For an extra 5% off Michigan Toy Soldier, use code "miniac1326"! Here are the affiliate links for the products used in this video so you can follow along! Oak Brown: geni.us/rhQ5 Fur Brown: geni.us/BJyEISt Barbarian Flesh: geni.us/PA3V Ice Yellow: geni.us/G1AUp Matt White: geni.us/8SFwvt Wet Palette: geni.us/m9Fh3cV Xacto Knife: geni.us/aX6ccyg Drill and Bits: geni.us/iEsV2b5 Brush: geni.us/y041BT Army Painter Mega Set: geni.us/AQJPmV (all of the paints came out of this set)
You're really finding a sweet spot that hasn't been found in painting youtube so far. I really like this long form, conversational content. It is something that you can uniquely do and you're nailing it.
Yea, I really enjoyed this and found this really useful. Having someone who isn't as good a painter as you ask questions is really helpful as it's the kind of questions I would ask.
YES! These are the kind of content for mini painting that is missing from TH-cam. EXPLANATION in less of a "this is what I did".. more of a "This is how..and WHY I did this." This content is why I can't quit you , bud. KEEP DOING THESE!
Please do more of these videos. This and the other one you made are some of the best, because less experienced painters encounter problems that many experienced painters don't think about the same. So it seems organic. Many of us have the same questions and make the same mistakes as the less experienced painters in these videos.
I got 9 minutes in, and audibly said "This is one of Scott's best videos in years". Seriously, this is an incredible resource. Excellent work Scott. This is a great tutorial.
I do actually love this series as its one of the worst things as a new painter to get into - not painting faces - but starting out in a field where so much knowledge is just seen as "yeah of course thats what/how you do it duh". If you want to expand on this, please think about adding something like painting "clean" flat armor panels in different styles, like classic eavy metal and contrast/speedpaint or with an airbrush or inks, and have your guest talk about how they felt about the different approaches.
Most wargame mini sprues have alternate heads, so you'll have heads left over after assembling your figures. Save up all those extra heads and use them for practice.
This was awesome, Scott! I would love to see more of this kind of video, especially with a guest as good as Jimmy. He asked some insightful questions and the explanations you gave were top-notch. Keep up the great work!
I love your style of tutorial videos. I'm not sure exactly why, but there's something about your presentation style that has always stuck out to me as exceptional. Keep doing what you're doing, because it's great.
I'm almost halfway through and really enjoying this video. A couple of initial thoughts. 1. Appreciation for the "layers graphic" at 16:40! That was really awesome, easy to overlook as a viewer, and probably took a fair amount of time. You should know that it was fascinating and helpful. 2. I found this format really valuable. As a teacher, I know very well how, no matter how hard you try to cover everything in your instruction, people will always have other questions/needs, and you communicate differently when answering a question rather than just "lecturing." I thought this format was awesome and helpful. I wouldn't want you to do just this, but I'd love to see more of it. It's a unique format. I'm sure it's really tough (heard you say something to that effect on TUP), but it would be worth doing again (other than the fact that it would open you to SO MANY fans trying to get on 😅). Great work!
Great video partnering up with someone you are teaching. I really like the graphics showing the layering process and wish there were a little more as you got into the highlights. Thanks, Scott!
I think it was really good to have Jimmy there asking questions on the spot. It brought out some things that might otherwise go unnoticed. There were some good points about hard to reach spots that got brought up.
I started little by little replacing my Vallejo with Warpaints fanatic. The triads are very very nice for beginners. I buy 3/6, all odd ones starting from the darkest. Because the even ones are 50/50 mix of the left and right paint in the triad.
Noob content is great. Love the conversational quality and the noob asks questions that viewer noobs would have but might not occur to the experienced painter.
I hope filming this video was as enjoyable for you as it was for me to watch and learn from. Scott is a great teacher because he truly listens, and this is easily one of his best videos of 2024 for us newbies. It’s so refreshing to see such down-to-earth ideas and tactics, with no egos involved.
I really enjoyed this one and I feel like I learned a ton. I painted the face of a friends DnD miniature today and could try things out. Concerning the eyes, I only have old Vallejo Game Color Dead White and Black, but I feel like these behave poorly for painting eyes. The black is very thin and gooy, the white also doesnt have a great consistency. Does someone now a good white and a good black for painting eyes?
