Skin Tone Tutorials: How To Paint African Skin Part Two
March 26, 2015 by dignity
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Seeing the finished result I understand that the basecolour was already meant to show the parts catching the light. At first it looked way too light and red to me.
And based on the title I still expected the result to be a little darker. But Africa is big and there are a lot of variations of African skin tone to choose from.
Thanks ! It’s a bit darker in person, though, as I remember. There will be another dark skin tutorial (at least), as there’s one recorded already and I plan on making more. 🙂
what can I say wow love the shading & lairing of the colours.
The shadow work is amazing, very nice painting, i guess it helps with the fine models that are kingdom death
Thanks a lot ! 🙂
It does help. As I always say, you’re much more motivated when you’re painting a beautiful sculpt, and it’s much easier to enhance details than camouflage a lack thereof.
Even quite far into this one I was a bit sceptical about how it was going to look in the end, but I think it’s turned out really nicely. It looks like once the clothing (what little of it there is!) is done, the contrast will really bring everything to life.
It would be nice to see some really close up views of the figure – perhaps photos rather than film, as it’s not easy to see the detail on such a delicate miniature, even on the close cam.
I’ll have to check out your earlier tutorial. Thanks!
The key here seemed to be picking a suitable red-brownn as the main base. Additional lighter layers and the shades aren’t then ‘leaping out’ against the underlying tone.
Romain – have you had a chance to checkout ‘Figopedia’ yet?
I have, and it’s a monumentally good book… Finally something serious on this subject ! You’ll get extremely pointed theory with examples, and tricks to make you discover things yourself rather than recipes. Much less amateurish and more structured than the last book by Jeremy Bonamant Teboul ! I look forward to the next one.
Excellent tutorial, as usual. The shading in the shadows on the body; it was like an “ah-ha” moment. Thank you for your time.