Painting a Miniature With Only Two Colors?

By Andrew Schrank | July 22nd, 2020 | Categories: How To Tutorial, Videos

Squidmar is here again with an interesting challenge- check out how he tackles painting a miniature with only two colors!

Squidmar’s channel is rapidly growing due to his great tutorials ranging from full-scale models to tips and even practical physics! This time around, he is tackling a challenge to paint a bust using only two colors of paint pots!

Painting a Miniature With Only Two Colors?

For this challenge, the two colors he chose were Citadel Khorne Red and Vallejo Livery Green. He also used white and black since they aren’t technically colors.

With his model primed black, with a zenithal highlight, he quickly made some color mixes using his two colors along with the white and black to test what kind of combinations he could get.

Starting with the skin tone, he made a brown mixing the green and red, then primed the skin with it in an airbrush. After that, he brightened it a tad with the white and green, then did a second layer. Moving on with the brush, he brightened it up one more time and highlighted the skin again. Then he primed the armor and blade with black.

For the squid, he used the green with Varying amounts of white and black to add variation. Then the leather was done with a red and black mix.

On from that, he did the metallics using the green and mostly white to give it a shine effect. Then he added to the hair and leather with more highlights by adding white into those mixes. One last glaze of red on some of the skin areas and it is done!

While this isn’t a typical tutorial, it’s important to realize how much you can learn about paints by just trying wacky challenges like this! You may just surprise yourself with how much variation you can get with two paints because Squidmar sure was!

Squidmar Miniatures is a great place to learn all kinds of hobby techniques! Be sure to subscribe to Squidmar Miniatures’ YouTube channel for more tutorials.