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hey
wondering if i can get some help doing pale//grey skin tones for characters like my vampires or my malifaux crew...
i cant seem to get the colors to seem pale and drab while still looking like skin...
i have just about every gray and skin colored tone that gw makes (and a even a few mixes in between)
so can anyone help me out with an effective way to do this?

Does this look like what you want?

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2009/12/painting-raven-guard-muted-pale-skin.html

I wanted an inhuman, cold, ivory tone for my DE. I did the following:

Dheneb stone base.
Wash of devlin mud.
Dheneb stone everywhere but shadows.
Highlight 1:1 dheneb stone/bleached bone.
Final highlight bleached bone.

On tests I found it made quite a good human skin tone with ogrin flesh (it gives it the warm, pinkish tone) which is why I used the much colder devlin mud. I think if you used badab black you'd get the grey effect you seem to want.

@Morgrim: Can we get pics?

haha ya, pics please morgrim?
thanks for the responses, that link really helped me master