Skinless Muscles how do you paint them?

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Erikjust

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I am currently painting some freehand for a friend, he wanted some Dark Eldar pirate theme.
One of the things i know Dark Eldar likes to do is to drag on the torture of the victims for as long as possible so one of the paintings i´m doing is that of a skinless screaming face.
Now my question is how do i go about painting muscles and fat so it looks real? I am thinking that muscles might be a bestial brown highlighted up to a blood red and fat or raw bone might be a bleached bone highlighted to a skull white, however i´m not sure.

So if any of you might have any tutorials on how to do it i would be grateful.
 
Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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Muscles often get depicted as having a purple-ish shadow tone so I'd suggest working a base layer of your darkest red highlighted with blood red and final highlight of Blood red+Dwarf Flesh glazed over with the purple.
I'd also suggest looking up Medical illustrations in Google images, couldn't hurt.
 
Cyn

Cyn

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Basically what Dragonsreach said. Only a few additions: Do not overdo it with the purple. And if its more than only a bit of a muscle visible (which is at a whole skinless face) i recommen you to add some white between the muscles for the sinews.
 
Bloodhowl

Bloodhowl

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Bodies the exhibit would be a great reference.

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Looking at a skinless human, Muscles should be more to the pinkish side. But since what you want to paint is still alive and the tissues would would be full of blood, maybe a little deeper red?
 
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Ebonbuddha

Ebonbuddha

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I was thinking about using this technique on a model I am entering in a painting competition in July. Thanks for the link, Freakinacage.
 
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