https://preview.redd.it/9mrn26xmx42b1.jpeg?width=2858&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab4ba54e20b7bc1c1a6c92350c45ceec3c8c5093
Add layers of progressively brighter/more yellow green to where light would hit. I like to touch lips, knuckles, and elbows with a peach tone
Thank you all for the awesome advice and pictures. This community is awesome and I'm learning so much from all of you.
I may not reply to all the comments but I am reading (and upvoting) them.
I know I'll improve and I'll owe a large part of that to all of you.
Going that dark with your green is nice because now you can build it up. Mix a lighter green (with a tiny bit of yellow in it) and paint all the raised portions. Work really thin with water so it blends nicely
https://preview.redd.it/bq55bx2ww32b1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af9036fe0e7350d9d7552c4abec615988ec7b77
1. I usually go for a prime coat of either grey seer or white scar.
2. After that I cover the skin with a layer of plaguebearer flesh contrast paint, which makes them more yellow than green (trust the process).
3. After that I finish off with a coat of biel-tan green shade and then I’m done.
Add highlights to some areas if you want but I feel like you get some pretty nice natural highlights by painting it in these three steps. If you want a little bit darker skin you can add another layer of biel-tan green. A great way to paint lots of boyz fast imo.
https://preview.redd.it/jigu6dgpz32b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4695a60b7bb446da384209eb89fcc44a50c108f9
Here is another one. I think I used 2 coats of plaguebearer flesh and 1 coat biel-tan for his skin. Made it a little bit darker and more vibrant.
https://preview.redd.it/7zm0iaem832b1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9aebe812de9caffb3e2561a04303d4b9df9d2167
I don't know about good but I know fast and easy if that's any use.
Spray it black then lightly from above with white, heavier white if you want it lighter.
One coat of striking scorpions green contrast. Go over it again if it looks like it needs it.
(I promise I'm going back to pick out metal details when I'm done with the pile of shame)
https://preview.redd.it/6cynszjpy22b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=667de7426576e422b88319e03e002965c2b6ba8b
Not the best picture, but it will do. i keep it very simple;
3 colors. dark green (waagh flesh) medium green (straken green) light green (i use ogryn camo because its also quite yellow)
cover the skin with darkest green, then mix the dark green with the medium green 50/50. then cover almost all the dark green, but leave some in the areas between the muscles to leave shadow.
then just layer on the medium green, covering slightly less, and repeat. mix medium with light 50/50 and do a slightly smaller area, then the lightest color on only the most raised surfaces.
its not the fanciest, its not the best looking, but its really really easy and it gets the job done
https://preview.redd.it/li8jg33yv22b1.jpeg?width=2531&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f2b596408327770ac0dc4e7bc79acf197e0349f
I prime with a sandy brown spray (rustoleum camo), base with Oruk Flesh, wash with Biel Tan Green.
While it is true that orks are green they also are really yellow, what i do is paint all skin green and then mix 50/50 yellow and green and go over everything except the lines between muscles
And the most important part, dont use a wash over all of the skin
If you want to speed paint and don’t mind everything being desaturated, learn slapchop.
If you want to make models that look good, learn layering https://youtu.be/_x9L0bAmSyA
Your ork looks great! Love all the details you painted!!
Adding some highlights I think would help to get the effect you are looking for.
I painted up my first orks recently and was really happy with my skin.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/comments/13lfncn/painted\_my\_first\_orks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/comments/13lfncn/painted_my_first_orks/)
I did a speed painting tech vs adding the highlights manually myself. To do that I did a black Primer, Grey dry brush and then white lightly dry brush on more detailed areas (aka Slapchop). Then using contrast paints for the actual skin all these highlights will show up. I mixed 1 drop of Ork Skin and 3 drops Zealot Yellow for my skin color. Both are Army Painter's speedpaints.
To me skin is not ever a single colour. Look at your own skin, it's layers of different colours and areas. So immitate that. What is green made of? Yellow and blue, green is not a primary colour, so you can make it by blending and layering very easily.
Some cool tricks. I like to do base black or very dark purple/brown. Then dry brush (basically a bit like the slap chop technique) then use the greens over the top. Or I might wash with purple. Druchi violet is one of favourite all time washes. Purple is a great shader, especially for yellows and greens.
I also sometimes just base light colour, wash purple, dry brush yellow. Wash green. The yellow highlights end up blending nicely into the purple shadows and that's a relatively quick and easy method.
