yo to you all
so, another day off another tutorial to keep me out of mischief
this one is experimenting with a technique i found elsewhere for painting faces. it's a fairly involved process, this having taken me about half an hour to complete, so only try it if you're brave
i chose this particular head to a couple of reasons, 1 i had lots of um sittin in me bitz box
and 2 because the sculptor thoughtfully made it very detailed which is perfect for illustrating this trick.
when painting a face it's the contrast between the shadows and highlights that really make it pop so i'm gonna really emphasise this and see what happens.
you need;
-scorched brown, scab red, dwarf flesh, bleached bone.
-the smallest damn brush you can get your mits on, i used a 4/0
-a bloody steady hand!
each stage of highlight is actually made up of 2 very thin coats, a bit thinner than i usually use but the effect speaks for itself (or at least i hope it does
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i started with a base coat of scorched brown over a black undercoat (i won't show you this as it's really dull). once this is dry mix up a 2 SB:2DF:1SR and apply it to almost all of the face, only leaving it in the deepest recesses.
add another dose of dwarf flesh and hit the raised areas of the face around the forehead, nose, cheeks,chin and mouth creases like so...
now the same with pure dwarf flesh
add 2 thin washes of scab red and reapply the dwarf flesh highlights
1:1 mix of dwarf flesh and bleached bone and another red wash and yur done
my apologies for any bleariness in the pics but they should be clear enough to be useful