've only been painting for a little over a year now, but your videos give me inspiration to keep on slapping acrylics onto models. Cheers mate!
Excellent video Emil! Perfect explanations about the light planes, tones and everything related for painting faces, everytime I watch your videos I feel I want to paint so bad! (I have to try this tips by myself eventually :P) Thank you so much for using my academic bust, I feel so honored!
Emil, a thousand times thank you for videos like this and the ork skin. The way you demystify process of layering is truly remarkable and a real gift to all of us. For years I have felt so intimidated by the prospect of layering and highlights and shadows but you are teaching me the proper thought process and I'm actually making progress. More like this please!
Yea, shoutout to my man Rembrandt! But seriously, I love how you seamlessly blend theory with practical examples, makes it really easy to figure out what you are doing and why. Kudos.
Great video as always! As a followup, could you do a face painting video for problem faces? The sculpts you used for your demos in this video were all pristine, symmetrical, full faces. What do you do when you get a board game with minis that aren't the best sculpts? Or when their wearing hoods or face masks? In other words, how do you make it look good when it's isn't that good to begin with?
Holy cow these faces look very similar to that of drag queens! They are super exaggerated with great contrast between the highlight and the contour. I never thought I would be able to connect two utterly different things like this haha.
ive just got back into painting minitures and im having a hard time with faces/seraphon teeth. Your videos have been a great inspiration man. Hoping this can help me improve my painting skills!
"It isn't about the colors; it's about the placement." I try so hard to stress that very point to the people I tutor on miniature painting. Whether a student or an average hobbyist on a message board, so many of them ask for color recipes (and want EXACT drop counts, no less). But what they fail to realize is that you can achieve an effect - like, say, NMM - with literally any colors. Which colors you use isn't as important as the value, light, contrast, and texture you are creating.
Hey Emil big fan, was wondering, i see you handling minis without any gloves in most of your paiting or just for showing, do you think you could spend a little time explaining how you actually preserve the work while painting and once you are done with it? Thanks take care
That bust kind of looks like a cross between Dave Bautista and Eric Bana when he played Nero from JJ Abraham's Star Trek and its weird because I keep going back and forth between wanting to see it painted like Drax from Guardian's of the Galaxy and with sculpted, pointed ears and facial tattoos like the Romulans had in JJ's Star Trek. Drax meets Nero weird crossover?
@@SquidmarMiniatures i think you could nock it out the park. Your work is wonderful. You should get a bad 12" toy that has a good likeness but a bad paint job and try it .
What wet palette do you use, please? I use a homemade one, but I'd like to try out a proper one to see if it's any better. Is it the everlasting one from redgrass? I have been looking at them, and the news ones are out at the end of next month, so might as well wait for those.
How about for those who are still new to the hobby and don't have the amount of paints that other people have, how/what would you recommend in regards to base tone and highlights? I bought Vallejo's Game Color set and have a pot of Kislev flesh. Is it a matter of lightening the base paint with some white?
@Squidmar Miniatures - I want to buy the Sparmax SP35 and air compressor from the links on your website. Will I need to buy any adapters for the compressor air hoses to make this work? I would hate to buy the new gear then be able to use it out of the box. Any help would be appreciated!
wow your whole "opening act" of showing how faces and lighting is made is really NOT helping. Came here for tips to paint faces not everything there is around it
Hei, Emil... you thank us so much all the time, but this is every persons way of thanking you, im pretty sure i speak for all of us here when i say that my painting has progressed so much from watching you, im more daring, more confident, i used to find marine heads in the hoover where id given them the over the shoulder ceremony for being sub acceptable... thats been a while now and its down to you, im in Bergen Norway so when i say this i mean it, for a Swede, (tongue very much in cheek) your a really pleasant, down to earth and humble guy... but anyway... THANKYOU !!!!!! A MASSIVE THANKS TO !YOU!
The process of painting a face with acrylic paint is very similar to painting a face with makeup. The areas that require highlights are exactly the same as you'd see in makeup tutorials. Finally, my two hobbies are feeding into each other xD
Yep, makeup is perfect. For those that don't know, if you want something to stand out, draw attention and get embellished, you add highlights. If you want it to protrude, you add shadow
I watched your "Ugliest Miniatures" video just before this one, and I was wondering what it would look like to paint the old, ugly minis with today's painting techniques. The older paint style was a lot more colourful, but less subtle in comparison to how mini painting takes detail, as well as light and shade into consideration, making the overall end result look much more dynamic. I would love to see a video like this in the future, it could be quite an interesting challenge.
