Stop Painting Leather Like A Cabbage! - Kujo Masterstrokes

Tired of painting leather that looks like a wilted cabbage? Stop! Learn how to get the better results with this compact miniature painting tutorial.
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In this miniature painting tutorial we take a look at how to paint leather with a highly effective texturing technique you can use on your wargaming or D&D models. I use Snikrot from the Games Workshop Warhammer 40k game system, but you can do this on any mini or figure you like.
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[@AJDeLaRosa]

The color theory in this video was incredibly helpful to me, aside from that the overall look of the leather is gorgeous. Really everything on this model is gorgeous.

[@KujoPainting]

You are very welcome! Glad you found it helpful and thanks for the compliments on the model. :)

[@22readbetweent22]

Thank you very much for these videos. I just want to say your tutorials are the best I've found for a beginner like myself, you actually explain and show what's going on and make it easy for even a dunce like myself to follow. 😅👍

[@terrynicholls2975]

Beautiful!

[@Ederick1936]

I've never thought about using greyscale to compare darkness and this just blew my mind.

[@DicePunk]

Thank you for this Kujo. Especially the reminders to not overdo it.

[@KujoPainting]

You're very welcome. Cheers!

[@QUIRISS]

Watched your videos when started painting and it was ridiculous to me to spend so much time on single details. After leaning some stuff and trying some more advanced techniques can say - your tutorials are pure gold. Thank you!

[@KujoPainting]

Great to hear! I think as you get better the little details take less time and end up being the most fun part of painting. At least that's my experience. Glad my videos have helped you. Cheers! :D

[@redrooster7371]

Awesome. Very interesting to see another approach to leather after Vince's video last week. I really like it when you explain mixing colours or using the colour wheel!

[@KujoPainting]

Yeah I saw that too, I was like 'oh no, I'm doing a leather one too' but it's fine, totally different approach, it would be pretty boring if there was only one way to do it! Glad you enjoyed it, cheers!

[@johnwiles4661]

Thank you, can't figure out why you haven't got at least 500,000 subscribers. So skilled and great videos.

[@KujoPainting]

Maybe one day!

[@alienatedbeing7513]

Love scale colour for painting leather, the super matte finish makes it look really good.

[@KujoPainting]

Yeah, they're really good for that and fabrics and stuff. :)

[@dicks_sporting_goods]

Wow, first time watching your videos. The part when you explained alternative ways to get browns is something I have been looking for from other artists! Keep up the great work!

[@KujoPainting]

Hi mate, thanks. I do that sort of thing quite regularly, glad you found it useful. Cheers. :)

[@dicks_sporting_goods]

It's extremely useful! I usually have problems coming up with colors abd have been fascinated with how great artists like yourself come up with different shades. Will definitely tune in to your next video!

[@krzysiekk1616]

@@dicks_sporting_goods you sir should watch more of Kujos vids. He is the master of highlighting reds with greens, shadowing reds with greens, highlighting whites with blacks and shadowing black with who-the-f-knows-what. An artist, not just a miniature painter.

[@kerthan72]

Amazing stuff indeed!

[@KujoPainting]

Thanks a lot!

[@adamduncombe594]

Brilliant and well articulated as usual. Fantastic video. Thank you for taking the time to share

[@KujoPainting]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Dienomike.]

Such a well explained video, I learnt a lot so thanks. What a belter, This is top notch. Seriously this is the kind of videos I need as I'm new to this. More like this please.

[@KujoPainting]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Cheers , Kujo ,

[@KujoPainting]

Welcome.

[@neilkirkley1500]

What a well delivered and helpful video, subbed.

[@KujoPainting]

Thank you very much, welcome. :)

[@adamrob9464]

Amazing work, Im waiting for my minis to come and have been watching tonnes of tutorials. Stuff like this is very helpful! Subbed

[@KujoPainting]

Glad I could help! Hope you get your minis soon so you can start putting it all into practice! :)

[@adamrob9464]

@@KujoPainting I'm patiently waiting! I'm going for interesting single units rather than larger troops. Really looking forward to using your techniques and learning more, thanks again and keep up the good work dude

[@davidivanparisi2506]

Thanks a lot 🙏🏻

[@KujoPainting]

No probs.

