Flashman14
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For those of you who DO NOT use a flesh based base coat on human flesh (Dark Flesh, Dwarf Flesh, Sun-tanned flesh, etc etc) - what color browns are you using for that task (brand name too please) ?
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woo, what a question.
Mix yellow, red, and white to get a yellow pink.
Add blue slowly until it looks like flesh. Apply to the back of your hand to compare.
If you are using vallejo and find their flesh very yellow, try adding blue.
However, caucasian skin is not really brown, it\'s pink.
If you are doing a black skin-tone, then I\'m sorry I don\'t currently have someone with that coloration to stare at, or have experience mixing it up.
I would recommend you mix up a caucasian colour then add a dark brown to it to get the shade you want, since the only difference between white skin and black skin is the amount of pigment in the skin. The blood and rest of the flesh is the exact same.
Mix yellow, red, and white to get a yellow pink.
Add blue slowly until it looks like flesh. Apply to the back of your hand to compare.
If you are using vallejo and find their flesh very yellow, try adding blue.
However, caucasian skin is not really brown, it\'s pink.
If you are doing a black skin-tone, then I\'m sorry I don\'t currently have someone with that coloration to stare at, or have experience mixing it up.
I would recommend you mix up a caucasian colour then add a dark brown to it to get the shade you want, since the only difference between white skin and black skin is the amount of pigment in the skin. The blood and rest of the flesh is the exact same.
Flashman14
Member
heh . . you misunderstand me . . .
If you don\'t regularly use a paint (as the base coat for caucasion skin) that has \"flesh\" on the paint jar/tin/tube then what color do you use?
GW Scorched Brown? Not Bestial Brown surely? Vallejo Mohagany Brown? Leather Brown? Burnt Umber? Polly S Rust? Polly S Kobold Red Brown?
I spose I could just experiment as I have all those colors and I can blend them all up to flesh but I\'m just curious what other (non \"flesh\") users are using.
Don\'t bother replying if you ONLY use a flesh based shade color here - I do too at the moment but in retrospect am open to alternatives . . .
If you don\'t regularly use a paint (as the base coat for caucasion skin) that has \"flesh\" on the paint jar/tin/tube then what color do you use?
GW Scorched Brown? Not Bestial Brown surely? Vallejo Mohagany Brown? Leather Brown? Burnt Umber? Polly S Rust? Polly S Kobold Red Brown?
I spose I could just experiment as I have all those colors and I can blend them all up to flesh but I\'m just curious what other (non \"flesh\") users are using.
Don\'t bother replying if you ONLY use a flesh based shade color here - I do too at the moment but in retrospect am open to alternatives . . .
Chrispy
Active member
Recently, I\'ve used Vallejo\'s Chocolate Brown for a basecoat, and then I use their other skintones. Chocolate Brown is actually bpretty light, but my other brown is really dark which I basically use for blacklining.. I need to find an in-between, cause I hate mixing... I live in a desert. Even with a wet palette, paint dries out Fast!
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Sturmhalo
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I\'m currently using GW paints (until mine run out!). For white flesh I use a base mix of Dark Flesh (red brown), Bleached Bone, and a little Red Gore and Sunburst Yellow (I think). Highlight up by adding more Bleached Bone, and then add white.
For a tanned flesh I sometimes use a base of Bestial Brown and a little Bleached Bone. Highlight up using Bleached Bone.
I did a rather nice flesh tone the other day using a base mix of Bestial Brown and Snakebite Leather. This was just highlighted up using Bleached Bone.
I tend to avoid most paints that are labelled \'flesh\' as they\'re normally too pale or as they are (apart from Dark Flesh of course which is basically brown!).
For a tanned flesh I sometimes use a base of Bestial Brown and a little Bleached Bone. Highlight up using Bleached Bone.
I did a rather nice flesh tone the other day using a base mix of Bestial Brown and Snakebite Leather. This was just highlighted up using Bleached Bone.
I tend to avoid most paints that are labelled \'flesh\' as they\'re normally too pale or as they are (apart from Dark Flesh of course which is basically brown!).
Infidel Castro
New member
Mmmmm, brown...
Did I ever tell you how much I love Browns? Well I love them.
I use a Leather Brown paint from Game Craft Miniature Paints and then add a little Bubonic Brown (GW) and then progress though with Cream (Game Craft again). I use a Brown Ink as well on facial areas sometimes, and I mix it with a little Orange Ink and dilute.
Mmmmmm, brown.
rev :innocent:
Did I ever tell you how much I love Browns? Well I love them.
I use a Leather Brown paint from Game Craft Miniature Paints and then add a little Bubonic Brown (GW) and then progress though with Cream (Game Craft again). I use a Brown Ink as well on facial areas sometimes, and I mix it with a little Orange Ink and dilute.
Mmmmmm, brown.
rev :innocent:
Pale, pale skin
I just recently painted the Reaper spider centaur\'s torso a very light, bone colored tone. I started mixing some bleached bone with brown ink (regular drawing ink) to get the base coat. The next step was applying bleached bone and from there went all the way to white. The result is a very pale skin tone, kinda like some of the flesh you see on Brom\'s illustrations.
