What Painting 100 Miniature Faces Taught Me

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So often we will watch miniature painting tutorials on how to paint faces and have the very high expectations from ourselves to follow along and achieve the same results as the video creator, when we don’t have the same level of hand eye coordination. Up until this point I have been avoiding painting miniature faces because I’m not very good at painting them. I would always model my Warhammer 40k space marines with helmets, avoid Age of Sigmar armies that had too many faces and be scared of painting my Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth character models. So today I thought I would challenge myself to paint 100 miniature faces to see if I can improve my weakest painting skills! This video covered everything I learnt from this tabletop painting challenge.
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0:00 Video Summery
0:20 Why Painting Miniature Faces Is hard?
1:00 Do Tutorials Help?
1:43 The Problem?
3:15 What I will Paint in 1 Day…
5:20 The First 75 ‘Practice’ Faces
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8:19 The Final 3 Faces
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@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

In this video I painted 100 faces in a day, I then share what I learnt with you! 0:00 Video Summery 0:20 Why Painting Miniature Faces Is hard? 1:00 Do Tutorials Help? 1:43 The Problem? 3:15 What I will Paint in 1 Day… 5:20 The First 75 ‘Practice’ Faces 7:45 The Next 22 Faces 8:19 The Final 3 Faces 9:33 What did I learn?

@mattygee37 Жыл бұрын

If you want to paint eyes easier I recommend painting the black in the eyes before you apply the skin tone then add the white dots at the end

@andrewdavies6355 Жыл бұрын

Great tip!

@kirailove4207 Жыл бұрын

You are a gentlemen and a scholar and a true genius amongst men

@davidcauley9400 Жыл бұрын

Pendants note: 56 times smaller, as 28mm is approximately 1/56 scale.

@tabletop-mini-showcase Жыл бұрын

Looks like a good improvement, My advice for eyes (and faces in general) would be A- instead of washes, start with the darkest tone painted as a flat colour (e.g the shadow colour) B- paint the eyes now before adding highlights as it's easier to fix mistakes now while you're painting on a flat colour (also a micron pen might make doing the pupil/iris a bit easier, but don't use it to put the black base of the eye down as they are water soluble and will need varnish before you can paint over them) C- now, highlight up the face. Looking at how you paint, you don't seem to catch the eye area in your initial painting so I'm assuming you'll probably be alright to work like that without ruining the hard work you've put into the eyes (if you do, it happens you can still fix it, it's just a bit more work) I also noticed you became more deliberate with the brush as the video went on, on the first faces you were making several quick little brush motions to put paint down, but as the video went on it seemed like you were doing more single controlled brush strokes. 10 out of 10 for putting in work and pushing yourself to improve at something you aren't confident about. My kung fu sifu always told me that when training we have to be mindful and think about the movements so that we train correctly, he was a stickler for training right and a lot of people left his class because he wouldn't teach them new things until they got the other steps right (they thought he was ripping them off and dragging out the process), the reality was he had integrity and wanted to be sure they had learned the techniques sufficiently, passing on the legacy correctly was more important to him than the money he lost having people leave. His teachings have affected the way I approach most things in life, being present and mindful ensures you are committing the right habits into muscle memory, rather than just getting better at making the same mistakes, if that makes sense. :)

@splaartflunterklufn9797 Жыл бұрын

YOOO I had no idea you have a painting channel. Grew up watching and rewatching your skyrim videos endlessly, and now i run into this at 2 am, how splendid. Hope you can teach me a thing or two coz my painting skills are ass

@plaidpvcpipe3792 Жыл бұрын

The way I do eyes is by painting them first. Also, I actually paint the whole eye white initially, then fix my mistakes with the flesh basecoat, which makes it super easy to get it very clean. Then I paint the pupils with a dot of black--sometimes I even paint the pupils on one side or the other, so the model can be looking at something rather than staring into your soul. And again, I clean it up. This way, when I use a wash, the brightness of the eyes is dulled down, and they look perfect.

@LifesDesign Жыл бұрын

You could put heads on pikes. And use in diorama that’s ok based.

@daveemerson6549 Жыл бұрын

I'm very much in the "avoiding faces altogether" stage, so thanks for the encouragement.

@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

Thanks, this video is definitely aimed at people going through that stage, i'm glad you found it helpful!

@chrishatton8197 Жыл бұрын

Hey man I love your gaming channel! Ahhh welcome to the ridiculously large and consuming world of miniature painting and all the joys and depression it will bring. I have to admit it's an extremely addictive hobby and (damn you games workshop for bring out new seemingly more amazing minis on a monthly basis) somewhat expensive but so worth it. The community is awesome and the tips and recourses are vast (praise the internet). As for the severed heads .... Diorama? I find when doing eyes use a you really need to wick the paint off the brush also a much smaller brush helps with some cheap magnifier readers, you can get them from the pound store.

