Some Skin Tone Help?...Please...

[The Preacher]

Hello all again,

As I said in another thread I am working on a High Elf army and really want to improve my painting skills.

That being said, I have found a piece of \"source material\" or a \"reference\", if you will regarding the skin tone I am looking for.

Its a little purpleish, a little greyish, but still seems to have a hint of \"flesh\" color in there.

I am asking for some help to try to pull this \"feeling/mood/tone\" on to my minis.

I am trying to get a real sense of gloom, realism into the models. Their bases will be snowy and dark. So I tried to keep the highlights on the models themselves down, to reflect the \"dark\" mood that this particular battle field has.

I hope I am not asking to much, I know I just posted a thread about hair 10 minutes ago, lol.

Thanks in advance to all who reply.

 

[mickc22]

I came across an interesting \"flesh\" recipe

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=V4PxMLuB65Y&feature=channel
I\'ve tried this one, works pretty well amazingly



and I just found this one too
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pRDwuoX43HQ

maybe a variation on the two could give you what you\'re looking for

 

[Avelorn]

Skip the midtone flesh colours. Use like elf flesh and a greyish neutral deep shadow. Then the midtones will be greyish as they are on the picture. Maybe even use the foundation charadon granite --> elf flesh and then a thin purple wash and a thin red wash on some places, reapply the elf flesh and add some small spots of bleached bone. You can of course add grey to the elf flesh if you want it even more subtle.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by The Preacher
Its a little purpleish, a little greyish, but still seems to have a hint of \"flesh\" color in there.

Actually the skin here is pretty uniformly red-orange through to red. The parts that look purplish are just very grey.

One of the simplest ways of playing around with this is to take you normal mixtures and just add some greys to each of them, see how it goes. If you don\'t have a selection of grey paints just use various mixtures of black and white.

Einion

 

[nadine]

If you have a graphics program that can use a color dropper to sample colors, I\'d suggest you try that to see what the palette looks like. (I\'m not sure if GIMP does this, but it\'s free and worth a look at)

This method also has the advantage that you\'re sampling the colors on your own monitor which negates and calibration differences between different viewers.