- Ashton wrote:
- next time you paint a face, could you take pictures of it at every stage ?
I'd love to see how you do it.
Ok this is a quick tutorial I promised Ashton ages ago, showing how I go about painting faces. Hopefully you guys'll find it interesting.
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 1-1](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/1-1.jpg)
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 2-1](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/2-1.jpg)
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 3-1](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/3-1.jpg)
First I apply a thinned-down coat of
bronzed flesh to the face, making sure not to lose any detail. The next coat is a mixture of
bestial brown and
flesh wash, with a tiny bit of
chaos black. The reason for this concoction is that I find flesh wash alone, can cause dark areas to appear shiny. The added black makes sure that the areas around the eyes and mouth are really dark.
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 4-1](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/4-1.jpg)
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 5-1](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/5-1.jpg)
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 6](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/6.jpg)
Using
bronzed flesh with increasing amounts of
skull white, I go about highlighting the raised areas. I also use a mix of
bestial brown and
chaos black watered down, to paint in detail around the eyes, nose and mouth, such as wrinkles, nostrils, eyelids etc.
The eyes are tough, and take alot of trial and error I paint em white first, and then apply a black wash to give them a dark outline. The pupils can be really fiddly, but remember to try and position them near the top of the eye. If you can see white all the way around the pupil it'll usually look odd.
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 7](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/7.jpg)
And here's the finished fella. Looking at him now, maybe I shoulda given him some adamantine claws. I highlighted his teeth with
bleached bone, as well as the eyes, and I applied some thinned down
blood red to his nose.
One thing to remember is that the human face is rarely just a uniform colour, areas around the nose and cheeks are often redder, while the forehead can appear more yellowy. On this character below, I used some thinned down
shadow grey to represent stubble.
![[Tutorial] Jack's face painting tutorial 8](https://2img.net/h/i11.photobucket.com/albums/a186/jackgood16/8.jpg)
hope it helps
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