Painting warm skin tones

[cleen X]

Hi all

I\'m painting a Lyn: Winged Succubus http://www.coolminiornot.com/store/product.php?xProd=4041

There is a lot of flesh on it and I\'m not very familiar with painting flesh. What I\'m looking for is a warm feel, the base will be painted to look like it\'s inside of a watered cave (lots of blue tones). So I want the models skin to look very warm.

Any tips on how to archieve this? She will have red hair so I\'ve been considering using red as a shading color because it will give the flesh some warmth and at the same time create some consistency within the painting scheme. The problem is that I really don\'t know how it should or could be done

Would love some feedback on how to archieve this.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by cleen X
So I want the models skin to look very warm.

Any tips on how to archieve this?

Warm, like cool, is unfortunately a horribly vague colour term, but generally (not always!) it simply means more toward red... or orange, or yellow, depending on the person you talk to!

Anyway, I don\'t know what colours you typically use to paint skin, but one of the things you\'re looking for is slightly less neutral colouration (skin is a neutralised tint of orange or scarlet typically).

So you could get what you\'re looking for simply by adding in a dot of orange or orange-red to the basic colours.

Glazing after doing the basic skintones with a thin layer of either colour can also work.

Einion

 

[Dragonsreach]

What\'s your normal skin colour base tone?
As from that you can add Purples or A Dark Red to make the shadow tones and then Warmer colours as tones for the start of highlight.
As Einion suggested glazes after the basic tones are done will make the colours work best.

 

[cleen X]

Thanks for the replies

I have used tallarn flesh as a base before. So by adding purple or red to the shadows and the say glazing the skin with orange or yellow should make it warmer? By the basic skintones do you mean after all the skin is highlighted and shadowed or after the base coat?
The glazes, should they be added to all the skin tones or only the high points/shadows?

 

[nick232]

glazing with orange oo much would make him look slightly odd yellow would be safer me thinks

 

[mattsterbenz]

Tallarn is a great starting point for fleshtones. If you want it warmer, try adding in a little bit of Snakebite Leather to the Tallarn Flesh. Highlight with bone or white.
This will make all the highlights a bit warmer too since some of that basecoat will be mixed in. Dark Flesh is a very warm red brown tone that should work quite nice for shading.

I find that using purples for shading tends to bring stuff to the cool side since there is blue in that.

-Matt

 

[cleen X]

Thanks matt
I\'ll give it a go!

 

[mickc22]

Inge has some nice skin \"recipes\" on her website
http://www.jenova.dk/
just click the \"tips and tutorials\" link on the right hand side