olliekickflip
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I am having the worst time coming up with the proper color choices for painting a female face. Can any of you good folk nudge me in the right direction? Thanks!
ollie
ollie
Need Help on Female Faces
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airhead
Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
A method I\'ve been using lately is very simple:
On black primer
1: Paint in the eyes with Vallejo Ivory, put in pupils with thin black line. Tidy up any Ivory overpaint with black.
2: Thin down Vallejo Brown Sand and with a good brush (size 1) paint the whole face with a thin coat. (It\'ll look slightly Yellow at first ..don\'t worry)
Repeat to get an even coverage, allow to dry.
3: Dilute either Burnt Cadmium Red or GW Dark Flesh 1 paint 20 water. Paint in the shadow areas, ie under the eyeybrows, the bags of the eyes, the corners of the eyes and down the sides of the nose, the arches from Nostril to corner of mouth, under the bottom lip and under the jaw line.
4: Tidy up with the Brown Sand picking up on the highlight areas.
5: Highly dilute Vallejo Cork Brown and wash into depressed areas of the face, going over the Dark Flesh. This will add a little warmth to the face.
6: Mix a little Vallejo Ivory into the Brown Sand and start highlighting.
7: Repeat but reduce the size of the Highlight areas.
8: Finish the highlights with pure Ivory (thinned) on the tip of the Nose, Cheekbones, Tips of the ears and the centre of the eyebrows. Use the dilute Dark flesh to emphasie the bottom lip.
For Elven or very pale skin omit the shadow washes, just make sure that your initial coats have good coverage and no blotchy patches.
I\'ve used the same basis using Vallejo Cork Brown as the base coat and shadow washes of Chocolate Brown, and Burnt Cadmium Brown to obtain a slighly Asian skin tone on one of Steve Buddle\'s Coolmini Amazon\'s.
Airhead: Thanks for the advertisement.
On black primer
1: Paint in the eyes with Vallejo Ivory, put in pupils with thin black line. Tidy up any Ivory overpaint with black.
2: Thin down Vallejo Brown Sand and with a good brush (size 1) paint the whole face with a thin coat. (It\'ll look slightly Yellow at first ..don\'t worry)
Repeat to get an even coverage, allow to dry.
3: Dilute either Burnt Cadmium Red or GW Dark Flesh 1 paint 20 water. Paint in the shadow areas, ie under the eyeybrows, the bags of the eyes, the corners of the eyes and down the sides of the nose, the arches from Nostril to corner of mouth, under the bottom lip and under the jaw line.
4: Tidy up with the Brown Sand picking up on the highlight areas.
5: Highly dilute Vallejo Cork Brown and wash into depressed areas of the face, going over the Dark Flesh. This will add a little warmth to the face.
6: Mix a little Vallejo Ivory into the Brown Sand and start highlighting.
7: Repeat but reduce the size of the Highlight areas.
8: Finish the highlights with pure Ivory (thinned) on the tip of the Nose, Cheekbones, Tips of the ears and the centre of the eyebrows. Use the dilute Dark flesh to emphasie the bottom lip.
For Elven or very pale skin omit the shadow washes, just make sure that your initial coats have good coverage and no blotchy patches.
I\'ve used the same basis using Vallejo Cork Brown as the base coat and shadow washes of Chocolate Brown, and Burnt Cadmium Brown to obtain a slighly Asian skin tone on one of Steve Buddle\'s Coolmini Amazon\'s.
Airhead: Thanks for the advertisement.
mickc22
Granddad!
Inge also has a good tutorial over at the Jenova Project
just click the \"Tips & tutorials\" link
and Zordana is in the middle of a \"Sultry eyes\" tute over at Tiny Souls
just click the \"Tips & tutorials\" link
and Zordana is in the middle of a \"Sultry eyes\" tute over at Tiny Souls
olliekickflip
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Thanks for the references guys. I actually have been to Zordanas site. I\'ll practice a bit and post what I come up with. Maybe you guys can give me some tips with what I can do differently. Here is what I have so far...I think it is a bit to, well...blah. Maybe I am just overthinking it...What do you think?
Ok just had a look at that picture.
My initial reaction is that the NMM gold seems to be making the face look incipid.
This could just be \'cos the nmm is very good.
However on a longer look the skin seems to have a slight green cast (could be the picture).
I\'d suggest that you might need to try a dilute glaze of purple into the recessesof the cheeks and below the jawline.
The segragation between hairline and skin isn\'t very strong, that might need a darkllining with very dilute dark flesh.
Otherwise I\'m highly impressed with the quality of the rest of the figure.
My initial reaction is that the NMM gold seems to be making the face look incipid.
This could just be \'cos the nmm is very good.
However on a longer look the skin seems to have a slight green cast (could be the picture).
I\'d suggest that you might need to try a dilute glaze of purple into the recessesof the cheeks and below the jawline.
The segragation between hairline and skin isn\'t very strong, that might need a darkllining with very dilute dark flesh.
Otherwise I\'m highly impressed with the quality of the rest of the figure.
olliekickflip
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Thanks for the comments Dragonsreach, I am going to play around with your ideas. I have seen your comments on other projects and your advice is always very solid so its a good place to start. I will also try some of the other advice that was givin as well. Hopefully I will have some updated pics to show by this weekend!
ollie
ollie
angus147258
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Natalia Melnik has a great guide in the darkson designs painting guide. I highly sugest you get it.
Jake
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