3 Styles of Painting Skulls for Newbs, Veterans and Pros

In this tutorial Jay shows you 3 different ways to paint skulls for Newbs, Veterans and Pros! We have new videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday! We're streaming Monday-Saturday starting at 9PM CST!! JOIN USSSS! Thanks for watching!
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[@milanos2114]

And yet.... The 1st one is most appealing to me.

[@afireinsidebrad]

Honestly thats how i feel about full models before highlighting in general, let the light do it naturally

[@danny3tricks377]

My thoughts exactly

[@highonpaint]

I agree the first one looks old and filthy. Not really a fan of the other skulls

[@demon1103]

@@afireinsidebrad yeah, how I usually feel about certain highlights. It looks good for the photo, but when it's not at that perfect angle, it can look a little off. So I like to only maybe at most do basic highlights (muscles, face, maybe edge...maybe)

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

Not only that but the second was my second choice the third I liked the least.

[@Jintorax]

I'm gonna be frank, to me, the "Newbs" one is far better than the others.

[@thelinsky2319]

Yeah, that's what I thought too.

[@JMcMillen]

Not only that, it seems to be the quickest and easiest to mass paint hordes of them.

[@Seoz]

I think the same

[@andytate5670]

as someone who has dug skulls up on an archaeological site I can say the newb one IS the most realistic

[@zipcc]

100%. a little dry brush as a last step helps add a little highlight as well to make it look even better.

[@archfrank]

EOB the only channel that still makes sub-10 minutes videos in 2021. AND I LOVE IT

[@EonsOfBattle]

you know it!

[@grimmriffer]

Another vote for the newb one here, but that might be mostly because the final colours are much better. IMO.

[@angrygonk5238]

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!

[@aceofspadesrob]

lol the basic version looks far better than the others :S

[@scrubbybubblez5340]

The awkward moment when the newb one looks amazing..

[@senorballsack4460]

Honestly I prefer the newb one. But I can see each of them being used to show different stages of age on bones

[@MiniatureMasterClass]

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaeljames1334]

wow these get posted early. aint got time for homework, i need to learn how to paint skulls

[@petermartin9224]

Ah this takes me back to my long gone 6th edition Tomb King army. My approach was sort of in between the newb and veteran methods. Undercoat white, brown wash, drybrush bleached bone then final highlight of white. Worked a charm!

[@machinbiduletruc100]

Honestly Drybrushing is the way to go, especially if you are doing a base with a lot of skulls. Fast, easy, and very convincing.

[@chrismurphy3745]

Thank you very helpful

[@franz1508]

i needed this to my base

[@ceegronlee]

amazing!

[@SGWeber]

Those are some good looking skulls!

[@markgnepper5636]

Great stuff friend 👏 👍

[@iforgor15]

The first onevis my favorite

[@ZombieMonkey7]

Only bones that are cleaned up to an absurd degree are white. That grungy stained look is the most realistic, but you could still add some highlights or drybrushing if you want to add to the base color.

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

or left out in the sun...

[@alexr.5389]

2nd one looks best

[@TheSixthWorld]

I usually do basecoat of wraithbone and hit the skull with Strong Tone. Maybe a light drybrush of matt white after. easy peasy and it looks good, especially if you're wanting old bone.

[@Zickzag]

I agree with what a lot of people are saying, i think the first skull looks better than the other 2. That being said i think the perfect skull for me, would be a in between 1 and 3, i would after primer get a very dark brown or grey and use it to free hand any details i feel the skull needs or build up the shadows if i want that, then would glaze 2 or 3 times with a bone colour and then apply a brown oil wash so i can control how much and where it ends up, giving me top notch detail. I think this video does however, showcase how you can get really good looking skulls in simple steps and don't need to go over elavorating if you just want to get them done fast, some models have upwards of 10 skulls so knowing that you can always just, base + wash and end up with result 1 is a really good thing. Kudos dude, nice video.

[@johnlanger7852]

great, this is why I have that magnifier

[@jinx8624]

1st one is the best Sometimes simplicity wins!

[@TheKermit2110]

Is it me, or does the simplest technique produce the most realistic results? If it’s just me, who cares, I’m going with it!

[@Snake369]

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

[@urparentsdivorcepapers]

I paint mine with Rakarth Flesh and Agrax Earthshade

[@Duplacorn]

Unless it’s for like a scientist type model or a mask just go with one it’s gonna look the best almost 100% of the time and even for those other situations 1 can still work just with maybe some extra highlighting.

[@Duplacorn]

If you really want that old dirty bone look a matte white paint with citadel reikland fleshshade and it works perfectly

[@alessiodecarolis]

I think everyone of these 3 seems good, it depends from skulls' age and exposition to atmospherical agents.

[@Jonas_Fox]

The missing question? Who's brand of sculls are those?

