How to paint Ork Skin for Warhammer Tutorial - Orruk Warclans (NO CONTRAST)

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

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[@GoobertownHobbies]

These tutorials are soooo good emil!! I love your style of ork skin. The choice to add ork freckles is great.

[@ArielSasinsky]

Great tutorial. The orc tongue without the rest of the head is some eldritch horror

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Hahah, i should have skipped the head and painted some eyes on the "neck part" above the tongue haha.

[@sharangtickoo3273]

'Do you know what skin color is best?' Really started off on a worrisome note lol

[@bigguy9154]

Red is best

[@tutubeater1]

OMG if more miniature painting tutorials used digital illustration to point out where the highlights are I would be a very happy man! great job :)

[@squigdaddy]

Id like to thank you Emil. I watched a couple of vids. of yours and picked up a brush for the first time since May 17th 1998.. omg im old. I was no master back then, but with what i picked up from your vids was acctually beter now, then back then. Ive got a long way to get real good, but i dont care. This is to much fun. Again, thank you for geting me back into the hobby.

[@OEFarredondo]

Broski, I used this method ( loosely) on my warboss. Nothing but praise and I always refer your videos

[@jossypoo]

Ah! Emil! Thank you for the tip about NOT highlighting based on the most raised section of each volume, but instead considering how it's angled to the light source. Something clicked for me about a big step between tabletop-ready and really professional lighting. I often find my volumes look bulbous or comic-book styled, and have been seeking some more reality. This was a simple tip that helped me over a hurdle!

[@77barrj]

Honestly, I never thought about using a little red in some deep recesses to make the green pop better. Great stuff.

[@rossnicola10]

You re on my top 5 painter. Great effectivness of the paint work!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

What Warhammer factions are you playing in 40k & AOS? Let me know!

[@crowdemon_archives]

Tzeentch. :V

[@nicholasvinkler1635]

40k : Marines, old school dark eldar, and orks.

[@knightsolk5819]

Adeptus Mechanicus, inspired to get some orks now though!

[@fredrikovesson]

Khorne and Nurgle (AOS)

[@austinthornhill7038]

Dispossessed and Beastclaw Raiders (AOS)

[@themanabroad7800]

Would be interested to hear what you have to say about NMM and light placement. That's something I struggle with is where the highlights and shadows should go to really sell the effect properly

[@john12345678ism]

Lol I found my 2nd edtion box set in my attic today while cleaning. There was two orcs and both chain sword space marines. Going to enjoy painting those tonight back to 1993 I go lol.

[@chestersleezer8821]

Since Orks are almost like mushrooms you could paint their skin is a variety of colors. Though Green is the most common. I am in the process of rebasing and repainting some of my Orks & Goblins and I think that I just might change up the skin color for some of the units I think that possibly are red or orange tone just might work well with them.

[@multecoduri]

GW - Everyone in the warhammer universe gets a cool paint inspired after them. Cadians - Cool ! What's our paint? Gw - You guys are gonna be the ork nipple paint.

[@bradluttrell8111]

I have been watching your videos for about 2 weeks and I'm highly impressed! Keep up the great work! You are a fantastic mini painter!

[@Matthew_Dubroq]

THIS is the content I NEED! Great vid, keep em coming!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

naaw, thx! :D This is the comment i need!

[@usedlamp1]

Some handy tips in this vid! Just got a Start Collecting Orks set and the tips you mentioned will help my miniatures pop!

[@Pukhlik]

It is very cool! Tell me, please, how to paint such armor?

[@SigfridSWE]

Grattis till 8k! 🎊 Grym video ☺️👌🏻

[@AHRavnsborg]

Emil! I kinda miss these step-by-step tutorials you used to do. Cheers

[@julensantamaria2184]

Cracking video! I love how simple you make it look, great tutorial, keep on with the good work!!

[@nobiggie928]

I appreciate your videos a lot recently. I can totally understand your different steps and why you choose to do it that way. When it comes to skin though, I prefer to paint in much thinner layers but thats a personal thing and does not affect your great work in any sense. Keep up the good work. :)

[@K.O.Z.A.K]

woooow, what an amazing ork!