[@piesandhiking4943]

I missed the bit with the explanation of why leather ends up looking like cabbage?

[@KujoPainting]

That's a mystery best left unexplained. Lest we tear a rift in the fabric of the spacetime continuum

[@piesandhiking4943]

@@KujoPainting Buuuuuuuuut I'm so curious now!

[@veritasg9020]

@@KujoPainting time to rip the continuum a new one :D...

[@dazza1156]

Lol the captions on this video are hilarious! Why does everybody struggle with the scottish accent so much? Your paint work looks amazing dude thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@KujoPainting]

Scottish is the canary in the AI coal mine. Once they work it out, we're all doomed. Thanks for the kind words, cheers! And you're welcome. :0)

[@dazza1156]

@@KujoPainting I do have a question, regarding your knowledge of Warhammer miniatures, I have maybe 300 1st editions from 1980-1990. But I am new to the community, do you know of anybody that could give an appraisal on the vintage miniatures? 40k and fantasy.

[@LCRequiem]

Are you somehow related to Jotaro or Holly or Josefumi Kujo?

[@RogerS1978]

Fantastic tutorial, will have to try this one. Oddly what seems to be missing to me is the damage to the holes from where the buckle goes through, have you tried it with that?

[@custodianguard749]

Wow. Im early. Great video. I was actually wondering how i would paint the leather on my chaos space marines so great timing too.

[@KujoPainting]

Thanks mate, best of luck with the space marines, hope it works for you. :-)

[@custodianguard749]

@@KujoPainting me too haha.

[@friscoray2]

Amazing process and geat tutorial. Any chance you can show how to do the camo on the pants and the sack?

[@KujoPainting]

Thanks! I did a camo tutorial a few years ago. It's on a different model and the video quality is a bit ropey but it's the same general process. It might help you. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qoXMqKeto557g5o

[@TeamCulexAK]

Which recipe did you use for the belt buckels? I find your tutorials to be the best ones on youtube. You have to do more nmm tutorials. Thanks for the awesome work.

[@KujoPainting]

Hi mate, It's the same as the one in this video here -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJTFnn-KZ9Sfpa8 Glad you like the videos, thanks a lot!

[@TeamCulexAK]

It is? Ok have checked that one out. Same with the hooks and blade too? Looks really good.

[@kage2701]

Have you done a tutorial on ork skin?

[@KujoPainting]

Hi Oliver, yeah a few. Just search 'kujo ork skin' and some will pop up, there's also a few on my patreon feed if you need more. Cheers!

[@germanvisitor2]

Can I paint cloth bandages like cabbage?

[@Nancygertu]

This reminds me that scene from toy story

[@KujoPainting]

Which one?

[@Anecron1]

Love the vid, thx! Just have to ask how much spare time you have in a week, considering you spend that long on 3 leather straps. Or is this perhaps your day job?

[@KujoPainting]

I'm self employed, this is one of my jobs, but I wouldn't say I have much free time I've been painting this model on and off since last year!

[@turtleandbear1179]

hi Kujo! Not sure where I should ask this, hope here is ok. I started painting for DnD, but quickly found that I was less interested in tactical dnd combat. so now i mostly paint for painting's sake, without any use for the mini's in mind. I now have only a handful minis done. under 10. This also leads to me not being "limited" by (or "focussed" on) 28/32mm scale. so I wanted to ask: Do you think one should be good at 28mm before moving to 54mm, 75mm, 90mm, 110mm etc? Or would you just go for it. Because I suspect that most miniature painters just paint 28mm because that's the scale most games work with. and in general: how do you think painting different scales compare to one another?

