Painting stubble on black skin

[Grey Area]

I\'ve got a guard sergeant that I want to try painting some stubble on, but I\'ve no idea how to go about doing this. I\'ve seen the very short article about painting stubble on white skin; glaze with codex grey, shade with black, highlight with white (no real surprises there!). However, I\'m not sure which colours would work on black skin. I\'ve used scorched brown as the base colour.

Any suggestions? I guess grey may work, and just make him look old.

 

[matty1001]

I would have said black stubble, with a touch of grey for highlights.
I cannot think of any reference pics (minis) you could look at at the moment.

 

[vincegamer]

you might try a really dark purple.

 

[MathewBaich]

I think you would want more light grey/white to do the stubble to make it stand out.

 

[Grey Area]

I went with black and grey and it looks okay. Not great, but it\'s only rank and file anyway. Thanks.

 

[DaN]

If this were a larger piece (Maybe 54mm and above), I would have said try doing it the usual way, but with more layers on the surrounding skin.

(So say, working up from scorched all the way up to maybe snakebite on some of the raised areas)

I don\'t know though - I might try this myself...

 

[generulpoleaxe]

you just add a spot of medium grey into scorched brown and the use black washes to build up the depth you need.

real simple.