[@mikeparker9812]

Im probably not going to use the same colours for highlights on my Gordrakk but the highlight method makes so much sense and that with other techniques is going to be really helpful. Ive used contrast on other Ironjawz for skin and am regretting it a bit, but Im a slow enough painter as it is and that with army painting 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@christophe_5119]

Emil, Ive started orks with contrast and loving how fast i can complete units vs classic. Different results but happy with how good they look. Would you be able to do a video on orks but with contrast paints as youve done for the various space marine chapters please?

[@huckpott]

Rewatching this before paining up a unit of Orcs and was curious why the feet were done in what looks like a different color scheme? I can see them being somewhat different, but when looking at your end shots they don’t seem to have much green in them at all. Just curious. Love your work and have gone back to video#1 to restart watching them all over again as a means of getting back after it myself.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

They arent painted yet ;)

[@huckpott]

@@SquidmarMiniatures - oh my, and I thought I had a pretty good backlog 😂 - so you would use the same basic technique then, or did when you finally finished him off?

[@TheNeo06660]

tried it for my ork 40k, it turn out nice. However, its kinda hard to have a good gradient on the boys since its mostly the arms and the head only green skin. Therefore it seems like the depth of the tone ends up on the light green side. Any tips to make it look good also on smaller mini? thanks. Also, is there a moment were you apply moot green only or you step directly from 50:50 elysian/moot to 50:50 skreaming skull/moot. thk again...

[@S1RVicTOR]

Thank you for this, I'm finally able to put it to use haha. Amazing breakdown.

[@jorthardon9512]

Cheers mate! Good to see some good looking orc flesh. Keep up your painting videos , I quite enjoy them:)

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

thx mate, i'll try to keep up! :)

[@andrewnixon8918]

Really nice video. I always struggle with bringing out details like this. But this video has inspired me to keep trying. Also i wish i had muscles like this Orc! Looking forwards to your next videos, Thank you.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Yeah mate, allot of it is just repetiton and trying techiques the first time. Glad you like the videos so far :)

[@TheSmokingCheddar]

Something I have been struggling with is to get a a white/grey shiny marble effect for my 40k knights. I have seen various methods but nothing that's particularly simple to attempt to nail down. Also face stubble. Because that's actually hard I find.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Got any examples of the knights your talking about? Face stubble is a great idea!

[@TheSmokingCheddar]

Knights errant, the pauldrons for those walkers. Wanted to splash a shiny marble effect on a big surface on any vehicle really. Or possibly a base to a character at some point. I can do the bit with 'ard coat. Just the actual effect underneath it I seem to struggle with lol xD

[@Damned656]

I would like to see the armor tutorial! Which red tone is this? Cheers Mate

[@keithcrabtree5951]

Would love to see how you painted the armor on your orks, I love it!

[@reforgedcriterion1471]

This is great.. I'm working on some tnmt models and so far they are just colored in a dark green.. This should be interesting seeing what I figure out.. I may have to watch more videos like this.

[@anthonymangia8890]

Love the armor! Hope to see a how to video for the armor :-)

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Maybe some time! :D

[@johncoppens4021]

Nice tutorial, i am wondering if you could make one for seraphon skin, blue with the yellow scales. Thnx man appreciate the tutorials.

[@lucasszymanski114]

Beautiful work! I am trying to get a similar result on goblins, have been playing with trying to get a warm yellowish/green colour on goblins but still natural. Though I have been having a hard time, I tried many different Vallejo and GW combinations. Great work! Perhaps a tutorial on paining some old lizardmen figures in a natural green? Nice work!

[@lucasszymanski114]

something like this but with more warmth in the highlights and cool colours in the shadows. www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1414-how-to-paint-night-goblins-kebabi-style

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Goblins is hard because the minis are so small, the transitions have to be made on such a small surface. Also the volumes on the old models are really not defined - kind of clunky sculpts. The new ones are cool though. If you check my instagram i painted skragrott a while back going almost to yellow in the highlights. But he's one of the newest scults and have a bigger face than most goblins. instagram.com/p/BtxungknETv/

[@MentoliptusBanko]

I have a question, do you pre-thin you paints when you put them in dropper bottles? Because it seems you don't thin your paints after you put them on the wet palette and paint straight from the bottle.

