@evilstu – I paint my faces the way Bob Ross paints his trees – 100% technique!The colours may change, the context might be different from one to the other, but the technique remains exactly the same.

Just as he *always* starts with the dark leaf shapes at the back of the tree before doing anything else, always, always start with the eyes. And take your time. Get the eyes right. Everything else will come from that single focal point on the mini! Start with the whites of the eyes – thinned paint, just slap it in, roughly in the right place. Then, thinned black paint, draw the eyeliner. Start far away and move in, towards the eyeball. Paint the “underhang” of the eyebrow and line along the top of the cheek – repeat, getting *ever so* closer to the eye each time (don’t try to do it all in one). A vertical line of dark in each each (slightly closer to the nose on each side to avoid the googly-eyed stare) completes the eyeballs.

Then with a thinned-down dark skin colour, turn your Alice Cooper make-up into neatly outlined eyes – as before, paint around the eyes keeping well away from the outlines at first, working ever closer inwards.

Whack some dark skin colour on the rest of the face and, if you really must, some flesh wash; if any of it gets into your freshly painted eyes and you can wick it out quickly with a damp brush. Then with mid-tone flesh, a T-shaped line down the bridge of the nose and across the nostrils. Little triangles (points down) on each cheek. A line on each eyebrow, a swoosh across the forehead and a little line along the chin.

A line of dark red or purple (maybe even brown) on each lip (focus on the lower lip if you have to choose one over the other) then a thin line of your chosen (brighter) lip colour to highlight. A couple of dots of your bright flesh highlight colour on the very tip of the nose, on each cheek, maybe on the chin you like, and…. bam! That’s your face done.

The bases I made myself in Blender and laser cut some rounded rectangles on the laser cutter. I was channelling @lloyd – bases and faces FTW! They’re really only getting a basic drybrush over black primer and maybe a few edge highlights, but even then they’ll be a hundred times better than what I’ve been pretending I can get away with to date 😉