Painting Orange Skin

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Project Entry by somegeezer

The Big Lad

April 17, 2020

Tutoring 5

Skill 7

Idea 7

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Having a decent recipe, I started on the big Lad. There are a wealth of details on this model: some really disturbing, all excellent. But that’s for the future, today’s all about that orange skin tone.

Back to basics - a base coat with Jokaero Orange.

A paint wash with VMC Flat Brown, water and Thinner Medium.

With the larger model I felt there was more variety in the shadows. I put a heavier wash on areas such as the face and hands as these would have the deep lines of shadow. I expected the definition on areas like his arms would maybe be too strong, so I was glad I’d shaded with paint.

I started with pure Jokaero Orange to recover the high areas. Yes those dark shadows on the arms are too much.

I took the highlights almost up to pure VMC Dark Flesh but was losing the ornage tint I wanted. I made a thin glaze of Jokearo Orange that both restored the orange tint and toned down some of the shade. Happy now.

So that’s the orange skin. I’ll now do the (irrelevant to this tutorial but important to me) rest of the minis and get back to you all.