Using Druchii Violet to shade normal skin?

[Stoic Raptor]

I've been trying to find any blog entries, tutorials or videos for this, but it gets lost in the other uses...

 

Can anyone direct me to any resource (or offer any advice) on the best techniques to use a violet shade to enhance normal skin?  I'm not talking about Genestealers or Daemonettes or Drukharii or anything.

 

I've got the notion that properly applied, a violet shade would accentuate the muscular physique and faces of my Goliaths, to start.  But I'm hesitant to do "trial and error" at this stage - I want to at least be prepared, I'm sure it will still be a little challenging at first, but I'm not looking to make my Goliaths into Aberrants (at least, no moreso aberrant than they are already).

[Major_Gilbear]

Just thin it on your palette with a little water and matte medium, and carefully glaze it into the deepest recesses of the musculature. If you simply wash it on, it'll bee too heavy and your model will look purple. You want to use your brush to paint "into" the recesses too, because this is quite thin and you will get the darkest result where the brush leaves the model. Also, by applying it as a glaze you can build up a couple of layers until you get the result you want - it's hard to mess things up as each layer is pretty translucent and you build up the effect gradually.

 

I normally use purple paint (GW Liche Purple/P3 Beaten Purple) instead of a wash, because it's a little more opaque and so the end result has a little more colour overall (which I prefer).

[Prot]

I do it all the time for shaded areas. But you have to use it almost as a glaze mixed with your base flesh tones. It’s in use in my avatar of Valois.

[Bryan Blaire]

I would personally only use it in the most shaded portion of the flesh areas and I would probably thin it some.

When I painted this face, I tried to get a bit of a pale blue undertone to show a more pallid tone:

I ended up using thinned 2:1 Guilliman Blue glaze:flow improver and glazed the lower 2/3rds of the face. Then I painted small veins with the thinned Guilliman Blue (which got covered with thinned Pallid Wych Flesh, unfortunately) to look like veins showing through the pallid skin. I also used thinned Drakehof Nightshade to shade under the eyes.

Because you are looking for a more ruddy tone for your Goliaths (I'm assuming), the Druchii Violet would be a good compliment, but because it is such a deep hue, you might want to thin it so that it isn't as harsh. Keep it to those places where you would likely see the veining under the surface on a person, such as the inner portion of the elbow below the bicep and upper forearm, under the jaw and the shaded portion of the neck, etc.

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[Xenith]

Check my chaos plog for violet shading of a 'traditional' skin tone. I generally use it around eyes and such.

[Stoic Raptor]

Can you provide a link please?  I click on the image in the sig and all I get is a thread with a lot of Photobucket lockouts.

[Prot]

My personal blog in my sig actually has an article on how I used it for faces recently. It's so easy to do, and you can get really nice tonal quality out of the 'glazing' techniques without a ton of effort/time. If you're like me building armies at a time.... I think it's something that might help you.

[Stoic Raptor]

Thanks, I'll give it a look.  Nice blog you've got there by the way - mind if I add it to the blogroll on The Sage Brush?

[Prot]

Thank you. Any bit helps...hopefully the examples there aren’t too crude. (I’m in my purple phase right now. )

[apologist]

Can anyone direct me to any resource (or offer any advice) on the best techniques to use a violet shade to enhance normal skin?  [...] I've got the notion that properly applied, a violet shade would accentuate the muscular physique and faces of my Goliaths, to start.  But I'm hesitant to do "trial and error" at this stage - I want to at least be prepared, I'm sure it will still be a little challenging at first, but I'm not looking to make my Goliaths into Aberrants (at least, no moreso aberrant than they are already).

 

Probably a bit late to add here, but I think the single best bit of advice I can offer is to touch in the purple selectively – a little like a 'pin wash', where the colour is carefully encouraged to sit in a certain place, rather than left to settle naturally. Doing it this way increases the contrast between the shaded areas and the remaining skin; contrast both in terms of tone (dark/light) and hue (purple/yellow).

 

I did a step-by-step on painting a face that demonstrates some of this http://here, and that makes extensive use of purple.

 

I've got some further explanation and examples here on painting pale skin with warm yellow and cool purple glazes for different effects:

Warm

 

Cool

 

Major_Gilbear's advice on building the effect up gradually is particularly valuable. Not only can you see the effect buildup until you get the result you want, but it's harder to 'overdo' things if you're working in subtle layers. 

 

I painted Unfortunus Veck's face using multiple glazes of purple, red and blue around the eyes:

Edited March 27, 2018 by Apologist

[StraightSilver]

Not a great pic but I use very thinned Druchii Violet (thinned with Lahmian Medium into a glaze) on flesh but as has been said I apply it sparingly in deepest recesses such as under eyes.

 

 

I use a combination of Druchii Violet glazes and Baal Red/Carroburg Crimson. The purple I apply to deepest recesses and the red to areas i want to create warmth, such as noses, brows, between fingers.

It's best to apply really thin and build up as you can add to it, it's harder to take away if you overdo it if that makes sense? 

[Stoic Raptor]

Thanks, these are all great recommendations and I'm really learning a lot from you all!  Please keep the suggestions coming.

 

StraightSilver, that face looks amazing and I really appreciate the advice about applying red to warm certain areas as well.  Gradual buildup is definitely an idea I can grasp - I've only done glazing a few times but it is cool to see how it develops.

[Ahistorian]

I use Druchii under Seraphim/Reikland personally