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Flat Figures Painters Forum => Techniques => Color Recipes => Topic started by: Roger on September 30, 2013, 10:31:28 AM

Title: Flesh mix.
Post by: Roger on September 30, 2013, 10:31:28 AM

Just one method of mixing flesh from just three colours.

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Anyone else like to add their mixes to this thread?   :)

Title: Re: Flesh mix.
Post by: errant49 on September 30, 2013, 11:49:54 AM

I just prepared a figure for that !
Wait a couple of days
Eric

Title: Re: Flesh mix.
Post by: Roger on September 30, 2013, 12:02:49 PM

Good stuff Eric, looking forward to it.

Title: Re: Flesh mix.
Post by: Glen on September 30, 2013, 01:47:12 PM

I'm now using Reaper's acrylic Black, Carnage Red, Orange Brown, and Pure White for caucasian males. You're basically going from a black-brown to a light pinky-peach color. I add some Blood Red if I have to pink it up a bit. The Norman knight bust shows this (sorry, I don't have a flat with this combo; been working on other projects).
I use a 1:1 mix of Reaper's Tanned Shadow/Rosy Shadow, Tanned Skin/Rosy Skin, and Tanned Highlight/Rosy Highlight for the babes; shade, base, and lights respectively. I further darken and gray out the shadow mix (but not too much) with Burgundy Wine and further lighten the highlights with Pure White. I add a bit of Blood Red or Deep Red to the base mix for lips and nipples/areolas. I can also add Harvest Brown (or any other medium red-brown) to the base mix for nipples/areolas. You can see this on my Witch conversion thread in the Techniques forum.
Glen