Emil! This is a super helpful video and I so appreciate your internet encouragement to be brave and chase our painting dreams, BUT at least give us a Kickstarter update soon??! Dying to know a little bit more!! But thanks as always for the amazing videos! Everything is crazy, but I can always look forward to these!
Hiya Emil, something I have been thinking about for a while is a scene inspired by graphic novels, where strong shadows fall and powerful coloured lights are cast upon the scene. I don't know how challenging it would be to do but could you make something like a strong light being cast through a stained glass window and landing upon portions of a character and having that light be the only source of strong colour within the scene - with the majority of colour outside this area being blacks and greys? Or have the stained glass window be shattered above a certain point giving a strong contrast between the above effect and a more traditional sunlit style?
This is amazing honestly! I am an artits and love drawing portraits! This is a hole new world for me! Wish I could sculpt so I could do make my own figure. Then I wonder what should my figures be made out of.. so many posabilites can deside
Yeah... This discussion of light is interesting and you have a point, but it does come from the assumption that there is that one sinlge light source. That is not true in most cases - if you look at a face at say 12 o'clock, outside with overcast, you will get the absolutely best light, and it's everywhere, ie the face will be evenly highlighted. Also, the way faces are painted this way, makes them look V-shaped, when you yourself correctly shoved that faces are more rounded, like an U. Those deep red sjadows on the cheeks are fine if there is a strong single light coming from above, but I guess most people paint with the assumption that the light is pretty even, that it is daylight, and so on, making those shadows way overdone. Hell. Just look at your own face in this video - true, you do have a directed light from your left, but that only makes shadows on your right side (and those shadows are not red or brown, but dark grey). On your left side of your face, you have almost no shadows, except under the brow and the nose/mouth line. I would even argue that this method does not look good if you want a natural look instead of an artistic look. It's the same with shadows elsewhere - just because there is a recess or fold in the clothing, does it mean there needs to be a shadow.
I just want to know how to actually, physically paint a miniature so small. Like, please do a step by step of how to you go about pain toning super tiny faces.
Excellent video, very helpful, your channel is quickly becoming my favourite miniature painting channel, one of the rare times I actually clicked the bell, way to go Emil
This guide is a godsend!! I am following other guides and even though they are excellent in regards to painting most of the body (armors mainly and cloth) the faces have always bothered me, especially the ones expressing emotion. Most just look like they have trumpet lips and the faces just look flat and without character. The Adeptas Sororitas' models suffer of this the most, because they all end up looking like angry men with flat faces and huge mouths. The techniques here are a game changer!! THANKS!! 🤩
Emil, could you do some kind of tutorial on how you're breaking down pics? How can I start to use Windows Paint or whatever program you use when your zooming in and grabbing a portion of color. Then I can start looking into further detail and exploring new color applications and methods the way you do. Also, if you would start some sort of subscription-based paint clinic through one of your sponsors. I think it would be great if those of us interested could get a mini or 2 each month, each session some type of skill set or mechanic would be featured. We could all paint through these models together ( even upload on our Discord ) in a season-long master class or something of the sort for those ready to take their miniature painting and support the channel to the next level. The videos would no doubt be helpful even for those that weren't subscribed. Thank you in advance for all you do for our Hobby. -Blessings
Looks great on large scale, but I think for smaller scale I seen a great tutorial from the Artis Opus guy. The paints he used would not have jumped out at me for doing faces at all, but it really did work. I will try your recipe as well as I have a few bare heads to do on my Black Templars currently.
hi there, correct me if im wrong cuz i struggle doing this, so basically you do shadow first and then add layers of highlights right?. I still try to figure out about which layer should i do first, and so far i dont get good result in my opinion. Btw i never try shadow first. Very informative video thank you
👑👑 I'm in the midst of releasing my dream miniature brush as well as some wonderfully sculpted miniature busts mid June 2020. It's something I'm really proud of and been working on for the better part of the last year. You can already pre register your interest on my Kickstarter page: bit.ly/3dKjmnz 👑👑
Anytime I get stuck trying to figure something out, I always come to check out one of your videos and 95% of the time find an answer for my problem. I've only been painting for a little over a year now, but your videos give me inspiration to keep on slapping acrylics onto models. Cheers mate!
Excellent video Emil! Perfect explanations about the light planes, tones and everything related for painting faces, everytime I watch your videos I feel I want to paint so bad! (I have to try this tips by myself eventually :P) Thank you so much for using my academic bust, I feel so honored!
