What colors do you use to paint figures with darker skin tones?

Modeling Subjects Figures and Misc.
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what colors have you found that get you a proper shade of skin, black/light-dark, asian, Indian, etc.

this would be for brush use. I am not and never was a member of the air brush party…

Craig

2

I paint faces and skin colors with artists oils. They are easy to blend and have a long working time compared to other mediums.

3

Burnt and/or raw sienna, Naples yellow, and touch of cadmium orange
(also little bit of titanium white) it is enough 90% of all human skin.

4

Everything you wanted to know about ethnic skintones.

5

ailafleche,

That is an excellent reference.

I’m gonna get a guy in our advertising dept at work to print that page off on their high quality color printer.

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Yep, excellent reference. I painted a Reaper Spartan warrior using that guide and the skin tones were excellent.