Facial questions

[nosirrahkcaz]

I\'m working on a dark skinned marine face and I have some questions to pose. The model has a large scar running across the face, would it be correct to just lighten the inner part of the scar with some pinkish color or light flesh to get a realistic effect? Also I need to paint the lips and have no clue what colors should be used. If any one has any ideas, suggestions, or references I\'d be deeply greatful. For reference my basecoat on the model is GW dark flesh, i then mixed in terreacoata, then started progressively adding in dwarf flesh to highlight up.

 

[ogreninja]

would you be able to get a picture of your mini on here so we can have a look at what you done so far? how dark are you aiming to get the skin to look?

 

[Dragonsreach]

Originally posted by nosirrahkcaz
I\'m working on a dark skinned marine face and I have some questions to pose. For reference my basecoat on the model is GW dark flesh, i then mixed in terreacoata, then started progressively adding in dwarf flesh to highlight up.

Use Elf Flesh as the scar definition.

 

[Einion]

Originally posted by nosirrahkcaz
I\'m working on a dark skinned marine face and I have some questions to pose. The model has a large scar running across the face, would it be correct to just lighten the inner part of the scar with some pinkish color or light flesh to get a realistic effect?

Scars vary. Try a few things on a scrap of plastic card undercoated in your basic skintone mix, see what you think looks right.

Originally posted by nosirrahkcaz
Also I need to paint the lips and have no clue what colors should be used.

Mixing up a darker, slightly redder version of the flesh mix usually works okay.

Einion

 

[nosirrahkcaz]

Im going to work on him alittle bit when I get home from school then I\'ll get a pic up so I can get a critique of him going on. thanks

 

[nosirrahkcaz]

heres the lastest pic of him what else should i do to get abetter result or at this point am I stuck with what I got any comments or pointers would be greatly appericated

 

[dxhernandez]

that doesn\'t look too bad but I would use a color slightly lighter than the color you used to highlight the cheeks and rest of the face. That elf flesh is a little too bright and doesn\'t really match the dark color of your character.

 

[mickc22]

good effort so far

make a thin glaze of your base, about 8-10:1 paint:water
apply several glazes till your transitions are more gradual