Painting black skin tones?

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**Miguelsan**

A friend asked me to paint his copy of the infamous Dennis Mize´s Slave Auction and I was wondering what combination of colors would look right to paint black skin and avoid the Drow syndrome. I use mainly Vallejo paints but I´d like to hear about your experiences.

M.

**J.Black**

I take it by 'Drow', you mean the blue/black skin tone?

For dark skin, start with chaos black, a basecoat of scorched brown, then a mix of elf flesh and scorched brown to build up highlights. A 50/50 mix of badab black and gryphonne sepia at the end will help blend everything nicely.

**Miguelsan**

Thanks for the advice. Ill try it later tonight.

M.

**jgemrich**

Miguelsan wrote:A friend asked me to paint his copy of the infamous Dennis Mize´s Slave Auction and I was wondering what combination of colors would look right to paint black skin and avoid the Drow syndrome. I use mainly Vallejo paints but I´d like to hear about your experiences.

M.

Best Skin tone article ever by Crispy.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/310

**freaky angel**

jgemrich wrote:

Best Skin tone article ever by Crispy.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/article/aid/310

That needs moar bewbs LOL.

I reckon you'd need to blend up from black to a dark brown/flesh.

**the_Armyman**

My technique:

1. White basecoat. Sounds odd, but creates a warmer skin tone than black basecoat.
2. Couple of thin coats of GW Dark Flesh.
3. Wash with thinned down 50/50 Chaos Black/Dark Flesh.
4. Hit with Dark Flesh again, leaving the wash color in the recesses.
5. Highlight with 70/30 Dark Flesh/Dwarf Flesh.
6. Thin highlight with 50/50 Dark Flesh/Dwarf Flesh.

Example at my blog, The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm.

**Miguelsan**

Went with J.Black advice on two minis and I´m quite pleased. The result is not to GD standard but...

M.

**typhus**

Foundation brown with ogryn flesh wash looks ok