#Help with painting skin

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weary sandal
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(NSFW warning)
So I got this miniature to practice skin, and I layered the paint like how the tutorial I was watching told me to (gradually adding slightly lighter colors to the raised areas), but it looks super splotchy.
Does anyone have an idea on how I can fix it? Could it be that darker skin requires a different approach?

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inner pendant
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Heya! So here's my suggestion.

  1. Start with your mid color. Add in a bit of lighter color to your mid color to create an in-between color.
    Sorry for the bad picture but imagine you have your lowest and your highlight color ( brown and peach).
    1st row . Your both separate colors
    2nd row : drag your highlights color and merge it with your brown.
    3rd row : repeat the paint mixing until you get to your pure highlight color.

Once you are happy and everything has dried.
Take your mid color. ( not featured) and thin it down into a very transparent tint color. So essentially if you apply it over your nail you should be able to see the nail underneath it. Once it is thin enough go over the entire surface of your skin. This will help blend the different steps together.

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You can help make the steps less harsh( like the lines to be less harsh ) you can stipple dots of your colors to help trick the eye

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Example of what I mean by stippling can be seen in the green piece here

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weary sandal
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Omg this is so detailed, thank you! I'll try that!

vital barn
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Another tip that can help you is working with less diluted paints when building layers of light, paints that contain a lot of white in their composition when more diluted tend to have a somewhat chalky finish.

midnight plover
inner pendant
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But did not show a glaze

midnight plover
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What do you glaze with? The middle gradient or the first mix between both? (Row 2)

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@inner pendant

inner pendant
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Sometimes you might have a 3rd color straight from a bottle as your mid tone. I didn't do that in this example. But if you did. Use that color but thin it down 😊

midnight plover
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Awesome! This definetly will help

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I’ll practice it on my next face

inner pendant
midnight plover
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Im going to practice the method on a sprue

latent geyser
weary sandal
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Thank you! Skin is so insanely hard, I was prewarned but did I listen?

inner pendant
latent geyser
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I agree. Once you accept it takes many layers and faith in them to get a result, i find it pretty fascinating.

weary sandal
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I've seen guides on painting skin that go deep into how actual skin works, it's really cool

prisma bolt
midnight plover