1: This was awesome and super useful!! I would love to see more content like this. 2: how much paint have you eaten with 20 years of licking the brush like that? 😅
Your face painting videos have always been the best - I still refer to your make-up tutorial video. Having a none pro with you definitely makes this more relatable and now I see why Ninjon sometimes uses the arrow tipped brushes rather than the round brushes.
I think this is really valuable for the viewers of the channel, when you instruct and give advice to an actual person sitting next to you. This way you don't miss something, that is obvious for you, because you have to tell the student what to do and how to do it. Plus, you can see where your advice lead the unexperienced painter and correct it immediately. Thank you for this video!
Without question this is the best tutorial for this kind of thing I've seen yet. Love that the questions as a novice are being asked! Things that otherwise get lost in a comments section. This is much more of a "class" than a tutorial that creates more questions than it gives answers. The layer building slides are the best part to help distinguish each one.
This was actually super helpful and not boring. Usually I’m fast forwarding through painting vids but you are genuinely entertaining to watch/listen to! Thanks for the informative vid brother 🫡✊
Man I’m stoked I found your channel. I’m a new painter, and trying to unlearn the “mid tone/wash/highlight” method is interesting. I guess that method also has its place
Man I love your tutorials Scott, they are so informative, easy to follow and enjoyable, nearly 40 minutes and it flew by, felt like seconds but I learnt so much! Thank you man!
These type of videos are great because its not just what you did but what you did and why. Having someone newer getting taught added an additional layer as well as they were asking questions and you were answering, questions that most likely a lot of people would ask. Great video and I hope we see more like it.
As usual another consummate video. This vid should be in the tool box for every miniature painter, amazing, I love the start of each phase coverage shot, Scott we the miniature painting community salute you.
I do my model's eyes first after the base coat (an example in my profile picture). I start with the pupil color, then make big off-white streaks, curved slightly to leave a pupil, extending over the brow and cheeks. It's easy to change the directions of the pupils by nudging the curves. Then I re-apply base coat around to lock-in the eye shape, and continue highlights as normal.
Spectacular video, really well broken down and explained. Having another painter present who you were teaching really added to the video as well, it's a really interesting format and one i'd love to see more of. I've painted this specific head on my Orlocks so it was great to see you go through the process and I learned a lot. Probably the best intermediate face painting tutorial video on TH-cam. Thanks!
Good stuff, also showing the layers on the face enlarged with the different colors was a nice touch to really show how much you covered in following layers.
This was one of the best videos you've ever done. The interaction between the two of you and the step by step was really fun and educational. Great job!
You have no idea how much I needed this video. Hoping to find plenty more videos on bits I have been struggling with while painting my army. I have subbed. Thanks for the help.
This format should be a series where you take someone (patron or whoever) and walk them through a painting technique in person. It’s an awesome format for a video I think and it brings out a lot of your knowledge that is very useful
This super detailed step by step was great Scott (and Jimmu) I'm off to paint Khal Drogo from my ASOIAF starter set who had been intimidating me. Also my 12 y/o Son Max has surpassed me as a painter over the last few months. It's a dichotomy as I am super proud but also secretly a little peed off. Imagine if under your tutelage Jimmy's face had turned out better than yours. Subscribed till I die and painting more minis.
Beautiful to see your awesome teaching skills grow in the meantime... Beautiful to see your explanation skills grow. Love your attempts here. Amazing video. Thank you!
I really like your brakedown on how to get a tip on the brush and how to approach painting the eyes. I feel like i've been trying to find how to do it, both with practice but also from guides. I feel like you nailed it =) thank you
This was awesome. I really want to improve my miniature painting and learned so much. Doing and teaching are such different skills, and you’re a master at both!
This is actually so clutch dude, such a refreshing way to produce painting content. I think the reason the guys at cult of paint have been killing it is their super approachable style, and this feels like your take on that. Watching you coach someone through a process or sat with another great painter both trying to tackle the same mini and explaining your process is such an organic way to teach your audience new tricks or methods to achieve a good result. I'm assuming these videos are more complex to organise as youve got to get someone else in the studio but please keep making them. Need to see a video of you and jon applying nmm to a golden tendie
Scott.. bro... more vids like this! Please! I've been painting for about 2 years now and the questions that Jimmy brought up are some of the exact ones I've had and that are NEVER covered! This hit so many subtleties I've never seen covered before, things the pros take for granted but us newbs struggle with: thinning, brush selection, etc.