Emil, a thousand times thank you for videos like this and the ork skin. The way you demystify process of layering is truly remarkable and a real gift to all of us. For years I have felt so intimidated by the prospect of layering and highlights and shadows but you are teaching me the proper thought process and I'm actually making progress. More like this please!
I was actually looking for a portrait painting tutorial, but this turned out to be pretty enjoyable to watch so I stayed until the end.
“I’ve mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still, that I’ve become unpaintable by the brush.”
Yea, shoutout to my man Rembrandt! But seriously, I love how you seamlessly blend theory with practical examples, makes it really easy to figure out what you are doing and why. Kudos.
The planar bust was a real "aha" moment for me. Trying to get into bust painting and this really helped.
I wish we could have videos like this again. Revisit your grass roots, Emil - helping people painting.
I'm just getting into painting and your channel is a treasure-trove for me!! 😁
Tnx for passing knowledge and experience to others 😊
Great video as always! As a followup, could you do a face painting video for problem faces? The sculpts you used for your demos in this video were all pristine, symmetrical, full faces. What do you do when you get a board game with minis that aren't the best sculpts? Or when their wearing hoods or face masks? In other words, how do you make it look good when it's isn't that good to begin with?
Wow! What artistic ability. Only in my dream’s.
Emil... Covering what really matters! Thank you so much!
Holy cow these faces look very similar to that of drag queens! They are super exaggerated with great contrast between the highlight and the contour.
I never thought I would be able to connect two utterly different things like this haha.
Why did you put Cate Blanchett on my screen? I had to pause and just stare in awe for like 15 minutes. Awesome and very helpful video.Thank you.
ive just got back into painting minitures and im having a hard time with faces/seraphon teeth. Your videos have been a great inspiration man. Hoping this can help me improve my painting skills!
Thank you, Squidmar
That's actually a perfect base to start with! I have 3 skin tone sets life colour, vallejo, AK 3rd gen not one set has a good base
Great video, loads of helpful tips, thanks.
"It isn't about the colors; it's about the placement."
I try so hard to stress that very point to the people I tutor on miniature painting. Whether a student or an average hobbyist on a message board, so many of them ask for color recipes (and want EXACT drop counts, no less). But what they fail to realize is that you can achieve an effect - like, say, NMM - with literally any colors. Which colors you use isn't as important as the value, light, contrast, and texture you are creating.
Very nice & great video!
I was hoping to see what you do with different skin tones, like darker ones maybe.
I gotta ask. Do you have a playlist on Spotify for all this dope house music in your videos? I need it for painting I think.
Awesome vid wierdly exactly what I was looking for
Hey Emil big fan, was wondering, i see you handling minis without any gloves in most of your paiting or just for showing, do you think you could spend a little time explaining how you actually preserve the work while painting and once you are done with it? Thanks take care
Excellent!!! Love it
That bust kind of looks like a cross between Dave Bautista and Eric Bana when he played Nero from JJ Abraham's Star Trek and its weird because I keep going back and forth between wanting to see it painted like Drax from Guardian's of the Galaxy and with sculpted, pointed ears and facial tattoos like the Romulans had in JJ's Star Trek. Drax meets Nero weird crossover?
Thank you, great tutorial!
Do you paint1/6 figures? I got my brother hooked on this channel. Thank you for your time and explanations.
Never tried :)
@@SquidmarMiniatures i think you could nock it out the park. Your work is wonderful. You should get a bad 12" toy that has a good likeness but a bad paint job and try it .
Great vid............. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE EYES!!!!! LOL 😂😂
I have a separate video covering that
@@SquidmarMiniatures ok cool I’ll go watch that now and thanks for telling me Emil )🙂
What wet palette do you use, please? I use a homemade one, but I'd like to try out a proper one to see if it's any better. Is it the everlasting one from redgrass? I have been looking at them, and the news ones are out at the end of next month, so might as well wait for those.
Thank you thank you thank you 😊
youre fucking brilliant! i love your videos man
I'm curious on how to do it for a small mini. For instance, a board game mini.
How about for those who are still new to the hobby and don't have the amount of paints that other people have, how/what would you recommend in regards to base tone and highlights?
I bought Vallejo's Game Color set and have a pot of Kislev flesh. Is it a matter of lightening the base paint with some white?
Thanks!
When did He used the darkest paint?
What camera do you use for overhead shots?
Cool content Please paint legion of the damned
Please
Hi! I like ur vids
just me or anyone else want to play Madonna's vogue at 4:42?
Hey man, great tutorial! What’s that wet palette you use?
i think people that are doing a lot with make up would be great at this.
What u number brush for painting face
So how do you do the same thing with 28mm minis?
