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monsterzero_jr
Joined: September 08, 2007
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Posted: Monday, October 19, 2009 - 03:56 AM UTC
As you know MM makes a nice set of flesh color enamels. This includes a base color, a highlight color, a shadow color, etc.

Does anybody have a link to a tutorial showing this particular enamel combination used to paint fleshy areas with great results?

At this point in my figure-painting experience, I'm confused by the number of techniques out there. I'm looking for simple solutions. A lot of the tutorials I've seen are overkills for 1/35 figures I work with. I'm sure they show their full potential on 1/8 scale busts and other large figures.
AJLaFleche
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Posted: Monday, October 19, 2009 - 06:46 AM UTC

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fleshy areas with great results...simple solutions.



These two just don't go together, in general and especially in painting figures. We know amost from birth what humans look like and doing the quick and dirty wash/drybrush thechnique will just not give you a good result


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A lot of the tutorials I've seen are overkills for 1/35 figures I work with. I'm sure they show their full potential on 1/8 scale busts and other large figures.



If you look at what a good figure painter does with a 1/35 figure, you will not see overkill, but an expressive human looking face. If you're only going to look at something from across the room, simple is okay, but if you're going to look at all closely, work must be done to get "great results." As Ringo Starr sang,
"You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy."

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