@Tedpikel Жыл бұрын

Your videos are great! Keep them coming!

@NikkiAnnMarie Жыл бұрын

The best advice I can give to you for eyes is to get a paintbrush with a really sharp tip! I'd only ever used synthetics (I think the same set as you have), and when I got a sable brush I could really tell the difference in how sharp it was, and how long the tip stayed sharp for. Rosemary & Co do some very affordable sable brushes, about £5-£10, and they're very good quality for the price!

@joeyr7294 Жыл бұрын

Battle brother.....I want to see you paint all the miniatures for my LOTR Risk board game! I'd honestly pay to see it and own it lol. Thanks for the content Danny!🍻

@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

BATTLE BROTHER! I did not know they even had a lotr board game for risk!

@joeyr7294 Жыл бұрын

@@esotabletop yesssss. I've had it for years....so idk if it's still something you can buy, unless ebay maybe

@pulpero666 Жыл бұрын

I will use my fail printings for practice this 😅

@richardmanintveld7618 Жыл бұрын

When in about 1990 I plonked into Space Hulk, I dove into painting throughout about 20 years. Then I reached a conclusion that in those 20 years NOBODY had ever picked up one of my models and actually said: "Damn! Your dudes actually have a face!" So, I dropped the useless time waster of making something that tiny and is used in rule wrangled game look better than anybody but me cared about. And NOBODY noticed. Whether or not I played with the opponent for 10 years already. Or just met them yesterday. Minis need to look good ten feet away. Not look good for someone who streams a painting tutorial on a fifty inch, 8k TV. (Which I do, BTW.) Just my rant.

@tomkulic5159 11 күн бұрын

You could use the heads as part of the landscape. I saw a comment to put them on pikes maybe a detail for a castle or palisade wall. How about a pile of heads next to a champion or monster. A wall of heads similar to body wall in the movie '300'?

@tomkulic5159 11 күн бұрын

Edging on a path to a shrine or alter

@kaeq8008 Жыл бұрын

Not seeing you on Skyrim for the first time is so weird😭

@ktfk1228 Жыл бұрын

When I painted faces for minis I always started with a grayish white for the eyes and then used the finest brush and painted a line from the brow to cheek. Then I painted the rest of the face.

@joshbernal4864 3 ай бұрын

7:18 Me when I'm trying to paint csm eyelenses

@fancymichael6113 3 ай бұрын

7:17 is my best moment xD

@GingaRobespierre Жыл бұрын

you really have to change the paint brush, in particular for eyes

@geoff8978 Жыл бұрын

Wow man, the music is so loud in this vid' !!!! Always love your content, first time I get this issue on your channel

@ESOdanny Жыл бұрын

I'll fix that in the next video, thankyou for letting me know!

@geoff8978 Жыл бұрын

@@ESOdanny 👍 Great content as always, thanks for your work :)

@6TypoS9 Жыл бұрын

awesome, what do you think of not painting the eyes? painting a thick eyebrow instead?

@sehui04 Жыл бұрын

Is there any benefit to leaving them on the sprue?

@goforitpainting Жыл бұрын

Cool. 👍

@rhysjones6944 Жыл бұрын

Contrast + zenithil FTW

@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

It definitely skips the whole headache and achieves instant tabletop army resaults!

@kgkevingai Жыл бұрын

YEEEEES!!! ESO ON THAT WARHAMMER GRIND IM SO HAPPY

@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you here!

@archonmegas3718 11 ай бұрын

Extra heads? With some not painted well? Vlad the impaler landcape of course. Cover them with blood and wounds to hide their blemishes.

@thejonathan130 Жыл бұрын

28 times smaller than you? nono my man, these are 28mm, not 1/28. They're a weird mix of 1/32 scale heads on 1/56 scale bodies so 56 times smaller than you.

@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the correction

@jamesvaughan7274 Жыл бұрын

Painful to watch. Try painting them one at a time, rather than compounding the mistakes with so many in parallel? Lots of methods, start with the mid-tone, glaze down to create shadows and then highlight up to keep the transitions smoother - that might be easier for you. Mix your paints so that you have mid-points between colours so the contrast between your layers isn't so stark. When you paint eyes, do them early on after you've done the base coat, block the area in with dark brown, paint in the white (grey) and then paint the pupil. You can then easily correct each step.

@ktfk1228 Жыл бұрын

The way you paint your faces is a great result. I liked painting mine the same way but I'd paint the eyes different than Danny

@esotabletop Жыл бұрын

I probably should of mentioned that I recorded this in a single day. Definitely agree on the compounding of mistakes and arrived at the same conclusion in the video 9:45. I think the next step would be to paint 1 face a day for 30 days and actually take my time on it.

@ktfk1228 Жыл бұрын

@esotabletop I always painted the eyes white first and then painted a black line down the eye for the pupil then painted the rest of the face. I've always had great results that way rather than trying to place white in the eyes.