I used to struggle to get any visual interest when painting leather pouches commonly found on Primaris Space Marine miniatures. Once I adopted the method described in my YouTube tutorial, I started to see much better results.

1. Basecoat the leather area with Rhinox Hide .
2. If there are any particularly deep recesses, pop a little Druchii Violet in there carefully.
3. Glaze most of the leather with thinned Mournfang Brown . Use quite a small brush and drag towards edges in rough lines. This should create some extra texture.
4. Add a chunky edge highlight of Skrag Brown to all edges.
5. Highlight everything again, this time with a fine line of Skrag Brown and Ushabti Bone mixed 1:1. This is a good mix to throw in occasional fine lines as scratches too.
6. With pure Ushabti Bone , selectively highlight corners and exposed edges of the leather. Put a dot of this colour where the additional scratched above meet edges too.
7. Add a little pure white (like Dead White ) to your Ushabti Bone and add dot highlights to corners.