Help for painting special flesh effects?

[Auberoun]

I apologize, the title of this thread is a little mis-leading. I can paint damage on tanks, gems, osl, I have been painting a while, and know how to do a bit. (Thanks Tim Lison, for teaching me on my first mini back in 1997) I just don\'t post a lot, because I lack the photog skills/ and camera. But, I digress...
So, the question I need help on, is how would one paint a 3rd degree burn area on flesh? I have asked a few of my painting buddies, and haven\'t gotten a clear answer? 1.) How would I make it look closer to 3-d on a flat surface. 2.) How do I make it look like it took place a while ago? It is for my slave giant. (Originally it was an Orc & Goblin Giant, then I converted it to a Zombie Giant, Now it is going to be a slave giant, I filled in the massive rip in the gut I had cut into it with green stuff a while ago, but, the patch is a little rough where it filled in, and would make a good scar where he was burned for amusement by an over-bored Tyrant.)
Any help would be appreciated. (For the record I only use dry-brushing as a last resort for chainmail, fur, hair, and gravel/sand, so I try to steer clear of that.)


Edited with Reference pics

 

[DaN]

Get some reference photos first
Would also be helpful for us to help you GET that effect.

 

[Godlikebuthumble]

Well, you might very well just leave the coarse gs area intact, or even rough it up some (with thinly applied spackle or somesuch). Then paint all in your flesh tone. Following that, you can do the actual burn according to freshness of the scar. (Try googling up some pictures of burns and burn scars)

For fresh 3rd degree burns, just use reds, dark browns and maybe black as thin washes and build it up until you like the effect.

Hope that helps

 

[DaN]

As I recall it 3rd degree is the very worst burn, going through all layers of the dermis (skin)

So It\'d be even worse that GLT (if you wanted accuracy) :|~

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by Auberoun
2.) How do I make it look like it took place a while ago?

So this is a burn scar you\'re looking to do, right?

Originally posted by Auberoun
1.) How would I make it look closer to 3-d on a flat surface.

I would almost always go with adding actual texture myself - nothing beats 3D like 3D - although you could paint a very convincing illusion of texture (it\'s just a lot harder to do).

If you were looking to do the actual burn it would be charred and crispy, think Donal Logue\'s character from Blade when he gets to the morgue - those are third-degree burns. At the periphery would be second-degree burns, possibly with areas of first-degree burns outside of that.

Einion

 

[Auberoun]

where I had put putty in to fill in a huge gap that I had cut into the gut, was a little rough, so I figured it would make a good scar tissue from an old burn. To elaborate a little bit...And I apologize for using GW paint titles, that\'s what I know, even though I only use a few GW paints, I mostly use Reaper Pro Paints, or
Making Memories Paints
(Great paint line by the way) I would start with basing Tanned Flesh, then blending up layers to dwarf flesh on the whole. Then on the scar tissue area, I had thought a base of scorched brown/bronzed flesh mix, and mix in elf flesh for subsequent layers of hightlights, then maybe a wash of thinned out chestnut ink over the scar tissue?