Dungeon Crawlers
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Painting Faces
Posted on August 6th, 2003 No commentsIn this excellent article, used with permission from Dragonpaint’s site, we look at painting faces:
Everyone knows that the face on the mini can make or break the whole look. Personally, I think it’s the eyes are the problem (for me at least) I hate to admit how many I’ve done that end up looking like deer caught in the headlights.
All the colors used in this tutorial are from Vallejo, remember that you have to thin your color almost transparent to use this technique, in this way the different shades build up the highlight without obscure the details.Step 1
black primer, eyes and teethStep 2
basecoat of Mahogany BrownStep 3
mix Mahogany Brown and a bit of Flat Flesh, thin to semi-transparent and
paint all but the deepest recesses, leave a thin brown line near the hairStep 4
repeat the previous step with the same thinned color on the highlight points,
the two layer of thinned color will add resulting in a lighter color and
leaving a shadeStep 5
add some more flat flesh to the mix, thin down and add a layer to the highlight
pointsStep 6
paint the highlight with thinned down Flat Flesh (not so yellow like the
picture,
look at the colors ref.)Step 7
add some dot of thinned down beige for the final highlight on the cheeks,
nose, chin, eyebrows and so on – reduce the picture to the 25% to see the
effect at the correct sizeColors used in this tutorial