Secrets to Painting Faces on miniatures Revealed!

🖌🎨 You can now get the Paint sets, Wet Palette and Airbrush here🎨🖌

It's time to learn how to paint faces on miniatures. It can actually be a lot easier than you think, if you just learn the basics of shapes and light and work from there you'll se quickly how fast you can paint a good looking miniature face. How far you take it from there is up to you!

Learn how to paint Warhammer faces / miniature painting faces. How to paint Warhammer skin.

The bust i paint in the video:
And their patreon:

3D Printable version of Planar Bust/Asaro head:

James Gurney - Illustrated Examples of Planar busts/asaro head.

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The brush i use - Raphael 8404.

Anycubic i3 Mega (the 3D printer i use)

HARDER STEENBECK EVOLUTION SILVERLINE (the Airbrush I use)

Anycubic Photon (the Resin printer I use):

Emil On

Painting miniatures for your warhammer & d&d games. Age of sigmar and warhammer 40k. Space Marines, Space Wolves, Stormcast Eternals, beastclaw raiders, ogor mawtribes, cities of sigmar, chaos space marines, painting scale models, miniature busts! How to paint NMM. How to paint warhammer, how to paint d&D figures.

[SquidmarMiniatures]

🖌🎨 You can now get the Paint sets, Wet Palette and Airbrush here🎨🖌

[zerodraw]

“I’ve mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still, that I’ve become unpaintable by the brush.”

[ZeehcTunococ]

The process of painting a face with acrylic paint is very similar to painting a face with makeup. The areas that require highlights are exactly the same as you'd see in makeup tutorials. Finally, my two hobbies are feeding into each other xD

[TheWelderandrew]

Hei, Emil... you thank us so much all the time, but this is every persons way of thanking you, im pretty sure i speak for all of us here when i say that my painting has progressed so much from watching you, im more daring, more confident, i used to find marine heads in the hoover where id given them the over the shoulder ceremony for being sub acceptable... thats been a while now and its down to you, im in Bergen Norway so when i say this i mean it, for a Swede, (tongue very much in cheek) your a really pleasant, down to earth and humble guy...
but anyway...
THANKYOU A MASSIVE THANKS TO !YOU!

[EarnestCreations]

I was actually looking for a portrait painting tutorial, but this turned out to be pretty enjoyable to watch so I stayed until the end.

[iDouBLETAPo]

Anytime I get stuck trying to figure something out, I always come to check out one of your videos and 95% of the time find an answer for my problem. I've only been painting for a little over a year now, but your videos give me inspiration to keep on slapping acrylics onto models. Cheers mate!

[mariusevander]

The large Face with the red nose is amazing

[poisonauta]

Excellent video Emil! Perfect explanations about the light planes, tones and everything related for painting faces, everytime I watch your videos I feel I want to paint so bad! (I have to try this tips by myself eventually :P) Thank you so much for using my academic bust, I feel so honored!

[aaronreynolds]

Emil, a thousand times thank you for videos like this and the ork skin. The way you demystify process of layering is truly remarkable and a real gift to all of us. For years I have felt so intimidated by the prospect of layering and highlights and shadows but you are teaching me the proper thought process and I'm actually making progress. More like this please!

[paulburrow]

High quality and clear explanation. Excellent job Emil

[samuelsanfratello]

Thanks for the light source explanation! Getting these details on 28mm base dudes is quite challenging!

[BigLooDaddy]

The planar bust was a real "aha" moment for me. Trying to get into bust painting and this really helped.

[hrcmfbws]

Yea, shoutout to my man Rembrandt! But seriously, I love how you seamlessly blend theory with practical examples, makes it really easy to figure out what you are doing and why. Kudos.

[glennguimond]

This video...holy crap...your examples and description just blew me away. It makes so much more sense now.

THANK YOU!

[RaisinsO]

This guide is a godsend!! I am following other guides and even though they are excellent in regards to painting most of the body (armors mainly and cloth) the faces have always bothered me, especially the ones expressing emotion. Most just look like they have trumpet lips and the faces just look flat and without character. The Adeptas Sororitas' models suffer of this the most, because they all end up looking like angry men with flat faces and huge mouths. The techniques here are a game changer!! THANKS!! 🤩

[seanclarke]

I wish we could have videos like this again. Revisit your grass roots, Emil - helping people painting.

[Braskil]

I'm just getting into painting and your channel is a treasure-trove for me!! 😁

[dennisfoulds]

Wow! What artistic ability. Only in my dream’s.

[AdreyM]

This is amazing honestly! I am an artits and love drawing portraits! This is a hole new world for me! Wish I could sculpt so I could do make my own figure. Then I wonder what should my figures be made out of.. so many posabilites can deside

[southoceann]

Holy cow these faces look very similar to that of drag queens! They are super exaggerated with great contrast between the highlight and the contour.
I never thought I would be able to connect two utterly different things like this haha.