[@AHRavnsborg]

Would you share the colors used for that blue squig? it is amazing!

[@jayceeni]

Bought 2 brushes via the link a 0 and a 2 :) , cheers for the video.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Thx so much Jay! 🙏🙏

[@Zectari]

Where did you buy empty bottles to transfer GW paint into?

[@MrStatistx]

I don't know how you can get lighter colors look blended in like that with only brushing them on. Whenever I try to highlight a surface (and not just an edge) with a lighter color, it sticks out so much that it looks just like a spot of paint, but does not fit into the overall image.

[@Lumpsack]

Loving this, very vibrant.

[@christopherhood2250]

Hello, sir, I wanted to thank you for this informative video. I also wanted to ask for some advice or some help on a different matter about Citadel Paint for Warhammer miniatures. a few years ago at the least 7 yrs. i got bit hard with painting war hammer figures. i went on big shopping spree and bought every color Citadel had. I do mean every color. At the time I had few months down time due to a injury so i was out of work for about 6 months and since i was home during that time and couldn't really do anything strenuous I painted a lot. So now decided I wanted to get back in to painting again so here we are. My paints have been in a big box in the house in a good safe area for a long time. I did a inventory of my paints last night. Every color pot has not been open in 7 years I have noticed some the paints dried up even with the cap being fully secure. So can you give me any advice how might salvage my paints that dried out? Or will i need to toss them and rebuild my paint inventory? Again

[@ObeseMurican]

Orks are my favorite just because I can find random things around my house and glue it to them and it looks decent.

[@Calibro9589]

ho did you fill the ork arms gluespot? Greentuff or just proper glueing ?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

milliput i think, or greenstuff

[@romanr.4821]

where can I buy this miniature?

[@TheMADmac86]

This is awesome mate! I will certainly give it a go. My AoS goblins were finished a long time ago, but I still have some Malifaux gremlins to paint :) Can't wait for more content!

[@golongle]

You have moved to my favorite channel. This is exactly what I like to watch. Very detailed instructions on how you paint. Do you have a pricing sheet for commission work?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

[@fredrikovesson]

I would love a vid on how to paint nice looking weapons. Like axes for example. I keep doing the same boring metallic, shade, silver highlight routine

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Ah man, some cool weapons sounds like a great idea!

[@solodragun]

I have a semi transparent gunmetal blue by either Vallejo or Reaper, can't remember now for sure, that I like to use kind of like a glaze, over a P3 cold steel and radiant platinum combo. Pretty nice effect most of the time.

[@sztachu]

Holy cow, subbed right away ! I'll test that method of painting orc skin :D

[@nathanreiber6819]

was the chest sculpted? thought this mini had armor on the chest.

[@kevinpope9014]

Thanks for the tutorial. Awesome as always.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Thx, as always, for the comment! 😍

[@MentoliptusBanko]

Very useful video. I'll definitely try this on a demon with lots of skin. Thanks :)

[@cargath]

Where did you get Citadel paints in dropper bottles? I like their paints, but the little cans are a complete design failure :D

[@samshaker]

You can buy the dropper bottles he uses on amazon you get 50 for a good price but you do have to transfer the paints.

[@jocruzf]

wow... very clear video! thanks for sharing the "how to". Squidmarc at 8:52 you can see a veryyyy nice painted horn. Can you share a tip? Im painting an Abomination from Zombicide Green Horde and also it has a lot of green muscles and a lot of bones with spike shape. It will be very helpfull!!! THANKS A LOT AND CONTRATS FOR YOU VERY NICE WORK.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Hey man, I've done two videos on horn. How to paint heart eater and mastering the basics is the other one.

[@jocruzf]

@@SquidmarMiniatures THANKS!! will look for it. Congrats again!

[@OscarLars]

Fantastic video dude! Youre a megaboss 👏🏻👏🏻

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Åh Tack Oscar! ❤ Fick en förfrågan idag av en kille i staterna om att måla en Unit, rekommenderade dig. Vet inte om du tar på dig Units och sånt? Brukar själv bara ta emot små warbands eller single model.