One huge thing that helped me, and I think you’ve mentioned this before, but watching makeup tutorials. ESPECIALLY for blemish cover ups and full beats since they’ll talk about why they’re doing what their doing with shading and highlights. Masc Drag/Cosplay tutorials help a ton too. I like looking at drag tutorials as well for more experimental stylings that help with elves lmao
I really liked this video and I hope you will consider doing more content where you bring a noob in to paint a thing. I myself struggle with skin tones, highlights and layers. I feel the urge to get into my hobby room and paint.
Really enjoyed this video. Also the little shaded examples images of how much to cover was cool. Good idea doing that very satisfying/good teaching tool.
Perfect timing Scott! I am getting ready to paint some hero models for my DnD group and I was actively stalling on painting the faces. Now I am all out of excuses! Time to put theses tips to the test! And: Thank you very much for answering my question. ^^ I will try and be patient to learn the right consistency.
This has been one of the most helpful painting videos I’ve watched! Really should have far more views, it would be great to see videos like this on more topics
This is a top quality video? So many others say you just this and you just that, 2 second demo and it looks like golden demon. Here, real time, clear steps, practical advise on brush control. Really good. 🎉🎉
Excellent video and it dropped at exactly the time I was really struggling with this. I love that you went through step by step and explained and demonstrated the process. Thanks man!
He waits until I've finished and failed hard at face-painting in my new diorama before revealing his secrets... Well played Scott. Well played... I'll undoubtedly return to this video many times in the future to mine the gold.
Love this video format, explaining to a total newbie and taking their questions. I find far too many videos have "this is how to draw an owl" effect. Hope we get to see more of this format in the future!
Glad to find this video, im starting to build and paint my first army tonight and im nervous. Doing Tyranids sounds cool but they can be pretty detailed.
For an extra 5% off Michigan Toy Soldier, use code "miniac1326"! Here are the affiliate links for the products used in this video so you can follow along!
Oak Brown: geni.us/rhQ5
Fur Brown: geni.us/BJyEISt
Barbarian Flesh: geni.us/PA3V
Ice Yellow: geni.us/G1AUp
Matt White: geni.us/8SFwvt
Wet Palette: geni.us/m9Fh3cV
Xacto Knife: geni.us/aX6ccyg
Drill and Bits: geni.us/iEsV2b5
Brush: geni.us/y041BT
Army Painter Mega Set: geni.us/AQJPmV (all of the paints came out of this set)
Love seeing our local Michigan Toy Soldier Company getting a shout out and links!
You're really finding a sweet spot that hasn't been found in painting youtube so far. I really like this long form, conversational content. It is something that you can uniquely do and you're nailing it.
Yea, I really enjoyed this and found this really useful. Having someone who isn't as good a painter as you ask questions is really helpful as it's the kind of questions I would ask.
100%. This actually may have been the best explanation of layering that I’ve seen on a TH-cam video.
Agree
First YT painting video that feels like Bob Ross x Bob Vila
Yeah, a paint with me / interview with tips or q&a cpuld be fun
YES! These are the kind of content for mini painting that is missing from TH-cam. EXPLANATION in less of a "this is what I did".. more of a "This is how..and WHY I did this."
This content is why I can't quit you , bud. KEEP DOING THESE!
The questions asked were v good
Totally. Jimmy was a great guest on this episode, would be so down to see more content like this about other subjects, with him as the student.
Those were some really great questions. More "teaching a noob" videos would be great haha.
Can't agree with this more. :D
Please more of these videos. Jimmy asked fantastic questions too
Please do more of these videos. This and the other one you made are some of the best, because less experienced painters encounter problems that many experienced painters don't think about the same. So it seems organic. Many of us have the same questions and make the same mistakes as the less experienced painters in these videos.
I got 9 minutes in, and audibly said "This is one of Scott's best videos in years". Seriously, this is an incredible resource.
Excellent work Scott. This is a great tutorial.
I do actually love this series as its one of the worst things as a new painter to get into - not painting faces - but starting out in a field where so much knowledge is just seen as "yeah of course thats what/how you do it duh".
