Flesh tones - in the mood for different pots.

[Joek]

I\'ve never been a huge fan of the GW fleshy tones and always tended to faff about with them to get something different.

More recently I picked up a pot of P3 Midlund Flesh which has become quite a fave with me, although not especially for doing flesh tones with!

Could folk do me a favour and mention some other flesh tones which they use on a semi-regular basis?

 

[Fizl]

I use vallejo or GW, however almost always these days I add a little green into the mix to get rid of the red/pink tones

Shaz

 

[freakinacage]

gw tallarn flesh, p3\'s, vallejo

 

[droogie77]

Vallejo makes a nice selection of flesh tones.

 

[mattsterbenz]

The problem with painting flesh is that so many things affect it\'s color, light specifically. So it\'s tough to get a generic \"flesh tone\" that doesn\'t look cartoony. Generally my preference is to mix spare pots of my own colors.

I like using a mix of 50/50 Bestial Brown and Dwarf Flesh. Shade with Scorched Brown or Dark Flesh, and highlight by adding in Bleached Bone or Skull White (Bone will make a warmer skintone, Skull White will make it cooler).

Another one I like is 50/50 Dwarf Flesh and Graveyard Earth. Take a look at my Pippin model in my gallery, that model was painted with it. Shaded with browns and purples (inks), highlighted by adding in Skull White.

GW Tallarn Flesh is probably my favorite though. Best of all it\'s ready made so you don\'t have to mix it! You can shade with a reddish brown, or orangey brown and it looks great. Highlight by adding in Bleached Bone or Skull White.

-Matt

 

[Ritual]

I never use a skin colour straight from the pot. I haven\'t found any that is to my liking, and I often want some different nuance than on my previous mini anyway. The ones that are best straight out of the pot (I say best, but I don\'t necessarily mean good enough) are P3 Midlund Flesh, as you\'ve noticed, and GW Tallarn Flesh, but I hate using the foundation paints on minis.

My current favourite mix is P3 Hammerfall Khaki and VMC Mahogany sand. I can then add small quantities of other colours to tweak the hue somewhat.

 

[Wren]

I really like the Reaper Master Series flesh paints. (The new Pro Paints look to have some interesting skin tones, but I haven\'t had a chance to play with them much.) The Golden skin tones are pretty nice out of the pot. For my general caucasion base coats I do mixes of the Rosy skin tones and the Tanned skin tones. The Olives Skin paints are newer, I have only used them a little but I like it so far. I like the colours of their Dark skin tones, but I\'ve had problems with the finish, so I\'ve started mixing my own for those.

Lately I\'ve been experimenting with just using a skin tone as the base colour and then mixing shade and highlight tones using colours used elsewhere in the piece or that will alter the skin in and interesting way.

 

[Einion]

I mix mine.

Einion

 

[Starks333]

definetly go for mixing and playing with colour

if its an army, then, well does it REALLY matter?



Alex

 

[Verm1s]

I kinda agree about the GW flesh colours. They\'re a little ruddy for my tastes, most of the time. Foundation Tallarn Flesh is quite good, though.

From other brands, I like VMC cork brown/Anita\'s coffee and Miniature Paints\' apricot and tanned flesh. Then there\'s that pale flesh (forget the name) from the Rackham paint starter set, that looks like a decent highlight, though I haven\'t used it yet.

 

[Dragonsreach]

I normally use Valleo Model Colour Brown Sand and start adding Purple, for shade, Dark Flesh for lips, Ivory for highlight colours.
But there are so many differing combinations that all you can do is have a go and see what YOU like best.

 

[Gilvan Blight]

I usually start with a brown, scorched or beastial and then build up highlights by adding Dwarf Flesh to it, then eventually add elf flesh, and then finish with a V Light Flesh for the final highlight.

I haven\'t done much with adding colours to my flesh shades (greens and purples) but have seen some amazing stuff done by other painters. I may try that sometime soon, especially with the new Citadel washes.

 

[Radio]

Greens? Purples? How does that effect the flesh tones?

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by Radio
Greens? Purples? How does that effect the flesh tones?

Greens can take away the excessive warmth of some \"Flesh\" toned paint.
Purple can add a touch of shadow tone without drowning the highlight or base colour.

It\'s easier to look at someone\'s face in antural light an note the varying tones that occur due to the blood vessels and fatty tissue layers below the skin, these are what we are trying to emulate in miniature. But in 1/65th scale we hit a \"Wall\" due to the miniatures size so we use colour variation to produce the effects.
If there is a Museum/Art gallery close to you I\'d strongly suggest that you go and study some of the portraits. You should be able to see where classic style painters have used tonal variations to produce \"realistic\" flesh.

This portrait of Gustav Flaubert shows the use of tonal colours to provide shape in a a portrait.

 

[Bigdennis52]

I never was fond of games workshop flesh colors either, i mix my own.

 

[Davyboy74]

Ive always had probs with flesh tones myself, particularly when using GW stuff (dwarf flesh too strong, elf flesh too light? anyone?) I find adding a little bit of khaki helps with \'realism\'
Also, vallejo 70928 \'light flesh\' ......a multitude of uses for that one

 

[Talonicus]

tentacle pink straight from the pot.
No shading, no mixing, no thinning.

Looks ok to me.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

Originally posted by Talonicus
tentacle pink straight from the pot.
No shading, no mixing, no thinning.

Looks ok to me.

do you reckon the spanish fell for that one mate lol

i personaly play around with the tones, adding bits of colours in that have been used on the model to create harmony as well as keeping in mind wether it be a warm or cool pallette.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Bit of threadomancy here.
I watched a programme last night which was based around emulating the style of Vincent Van Gogh and used this picture:

In it you can see the brush strokes and also quite clearly the colour usage to change the skin tone.

 

[darklord]

hmm, some of the transitions are a bit ough and the paint a little thick in places, probably a 6 from me Mike