[@OscarLars]

Squidmar Miniatures tack!! Jag tar allt som inte verkar tråkigt eller där kund verkar vara skum. 🤤😘😘 vi får se om han dräller in i inboxen 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@peterlageri4177]

What program are you using at 2:06 - 3:12?

[@solodragun]

I would like to do more wet blending, but even when using a wet palette, my paints seem to want to dry too fast. Does my wet palette suck, or am I just an incredibly slow painter, or do I need to thin my paints even more? Seems like when I try to thin them down more to prevent this, I go too thin and the coats try to streak. Suggestions?

[@DorgaMoria]

Sounds like you might have to little water, or if you have a home made version with the wrong kind of baking parchment. Make sure the paper doesn't have a coating that prevents moisture to penetrate it.

[@solodragun]

@@DorgaMoria Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I got to looking on Reddit just yesterday, and there seems to be a fair bit of discrepancy in regards to the various kinds of parchment/baking sheets out there and the degree of varying permeability. I just went ahead and ordered some Masterson wet palette replacement sheets from E Boy pretty cheap.

[@bradwilson1414]

Amazing! Please keep them coming!

[@Rohnon]

Looks great, tho I personally liked the colour at the Basecoat stage the best xD

[@stefanthomas4868]

Love it. Been away from painting from a while so looking for inspiration, these videos are perfect. I'd love to see more airbrushing videos as I've just bought a badger airbrush, also how to paint elephant skin like on gw's oliphaunt lord of the rings model, I did mine with overbrushing and drybrushing and its crap, looks really chalky.

[@evilldead6824]

Can you do a NMM gold and silver/steel tutorial?

[@Derimos]

Amazing as always. Thank you!

[@MigglyPuff94]

Hey Emil! I have been following your channel from almost the beginning, and I was wondering how thin your paint is? Especially when you use the red at first it loos really bright and almost too red, but then when dried, it doesn't pop as much and it looks a lot smoother. Does this have to do with the consistency of how thin the paint is?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Check out my wet palette video:)

[@shinankoku2]

Bravo! So so good!

[@manuelmendivil8201]

could you do a wolf lord on thunderwolf tutorial or how to paint space wolves tutorial pls?

[@theartofjayden1761]

1:17 Well he has a pretty intense look!

[@gundammodelgunpla5883]

Hello, excellent work, where can you get this orc? Thank you

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Hi, the Ork is Ironjawz Warchanter from Games Workshop. Just removed his chest plate and filled out the holes! :)

[@nicholasvinkler1635]

Great stuff!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Thx Nicholas as always for the comments!

[@alexandrelaurent9342]

what an amazing work !!! Well, what about yellow ? It's a hard color for me (I've been painting for 10 years and I still have difficulties to work this color !!) ;) I hope to see more videos of you ! thank you !

[@soccersbest9]

Love your content man! Just subscribed after watching this video. Exactly the content I need to get to the next level. What model are you painting in this video? Would love to test my technique and attempt to replicate

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Makes me happy man! It's ironjawz warchanter from games workshop 😊

[@carreroarts9735]

awesome man

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

:D thanks mate

[@steelsandport3613]

That is nice

[@RollinShot]

Can I ask what light that is that you are using?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Hey mate, it's listed on my website squidmar.com

[@alvaromarco2179]

can u do a tutorial about how to paint red ork skin?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Maybe :D

[@neilbrown2451]

Outstanding work. Looks amazing. He has abs like me 😆

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Haha, let's trade, i'll send you some colors if you send me some abs!

[@neilbrown2451]

@@SquidmarMiniatures 😆 you keep making videos like this and you'll be up there with kujo and miniac. Very impressed.

[@nicabedoshvili4225]

Great content, really digging it! Can you also cover doing some true metalic metal?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

TMM is defenately an interesting subject. I'm still experimenting on that subject to find my own style there. I will definately make a video about it once i found an easy way to present it!

[@nicabedoshvili4225]

Sounds great!

[@credoimperialis]

how much time had taken the whole skin?

