Hobby Cheating 102 - Bright Green Orc Skin
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this Hobby Cheating Tutorial, I take you through my method for doing bright, jade green ork skin. I cover the basics of how I establish the tones, shadows and highlights on bright green orc skin. Hope you enjoy!
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interesting skin, very clean and detail pops as always but I honestly dont like the color, it kinda looks a bit vampirish and pale like a vampire greenskin in its current state, I am sure when its finished it will look heaps better.
It is pale, but that is just the color of Orc skin I have always enjoyed as I hate the yellow-green as a rule, but if you put the yellow in, instead of the grey/purple, it would be more traditional.
Hull red as base for green. Which green as base for the Flash paints?
IN general, a deeper green and/or a more yellow infused green.
literally the Bob Ross of hobby painting.
Too high of praise, but thank you. :)
Any tips on how to approach a darker green skin (say on the forest green side) like this? I feel like I saw a video about it from you, but now I can't find it if so.
I've never really tackled more forrest green, but the same basic lesons would apply, you would use the red tones in the shadows but you can push up into yellow tones for highlights as that will feel more naturalistic on that tone of green.
Hello Vince! Do you have a tutorial on how to do red skin? I plan to do some red skin Ironjawz and was wondering how I can bring out the lively aspect when the skin is already red.
I do not, but that sounds like a good topic for a future video. :)
looks blue to me not bright green....good tho
I've had some people say this, it's funny, because it's clearly green to me, one of those things. :)
One thing I can always count on from your videos is that watching will be a learning experience; I've seen a lot of attempts to work warm tones into non-human skin and most of them end up missing the mark, as the saying goes, whereas the final result here actually worked for me visually.
On a semi-related note, based on the Orc's expression and your commentary, I have concocted a backstory; hopefully you'll find it humorous. This Orc's name is Rufus and Rufus never wanted to be a "typical" Orc, which often got him in trouble growing up. As a consequence he wound up spending a lot of time alone, trying to learn about the world. One day, he decided it was his calling to bridge the gap between Orcs and other species to get rid of racial prejudices on both sides and he figured he could accomplish this task through a combination of congeniality and empathy; his ultimate tool, he decided, would be a big, no holds barred, cheerful hug. Unfortunately for him, to members of other races (like Humans, Elves and Dwarves) all they saw was a huge, hulking Orc running towards them with a manic grin on his faces and arm stretched out wide as if to grapple and tear his opponents to pieces. Being that his arms were indeed widespread, poor Rufus was completely unprepared for violence and provided his new potential friends with the perfect target of opportunity; his head. Sadly for Rufus, he's now simply one to many blows to the face and head so now he spends his time drooling, wandering around with weapons in hand, arms still ready in a welcoming embrace and with a now idiotic grin forever plastered on his lips. Take heed and learn a valuable lesson from Rufus' misfortune; avoid taking too many blows to the head unless you too want to spend the rest of your days like him.
Its been an odd weekend...
This has now become the official backstory. Amazing. Glad the tutorial was helpful as always. ;)
Again many Thanks great job
Happy to help. :)
I dunno, I don't like either yellow-green or minty green. A nice dark olive is more my preference...
Also perfectly valid. One of the wonderful things about orcs is just how many different greens you can experiment with and have them all work.
Hey Vince, do you have any paint/colour recommendations for painting green Nurgley skin (like on plague bearers or a GUO) over zenithal? I'm painting some of my Ungors to look Nurgle-marked, and trying to decide whether to use Camoshade over the zenithal, or something else. Thanks!
Any brown green will do, from a weak wash to a very strong paint. In general, you want soemthing darker green, though it can have other tones in (yellow or brown). My best advice would be to use something darker because it will be more transparent and will allow the zenithal to show through easily.
Thanks Vince!
Brilliant! I agree, the shadows painted using a complementary colour give more life to the paint job.
Yep, the color, especially the complimentary play on flesh, just adds such life overall.
