How to paint a figure head in 35 scale using acryliks.
Hi everyone well here goes for my first real tute as a lot of you wanted over on the armour site. First of i prime the head in a suitable primer.
Then mix some flat flesh with water to a thick ink consistency and block in some colour. You will notice this is slightly transparent,dont worry because you want to build up with several light coats. Make sure you dry with a hair dryer between coats
When you are happy with a uniform look then mix up some shadow, i use a red and brown for this but always mix in some of the base colour aswell to make the colours tie together. Then paint in the shadow areas around the eyes and nose and in the creasesaround the mouth and on the neck and in the ears But allways just touch the tissue with the end of the brush first to take up excess water on brush so you dont flood the face. Allways mix the paint with water aswell and at this stage do it to a thin ink cosistency.
Remember to dry with hair dryer in between coats. Then mix up some very thin base colour to a very thin ink and block in over the shadows , dry then again, dry and again untill you see a smooth contrast between colours.
Now its time to paint in the highlights, mix up some light flesh with the base colour 70- 30 and some water to a thick ink consistency ,touch the tissue and paint in the areas of high lights, round uppercheek bones ,round eyes, lower eyelid ,cheek crease down to mouth.
Now its time to paint in the line accross the top eyelid and a dot for the eye in grey/black and then the eyebrows in the same colour. Obviously you need a brush with a verygood tip for this as its very tricky ,good brushes are essencial for all this work.
Next stage i have mixed up some of the dark red colour for in the mouth, painted the lips ,top one being darker than the bottom one and painted the teeth in verylight flesh. Notice i havnt used white as its too stark for this size figure also no whites to the eyes as you wouldnt see someones whites of the eyes at twenty foot away in reallife and thats the scale difference and when added makes figures look unreal and cartoon like.
Next up ive mixed up some of the grey/black colour and the flatflesh to a dirty fleshy colour and then added the five oclock shadow and dabbed in the hair line.
