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Practicing skin tones - model five
The skin for this model was painted a few layers of ruby skin, then washed reikland fleshshade, then given several highlights with more and more opal skin being mixed in to the ruby skin.
The boots, legs, and gloves were painted mephiston red, washed carroburg crimson, then highlighted with more and more evil sunz scarlet being mixed in.
The cape and corset were painted khorne red, washed with a 50:50 mix of carroburg crimson and druchii violet. It was then highlighted with more and more evil sunz scarlet being mixed in.
The leather belts and strings were painted xv-88 then washed agrax earthshade.
The horns were painted zandri dust, then washed seraphim sepia, then drybrushed screaming skull.
The hair was painted apothecary white.
The swords and hair chains were painted leadbelcher, washed nuln oil, then highlighted with runefang steel.
A suggestion for the skin tone shadow here. Look at a glaze of purple with the Vallejo Xpress or AP Speedpaint. The barest hint of that tone would work well as an introduction of a cool blue tone. Because it’d be a glaze you wouldn’t need to be picky on how light you went the first time around. Building it up in the recesses would give a little bit more oomph to the pallete you use. On top of that I also suggest a liner of a dark brown to finish out the separation of elements.
In oil painting I used to mix Aluzarin Crimson, Burnt Umber and Prussian Blue for a chromatic black. For Shay’s Zulu army I sent that was the same principle I used to build up their flesh tone. Start with blue as basecoat thay also would shadow, drybrush the burnt umber for lit sections of flesh, build over it with light umber to show muscle detail and use the barest hint of higher highlight.
I’d be interested to see you use purple and orange for a flesh tone. I’ve seen it done to create middle grays which aren’t far off from most skin. Y/R/B -> Or/Pu. I haven’t yet done it but it might prove useful. If you want to see the R/B/Y -> Pu/YG(light green) look at the Giftmas episode with Justin’s giant last year. I built up the base skin from green undertones, layered a “pallid/necrotic” flesh on that and shaded with purple.
@horati0nosebl0wer thanks for the tips. The orange/purple approach sounds intriguing. I’ve usually just stuck to the base colour, wash and highlights approach, where all the colours are already pre-mixed. Only recently have I branched out to mixing my own highlights, but still sticking to the same “colour” pots.