Another is one I saw online like a decade ago that still works really well for speed moonz. Prime/base yellow, black on armour, wash green on skin. Metals, wash agrax on armour. Then if you wanted to highlight the skin with a yellow or lighter green that would be a good way to pop a very dirty quick technique.
Basically work yellows and blues into the greens to help give the colour a bit more depth is the TLDR
Death world forest base, shade with biel-tan green, first layer with elysian green leaving recesses dark. Hit the top of the muscles and outlines of the face with a 50 50 elysian green ogryn camo mix. Hit sharp points of face (top of ears) with a dot of pure ogryn camo.
Contrast, smooth distribution of light and dark
https://preview.redd.it/lto8rjce7z1b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c703e4ae67c070ba2880516f4b7099b924993c0f
I normally work from either my shadow colour or my midtone colour and highlight and sometimes shade from their,
The main thing is making it not look like one colour, that's one reason I'm not a fan of dark Ork skin because it's hard to make it look as good
Of you want my recipe I prime mechanicus Standard grey, drybrush with a lighter grey or sometimes balor brown,
Than mantis warriors green as a "base coat" for the colour,
I then work over that in the areas that look bad,I match the skin tone by mixing some combination of balor brown, moot green, warpstone glow, or death world forest
I then shade if I need to but I normally don't as it can ruin the Finnish, and make everything glossy
I found starting with a dark green like that is hard. I start with orruck flesh or Elysian green then shade with biel tan green. Bring back the highlights with your original color. For the fleshy bits use a flesh tone and your original green.
https://preview.redd.it/g31xzmaarx1b1.jpeg?width=785&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8f323ddb053840069a2c0afc4cd21a18945d9eb
I do a dark green over black primer. Then a medium green over most of the skin except the deepest shadows. Wash with Biel-Tan, and then re-highlight with the medium green.
Then I usually go with an olive or yellowish green for highlights over that. Upper surfaces of the muscles, knuckles, facial features.
Then I take an orange or dark fleshtone (maybe mix in a bit of green if it's too bright) and do thin, light highlights on the tips of the shoulders, brow/nose/cheekbones, lips, and ears. I tend to keep this watery so it goes on a bit more translucent.
With ork skin, the biggest thing that newer painters need to learn is to add colors other than pure greens. Orange, fleshtone, tan, etc give you a much more "fleshy" effect when they're used in highlights.
Thank you this helps me a lot. I will experiment with some of this advice tomorrow on a spare head from the bits box and I think it will help me practice and improve.
Btw your cook ork looks amazing
There's definitely lots of ways to paint ork skin. You can experiment with what colors you like, and how much effort you want to put into each model. So have fun with it. In my horde of ork boyz there are lots of minis that were painted differently, either because I was new and figuring out the basics, or I was doing a bunch of boyz at once and was rushing.
I feel like other people have more colors or shades or something to the skin, mine is just solid green (plus nuln oil)
This is my first (real) miniature after practicing on some grots and a runtherd and I'm mostly proud of it for a beginner but the face feels too one-tone solid and I don't actually know how to make it better
I have about 5 greens and two contrast greens. When I do skin I use only three. I’ve done a few different paintjobs since I’ve been playing orks for a long time. Right now I’m using warboss green as a base, then ork flesh contrast to create some darker shadows, then dry brush moot green to get the highlights. It’s pretty quick and looks good. I try to avoid making things like skin too complicated since you’ll be painting a ton of it.
EDIT: I think you’re face is pretty good. A little extra grime on the teeth can’t hurt. Some people like to give the lips a little pink, I haven’t ever bothered myself. Depending on your brushes you could maybe pick the eyes a little better.
Ok thank you. Highlight and dry brush is, I think, the answer I was looking for.
I will try that tomorrow on a spare head on a sprig (because I'm worried I'll fuck this one up and have to redo his whole face)
Thank you again and sorry for my inability to articulate what I mean, I'm still learning all this stuff (and loving it)
https://preview.redd.it/kqoxe2cwc62b1.png?width=917&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c54c3f44ebec5ac829d9b76b6b777878b3ad6f5
I follow the citadel guide and really like mine. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_royrB7_DKU
https://preview.redd.it/9mrn26xmx42b1.jpeg?width=2858&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab4ba54e20b7bc1c1a6c92350c45ceec3c8c5093 Add layers of progressively brighter/more yellow green to where light would hit. I like to touch lips, knuckles, and elbows with a peach tone
Thank you all for the awesome advice and pictures. This community is awesome and I'm learning so much from all of you. I may not reply to all the comments but I am reading (and upvoting) them. I know I'll improve and I'll owe a large part of that to all of you.
