To paint boars, first base coat with Bestial Brown. Then wash the boar with brown ink. Then, drybrush the boar with lighter shades of brown and with black in a varied pattern, to give it a realistic appearance of having varied colours of hair on its body.
Paint the underbelly of the boar a lighter shade of the Bestial Brown with just a touch of red added to it to give it a pinkish look. Use this same paint to paint the muzzle, the ears, and the tail. Paint the hair at the end of the tail a dark colour of brown, or black, whichever colour you used for the crest, and then drybrush it with a slightly lighter colour.
For Savage Orcs, you might want to put warpaint on the boar. You do this with a slightly more loaded brush of paint than you use for drybrushing, but not so much that it sinks down into the crevices obscuring the shadows.
Then, you wash the hooves with brown or black ink, letting some of the base colour show through. Paint the eyes either a dark brown or black and add just a tiny highlight of white so that they glisten.
Paint the tusks bone white and then starting at the base of the tusk, paint a ring of very dark brown ink or paint watered down to the consistency of ink, use a second, damp, brush to draw this colout partially up the tusk toward the point.
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