If you want to expand on this, please think about adding something like painting "clean" flat armor panels in different styles, like classic eavy metal and contrast/speedpaint or with an airbrush or inks, and have your guest talk about how they felt about the different approaches.
Most wargame mini sprues have alternate heads, so you'll have heads left over after assembling your figures. Save up all those extra heads and use them for practice.
My plan too. It is such a useful (and for a change - affordable) method to make improvement possible.
0:54 those clippers have seen better days good sir.
Wabi sabi. 😊
This was awesome, Scott! I would love to see more of this kind of video, especially with a guest as good as Jimmy. He asked some insightful questions and the explanations you gave were top-notch. Keep up the great work!
I love your style of tutorial videos. I'm not sure exactly why, but there's something about your presentation style that has always stuck out to me as exceptional. Keep doing what you're doing, because it's great.
I'm almost halfway through and really enjoying this video. A couple of initial thoughts.
1. Appreciation for the "layers graphic" at 16:40! That was really awesome, easy to overlook as a viewer, and probably took a fair amount of time. You should know that it was fascinating and helpful.
2. I found this format really valuable. As a teacher, I know very well how, no matter how hard you try to cover everything in your instruction, people will always have other questions/needs, and you communicate differently when answering a question rather than just "lecturing." I thought this format was awesome and helpful. I wouldn't want you to do just this, but I'd love to see more of it. It's a unique format. I'm sure it's really tough (heard you say something to that effect on TUP), but it would be worth doing again (other than the fact that it would open you to SO MANY fans trying to get on 😅).
Great work!
Awesome graphics.
Great video partnering up with someone you are teaching. I really like the graphics showing the layering process and wish there were a little more as you got into the highlights. Thanks, Scott!
Pretty excited for this one as someone who decided it was a great idea to pick up the Darkoath box recently.
Excellent video super helpful, thank you
I think it was really good to have Jimmy there asking questions on the spot. It brought out some things that might otherwise go unnoticed. There were some good points about hard to reach spots that got brought up.
I started little by little replacing my Vallejo with Warpaints fanatic. The triads are very very nice for beginners. I buy 3/6, all odd ones starting from the darkest. Because the even ones are 50/50 mix of the left and right paint in the triad.
Noob content is great. Love the conversational quality and the noob asks questions that viewer noobs would have but might not occur to the experienced painter.
Phenomenal resource here Scott
Another awesome video Scott and brilliant questions from your community 😁
This was one of the best painting videos I've seen in a long time. Please make more of these. It was extremely useful and well made.
I hope filming this video was as enjoyable for you as it was for me to watch and learn from. Scott is a great teacher because he truly listens, and this is easily one of his best videos of 2024 for us newbies. It’s so refreshing to see such down-to-earth ideas and tactics, with no egos involved.
This is my fav style of painting video! A noob asking questions with real time direct answers is SO useful!
I really enjoyed this one and I feel like I learned a ton. I painted the face of a friends DnD miniature today and could try things out. Concerning the eyes, I only have old Vallejo Game Color Dead White and Black, but I feel like these behave poorly for painting eyes. The black is very thin and gooy, the white also doesnt have a great consistency.
Does someone now a good white and a good black for painting eyes?
1: This was awesome and super useful!! I would love to see more content like this.
2: how much paint have you eaten with 20 years of licking the brush like that? 😅
Your face painting videos have always been the best - I still refer to your make-up tutorial video. Having a none pro with you definitely makes this more relatable and now I see why Ninjon sometimes uses the arrow tipped brushes rather than the round brushes.
i plan on watching this like 50x; SO SO helpful Scott! Thank you so much!
I think this is really valuable for the viewers of the channel, when you instruct and give advice to an actual person sitting next to you. This way you don't miss something, that is obvious for you, because you have to tell the student what to do and how to do it. Plus, you can see where your advice lead the unexperienced painter and correct it immediately.
Thank you for this video!
Without question this is the best tutorial for this kind of thing I've seen yet. Love that the questions as a novice are being asked! Things that otherwise get lost in a comments section. This is much more of a "class" than a tutorial that creates more questions than it gives answers. The layer building slides are the best part to help distinguish each one.
