Painting Orange Skin

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Project Entry by somegeezer

Orange Goblin

April 12, 2020

Tutoring 5

Skill 7

Idea 7

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I’m starting with the goblin. He’s got smaller skin areas so I can try out my colours as a simple basecoat/wash/highlight/highlight scheme. The ogre, with his larger skin areas may need some blending, which will inform how I paint the little fella.

Base coat of Jokaero orange from GW and whoah! That's quite a start.

This is a paint wash of VMC flat brown thinned with water and thinner medium.

The first set of highlights are pure Jokaero orange, just to recover the higher areas.

To build up the highlights I've worked in more and more VMC dark flesh. A nod and a wink to a "natural" skin tone.

So far so standard. One thing of note is my wash using paint instead of ink. I’d originally planned to use GW Seraphim Sepia. I switched to paint as I thought I’d be blending on the ogre; using paint strikes me as a bit more useful in case I end up mixing it with Jokaero orange.

Next stop, the big lad!