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[dargrin]

Ok I placed an order last week of the new Olive Skin and Hannah Blackruby. I am going to give a step by step. Feel free to ask questions or comment.

As for colors of the dress and such, I have not desided yet. I will see how it goes.

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[dargrin]

Base coat for skin. I like how this flowed. Eyes need work still but that is a bit later.

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[Mad Jack]

That's gonna look nice...

[dargrin]

I hope so. Keep your fingers crossed.

[dargrin]

Mid tone added. I may want to bring it up a bit more but I will need to see what the highlight does.

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[l33t ninj4]

I'm curious to see how this turns out, and I can already tell this will end for the better for sure. I wasn't to sure about the Olive skin triad, I thought it would be a bit greener for some reason. I'm not sure why... Probably due to seeing Olive drab so much. (I work at a military history/ hobby shop)

[dargrin]

When applying in real thin coats against the white, it is actually green. But with additional coats it darkened up.

[dargrin]

OK this it for tonight. I am getting tired and I am not blending right.

This is the highlight. Fixing is needed I know. But here it at almost 2 hours...

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[Voladilk]

Coming along quite nicely mate. Will look really good when you finish it. The highlights are not too bad at this point. Just a bit of blending and it will fall into place.

[Hoshnasi]

I see you made some eye changes. Can you describe how you painted the eyes?

Thanks!

[dargrin]

Can you describe how you painted the eyes?

I do my eyes as follows. Note these are all MSP names applied with thin layers:

• I paint the eye with Leather White.
• I then use Walnut to go around the rim of the eye. I go pretty heavy here. I really am not considerned with the thickness of my line. I just want to make sure that I don't go into the eye itself.
• I then then painted the Iris with Oiled Leather and then Burnt Orange on the bottom part of the Iris
• I add the puple (black) with a tiny dot of white.
• The then use my Olive Skin Shadow to thin the line around her eyes.

I hope this helps I hope to get back to this tonight but it might be after 8 or so.

[Vaitalla]

I'm curious to see how this turns out, and I can already tell this will end for the better for sure. I wasn't to sure about the Olive skin triad, I thought it would be a bit greener for some reason. I'm not sure why... Probably due to seeing Olive drab so much. (I work at a military history/ hobby shop)

This looks like it's turning out well! I do love this model. And one of the cool things about this skin tone triad is that you get completely different results if you start with the midtone and shade down and then up, or if you start with the highlight and shade down. I had started with the midtone when formulating it but I *really* like how your example is looking with the shadow color being your base!! She looks exotic.

Just a quick note, as I did some research and looked up many examples of olive skin tones before I set about this triad. What is referred to in human beings as "olive" skin is meant to describe a very sallow or golden skin tone with very little red or pink in it. I believe it is the absence of the ruddy tones which we most often see in skin which causes it to read as its opposite/complementary color, green, even though there really isn't any green in it. In pigment terms, though, it *does* actually gain a hint of green because in mixing it I'm using ochre and black and brown oxides...ochre and black mixed create a greenish color. Most of that is overridden by the brown oxides, but not all of it...so that's probably why it looks greenish in some contexts.

Can't wait to see what colors you pick for her dress and such!

--Anne

[Hoshnasi]

Just had to order this model. I really like it. I'm sure I'm getting in over my head with the details and fabrics, but I'll try my hardest :)

[dargrin]

This will be a quick one tonight. Energy level is fading fast and my eldest refuses to stay in bed because he ate too much pizza. Personal problems aside. I am just playing around with dress colors at this time. This is Sandy Tan.

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[dargrin]

This is now Sandy yellow mid tone.

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