This was actually super helpful and not boring. Usually I’m fast forwarding through painting vids but you are genuinely entertaining to watch/listen to! Thanks for the informative vid brother 🫡✊
Man I’m stoked I found your channel. I’m a new painter, and trying to unlearn the “mid tone/wash/highlight” method is interesting. I guess that method also has its place
Jimmy was the perfect companion for this! His questions were excellent and really helped elevate an already incredible tutorial.
This was a fantastic video Scott. So glad to see you uploading more often! :D
The interactive teaching is great. I also like the digital image explaining the layers.
Holy cow this is great! Thank you for asking all the awesome questions
Man I love your tutorials Scott, they are so informative, easy to follow and enjoyable, nearly 40 minutes and it flew by, felt like seconds but I learnt so much! Thank you man!
These type of videos are great because its not just what you did but what you did and why. Having someone newer getting taught added an additional layer as well as they were asking questions and you were answering, questions that most likely a lot of people would ask. Great video and I hope we see more like it.
As usual another consummate video. This vid should be in the tool box for every miniature painter, amazing, I love the start of each phase coverage shot, Scott we the miniature painting community salute you.
Dude make this a series asap, super helpful
I do my model's eyes first after the base coat (an example in my profile picture). I start with the pupil color, then make big off-white streaks, curved slightly to leave a pupil, extending over the brow and cheeks. It's easy to change the directions of the pupils by nudging the curves. Then I re-apply base coat around to lock-in the eye shape, and continue highlights as normal.
This is a truly excellent tutorial. So many good tips and tricks, especially around texture and brush strokes. Thanks Scott!
Spectacular video, really well broken down and explained. Having another painter present who you were teaching really added to the video as well, it's a really interesting format and one i'd love to see more of. I've painted this specific head on my Orlocks so it was great to see you go through the process and I learned a lot.
Probably the best intermediate face painting tutorial video on TH-cam. Thanks!
I love the diagram you made spelling out what you covered in each layer. I know that took time: totally worth it!
Good stuff, also showing the layers on the face enlarged with the different colors was a nice touch to really show how much you covered in following layers.
This is one of the best teaching material for mini painting to date. Very well made, accessible and the presentation is great. Well done Miniac
This was one of the best videos you've ever done. The interaction between the two of you and the step by step was really fun and educational. Great job!
Really enjoyed this video and really makes me miss when painting tutorials showed up in my feed
Awesome video. The back and forth between the two of you was really nice to watch.
These are types of videos I need! I just started painting and I’ve been mostly happy, but some of these tups are gonna help me out a lot!
How am I expected to finish my 9-5 when I suddenly need to go try these tips on my models at home??
This was a great idea for a video. I've certainly struggled a lot with faces and this was valuable information.
Wow! This has been one of the absolute best painting videos I've seen. I'd love to see more of these. Thank you so much!
You have no idea how much I needed this video. Hoping to find plenty more videos on bits I have been struggling with while painting my army. I have subbed. Thanks for the help.
Scott, this is far and away the best face-painting video on youtube. Thank you! Especially love the graphic showing how the highlights overlap
This format should be a series where you take someone (patron or whoever) and walk them through a painting technique in person. It’s an awesome format for a video I think and it brings out a lot of your knowledge that is very useful
This super detailed step by step was great Scott (and Jimmu) I'm off to paint Khal Drogo from my ASOIAF starter set who had been intimidating me. Also my 12 y/o Son Max has surpassed me as a painter over the last few months. It's a dichotomy as I am super proud but also secretly a little peed off. Imagine if under your tutelage Jimmy's face had turned out better than yours. Subscribed till I die and painting more minis.
This is s great format. I'm an experienced painter and I feel like I learned stuff!
Great video, loved the map/% face layer images! Super helpful
This actually is very helpful video when an actual somewhat beginner and ask questions live and everything is being explained so throughly. Very Nice!
This is chock full of great advice! Definitely going to save this for future reference next to some of your older videos, and vincey v's
Beautiful to see your awesome teaching skills grow in the meantime... Beautiful to see your explanation skills grow. Love your attempts here. Amazing video. Thank you!
This was an awesome Video! Thanks a lot! It‘s awesome to have a comparison to a less expierenced painter. This helps to set my own expactations right
I really like your brakedown on how to get a tip on the brush and how to approach painting the eyes. I feel like i've been trying to find how to do it, both with practice but also from guides.
I feel like you nailed it =) thank you
Awesome video! Easily one of the best face painting videos out there!
