Hi i'm just starting O&Gs and was just looking on the internet but i can't seem to find and decent orc skin tutorials.
Could anyone help me:?
I don't mind how complex or longs the tutorials are;Y
Cheers

Very easy.

1.) Basecoat Dark angles green
2.) Drybrush Snot green
3.) Drybrush Goblin green

Done.

Orc/ks are really easy to paint since they have real muscle tone in the figures. I'll give you two ways of painting, first up the classier look.

1 - Undercoat Black - This will give you an extreme shadow between muscles.
2 - Basecoat Dark Angels Green - If you don't want the extreme shadows fill in the 'crevices' with this green.
3 - Either Dry-Brush Snot Green or paint it on carefully - I found painting it on the muscles (as a highlight) gives it a cleaner look.
4 - Either Dry-brush or paint Goblin green - again if you dry-brushes the previous step dry brush this step.
5 - Mix up a lighter green and highlight.

The Lazy Method.

1 - Undercoat Black
2 - Coat of Snot Green (I think thay have a green in that new paint range, use that)
3 - Goblin Green highlights
4 - Mix 60/40 Green Ink with Water and lightly fill in the muscle tones.


I personally hate Inks on Orcs. If you want to experiment, try using a non-green colours scheme ;)

I'm starting a project log for my Orks (40k) and I've just painted my first one:

445

This has a bit more of a yellow finish (I like that)

This was painted:

Orkhide Shade
Dark Angels Green
Goblin Green
Camo Green

If you like you could give this a wash of Dark Angels green to make the colours blend in a bit more.

Since my 40k Army ended up being over 150 models, I decided on a quick and easy TableTop quality way to paint green skins!

1 Prime Black
2 Paint it Orchide Shade (The whole thing, crevices and all)
3 Highlight with Knarloc Green
4 Highlight with Goblin Green
5 Extreme highlight on only the highest parts of Goblin Green:Bleached Bone, 2:1

That's about it. If you wanna go fancy...

1 Prime Black
2 Paint Orchide Shade
3 Mix highlight of 1:1 Orchide Shade and Dark Angels Green
4 Highlight DA Green
5 1:1 Highlight DA to Knarloc Green
6 Knarloc Green Highlight
7 1:1 Knarloc/Goblin Green Highlight
8 Gobbo Green Highlight
9 2:1 Gobbo Green:Bleached Bone extreme highlight
EDIT- Make sure you blend all of this one.

-J

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f370/plaugedone/DSCN0210.jpg

This is how i do ork skin.

Dark Angle Green Base coat
50/50 DA:Goblin Green
Goblin Green
50:50 Goblin Green to Scorpion Green
Scorpion Green
Water Down DA green about 5:1 Water:Paint, wash the whole model.

To give the muscles texture i apply the highlights in lines running down the muscles, i start doing the line highlights on the goblin green highlights. You can see what i mean particularly on his power klaw arm.

If you basecoat with graveyard earth and highlight towards rotting flesh you get a very realisticlooking tone. A few glazes of green and red will enhance the colour as well.

If you need to lighten the green, don't ad white or you'll get pastel colours. Add yellow instead.

Ink method (lazy)

chaos black primer
snot green
watered down black ink
(wait for ink to dry completely)
watered down black ink + a TINY bit of snot green

Drybrush method (looks a bit better)

Chaos black primer
dark angels green HEAVY drybrush
snot green medium drybrush
gobbo green light drybrush

Detail method (hero/lord chioces)

black primer
dark angels green heavy drybrush
snot green medium drybrush
gobbo green medium-light drybrush
gobbo green+white (50-50) light drybrush
camo green dusting
gobbo green light drybrush

Damn you've got modeling and painting skillz.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f370/plaugedone/DSCN0210.jpg

This is how i do ork skin.

Dark Angle Green Base coat
50/50 DA:Goblin Green
Goblin Green
50:50 Goblin Green to Scorpion Green
Scorpion Green
Water Down DA green about 5:1 Water:Paint, wash the whole model.

To give the muscles texture i apply the highlights in lines running down the muscles, i start doing the line highlights on the goblin green highlights. You can see what i mean particularly on his power klaw arm.

Hehe, actually it is just the standard kommando nob, but many thanks.