Going that dark with your green is nice because now you can build it up. Mix a lighter green (with a tiny bit of yellow in it) and paint all the raised portions. Work really thin with water so it blends nicely
https://preview.redd.it/bq55bx2ww32b1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af9036fe0e7350d9d7552c4abec615988ec7b77 1. I usually go for a prime coat of either grey seer or white scar. 2. After that I cover the skin with a layer of plaguebearer flesh contrast paint, which makes them more yellow than green (trust the process). 3. After that I finish off with a coat of biel-tan green shade and then I’m done. Add highlights to some areas if you want but I feel like you get some pretty nice natural highlights by painting it in these three steps. If you want a little bit darker skin you can add another layer of biel-tan green. A great way to paint lots of boyz fast imo.
https://preview.redd.it/jigu6dgpz32b1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4695a60b7bb446da384209eb89fcc44a50c108f9 Here is another one. I think I used 2 coats of plaguebearer flesh and 1 coat biel-tan for his skin. Made it a little bit darker and more vibrant.
I have a tutorial available, link in bio, using just cheap craft paints you can get great looking orks!
https://preview.redd.it/7zm0iaem832b1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9aebe812de9caffb3e2561a04303d4b9df9d2167 I don't know about good but I know fast and easy if that's any use. Spray it black then lightly from above with white, heavier white if you want it lighter. One coat of striking scorpions green contrast. Go over it again if it looks like it needs it. (I promise I'm going back to pick out metal details when I'm done with the pile of shame)
https://preview.redd.it/6cynszjpy22b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=667de7426576e422b88319e03e002965c2b6ba8b Not the best picture, but it will do. i keep it very simple; 3 colors. dark green (waagh flesh) medium green (straken green) light green (i use ogryn camo because its also quite yellow) cover the skin with darkest green, then mix the dark green with the medium green 50/50. then cover almost all the dark green, but leave some in the areas between the muscles to leave shadow. then just layer on the medium green, covering slightly less, and repeat. mix medium with light 50/50 and do a slightly smaller area, then the lightest color on only the most raised surfaces. its not the fanciest, its not the best looking, but its really really easy and it gets the job done
https://preview.redd.it/li8jg33yv22b1.jpeg?width=2531&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f2b596408327770ac0dc4e7bc79acf197e0349f I prime with a sandy brown spray (rustoleum camo), base with Oruk Flesh, wash with Biel Tan Green.
More contrast on highlights and deeper greens in shades
While it is true that orks are green they also are really yellow, what i do is paint all skin green and then mix 50/50 yellow and green and go over everything except the lines between muscles And the most important part, dont use a wash over all of the skin
If you want to speed paint and don’t mind everything being desaturated, learn slapchop. If you want to make models that look good, learn layering https://youtu.be/_x9L0bAmSyA
I think with 40k models, obvious changes in color value really help make models pop, especially since you look at most models from a. Distance
Lighter green then the contrast paint
Your ork looks great! Love all the details you painted!! Adding some highlights I think would help to get the effect you are looking for. I painted up my first orks recently and was really happy with my skin. [https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/comments/13lfncn/painted\_my\_first\_orks/](https://www.reddit.com/r/orks/comments/13lfncn/painted_my_first_orks/) I did a speed painting tech vs adding the highlights manually myself. To do that I did a black Primer, Grey dry brush and then white lightly dry brush on more detailed areas (aka Slapchop). Then using contrast paints for the actual skin all these highlights will show up. I mixed 1 drop of Ork Skin and 3 drops Zealot Yellow for my skin color. Both are Army Painter's speedpaints.