[@KujoPainting]

Yeah for sure, just paint something at a larger scale and see how you like it. I think smaller models take a lot more fine motor control than larger stuff, just because the surface area is so limited, so tiny movements in any direction make a big difference. But in the larger scales you have a lot more large blank areas that you need to fill up, textures and subtlety become much more important. The way you handle contrast changes too. In some ways larger scale models are easier, and in other ways they're much harder. I would say just pick one you like the look of and dive right in.

[@FiLtheThriL]

Sorcery

[@KujoPainting]

:)

[@gavins4970]

Hello Kujo. After some advice, what would you recommend as a basic set of Scale 75/ Vallejo colours to purchase, I have a ton of Citadel paints but I am looking to expand my collection in to other manufacturers. Many thanks.

[@KujoPainting]

I'd recommend just picking up a few colours you like the look of, or if you're into mixing, buy the primary colours.

[@gavins4970]

@@KujoPainting thanks dude. will buy some packs and experiment.

[@waslos2588]

but what if my dudes are strapped in brown cabbage instead of leather? What then, huh

[@KujoPainting]

You don't want to know!

[@Sgt40K]

I find that if you yell at your model and water down your paint with your tears of shame, your model will still not look anything like Kujo's.

[@KujoPainting]

I'll need to try that, maybe angry shame tears are the secret juju I need to level up. :)

[@heidijugovic6342]

I once won a chili cooking contest at work where I was so mad at my coworkers I literally wept into the chili. That’s when I discovered my coworkers like the taste of angry tears.

[@paulgibbons2320]

Leather straps on 28mm fantasy models are ushually less than a mil thick. Is this practical for them ? Looks great by the way. An excellent tutorial. This is higher level stuff.

[@KujoPainting]

You do need a surface that's going to be big enough to let you see what's going on, I'd say 1mm would be too small for this sort of shenanigans. I think these are about 3 or 4. Glad you liked the video, cheers!

[@PissedOffNerd]

Kujo, any recommendations for paints to paint Black leather in a similar fashion?

[@KujoPainting]

Hmm actually you can use basically the same paints but start off with a darker colour, black or near black. You can highlight the black with a blue grey and use the orange/beige colours to create little rips at the edges.

[@PissedOffNerd]

@@KujoPainting great, will give that a try

[@brammo1991]

how should i paint a cabbage?

[@KujoPainting]

Very carefully. Don't be fooled, they are vicious killers with big sharp pointy teeth!

[@terrydactyl2077]

Anyone know what Vallejo or Reaper paint is closest to the scale 75 colours?

[@KujoPainting]

Sorry I don't have many reaper or valejo paints (I only have the classic valejo colours. Ice yellow, Ivory, Sunny Skintone etc) so not sure about that.

[@KujoPainting]

Don't worry so much about exact matches, try to find a flat brown, a nice vibrant orange, a yellow ochre and an off white and you'll get a very similar result.

[@terrydactyl2077]

@@KujoPainting Thank you! Realising this as I learn. Can’t wait to follow some of your video advice!

[@mutehowl]

Is a cabbage worse then a potato?

[@KujoPainting]

Depends how you cook it.

[@mutehowl]

@@KujoPainting i meant in regards to the kids slang these days. Is it better to paint like a potato or is it better to paint like a cabbage?

[@MisterTroglodyte]

Opposite colors on the color wheel, if mixed in equal pigment proportions, results in grey, not brown, as seen when you were mixing in the lower left puddle. If the proportion is off some it can result in a tannish-grey or even a brown of some shade. Basically the brown = dark orange is correct and one can mix in blue into browns to desaturate them - making their tones more grey, basically. Good tips on the leather texture - will have to try out.

[@KujoPainting]

Complimentary colours can be used to get both browns and greys.

[@TruthTealler]

gg gghjgj good video

[@albertreed966]

I like your work BUT, you have such a soft voice that even with my volume all the way up and my hearing aids all up, I still have to strain to hear everything being said.

[@KujoPainting]

Sorry to hear that, try clicking the subtitles on, I add subs to pretty much every video. That should help. Cheers!

[@willscurran]

It looks a bit too busy imo.

[@KujoPainting]

Fair enough.