Skin Tone Tutorials – Demonic Red Part One
May 22, 2015 by elromanozo
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Wohoo another painting tutorial! And an Oni from Bushido, I so happy!!
I just love these Oni from GCT-Studios, they’re soo full of character and fury.
Romain, what are your thoughts on airbrushing, is it a technique you ever use? Or are you strictly a brush painter. I’m a fan of the brush, but the more I see what can be done with airbrushes over bristle I am getting tempted to buy one. What particularly attracts me is the superflat surface which is ideal for vehicles and the ease of applying light reflections
I use airbrushing for large figures, big surfaces, chain painting, terrain, and groundwork such as pre-shading miniatures… It’s another type of tool that requires another set of skills; it’s a complement to brushwork as it makes a lot of things easier, but it’s a lot easier to do certain other things with a brush instead. Depending on what you need done, an airbrush can be a great investment… I know Angel Giraldez swears by it, even for smaller miniatures, but ot everyone finds it as useful. You mention vehicles and imply pre-highlighting, and it does make these a lot easier,… Read more »
good tutorial as always 🙂
Thanks guys ! I’ve wanted to do red skin for a while…
Superb. Loved the first part. For me personally yellow is a nightmare and dont get me started on white. Dreading painting my stormtroopers from the Imperial Assault game.
Thanks a lot ! 🙂 If white is a problem, look into my Sorsha tutorial. For yellow… I should do another tutorial, the last one is far too old and not very comprehensive.
I’ll check them out Romain. Many thanks.
Basically, for yellow, you can prime white if your yellow is too thin (as many brands are), or maybe use Averland sunset (GW) with highlights in Ice Yellow (Vallejo) and the like. Many people use an airbrush for yellow, because it gives better coverage with thin paints, but you don’t have to. For shading yellow, I mainly use brown (Either dark browns with a tinge of olive or Hull Red if you need something more red, for example) or purple (the complementary colour), then black or blueish black if I have to, making sure it doesn’t mix with the yellow… Read more »
Thanks for the advice Romain, I think I will see if I can find a supplier that does demos, it’s an investment I am prepared to make, but I want to be sure I’d be getting it for the right reasons!
P.S the red tutorial is going to come in very handy for an idea I have cooking!
There’s nothing wrong with getting a cheaper airbrush knockoff (as long as it’s double action) to see if it’s for you, and to train on (taking it apart, cleaning…). You’ll still get a lot of use out of it, it’ll get used a lot for vehicles and anthing not too precise. If you can get a compressor with a tank, all the better : you won’t have to get another ever again if you change airbrushes.
if you get a more expensive gun get one from the same manufacturer the parts should be interchangeable? the cheaper gun can still be used for priming at least.
Interchangeability is the best case scenario… A lot of needles are interchangeable between airbrushes, but I’ve never had to use spare parts. I don’t own any fancy airbrushes personnally, I still get a lot of good use from my inexpensive one (even if it’s indeed not as good as what I can work with in the BoW studio, it serves its purpose).
well I think I’m convinced… thanks for the advice Romain.
Thank you for your viewership and your awesome beard !
a brilliant start to the model, I agree with your comments about GW paint pots bin’d more paint than used over the years. the lids can also crack to make matter’s even worst.
I know people who, when they absolutely need a tone (like that Mephiston red, or the nice metals) buy a few and put the paint in drop bottles with a drop of medium, carefully labelling them. It works well ! You can get empty drop bottles quite cheap if you know where to look online. I know a few master painters who have “favorite” colours and mixes and put them in drop bottles. When they have a nice colour mix they need for, say, a wole army, and they don’t want to have to find the exact colour again through… Read more »
sounds like a plan will be getting new paints soon??? have looked on the net about dropper bottles works out at about 30/40p a bottle so well worth the expense for the paint saved.
Cool !
You can also use a drop bottle for water, and another for medium, so as to control exactly how many drops of each you apply to your paint to dilute it. A lot of people do it (ùaster painters, at that !); even if I prefer a more intuitive approach for hobby time, I can only give praise to the efficiency and precision of this rigorous control technique.
that could work.
Love the tutorial as always. Ons for purple skin would also be great
nice tutorial – and I was using mechrite red during your show 😀 painting SM shoulders iconography and other details. possibly because I had this paint for so long ( I got to the bottom of dryed out paint today) I really like to paint red and high light it with oranges up to yellow, or shading it with brown or black. I Will heat toi shop to buy same paint but this time I will pour it straight to some empty clean vallejo pot and recoment to do same thing with any GW or P3 paints. tou can also… Read more »
But tell us how you *really* feel about GW paint pots…. 😉
Oooh, someone wants me to talk dirty…
Blood Red is the old name, isn’t it? I think that color is known as Evil Sunz Scarlet now?