I just recently picked up Legion and wanting improve on my painting. Painting flesh is something I'm not good at and have no idea how to really improve and wondering if anyone has advice on how to pain flesh.

Also, I was thinking of picking up an air brush, and wondering how are they when it comes to painting minis? If they're any good, is there a specific kind of air brush that would be recommended, or advice on how to use one?

Hey there, another newb painter here too. I usually use a couple of thin coats on human colored flesh. I don't do eyes or highlights, I'm not good enough yet. Then I just add my washs and then coat the whole mini with a light spray of dull coat. I haven't really found a good quick way to do flesh yet either, that looks great anyway.

Hi! Here's some advice from someone who went all in in the beginning.

- You probably don't need an airbrush. They can be a tricky thing to master and for the first months you'll spend most the time cleaning it rather than painting with it. If you're only painting legion, then I'd recommend skipping this.

- if you want to get better at painting some specific parts or certain techniques, follow a few tutorials at first. I found it to be the best way to improve before adventuring on my own. Also main thing that improved my painting was patience. If I take more time to paint it, it will look better.

- when it comes to eyeballs I prefer painting the pupils first and larger than needed, then i use the white or ivory to carefully reduce their size. Then I use the skin colour to carefully reduce the whole eye shape to a normal size. Take your time and redo if you wish.

- skin tones is all about glazing imo. Maybe get a practice piece (anything will do) and try out some skin tones. Make sure your colours are not too opaque as you'll want to do a lot of transparent layers. I usually avoid using more than one obvious skin tone. I choose a base skin colour and then darken it with some brown, grey, or sometimes a bit of green. I also lighten it with white, ivory, light greys, and mix in a few natural colour to make it a bit more diverse. Build up your shaddows first and then your highlights. You can also skip the shadows and do a not tio heavy wash instead to improve speed. When painting highlights with a thinned down paint remember there is less pigment so drag you brush strokes from the darker to the brightest areas to deposit the pigment there.

- I've been doing an experimental technique with satisfying results when it come to speed. I paint a base tone, let it dry, then i give the face a very light water coat the I paint in the shadows and the water just blends it nicely, then i do the same for the highlights. Use very little paint though for the highlights. It's faster but the results are still quite good imo.