Face painting

[Von Roon]

I'd like to hear your thoughts/advice on simple face painting. I don't want to do eyebrows, five-o'clock shadows, or blushing cheeks. I'm just interested in something that suggests a face better than a swatch of flesh-colored paint. What I'm doing right now is painting the face the shadow (base) color, and then using the midtone to leave dark patches around the eyes and mouth. It looks OK, but I'm sure I could do better. Could I try anything else?

[Peter]

I keep it simple. I use a flesh paint and cover it then with a flesh wash. It works well for me but it needs some practice before you get the result you want.

[ColeF]

This is fairly simple and extremely effective. I've been using something very similar for a while now.

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[Von Roon]

Thanks guys. Peter, what kind of wash do you use?

Cole, I appreciate that link. It's a bit more involved than I'm looking for, but maybe I can adapt/simplify some of the techniques.

[Michel]

I allways use "Flesh Wash" from Citadel/Games Workshop!

[Peter]

I allways use "Flesh Wash" from Citadel/Games Workshop!

I use the same one

[poky]

not a easy one but you can always leave out steps
http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/vi ... 888#p22888

[zzed]

there is no magic formula for painting faces

it is very simple - how much effort you put in painting them, such results you will get

for modest results you need 3 painting phases - basic flesh tone, I'm using for this Model Master enamel 'warm tint' over light grey priming, than some basic shadows on the face with some darker colour, and finally highlights with a lighter flesh tone - some beige is the best fot that

it is not difficult at all, but needs time, there is no speedy way to do it
another important thing is to thin the colours, and use the best paintbrush you can get
when considering paintbrushes, it is not about how many zeroes they have, but how much you paid for it
expensive 000 paintbrush is a 100 times better than cheap 00000 model, which are worthless
start looking for the 10 euros+ paintbrush
one is enough
and use only the smallest amount of thinned paint on the first 2 mm's on the tip of the brush
it will not dry on the quality paintbrush

if you want to speed up the painting process, you need to paint in batches
you can't skip the steps, but you can paint 3-4 figures at the time

very helpful thing is to look what others did, and what colours they used
so when you find the authors which work you like, observe the colours they used instead of admiring the end result
which colours you can see painted, it is what they used to paint the faces
simple, but nobody is actually trying to 'decipher' the colours used
it is not important who makes the colours, but to find an adequate tones

my favourite authors are Erik 'entrauner' and Ben and Jen 'Victorious Secret'

hope this helps

[Sho]

I use this simple way for faces on any scale..


photos 6 and 7 are in wrong order.. must be 7 first and then 6.

[franznap]

for me it depends what scale is used, in 1/72 i use Vallejo orange brown with a bit of white, and a Vallejo brown gaze, i don't paint eyes (only few people are mastering that well)
and i can add some beard veil, or some vermillion veil in the lips and cheeks, it depends what race is the figure.
I believe simpler is better.
but i'm intrigued by the other techniques i see in this post.... i will try some....

[Emperor]

Simplest way first paint face with face paint...Next use little brown color mixed with face paint and add destilated water or thiner and mix it and add thiner until you get liquid mixture of colors and than go over face, and whiola...You got yourself nice tanned face...Just make sure you don't add to much of brown...

[Paul]

Good way of telling someone how to paint anything..show them but don´t name colours he may not have, use the names of colours he knows, not brand names