I bought an air brush, mainly just use it to base coat, I've tried to paint like this but the air brush blocks up all the time so its a pain, takes ages to sort out and i end up dumping the paint while clearing the blockage. I'm using thinners and air paint to make it run better but it still clogs up, maybe i just need a better airbrush but after this experience i don't want to put up more cash if i'm going to get the same result.
So my advice is watch the most recent video I have on cleaning your airbrush fast. We likely have an issue where paint is building up. The airbrush certainly shouldn't have the expectation of being difficult. Now, that being said, it could be the airbrush, so that is always a possibility.
@@VinceVenturella yeah will do bud, thanks.
Blimey, that's an impressive looking paint job. How do you assemble your minis after painting them? Superglue or scratching away paint and using plastic glue on the exposed surface?
In general, I will use either plastic or super glue as appropriate. I try to keep the paint out of the connection areas, with a small bit of tape.
Oh, that's what is on his back! Thank you.
Very nice tutorial, Vince, aces indeed. You had said you didn't know what color orc blood was, if this is a Games Workshop dude then his blood is a black algae of some sort.
Well now, that is certainly strange - is that both 40k and fantasy as I know the explanation for Orcs is slightly different in each.
I believe so, but it has been a long time since I seen a orc fantasy book. I do remember that the Orks (40k) and Orcs (Fantasy) shared some similarities like they both a fungi race, both created by the Old Ones, no females and the beloved Squigs with the Gretchen and Snotlings mixed in there of course with different names. But I think the blood thing was the same as well, but hey, they fantasy, never existed, so they could be like Eldar's Avatar and have Molten Rock for blood if you want them to.
In the video the Orc looks like one of the Trolls from Privateer Press.
I don't see it, they are more bumpy and have more pronounced jaws (their heads are triangles).
When you were doing the details on his face you mentioned you were using a green for glazing around the eyes. What green were you using?
The same despair green as my base color, just very, very thin.
Thank you!
Great job Vince, nice share
Thank you sir, much appreciated.
What’s the mini called and where can I get it? Nice video!
It's an Ironjaw brute from Games Workshop, it's a wonderful model. :)
Great video!! Thanks for sharing...
Thank you sir, much appreciated.
Why do Orcs and goblins have green skin in the first place? Does this come from the old Marvel Comics villain the Green Goblin?
I really have no idea on the source of that. In the original D&D art is was always brown/mottled green/grey.
It actually comes from war gaming not lore! people used to paint their armies skin colors to better identify their armies and it stuck! I cant remember where I read that. but yea even Tolkien's orcs weren't green!
But I think it is rather fitting and awesome! plus they are fungus!
I like to go for a very slightly greenish white to give them a real fungal look. I like the idea of the Orcs/Orkz spreading spoors as they expire.
So after reading all this, I went to reference the 1st edition AD&D Monster Manual because I was curious. The physical description is as follows; Orcs appear particularly disgusting because their coloration - brown or brownish-green with a blue sheen - highlights their pinkish snouts and ears. Their bristly hair is dark brown or black, sometimes with tan patches.
It looks like the underlying idea that orcs were green (at least in fantasy role playing games) was already planted here and this predates Games Workshop and fantasy war gaming in general but, if you're looking for some sort of biological/physiological explanation behind their skin coloration I don't if that particular question has ever been answered.
However, if we're talking about the bright, vivid sort of lime/neon green skin tones you see in games like Warhammer then the consensus seems to be that it did indeed originate with Games Workshop although the stories as to how it happened (at least in Warhammer Fantasy) aren't clear; you have a lot of people stating it happened because the color choice made them stand out more as an army (as was stated in this discussion) and you have other people claiming it was actually a mistake by an in-house painter and GW liked it so much that from that point going forward they officially adopted it and made it part of their "lore". I know that in 40K it comes from the fact that Orks are a sentient form of fungus and the green skin comes from a symbiotic algae-like growth.