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I'm not much of a painter, and I was wondering if anybody had tips for painting ghoul/zombie flesh without having to resort to the old rotten flesh + devlan mud combination. I'm currently army building big blocks of zombies and ghould so i'm looking for something quick and effective. Any help would be appreciated.

Start with a Codex Grey Base, then progressively drybrush lighter greys/white.

I tend to stipple some Elf Flesh on the Rotten Flesh then use Ogryn Flesh wash.

Fortress grey and a purple/flesh wash looks pretty cool.

I think it depends on the type of look you want.

Personally, I like doing flesh starting from enchanted blue with a little rotting flesh mixed in and working my way up with a tinge of fortress grey and skull white added in at the top-most highlights. It gives the flesh some flavor, makes it look oxygen starved and more colorful. I then paint the intestines and other organic parts in a solid blood red (use one of those foundation paints to start it if needed, as its quicker than my old method of Valero's Beasty Brown and then building blood red on top of it) and then highlight it with a bit of blazing orange sparingly, and then washing the whole mess with blue ink a time or two, sometimes purple, and otherwise making the muck inside looking nasty.

Using flesh wash or brown ink for dirtying things up and having splashes here and there is always nice. You can add black ink to it, very lightly, to give it an older and ickier look.

Those are the easier methods. I'm sure some actually good painter could give you more specific and spiffier ideas. Doing whatever odd base colors and washes makes for some interesting ends. May as well experiment and go nuts, since they are ghouls and zombies. I like it better when they're pretty clean and adding the mess. Too much mess makes for chaotic looking pieces that are just dingy. Too clean makes them not look very dead or gory. *shrug* Just my preference.