Basic Painting guide Part two: The Fleshy Bits & The Hairy Bits......... OOOer Missus!
Ok as before the parts were de flashed, cleaned and then dried, then given a coat of grey primer don't overdo it as it fills the recesses that you need for the shades.
First coat was a medium flesh....
When this was dry I then gave it a wash of brown, this will be the lowlight, don't over do it or it will take forever to bring it up to the highlight.
once this was dry the next stage is the application of the medium flesh again, blending into the lowlight areas carefully to add depth and shade.
next was the highlight, I use a light peach tone rather than the usual light flesh as I feel it gives a more realistic skintone for the highlight, again this was blended carefully to get a nice transition.
The Eyes.
this is I feel one of the hardest things to get right and I suggest practicing first before attempting it on your figures, I practiced by drawing eyes at the scale I was painting to scale and to the right distance apart, I then filled them in by painting them as I will explain in the next part of the tutorial. as a point of note, have a look at how a persons eyes fix in different positions when looking to the front, slightly to the side and fully to the side, these can be replicated with care and practice.
ok first off I used white for the eyeball and painted it in carefully, make sure you can see exactly where the lids end and the eyeball begins and paint into it.
next was the iris I did this one in blue, but you can use green or brown if you wish, here is where the difficulty comes in, you need to get this bang right or it will mess the look of the entire figure, not only do the iris's need to be central, (if looking forwards is what you want it to look like), but they also need to be the same size, and with size the size needs to be just right, too big the figure will look terrified, too small, well there will be just too much white showing and the "Grasshopper" look will be very evident, (yup I remember the series Kung Fu with David Carradine lol), so again the practice on the paper is where it all comes in.
last stage for the eyes is the pupil, again, too big makes the figure look scared, too small doesnt look right, again the centre of the iris is what your aiming at.
ok so thats the eye nightmare done, now for something hairy....
first thing I did was paint the parts to have hair black....
Next was a brush over with brown, leaving only the deepest recesses black...
I then brushed on a lighter brown for highlights...
and then finally an even lighter brown for the top most highlights...
so their it is the fleshy and hairy bits sorted.
