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painting human skin
How to paint Human Skin?
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depends what colour
One method is to just start with the darkest brown or red that you own, and highlight progressively from there with different flesh tones until you have the look you want.
Another is to use inks/washes to shade pale flesh and then highlight over it.
A third is to prime white, wash with chestnut ink/flesh wash and then layer on light highlights of flesh tone.
Using thin green or purple inks is a good way to go for those exotic tones as may be found on undead or humanoid races.
Really, the skies the limit. What did you have in mind?
Another is to use inks/washes to shade pale flesh and then highlight over it.
A third is to prime white, wash with chestnut ink/flesh wash and then layer on light highlights of flesh tone.
Using thin green or purple inks is a good way to go for those exotic tones as may be found on undead or humanoid races.
Really, the skies the limit. What did you have in mind?
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Yeah. I have a fat load of skin I need to paint and Need to buy paints for it. Will do tute soon.
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I like to go from Scorched Brown and work myself up through many layers to a mix of Elf Flesh and white. I also find that a touch of purple ink around the eyes really makes them pop as well.
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Skin sucks, namely because the highest colours are always the really bright ones that dont cover in one. Dwarf flesh is the worst in my opinion. Thats why i like chaos as the flesh can be any damn colour you want it to be. I also never use inks as in my experience its hit or miss whether you get the finish your looking for. But anyway human flesh.
I use dark flesh as the base due to its pretty good cover over black and its colour somewhere between red/brown. I use a light watery coat of dwarf flesh next, then a thicker 2nd coat over the higher levels leaving the recesses untouched. Then I highlight with elf flesh right on the peaks of the high points. For women ala my sororitas i use more elf flesh to give a paler complexion. On faces this method gives good results while being minimilistic enough to be used en-masse like on guard for instance. On open areas like arms/legs... depends on the sort of consistency your dwarf flesh is. Can be good or can be very bad.
I use dark flesh as the base due to its pretty good cover over black and its colour somewhere between red/brown. I use a light watery coat of dwarf flesh next, then a thicker 2nd coat over the higher levels leaving the recesses untouched. Then I highlight with elf flesh right on the peaks of the high points. For women ala my sororitas i use more elf flesh to give a paler complexion. On faces this method gives good results while being minimilistic enough to be used en-masse like on guard for instance. On open areas like arms/legs... depends on the sort of consistency your dwarf flesh is. Can be good or can be very bad.
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I don't have a digital camera these days, but skin has always been one of my specialities. I use Reaper Master Series paints, but I think I can give a rough approximation with Citadel equivalents. I also thin my paints to almost ink-like consistency, so the highlights blend quite smoothly.
For skin, I use...
-Black undercoat
-Scorched brown base
-Dwarf Flesh highlight 1
-Elf Flesh highlight 2
-Skull White on the brows, bridge of the nose, and the cheeks.
For skin, I use...
-Black undercoat
-Scorched brown base
-Dwarf Flesh highlight 1
-Elf Flesh highlight 2
-Skull White on the brows, bridge of the nose, and the cheeks.
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I really like the way space marines without helmets look, but I always botch the paint job. Is there any paint that needs a coat or two, and a quick highlight? GW or not, doesn't matter to me as long as it is found in most hobby shops.
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There's never going to be a way to do it quickly and have it look good. When I paint, I usually do five or six layers. I use three different Reaper triads on skin-- I start with the mid-tone dark flesh, and end with the fair highlight, and I thin everything to nearly ink-like conistency so I have a lot of control over the highlights and I can blend easily.
As in my pic - I undercoated White, then 1 layer dwarf flesh, the drybrushed with elf flesh - great results and quick and easy painting. I then just painted the eyes - in my pic the commander's right eye has been hurt so used blace for eye and red gore ( it is difficult to take macro pics that close on my camera)
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Step one: Base the flesh you want to paint with Dark Flesh.
Step Two: Paint Dwarf Flesh onto the same part
Step three: 2 ways to do this part, 1st way, Flesh wash the part you just put dwarf flesh on, or Water down dark flesh until its a very small puddle of water.
Step four: Highlight using Elf Flesh
Step five: Extreme highlight with an Elf Flesh mix with skull white 1:1.
Voila...
Step Two: Paint Dwarf Flesh onto the same part
Step three: 2 ways to do this part, 1st way, Flesh wash the part you just put dwarf flesh on, or Water down dark flesh until its a very small puddle of water.
Step four: Highlight using Elf Flesh
Step five: Extreme highlight with an Elf Flesh mix with skull white 1:1.
Voila...
Right i'm locking the thread.
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Request forum guys.
Unless you've written a full blown skin painting guide there's no need to reply.
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This is a Tutorial request forum. Again, unless you have written a full article explaining the OP's question there's no need to reply.
If someone writes a skin painting tutorial let me know. I'll reopen the thread for you to link to it.
As previously stated
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Request forum guys.
Unless you've written a full blown skin painting guide there's no need to reply.
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This is a Tutorial request forum. Again, unless you have written a full article explaining the OP's question there's no need to reply.
If someone writes a skin painting tutorial let me know. I'll reopen the thread for you to link to it.
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