Painting faces

 

All the colors used in this tutorial are from Vallejo, remember that you have to thin your color almost transparent to use this technique, in this way the different shades build up the highlight without obscure the details.

step1 - black primer, eyes and teeth 
step 2 - basecoat of Mahogany Brown 
step 3 - mix Mahogany Brown and a bit of Flat Flesh, thin to semi-transparent and paint all but the deepest recesses, leave a thin brown line near the hair
step 4 - repeat the previous step with the same thinned color on the highlight points, the two layer of thinned color will add resulting in a lighter color and leaving a shade
step 5 - add some more flat flesh to the mix, thin down and add a layer to the highlight points
step 6 - paint the highlight with thinned down Flat Flesh (not so yellow like the picture, look at the colors ref.)
step 7 - add some dot of thinned down beige for the final highlight on the cheeks, nose, chin, eyebrows and so on - reduce the picture to the 25% to see the effect at the correct size
Colors used in this tutorial

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