Did Kryten agree to you using his head?
Lool
Just a question could you use your average acrylic paint or dose it nesiseraly have to be of a specific kind or company
Hey squid, sorry to badger you, but where can i get a desk like yours?
Probably Ikea 😂
Prolly hobbyzone.pl
Or just undercoat with white and slap on some gulliman flesh
Does anyone have a list of the colours he used in the video?
@Squidmar Miniatures - I want to buy the Sparmax SP35 and air compressor from the links on your website. Will I need to buy any adapters for the compressor air hoses to make this work? I would hate to buy the new gear then be able to use it out of the box. Any help would be appreciated!
Got confused there for a second. I though you said you were going to explain planes by printing out a bus.
The Guy looks like he used a Lipstick
wow your whole "opening act" of showing how faces and lighting is made is really NOT helping. Came here for tips to paint faces not everything there is around it
Learning the basic is whats going to make you understand WHY we paint what we do. Open your mind a bit and it will make painting more fun :)
so basically because humans are skin over blood, start w reds and layer on beiges for skin? so for realistic pimples A highly textured red base first?
Hei, Emil... you thank us so much all the time, but this is every persons way of thanking you, im pretty sure i speak for all of us here when i say that my painting has progressed so much from watching you, im more daring, more confident, i used to find marine heads in the hoover where id given them the over the shoulder ceremony for being sub acceptable... thats been a while now and its down to you, im in Bergen Norway so when i say this i mean it, for a Swede, (tongue very much in cheek) your a really pleasant, down to earth and humble guy...
but anyway...
THANKYOU !!!!!! A MASSIVE THANKS TO !YOU!
100% agree
Norwegian living in UK says 👋 I'm back giving figures faces a go I'm sick of stripping them down and restarting lol
Just buy necrons and trow yor paints to your miniatures😂
When I worked at a GW store I use to get all the kids to go necrons. I couldn't remember how many people became necron masters
Necrons still have faces.
Now Eldar with their funny helmets? That's where it's at.
@@srsgoblin nah... Space elves have all those genital warts on their armor... Tau are not thus infected.
better yet, age of sigmar skeletons, just make a horde of drybrushed point holders
Necrons are easy untill you go full nmm on your whole army.
The process of painting a face with acrylic paint is very similar to painting a face with makeup. The areas that require highlights are exactly the same as you'd see in makeup tutorials. Finally, my two hobbies are feeding into each other xD
Yep, makeup is perfect. For those that don't know, if you want something to stand out, draw attention and get embellished, you add highlights. If you want it to protrude, you add shadow
I watched your "Ugliest Miniatures" video just before this one, and I was wondering what it would look like to paint the old, ugly minis with today's painting techniques.
The older paint style was a lot more colourful, but less subtle in comparison to how mini painting takes detail, as well as light and shade into consideration, making the overall end result look much more dynamic.
I would love to see a video like this in the future, it could be quite an interesting challenge.
Any news on your brush kickstarter? I feel that all my brushes are letting me down for fine stuff. Need good new ones
I can't even paint my clone troopers helmet heads right! 😅 Here's hoping practice does make perfect.
Amazing video Emil hope you never stop! (literally untill you cant keep on going dude)
Thanks for the light source explanation! Getting these details on 28mm base dudes is quite challenging!
Emil! This is a super helpful video and I so appreciate your internet encouragement to be brave and chase our painting dreams, BUT at least give us a Kickstarter update soon??! Dying to know a little bit more!!
But thanks as always for the amazing videos! Everything is crazy, but I can always look forward to these!
Is Squidmar FLOOR GANG?
Yes but how do we paint lips?!
Because damn, his game is on point.
This is an awesome drag queen though ;)
@@ShadowDrakken there is no such thing.
@@cromcraft3494 well that's just unnecessary
Faces are too scary
Next time I’m painting a mini about an angry father who agreed to have her daughter put some cheap makeup on him, I know which video to pull up.
Hiya Emil, something I have been thinking about for a while is a scene inspired by graphic novels, where strong shadows fall and powerful coloured lights are cast upon the scene. I don't know how challenging it would be to do but could you make something like a strong light being cast through a stained glass window and landing upon portions of a character and having that light be the only source of strong colour within the scene - with the majority of colour outside this area being blacks and greys? Or have the stained glass window be shattered above a certain point giving a strong contrast between the above effect and a more traditional sunlit style?