Thanks a ton!
This was a well timed video. I needed to paint a bunch of faces and this was great to have on while doing it.
This was awesome. I really want to improve my miniature painting and learned so much. Doing and teaching are such different skills, and you’re a master at both!
Easily the best and most constructive face painting tutorial. Any beginners following this are onto a winner in no time. Well done soooonnnn👌🫶
great video, great guest. Love to see the encouragement and casual painting hang
This is actually so clutch dude, such a refreshing way to produce painting content. I think the reason the guys at cult of paint have been killing it is their super approachable style, and this feels like your take on that. Watching you coach someone through a process or sat with another great painter both trying to tackle the same mini and explaining your process is such an organic way to teach your audience new tricks or methods to achieve a good result. I'm assuming these videos are more complex to organise as youve got to get someone else in the studio but please keep making them. Need to see a video of you and jon applying nmm to a golden tendie
Yep, Scott, you've got an exciting approach to making tutorials with this one. Nicely done!
This is an awesome video! Heck, this might be the single best how-to for face painting I've ever seen. Bravo Scott!
More step-by-step lessons like this, please! This was very informative!
Scott.. bro... more vids like this! Please! I've been painting for about 2 years now and the questions that Jimmy brought up are some of the exact ones I've had and that are NEVER covered! This hit so many subtleties I've never seen covered before, things the pros take for granted but us newbs struggle with: thinning, brush selection, etc.
One huge thing that helped me, and I think you’ve mentioned this before, but watching makeup tutorials. ESPECIALLY for blemish cover ups and full beats since they’ll talk about why they’re doing what their doing with shading and highlights. Masc Drag/Cosplay tutorials help a ton too. I like looking at drag tutorials as well for more experimental stylings that help with elves lmao
I really liked this video and I hope you will consider doing more content where you bring a noob in to paint a thing. I myself struggle with skin tones, highlights and layers. I feel the urge to get into my hobby room and paint.
Very helpful content thoughtfully presented. Nailed it
Really enjoyed this video. Also the little shaded examples images of how much to cover was cool. Good idea doing that very satisfying/good teaching tool.
This might just be your most impactful video. Really good explanation.
This was a fantastic tutorial. Really really good. Having a student with you in the video helped highlight common mistakes.
another great example why i love your channel. best minipainting content on youtube!
Great video! Loved the format, the elaborated explanations and overall pace of the video. More like this! Vampire faces next?
Awesome video. We need more videos with Jimmy.
4:21 bruh you eating paint??
I really love seeing teaching / side by side tutoring. Feels like i am sitting there.
Perfect timing Scott!
I am getting ready to paint some hero models for my DnD group and I was actively stalling on painting the faces.
Now I am all out of excuses! Time to put theses tips to the test!
And: Thank you very much for answering my question. ^^
I will try and be patient to learn the right consistency.
I really appreciated this format. It would be cool if you did this again every once in a while
This has been one of the most helpful painting videos I’ve watched! Really should have far more views, it would be great to see videos like this on more topics
This is very helpful and excellent. Thank you, Scott!
Jimmy ain't noob, great questions, so more potential master. Love this format and in depth talk through. Evergreen. Vince will have to watch out :)
This is a top quality video? So many others say you just this and you just that, 2 second demo and it looks like golden demon. Here, real time, clear steps, practical advise on brush control. Really good. 🎉🎉
Excellent video and it dropped at exactly the time I was really struggling with this. I love that you went through step by step and explained and demonstrated the process. Thanks man!
Perfect timing with this tutorial!! Working on faces of my minis right now 😊😊😊
These kind of videos are what WE NEED! Thanks Scott!
He waits until I've finished and failed hard at face-painting in my new diorama before revealing his secrets... Well played Scott. Well played... I'll undoubtedly return to this video many times in the future to mine the gold.
This is a really helpful video. I would love to see more like this on stuff like capes, edge highlights, basic nmm. Great work!
Love this video format, explaining to a total newbie and taking their questions. I find far too many videos have "this is how to draw an owl" effect. Hope we get to see more of this format in the future!
Glad to find this video, im starting to build and paint my first army tonight and im nervous. Doing Tyranids sounds cool but they can be pretty detailed.
Saw it mentioned before, but absolutely love this long form painting content. Super usefull and relaxing at the same time.