How to Paint Skin & Muscles: Elminiaturista Tutorial

By Travis Pasch | February 10th, 2022 | Categories: Age of Sigmar, painting miniatures, Tabletop Gaming News, Videos

Elminiaturista is back and this time he’s showing us how to paint muscles and skin on miniatures in this awesome painting tutorial!

Elminiaturista has some amazing hobby content and if you need some sweet painting tips, you should follow him to get up on all your painting and conversion techniques! They also have a great Patreon where you can get one-on-one coaching to get even better!

This time around he shows how to paint skin and muscles that would make Arnold proud- let’s get into the painting tutorial!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHD-yhxrZKM

How to Paint Skin & Muscles: Elminiaturista Painting Tutorial

This is the mini we’ll be painting today and he starts with a black primer over the whole model. The does some grey from the top down for a mini Zenithal highlight feeling.

Step 1

For the base skin tone, he mixes Violet Red and Beige Red from AK Interactive in the airbrush. He then covers all the skin with this mix. Next, he takes a brush and covers the skin again with the same mixture, and picks a light source to highlight from.

To finish this stage out, he actually takes a white and marks all the muscles from that light source, and paints the areas. Just remember, in the back you have to change where the light source is coming from.

Step 2

To start his he takes Light Skin Tone from AK and covers all the areas he just painted white. Then to blend the areas together he takes Beige Skin Tone and starts smoothing the transitions from the dark skin to the light skin. Don’t be too worried about smoothness, we’ll fix it later.

Step 3

He goes back to the mix he used in the first step but makes it much lighter this time with more beige added in. He then continues to smooth out the transitions but still leaves some of the darkest skin.

Step 4

To help smooth it out more, he shoots Guilliman Flesh from below using the airbrush. Then to finish it off, he takes the light skin tone and does some highlights where the light would be the brightest.

Finished Model

There you have it, some awesome-looking muscles in about half an hour.

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