Easterling Painting, Shoes, Face and Hilts

I have learned something from a lot of other miniature blogs: I can't paint!  I am ashamed to admit it, but I have no idea what 'wash' means, and I tried to paint eyes on Legolas and he looked like he had wet clown makup on.
Anyway I decided to paint the Easterlings one color at a time, but made these two first as demos.  Here's the first (I'll explain how I made him along with the other guys.)

 Here's the demo Warg rider.

 I painted black first.  I painted the eye and mouth holes sloppely, the boots, and the sword hilts for the swordmen.

As you can see I have my red paint out all ready for their robes!