I just recently painted the Reaper spider centaur\'s torso a very light, bone colored tone. I started mixing some bleached bone with brown ink (regular drawing ink) to get the base coat. The next step was applying bleached bone and from there went all the way to white. The result is a very pale skin tone, kinda like some of the flesh you see on Brom\'s illustrations.
Flashman14
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Coyote, you\'re over thinking it maybe?
I own a jillion colors including many browns and fleshes. It\'s not a question of buying a new one or mixing up something. Nor is it about how to make Brown on a budget or I\'m boycotting \"Flesh\" or anything like that. It\'s a simple enquiry of artistic preference.
Most of us use tried and true recipes to achieve a certain look. Sometimes that\'s good because we\'re happy with one that works for us, but sometimes we want new ideas, new ways of doing similar things. That was the intent behind the question.
I\'ve seen several models (don\'t know the numbers- Ogres and giants mostly?) where clearly a brown has been used instead of a flesh derivitive. And I\'m just curious as to what recipe folks use who don\'t use a named \"flesh\" as a base coat for Caucasian skin.
See? Sturm there uses a recipe that is already similar to my own because he uses \"Dark Flesh\" as a base - I know what that looks like because I\'ve tried it.
Mebbe I\'ll try Bleached Bone mixed with Brown Ink as Errex suggests. or Reverend\'s Leather Brown up through Bubonic and Cream? Or first I\'ll prolly try Chrispy\'s Chocolate Brown and see how that works out.
Get it?
I own a jillion colors including many browns and fleshes. It\'s not a question of buying a new one or mixing up something. Nor is it about how to make Brown on a budget or I\'m boycotting \"Flesh\" or anything like that. It\'s a simple enquiry of artistic preference.
Most of us use tried and true recipes to achieve a certain look. Sometimes that\'s good because we\'re happy with one that works for us, but sometimes we want new ideas, new ways of doing similar things. That was the intent behind the question.
I\'ve seen several models (don\'t know the numbers- Ogres and giants mostly?) where clearly a brown has been used instead of a flesh derivitive. And I\'m just curious as to what recipe folks use who don\'t use a named \"flesh\" as a base coat for Caucasian skin.
See? Sturm there uses a recipe that is already similar to my own because he uses \"Dark Flesh\" as a base - I know what that looks like because I\'ve tried it.
Mebbe I\'ll try Bleached Bone mixed with Brown Ink as Errex suggests. or Reverend\'s Leather Brown up through Bubonic and Cream? Or first I\'ll prolly try Chrispy\'s Chocolate Brown and see how that works out.
Get it?
Flashman14
Member
That\'s the spirit, Coyote! lol
I think by the lack of responses that most people use a Flesh type basecoat . . .
If I ever come across the Ogre figure I\'ll just ask that person directly what brown he used under all that . . .
Thanks gents!
I think by the lack of responses that most people use a Flesh type basecoat . . .
If I ever come across the Ogre figure I\'ll just ask that person directly what brown he used under all that . . .
Thanks gents!
Like this?
I will not even attempt to take credit for this, but Jenova lists this combination on her site:
1) Basecoat in Snakebite Leather
2) Shade with Scorched Brown
3) Highlight with mixture of Snakebite Leather and Bleached Bone (about 2:1 mixture)
I haven\'t tried this yet, but have kept it in mind for when I need it. She also has some other skintone mixtures, though most use some sort of flesh.
I will not even attempt to take credit for this, but Jenova lists this combination on her site:
1) Basecoat in Snakebite Leather
2) Shade with Scorched Brown
3) Highlight with mixture of Snakebite Leather and Bleached Bone (about 2:1 mixture)
I haven\'t tried this yet, but have kept it in mind for when I need it. She also has some other skintone mixtures, though most use some sort of flesh.
Eh, just another flesh tone...
Just thought I\'d throw in my mix!
I use GW Snakebite Leather as a base, mixed with a bit of Extender to thin it down. Then I apply a Japanese Khaki (from some Vallejo offspring company, maybe called \"mini paints\" or something generic like that. Red cap, red label with white lettering.). Then I sort of wash it over a primed white surface. I\'ve always thought GW Flesh Wash was a \"miracle ink\", good for thousands of things, so after my first layer dries I go after the crevasses with some thinned down Flesh Wash. Darker areas, such as eye recesses, I use a bit of grey ink from a fabric shop nearby. After all the washing is over, I\'ll go back to my original recipe and add some Bone color (same red bottle company as before), and then Foundry\'s White.
Just thought I\'d throw in my mix!
I use GW Snakebite Leather as a base, mixed with a bit of Extender to thin it down. Then I apply a Japanese Khaki (from some Vallejo offspring company, maybe called \"mini paints\" or something generic like that. Red cap, red label with white lettering.). Then I sort of wash it over a primed white surface. I\'ve always thought GW Flesh Wash was a \"miracle ink\", good for thousands of things, so after my first layer dries I go after the crevasses with some thinned down Flesh Wash. Darker areas, such as eye recesses, I use a bit of grey ink from a fabric shop nearby. After all the washing is over, I\'ll go back to my original recipe and add some Bone color (same red bottle company as before), and then Foundry\'s White.