This is amazing honestly! I am an artits and love drawing portraits! This is a hole new world for me! Wish I could sculpt so I could do make my own figure. Then I wonder what should my figures be made out of.. so many posabilites can deside
Yeah... This discussion of light is interesting and you have a point, but it does come from the assumption that there is that one sinlge light source. That is not true in most cases - if you look at a face at say 12 o'clock, outside with overcast, you will get the absolutely best light, and it's everywhere, ie the face will be evenly highlighted.
Also, the way faces are painted this way, makes them look V-shaped, when you yourself correctly shoved that faces are more rounded, like an U. Those deep red sjadows on the cheeks are fine if there is a strong single light coming from above, but I guess most people paint with the assumption that the light is pretty even, that it is daylight, and so on, making those shadows way overdone. Hell. Just look at your own face in this video - true, you do have a directed light from your left, but that only makes shadows on your right side (and those shadows are not red or brown, but dark grey). On your left side of your face, you have almost no shadows, except under the brow and the nose/mouth line.
I would even argue that this method does not look good if you want a natural look instead of an artistic look. It's the same with shadows elsewhere - just because there is a recess or fold in the clothing, does it mean there needs to be a shadow.
It's making me look at the shadows on your own face now very noticeable shadows coming from the left light from right
I just want to know how to actually, physically paint a miniature so small. Like, please do a step by step of how to you go about pain toning super tiny faces.
Perfect timing i am struggling with faces and this helps immensely, thank you!!
High quality and clear explanation. Excellent job Emil
10:52 in he saids to shadow underneath the eyes while using his hands to gesture his upper eye/ eyebrow 😭 thought that was funny lol
I wish you had shown the final glaze with the airbrush though... :(
Thins didn't help me at all. I'm painting little gondor soldiers with helmets.. not easy
at 1:22 , does anyone know what the viking looking guy is from? Thanks in advance.
The large Face with the red nose is amazing
Freaking awesome!! Thank you!!
"shrimp color".. hahaha
Great tutorial, well explained & break down of all the elements...Will need to try out some of your techniques - great stuff!! 👏👏😃🔝
This video...holy crap...your examples and description just blew me away. It makes so much more sense now.
THANK YOU!
Great video. Thank you.
Me ha encantado la explicación y los consejos. ¡Enhorabuena!
Excellent video, very helpful, your channel is quickly becoming my favourite miniature painting channel, one of the rare times I actually clicked the bell, way to go Emil
Yes Emil does wonderful videos. You May also Like goobertown Hobbies
Is that Dave Bautista?
To da face! To da face!
Hur kontrollerar du vattenhalten i dina färger med en våtpalett? Blir alltid för torrt eller mer rinnande än en glaze för mig...
Really helpful video as always
What are you using to thin down the Cadian Fleshtone? I've had poor results using water but I could be thinning too much.
I've been waiting for this subject. I am horrible at painting faces. Thank you
This guide is a godsend!! I am following other guides and even though they are excellent in regards to painting most of the body (armors mainly and cloth) the faces have always bothered me, especially the ones expressing emotion. Most just look like they have trumpet lips and the faces just look flat and without character. The Adeptas Sororitas' models suffer of this the most, because they all end up looking like angry men with flat faces and huge mouths. The techniques here are a game changer!! THANKS!! 🤩
Emil, could you do some kind of tutorial on how you're breaking down pics? How can I start to use Windows Paint or whatever program you use when your zooming in and grabbing a portion of color. Then I can start looking into further detail and exploring new color applications and methods the way you do. Also, if you would start some sort of subscription-based paint clinic through one of your sponsors. I think it would be great if those of us interested could get a mini or 2 each month, each session some type of skill set or mechanic would be featured. We could all paint through these models together ( even upload on our Discord ) in a season-long master class or something of the sort for those ready to take their miniature painting and support the channel to the next level. The videos would no doubt be helpful even for those that weren't subscribed. Thank you in advance for all you do for our Hobby. -Blessings
Looks great on large scale, but I think for smaller scale I seen a great tutorial from the Artis Opus guy. The paints he used would not have jumped out at me for doing faces at all, but it really did work.
I will try your recipe as well as I have a few bare heads to do on my Black Templars currently.
I grabbed that STL file for the bust and commissioned a buddy to print a couple for me. Already started painting with my airbrush.
hi there, correct me if im wrong cuz i struggle doing this, so basically you do shadow first and then add layers of highlights right?. I still try to figure out about which layer should i do first, and so far i dont get good result in my opinion. Btw i never try shadow first.
Very informative video thank you
I haven’t even tried this technique and I already know it’s gonna work thanks and excellent job, one question tho what’s the background music?
Nice tutorial...will you maybe do a similar video on painting a small warhammer-sized face?