How do I paint faces?

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

Pretty much all my marines have helmets, but a few don't. What's a simple and non-cartoonish way to paint the faces?

[Growler67]

The GW site has a bunch of pictured tutorials on painting different things. Have a gander.

[Marshal Wilhelm]

I cannot find any for human faces, but hopefully this Monsters faces one will give you the technique, if not the colours.

 

Link:GW on moster faces.

[Ash Tekka]

Easiest/quickest way I've done it is:

 

base: tallarn flesh

wash: ogryn flesh

Highlight: tallarn flesh

 

 

I use more colors and layers etc but for ones I want to crank out and and still look decent I'll do just those 3.

[Thunderhawk3015]

I do the same as Ash for the basic troopers. Past that, Dwarf Flesh, then elf flesh, if you want warmer/cooler tones, add some blue or red to the flesh mix.

[Grizwald714]

1) use dark flesh

2) 50/50 dark flesh and dwarf flesh

3) then wash with mud

4) repeat 2

5) Dwarf Flesh highlight

6) 50/50 Dwarf flesh, Elf Flesh highlight

7) Elf flesh final highlight

 

I know it's a lot of steps I do spend a lot of time paining my models but I get a lot of complements especially on their faces if I had a diggy cam Id post some pics. But I figure u should spend more time on the head since it's the first thing people usually notice about your models.

[S. Bloodhowl]

Here's my method:

 

1-Tallarn Flesh basecoat

2-Wash Leviathan Purple

3-Tallarn Flesh to all but deepest recesses

4-Highlight Dwarf Flesh

5-Highlight Elf Flesh

6-Ogryn Flesh Wash

7-Extreme Highlight Elf Flesh

 

Hope this helps

[TopToffee]

White spray

One or two coats of Ogryn Flesh wash

 

done.

[Warhead01]

this guy rocks. I enjoyed this block of instruction it helped me with faces.

[Bulweih]

I do mine along the following lines:

 

Chaos Black Primer

Bronzed Flesh as base

(here comes the base colour for the hair)

Gryphonne Sepia wash

(Same for brownish hair, other for other ;) )

Dwarf Flesh for the more prominent parts with the dark colours left in the recesses.

(and here follows the highlight colour for the hair+ eyebrows etc.)

[Fred Johnson the 3rd jr]

White spray

One or two coats of Ogryn Flesh wash

 

Easiest/quickest way I've done it is:

 

base: tallarn flesh

wash: ogryn flesh

Highlight: tallarn flesh

 

 

I use more colors and layers etc but for ones I want to crank out and and still look decent I'll do just those 3.

 

Cool guys thanks, these both sound simple enough. I am assuming the washes are actually products and not just the paint you water down yourself? And where do you buy them from?

[TopToffee]

White spray

One or two coats of Ogryn Flesh wash

 

Easiest/quickest way I've done it is:

 

base: tallarn flesh

wash: ogryn flesh

Highlight: tallarn flesh

 

 

I use more colors and layers etc but for ones I want to crank out and and still look decent I'll do just those 3.

 

Cool guys thanks, these both sound simple enough. I am assuming the washes are actually products and not just the paint you water down yourself? And where do you buy them from?

bought from GW