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I'm sure everyone is familiar with John Blanche's trademark style of miniatures, and I myself am a huge fan of his work, and am going to push myself further then ever before when I commence painting my Mechanicus army, and attempt some sort of homage to his style. I was wondering is people could link me to any tutorials of his sort of style, specifically the techniques on the flesh in the picture below, but any at all would be most helpful, as searches of both the P&M Tutorials section here and the Almighty Google have drawn blanks.



I have already found a great tutorial here at Spiky Rat Pack, but this is significantly paler than what I was looking for.

Any ideas of a good palette to work from would also be appreciated, as I know John Blanche uses a limited one for his miniatures.

I know there are a lot of questions here, so thank-you for reading this far and I anticipate any feedback.

Blanche has been an illustrator for 40 some years, his minis all speak to that. Trying to break that down into a tutorial would be pretty much impossible.

You're on the right track with just finding a palette and getting in to it up to your elbows. Thin layers, lots of washes and glazes.
I'd look at you tube illustration/painting walk throughs as much as miniature painting, especially on flesh tones.
Look at large scale historical mini painting, they often have more 'painterly' approaches to textures than gaming painters.

I'd get some DV cultists to practice on. Nice mix of flesh, cloth and metal.

Thanks, I'll definitely try some of that, and yes I know it's almost a silly question like 'Teach me how to paint like Monet' or something, but I was looking for tips just like that.

I think this style of painting can be taught just like any other one.
The secret is in breaking with standard palettes, i.e. go away from "painting skin with skin tones" and move to greys, violets, pale greens etc.
As was already mentioned, you also need to work with a lot of washes and glazes / ink work to get the "stained" look right.

Try to google "INQ28", there are some great projects hidden behind that game, and it will lead you to some great blogs and tips for painting.

Some useful links: Jakob Rune Nielsen , INQ28

I assume that since you posted the spikeyratpack tutorial, you already checked out punkmoth's thread?

EDIT: btw, the WD has/had an article series called "blanchitsu" which is/was all about realizing Blanches illustrations into miniatures, including painting tips. If you google that, you will find lots of great painting projects.

Wow, thanks treslibras, I'd just found Spikey Rat Pack through Google, so that thread is new to me, and great inspiration. The other two links are also great, thanks for that feedback!

I recently opened another thread on the topic:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/627166.page

Check out the latest issue of WH: Visions, seems like they'll have a blanchitsu section in the upcoming issues.

Ah thanks, pinkmarine, loads of great help there too