I was asked on TMP by someone (who's name I now cannot recall) about how I paint flesh. Since I had these figures on my desk awaiting a gap in the queue, I thought that I should document the process. I also wanted to record this for myself as I had problems matching these figures to the earlier figures in my Pulp collection. I had made a mistake in the second skin layer and had to go back and repaint the figures which is annoying and is why the painting look a bit out of order in the photos.
I use GW's older paints for skin as I get a better result than using Vallejo paint. I have a good stock of these for the moment but will have to find equivalents at some stage.
I start with a can of Black Automotive undercoat which may need to be touched up with GW Chaos Black.
I then roughly paint the flesh using Tanned Flesh trying to leave the eye sockets and gaps between fingers black.
I then mix a roughly 50/50 mix of Tanned Flesh and Dwarf Flesh and pick out the high points of the face, neck and hands.
I then use Dwarf Flesh to pick out the extreme high points on the face hands and dot the knuckles.
I then touch up the eye sockets and define the edges of the hands, weapons etc with black and put a small dot of white in each corner of the eyes. I often have to redo the eyes several times using black and white using a sharpened toothpick.
On other projects I also use Elf Flesh as a further highlight and don't always remember to paint in the eyes.
I will document my method of using a wash on the next batch of Robin Hood figures I paint.
Except for the colours (I'm starting much darker) I use a quite similar approach. I paint the eyes first though as I don't have to touch up the skin again when painting over the eyes. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteExcellent tutorial. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI have tried painting the eyes first but had problems putting them in the correct place. lol.
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