<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Looking for advice on painting darker skin tones."]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/8.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Looking for advice on painting darker skin tones.

Can anyone give any advice as to the best way of achieving this?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9191670.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9191670.page GMT Re:Looking for advice on painting darker skin tones. (I'd also say, when you're taking pics of dark-coloured minis, make your backdrop mid-shade or dark. The light bouncing off the white backdrop is messing with the camera sensor)

Cool Mini or Not has an article that might be a useful starting point.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1310-ethnic-skintones

I think it's too concerned with breaking skintones into regions, with some very spurious preconceived notions, and the paint recipes are too dependent on the individuals and lighting in the photos; but the swatches should give an idea of the general colours to use. Have you looked for photos of the kind of skintones you want, yourself?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9192110.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9192110.page GMT Looking for advice on painting darker skin tones.
That is a really handy article shall put that to good use. As for looking at photos, well I actually used a Somali mate as a swatch! Just not very well.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9193009.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9193009.page GMT Looking for advice on painting darker skin tones.
ingtaer wrote:
As for looking at photos, well I actually used a Somali mate as a swatch! Just not very well.


A live model! Can't get better than that. Looking forward to any further photos.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9193218.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9193218.page GMT Re:Looking for advice on painting darker skin tones.
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If you play around with his recipe, you can get some quite interesting colours.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9195095.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/717357/9195095.page GMT