Just from the thumbnail, these are legit some of the best looking 28mm scale heads I’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t say “stylized” necessarily, but they have sooooo much character on each head. It’s really astonishing work!

This has to be the best face painting tutorial I have ever watched, I will be watching again and following along on the weekend.

the best head and skin, painting tutorial I have ever seen.

A very different way of painting space marine faces unlike any of the 1000s of so called tutorials on KZfaq very informative and instructive explanation on the process

This is insane, Erik! Literally in a 15 minutes you have painted single head in really a exhibition quality level (yes, I know that eyes and mouth were not painted yet but still - it's much faster and better than I could do in a several hours and I'm not a total newbie)! I think videos like this are really precious pieces in the internet and moreover - you share it for free! It's really freaking insane! Thank you from the deepest parts of my heart for such priceless gift!

This is absolutely incredible. I’ve been trying to move away from the recess shading for faces but never found a resource showing me how. Clearly a lot of skill that goes unspoken here in mixing and thinning paints. The organic process you use is exactly the sort of painting that is most enjoyable - free flowing, instinctive and (in my case) not putting too much pressure on yourself! Thanks Erik for the time and effort you put in here.

Great video, absolute treat for people who like painting faces. Super exciting to see how other people have a go at one of the "less liked" parts of painting miniatures.

Painting heads with exposed skin used to be a nightmare till I got the hang of it when I realized the application is what matters the most than the ''recipe''. Great job Erik!!

Thank you very much! The best tutorial on how to paint minis faces I've ever seen. You have taken it to the next level!

That's absurd The ammount of detail and work in such a small spot Those are definetly some of the best faces ive seen And the longer video format, even though it isn't my favorite, shows exaclty how much work is needed to a display standard Awesome work.

Absolutely has increased my face painting game. You are truly a master of this craft

The most helpfull miniature painting video ive seen in a solid while! Very informative, chill and down to earth. Massive Thumbs up and a subscribe!

This is fantastic. I try to teach very similar concepts to new and intermediate painters. A lot of miniature painters get stuck on which colors or which brand of paints to use, or which technique to apply. The tools and the how-to's aren't as important as understanding two concepts: 1. Shapes/volumes 2. Contrast appropriate to the material you're trying to represent For skin, in particular, you want it to "pop" at this scale, but you don't want to outline features with hard, dark lines. Skin is one continuous organ, remember, so subtlety is the name of the game!

12:19 the space marine is blushing like "please notice me erik senpai"

Great tutorial 💪🍻

Amazing! Love the detail you can achieve in that scale. You are truly a master, not that you needed me to designate you as such. Fun to watch you work.

Subbed! Amazing that you have a KZfaq channel for us to watch and learn from.

This is so ridiculously good. Amazing job as usual

Love your painting videos! Thanks for sharing Erik😊

I'm just getting started, and I also have a box of KT:Scouts, thank you for sharing your techniques, very inspiring for me, you also now have another follower. Take care of yourself!

These look great!

Incredible work! Love your videos!

Brilliant. Thanks buddy

impressive, Erik. the tones are gorgeous

Absolutely wonderful painting! Something to aspire to if i can ever get there

amazing video !

Thank you very much for this detailed and awesome video, you´re a master

Cool Painting guide from a badass viking? I must subscribe.

desde Valencia, España. Me encanta como pintas, eres de mis pintores favoritos!

Thanks for posting the stream, it's been a joy to watch, followed on Twitch so hopefully I can catch a live stream if shift patterns allow

Erik thank you thank you.. This is amazing. best face video on YT

You are the man

Amazing mate. Thanks for sharing. Fantastic content ❤ The Fighter is tremendous 😍

I'm going to try and apply this on my next heading paint ❤️ thankyou

The thing that's impressing (everything is, but this isn't adressed) is that you don't shake, like at all. If I tried this I would just swipe accross his face constantly.

We have the same glasses headset. Used them for about 4 years now. Not long after I got into the hobby. They have electrical tape on one side leg and the front magnifying piece has been superglued on twice. I have a backup pair, but i refuse to give up on these. They've been through alot with me 😂

GRACIAS

Absolutely stunning work, I’ll definitely going to try replicate your step by tutorial 👏🏻💪🏻 In the video, are you using a wet palette? And what kind of paints are you using? Looks like they dry slowly, and gives you time to place the paint before it dries. It’s one of my biggest issues with paint, drying out when I paint. And what type of brush are you using? Size etc 😅

And just like that you've made your most popular video yet!

I've learned so much in just this one video. Thanks for posting this! I Wish I could make it to your class in Dallas. Will you be teaching at NOVA this year?

This is one of the best tutorials on painting heads that I have seen. I will definitely try this technique of not painting everything in one dark color and trying to layer up. I have found that by the time you get to the last highlight the paint is too think and starts to look lumpy due to the micro size of the head. What you can get away with on larger scale doesn't work on a "canvas" this small. I would also love to know what primer you used. I usually use a dark or black primer because white has a tendency to need to go on too thick to look smooth or leaves a texture if sprayed lightly.

Do you have a tutorial for chaos marine faces? Pale skin, corrupted skin, possessed skin?

@erik_swinson been slowly going through your videos as they're phenomenal in how you approach your artwork. I did want to ask though how is your camera positioned? you look to be able to get pretty close with your magnifiers on and not accidentally get in frame.

i mastered painting using brisk ice tea as my medium.

well its simple for me, I just use heads with helmets xD

Are you licking the same brush every time after you wet it? Or what’s going on there? I’m sure your doing it to keep the brush point I just don’t know I’m a new hobbies and isn’t their paint on that brush?

I want an Squickmar ORK from you paited ! Howmuch are the costs in Studio Qualität

Hey Erik, thanks for the video. When you’re painting female faces on 32mm figures do you take a similar approach to what you do on the ‘Lady Knight’ and ‘Shiv’ videos and just replicate that on a smaller scale, or does the small scale require you to increase the contrast far beyond what you do on a larger scale even though female faces are generally less contrasted than male’s?

wow great, wold love to see tattoos on the Faces or maybee burning skin if its possible to draw... or a blind eye and and and :)

Okay I wanna say 3 things: 1. The first 5-10 min I was like holy shit that can’t be this dude must have eagle eyes. But you then turned to put on magnifiying glasses and I was like phew thanks man, I thought my eyes were just dogshit 🤣 2. the tips on those brushes are amazing! What brands are these? Is the white one an Artis opus and the black one something like a W&N / Rosemary Co.? 3. I thoroughly and deeply enjoy(ed) - I’m 1 1/2 h in - watching this was not only immensely educating (!) it’s also absolutely amazing to see this in real-time no speed ups no nothing. And I wanna thank you for that! I‘ve never seen someone have a process like that and it’s definitely something I’m going to try out. Your faces look amazing brother! ❤

Are you doing the rest of the eliminator fig on camera? I would love to see how you do camo in 28mm scale

Can you tell me the colors that you used on this video or this is not the way? Thank you so much.

Are you doing commission job

One of the best miniature painters on YT has only 7k followers? Seems wrong 🎨🖌️

Thank you for doing brown skin, there aren't a terrible amount of videos on it

And not a female miniature in sight! Sorry had to have a dig, brilliant paint job. Still have some leads in the loft from the early to mid nineties. Just remembered I have my LOTR collection up there too.

Nice panting style. GG. It is possible say how get this kind small additional ocular ? Any tool name ? My eyes is bad...but i like back too hobby.