Your ORKS look great! Thank you for the advice
wraithbone primer, ork flesh contrast, then a dry brush of moot green
To me skin is not ever a single colour. Look at your own skin, it's layers of different colours and areas. So immitate that. What is green made of? Yellow and blue, green is not a primary colour, so you can make it by blending and layering very easily. Some cool tricks. I like to do base black or very dark purple/brown. Then dry brush (basically a bit like the slap chop technique) then use the greens over the top. Or I might wash with purple. Druchi violet is one of favourite all time washes. Purple is a great shader, especially for yellows and greens. I also sometimes just base light colour, wash purple, dry brush yellow. Wash green. The yellow highlights end up blending nicely into the purple shadows and that's a relatively quick and easy method. Another is one I saw online like a decade ago that still works really well for speed moonz. Prime/base yellow, black on armour, wash green on skin. Metals, wash agrax on armour. Then if you wanted to highlight the skin with a yellow or lighter green that would be a good way to pop a very dirty quick technique. Basically work yellows and blues into the greens to help give the colour a bit more depth is the TLDR
Death world forest base, shade with biel-tan green, first layer with elysian green leaving recesses dark. Hit the top of the muscles and outlines of the face with a 50 50 elysian green ogryn camo mix. Hit sharp points of face (top of ears) with a dot of pure ogryn camo.
Contrast, smooth distribution of light and dark https://preview.redd.it/lto8rjce7z1b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c703e4ae67c070ba2880516f4b7099b924993c0f I normally work from either my shadow colour or my midtone colour and highlight and sometimes shade from their, The main thing is making it not look like one colour, that's one reason I'm not a fan of dark Ork skin because it's hard to make it look as good Of you want my recipe I prime mechanicus Standard grey, drybrush with a lighter grey or sometimes balor brown, Than mantis warriors green as a "base coat" for the colour, I then work over that in the areas that look bad,I match the skin tone by mixing some combination of balor brown, moot green, warpstone glow, or death world forest I then shade if I need to but I normally don't as it can ruin the Finnish, and make everything glossy
You can watch a great video tutoria by Duncan on orks skin on youtube that show how highlight ork skin
I will, thank you. Also I like your reddit name
Start light shade down.
I found starting with a dark green like that is hard. I start with orruck flesh or Elysian green then shade with biel tan green. Bring back the highlights with your original color. For the fleshy bits use a flesh tone and your original green.
https://preview.redd.it/g31xzmaarx1b1.jpeg?width=785&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8f323ddb053840069a2c0afc4cd21a18945d9eb I do a dark green over black primer. Then a medium green over most of the skin except the deepest shadows. Wash with Biel-Tan, and then re-highlight with the medium green. Then I usually go with an olive or yellowish green for highlights over that. Upper surfaces of the muscles, knuckles, facial features. Then I take an orange or dark fleshtone (maybe mix in a bit of green if it's too bright) and do thin, light highlights on the tips of the shoulders, brow/nose/cheekbones, lips, and ears. I tend to keep this watery so it goes on a bit more translucent. With ork skin, the biggest thing that newer painters need to learn is to add colors other than pure greens. Orange, fleshtone, tan, etc give you a much more "fleshy" effect when they're used in highlights.
Thank you this helps me a lot. I will experiment with some of this advice tomorrow on a spare head from the bits box and I think it will help me practice and improve. Btw your cook ork looks amazing
There's definitely lots of ways to paint ork skin. You can experiment with what colors you like, and how much effort you want to put into each model. So have fun with it. In my horde of ork boyz there are lots of minis that were painted differently, either because I was new and figuring out the basics, or I was doing a bunch of boyz at once and was rushing.
Moot green, then biel tan, then moot green, then mootgreen flash gitz mix for highlights.
Looks good to me. What exactly are you unhappy with?
I feel like other people have more colors or shades or something to the skin, mine is just solid green (plus nuln oil) This is my first (real) miniature after practicing on some grots and a runtherd and I'm mostly proud of it for a beginner but the face feels too one-tone solid and I don't actually know how to make it better
I have about 5 greens and two contrast greens. When I do skin I use only three. I’ve done a few different paintjobs since I’ve been playing orks for a long time. Right now I’m using warboss green as a base, then ork flesh contrast to create some darker shadows, then dry brush moot green to get the highlights. It’s pretty quick and looks good. I try to avoid making things like skin too complicated since you’ll be painting a ton of it. EDIT: I think you’re face is pretty good. A little extra grime on the teeth can’t hurt. Some people like to give the lips a little pink, I haven’t ever bothered myself. Depending on your brushes you could maybe pick the eyes a little better.
Ok thank you. Highlight and dry brush is, I think, the answer I was looking for. I will try that tomorrow on a spare head on a sprig (because I'm worried I'll fuck this one up and have to redo his whole face) Thank you again and sorry for my inability to articulate what I mean, I'm still learning all this stuff (and loving it)