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Skin is really a fast process, this is done in some 30 minutes or so. If you want to be super fine you can glaze for hours after haha

[@MichelletheMiniatureMisfit]

Awesome stuff, I learnt a thing! thank you :D

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Wop wop 😇

[@MichelletheMiniatureMisfit]

@@SquidmarMiniatures LOL 😀

[@kristinking3725]

You're gorgeous! Sending love from the USA ❤️

[@njkf]

More videos on how to achieve contrast!

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Achieve contrast or using contrast? (gosh this paint line name makes things confusing)

[@njkf]

Achieve maximum contrast like for a painting contest, what paint you use is up to you ;) I mean like some of the videos by Painting Buddha or Kujo Critiques where they show exactly the impact on a miniature by exaggerating contrast between shadows or colours, kind of like what you showed on the abs of this orc - painting by volumes

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

@@njkf Aah, gotcha! This is very much my painting style, high contrast and volumes. So it will be a part of every video, will be showing some different techniques to achieve it. :)

[@njkf]

@@SquidmarMiniatures Skål

[@rodrigomarquesruiz9836]

do you know what it will amazing ? Can you make a video so how to paint a mawkrusha?? that would be amazing. Sorry for my English ....... 🙄🙄

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

I do have one in my shelves in a box... But the painting process is very long 😁

[@nikos52]

@@SquidmarMiniatures Go for it squidmar!!!! You can do this! Break it down on weekly episodes. And please give us a reddish brownish Orc Warboss on top of the dragon!

[@deboozombie23]

I kind of want to know, if warhammer orks have red blood now... couldnt it be brown, or black, even white, they are a some kind of plant/animal organism? I really like, that your painted models look like they jumped out of a comic page.

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

these are all great ideas! To me the red complements the green very well. With the red tongue and elbows. But brown, blue and red orcs can look amazing too!

[@enensis]

Thanks

[@SebastianZdziebko]

New orcs came out and still cant find any guide how to paint armour like Squidmar did. Someone know how to copy his masterpiece?

[@lol_no_man]

I have attempted to use this exact technique on a catachan imperial guardsman using the same colors, the rest of the catachans have begun referring to him as "that fucking digganob" how do I fix this?

[@Diablo8900]

Hade gärna sett en liknande video med svenskt tal ;)

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Ain't no body got time for that ;) haha. Största publiken finns tyvärr inte i sverige, annars hade en helsvensk kanal varit grymt! :D

[@DorgaMoria]

Grymt bra förfrågan, finns många som tycker det är lite besvärligt med engelskan, ett förslag är att klicka på kugghjulet och välja automatisk översättning. Är långt ifrån felfritt men den blir bara bättre och bättre.

[@colinhavard2568]

Ah-mazing 🤣 another tutorial well done

[@noodlesswe5687]

40k evilsuns orks !!! Long Live the waaaaaarrrrrgg!!!!!!!!

[@plasttrasket3800]

Tjena Squidmar. Jag driver en svensk youtube kanal om modellbygge där jag bygger mest pansar. Och undrar om jag skulle kunna implementera detta klippet i ett av mina klipp. tänkte döpa en serie till "Hur svårt kan det vara?" Den är tänkt att vara lite som en reaction video. med ditt klipp i något av hörnen som jag målar efter. Återkom gärna. Hade gött haj! =)

[@SquidmarMiniatures]

Låter okej:) det är en gammal video så vet inte om den är representativ för vad vi gör idag. Men kör på :)

[@plasttrasket3800]

@@SquidmarMiniatures Cool, Tack, jag kommer givetvis att göra allt det där med länkar till ditt klipp och din kanal. jag skickar även en länk så att du kan kika igenom den om du vill innan jag publicerar.

[@ralphmcdonough9509]

Like the base color.... Looks like my orks.....looks more powerful... Not light like bunch of christmas elves on the table.... ( i found a Similar color in model railroad Colors)

[@somestuff3872]

Ahhh, a simpler time when videos weren't over edited...

[@AndrewH2791]

Green Skin iz da best Skin!

[@Dazhimself]

I prefer dark orc skin compared to bright

[@pietateip]

8:41 I mean ...

[@co0lidge]

1:48

[@GreenskinHolland]

According to the lore orks are mushrooms. So why have these been designed with nipples?

[@bogger3k]

But your skin is thicker away the elbows... what?