Varying Skin Tones

[Koremu]

Are there any tutorials, hints or tips for painting non-caucasian skin tones?

[Koremu]

*smacks thread with almighty hammer of bump*

 

40 views and nobody has advice? Surely someone has painted non-white Marines before?

[Warsmith IV]

I use a dark skin tone for my Iron Warriors (well, the 1 so far that's bareheaded...) because Perturabo is supposed to have had dark skin... but my technique is just graveyard earth washed with ogryn flesh, highlights with graveyard earth.

[Durus]

Try searching for old topics here and in the tutorials section. I know I've posted in some threads about the same topic before.

[thedarklordobsidian]

Probably not quite what you're looking for, but for a pallid old looking flesh tone, I mix Dwarf Flesh 50/50 with shadow grey, then add small amounts of space wolves grey for each successive highlight a la my chaos lord. (link in sig)

[Arikel]

I am not a great painter, but what I do is mix one of the brown paints (scorched brown, snakebite leather etc) with the bronzed flesh paint, sometimes evening out with a bit of white or actual black paint till i get the base tone i want. I then shade with an appropriate colored wash. Simple but it looks decent.

 

Edit: If i can get my camera working i will try to put up some pics of my newer, slightly better painted marines than my old ones, I have some older pictures in my profile but they are from my earliest squads before i started using washes and was trying to paint eyes and brows and such.

[JayeL]

If you go to the GW site and log in then go to the White Dwarf article section there is 2 pdfs on painting faces

 

Link: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/...tion=whiteDwarf

 

Hope this helps.

[skawolf]

I have a method to cover both black and native american type of skin tone with just one different step.

 

Basecoat: black

first coat: calthan brown

second coat (here's where the difference starts)

Black skin give a devlan mud wash

native american you give and ogryn flesh wash

highlight: calthan brown

highlight: tallarn flesh (relly thinned, multiple times)

Finish: hit with whatever wash it was you initialy used.

[Hyaenidae]

Native American: Base of Skull White, then Vermin Brown. Wash with Ogryn Flesh, re-highlight with Vermin Brown, then final highlights with a 50/50 mix of Vermin Brown/Dwarf Flesh. End Result...

Dark Skin: Base of Chaos Black, then Dark Flesh. Wash with Devlan Mud twice, rehighlight with Dark Flesh, then final Highlights of 70/30 Vermin Brown - Dark Flesh. End Result....(terrible photo, sorry)

[Iron_Adam]

You can get very decent results if you stick to the paints with 'flesh' in the names.

 

I base white, then thinner down dark flesh, thinned down dwarf or tallaran flesh ( depending on how dark your looking for) and the highlight with elf flesh. Or even light thinned down coats on recess, then very fine highlights of bleached bone. Washes are fine but I use them more on other things. Nice effects can be had with really thin and multi layered paint