[@gwen_the_badger3042]

Another vote for the noob skull!

[@clockworkpanda8]

First one had too dark of wash or it would be great, other 2 i feel the chocolate brown is too dark. For reference i have had to clean up aged bones.

[@canary8212]

Hey you didn't lie! There was a tooth painting tutorial!

[@songohan1075]

Nice one do it with skin tone too ;)

[@Andy86L]

Can you do a video on how best to paint faces? I’m fine when the marines have a helmet but really struggle to make faces not look like total shit

[@AlexBabcock-hw9iz]

I'd look into a bunch of different painters and find the method you're most comfortable with. Look up painting Bolt Action figures there a lot of info on how to paint them fast and easy. Vince Venturella has a ton of videos on just about anything with painting a figure including hair leather steel iron copper fur ect ect ect. The main thing is to find a process you are comfortable with that gets the desired effect your wanting. Some spend 5 or 6 hours on one minis face i doubt that is the route you are looking for.

[@Andy86L]

@@AlexBabcock-hw9iz thanks for the recommendations, I’ll take a look!

[@theBoonarmies]

What dry brush you using there Jay?

[@EonsOfBattle]

its an army painter brush

[@captainweekend5276]

don't fall for the army painter ripoff brushes, they're basically the same as makeup foundation brushes that you can easily find for much cheaper than the army painter ones and are of the same quality. Army painter do have some good products but they have been known to pick up on hobby trends and sell their own version at an insane markup.

[@josemanuelamagofuertes6568]

Well, if the first one looks better is because a simple fact I learnt earlier in the hobby: bones aren't white If you exaggerate the highlights with pure white and leave the reccesses brown, the skull looks like a toy, instead if you keep the shadows in a very dark brown or even black and the overall tone in a cream color highlighting with a light cream or ivory looks far better and more realistic

[@vaniellys]

Is it sad that I prefer the noob version ?

[@Binks182]

Im not even at noob level. I just base coat then dry brush for by skeleton horde

[@richar5d644]

First

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

this proves the issue with mini painting, over complicating a simple task... the Newb looked better, sometimes, most times, less is more... Edge Highlights, layering etc... all adding steps where it's not needed.

[@pokemonmandag2108]

soooo.....to sum it up 🤔 1. Easy method everyone can do in just two steps and almost 100% impossible to phuk up. 2. Another way of making the same but with four steps and bigger chance to make ugly model at the end if you don't know how to drybrush properly. 3. Simple way of making a 2 minute skull-paint take 1 hour.....because you can Naaah seriously though. Really nice video....i personally liked 1 and 2 because it shows how to kinda replicate the first skulls look if you dont use or have washes.👍

[@ErokLobotomist]

Maybe change it from "Newb" to "Classic". The Newb one has the best colours. The others may be Vet and Pro, but that's too much BS to go through for a skull. I do like the cracks along the top though. The close ups really aren't doing the Pro one any justice.

[@snarf2708]

They’re called sutures and they’re very important😢😢

[@ZeonZz-Swe]

Gonna have to be honest, the "noob" variation is probably the best one out of all three. The other variations not only wook worse and unnatural but they're way too overdone for something really simplistic. I think you could do alot better with the same techniques and steps but if you were more patient and had a more fitting colour scheme.

[@kangaroogopoo1320]

Yah! when he pulled out the "bone white" I was like WTF!!!

[@cromcraft3494]

More complexity does not equal better

[@Messermarkmauritz]

Newb looks way better...

[@cromcraft3494]

You know, i like your videos bud, but the nube is better

[@Stormeris]

No idea why people like the 1st one so much, the 3rd one looks much better, and painting the bone sutures was very clever too. Though, i think the 2nd one looks the weakest.

[@demon1103]

Personally I think a big part is the color, the other 2 don't have that cream-brown tone that you normally see with skulls, so it just doesn't look right. Something my sister pointed out was that the 3rd one seems to not have as prominent of a brow.

[@pathogenoxide6917]

Mainly color as the one guy said. Though I'd venture to say it's also down to how easy to paint said braincase, imagine having to paint an undead army or a field skulls!

[@captainweekend5276]

Honestly the third one looks worst to me since the highlights are very chunky, the transitions aren't very smooth either. The sutures were a good idea but don't look natural, he should have gone for a much softer colour or used a method similar to painting scratches to imply more depth. Not that it's his fault, it is much harder to blend on smaller models, but that does mean it's also not a good technique to use for such a small model. I'd say the main issue is they're also all not the same end product, the first is a "realistic" old bone, the second is a weathered bone, and the third is a clean bone, he should have tried to make them all somewhat similar. Personally, I would never do the third because it's far too much effort for such a small component and the outcome isn't that amazing, especially when you could just highlight or drybrush the first one and have something that would look incredibly similar with far less effort.