Painting Kommander Sorscha Bust Part 1 - Skin & Makeup

[@CaptainKeen]

Thank you. Watching this finally gave me the confidence to try painting a bust, after procrastinating the project for some time.

[@johnlanger7852]

such a beautiful bust, and I got to be number 1000 for your likes YAY!!!!!!!

[@hishamaziz3282]

I hate it when talented people like you make it look so easy :) Seriously though, great work!

[@kennethcal8563]

This is incredible, you have excellent skill! I'm inspired to grab my brush when I see amazing work. Thank you for the great content! :)

[@lalouxfrancois]

This IS a very very nic job... i like your vids a lot but this one really impressed me... thanks a lot for your vids

[@horationoseblower6336]

This gives me hope for the 1:10 and 1:12 stuff I've recently gotten. I wish to avoid having the pieces look like a pile of hot garbage and seeing that the blends should be easier due to scale has eased the apprehension. As always, thanks for the video and the view into your work process.

[@cindytutwiler7896]

BEAUTIFUL!!

[@sylvd81]

Superb bust ! 👍

[@ams2379]

Amazing

[@basicminiaturepainting]

Stunning

[@TheMiniJunkie]

Looks incredible!

[@westers1514]

I've missed this sort of stuff - when you decide to spend time on a figure, the results speak for themselves. Even though I've seen the finished version, I can't wait to see you paint the armour. Please, do more of these sorts of paint jobs, and less of the quick jobs.

[@ericverpeten4249]

love your work Awesome.

[@triruns]

Looking great, Doc!

[@maxshow7949]

Awesome.

[@SeanM375]

Damn, that's very nice! Great work! I want one as well

[@HikeBikePhoto]

Been two weeks, glad to see you're back.

[@shadowjestereves]

Woot! Sorcha!

[@kingmarke6940]

WOW! Nice to see you doing a bust :) This is still one of my favorite channels in youtube.

[@ThePereubu1710]

Have you ever used a wet palette? If so, what do you think of the idea? Stunning work by the way, great to see brushwork on larger scale figures.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Yes. They are fine for certain situations, but I prefer to have more control over the paint.

[@DrJackJeckyl]

I love your work... it depresses me but I love it :D

[@lucioluciolucio85]

Pretty interesting, maybe i should give a try to busts as well on my channel

[@MrGunnar177]

What do you use to thin the Vallejo paint? Flow improver? Retarder? Water?

[@Akira.Nibbai]

How do you do thin layers, is your paint watered down or just not alot of paint on the brush?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Thinned with water. Think more thick colored water.

[@BountyHunter106]

Hello! Any chance this you'd let this piece go for sale? Thank you! Can send a DM to discuss.

[@ianpotts3819]

Hi nice bust would you paint a ww2 German one I'm currently painting the traitor basford nuts planet figure its excellent next up Andrea 1/16th Africa Korps figure also very good

[@dmitrypetrov3052]

Brilliant job! Could you answer some questions, please? 1. Do you use wet palette? 2. Do you mix a medium into paints (e.g. Vallejo Glaze medium or Citadel Lahmian medium)?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

1: Normally, no. 2: Only when it's mentioned, like when doing the freckles here.

[@dwukropek]

Where to buy this model :O?

[@andershoffman7196]

What made you decide to prime gray instead of black?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

The piece is large enough that we can start with the basecoat and paint in the shade. So since we're not working the colors from darkest to lightest there is no need to start with black.

[@ColonelSandersLite]

@@ThePaintingClinic A better question might be: Why did you prime grey instead of red?

[@bezweifeln3959]

Forgive me as I am a total beginner. Are you using these acrylics almost like watercolor painting - very diluted - and just building up with washes? Do you use a retarder in the paint?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Yes, they are thin transparent layers of paint and just water. Technically a wash is a different thing. The application is different, but the paint is thinned kind of like a wash.

[@wowkalfas1977]

where can i buy this bust

[@lucdumadirand6550]

magnifique

[@paulwalker427]

Why isnt there a Love This option?

[@DrWhom]

Sorcha or bust!

[@tynanroyhiggins]

God, your voice reminds me so much of Lucan Valerius from the Riverwood Trader. Edit: Maybe Belethor from Belethors Goods instead...

[@mini_wargamer]

What's your go to for paint brushes?

[@ThePaintingClinic]

Currently Escoda Reserva.

[@mini_wargamer]

@@ThePaintingClinic Thank you, appreciate it

[@Sentaidude75]

You forgot one small detail. Her beauty mark. Other than that it came out great.

[@ThePaintingClinic]

I didn't forget. I didn't like it. Looked like a paint splatter.

[@Blastercadre]

Before the hair was blacked in, she had a little bit of thundercats Liono clown make up going on.

[@Kojak0]

Hmmm... I'm torn. On one hand its a fantastic piece of painting there with the skintone, on the other: it doesn't look realistic with the very wide range from dark to light. When I see figures painted this way, I get the impression that the face is V-shaped, when it's more like an U-shape - the skintone is mostly quite uniform, and I think painting should reflect that. Or in other words, the highlight should go far lower on the face so to speak. On even larger scale figures like 1/6, you pretty much never bother with shades except in the nostrils, ears and under the eyes, since you always has to take into account the actual, real-life light, and shadows shouldn't be a concern in this scale either - shadows (painted or washed) should be for smaller scale figures, not figures where you can see actual shadows cast from natural light. So in short, I think that most figure painters (very good at their craft, mind you) overdo the work on the skin for some reason I haven't actually figured out yet...

[@DrWhom]

The question is: Is "looking realistic" (however one subsequently chooses to evaluate this) the main objective?

[@Kojak0]

Well... If it's not supposed to look realistic, why even bother using skin tones? Why not slab a few coats of flourescent green on the figure and call it a day? We can all see that it's a human-looking, female figure. Therefore, unless you are going for green fluo, why not painting the figure as it would look if it had been a real human?

[@DrWhom]

Why not indeed? But the question was: why should _he_?

[@Kojak0]

Well, you asked wether or not realism should be the ain objective - my take on it is, if you are going for unrealistic, why not go the whole nine yards and paint it in green? The thing is, if the intentions are to get a realistic paint job, and you don't achive that, you have failed. I'm not saying anything about the technique - it's fantastic, and the same that most large scale figure painters use. However, they never look realistic with those very deep shadows where there should not be shadows at all. So, if you can't break out from the mold of painting faces as they would be V-shaped and instead paint them as U-shaped, then it's a failure and you could just as well have covered the figure in green. Because to me the unrealistic look is the same - the only difference is that the technique used here is more time-consuming.

[@DrWhom]

OK, I understand, in your opinion it has to be one thing or the other, but no half-baked in-between. My opinion is that Faust made some stylistic choices here that worked out quite well. To each their own...

[@OpticalArxenal]

On a regular soldier, make-up would most likely not fly, but a commander has privileges, so...why not?

[@woodslore8537]

I guess one could say, Khador or bust

[@redgreen09]

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