Goblin skin tone

[gray swan]

Hi, i wanted to paint some Twin Goddess goblins, but they are of the cute kind compared to the usual grimdark miniatures. I have absolutely no idea how to paint their skin, i want to use a lighter color compared to the dark one of the standard Warhammer goblins. Any ideas about the colour scheme for skin? I put some pictures of good painters as idea, but i don't mid something simple. I have access to citadel, Vallejo, army painter and Green stuff world paints

[past kayak]

Citadel has a few paints that might strike your fancy and they make for a really simple scheme for light goblin/ork skin

Skin there is just one basecoat of orruk flesh green. Then you've got skarsnik green and one other I'm forgetting that go well with it for highlights pushing it either lighter o4 darker

[gray swan]

Thank you

[autumn holly]

Ah the adorable Gaz! A few of us have painted her bfore/

Now you could do an adorable light green color or even go closer to a yellow/ or even a tealish blue/green color. It really depends if you want it to fit a specific lore 🙂

[gray swan]

I would like to paint her light green, actually i'm not following a specific lore, i just find them cute

[autumn holly]

totally fair, which light greens do you have? 🙂

I would suggest you highlight it brighter than y ou want, and then after take your mid color (the color you like for the overall skin) , thin it down so it's approx 75% transparent and cover the entire area, this will help smooth the layers and make them blend together - so your ultra bright highlight will be more muted. (Hence why you go brighter than you think you need to go)

[gray swan]

I think just the Citadel Death guard green and warpstone glow. But i can buy new colors as long they are vallejo, citadel, army painter or Greenstuff world

[autumn holly]

I personally prefer warpstone glow but the death guard green is nice, I would do the original color as the base, and then mix in a bit of light yellow into the color ,. like 50/50 to make the general overall highlight, and pure light yellow or white as your high highlights ( so very few little spots)

and then do the glaze overtop the entire skin area 🙂

[gray swan]

Thank you so much

[autumn holly]

tag me when you did the skin I am excited to see it 🙂

[velvet fiber]

I've gotten fantastic use out of mixing paints for green skin- I had a greyish-blue (Thunderhawk Blue) and a strong yellow (Averland sunset)

I sorta put two equal-sized blobs down, and do a first coat with about 80%-greyblue-to-20%-strong-yellow, a second at 50-50 and the highlights in ~20-80

If you blend it you get a really beautiful and deep variation