This article is a step by step guide to how I paint faces/flesh.
Stage 1Firstly I paint all areas of skin bestial brown over a black undercoat.
Stage 2Next mix up a 50/50 mix of bestial brown and dwarf flesh and paint most of the skin with this leaving bestial brown in the recesses.
Stage 3Follow this with a highlight of pure dwarf flesh (sorry about the pic for this one, left the flash on
). Usually at this stage I paint the eyes in as it is easy to correct any mistakes made now.
Stage 5Mix up dwarf flesh 50/50 with elf flesh and apply a highlight to the raised areas of the face (eyebrows, cheeks, chin, forehead and nose).
Stage 6Then finally the last highlight is just pure elf flesh applied only to the very tip of the nose, eyebrows, forehead and tops of the cheeks.
And thats the face finished, note that at each stage I used the same colours for the other areas of flesh (the hands in the example shown) ensuring that the flesh is the same shade all over (it is very difficult to create the same mix twice!).
Note: if the pics don't work here they can be viewed at the following link (the stages are labelled in numerical order):
http://groups.msn.com/CMDantesGalleries/wip.msnwI hope this will be of some use to people!
Cheers,
Dante
