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I used Freestyle Lifetones paints for the skintones for this build. Here are the colors i used for the skintone base. The first thing I did was pre-shade the areas around where her clothing would meet her exposed flesh with Transparent Flesh - around the tops of her shoulders, around her breasts, and around her jumper and boots. I then basecoated the kit with a mixture of KB Flesh and Pale Flesh from a distance of about eight inches, just misting the exposed body parts. After letting the first pass dry, I went back over everything with another light coat.
I added just a bit of Virgin Flesh to the basecoat color and hit the central areas of her face, arms, legs, breasts, and that shapely bottom.
I lightened the base color once again with more Virgin Flesh color, then airbrushed highlights on her forehead, the tops of her cheekbones, nose, ears, the top of her breasts and shoulders - anywhere that would reflect light.
The final step in basecoating the skin tones was lightly misting the original base from a distance of about ten inches to tie everything together.
I shade my kits using several different methods - the pre-shading technique mentioned above, oil washes and glazes, airbrushing after the skintone is applied, and my favorite technique, shading with pastels. Note that you must use CHALK pastels and NOT oil pastels. Chalk will stick - oil will not. I've used a number of different pastels over the years, but the best I've found are Faber Castell. They're moderatly hard to chase down, but you can find 'em at most good-sized art supply stores or at Dick Blick on the interweb. Take a small sheet of sandpaper and rub some of the pastels into a pile. One of the beauties of using pastels is that you can mix them. Here I've taken a sienna color and mixed it with an orangy-peach.
Take a fairly stiff brush - I use Micromark's fabulous dry brushes (also available on the interweb) - and mix your color, the gently tap the pastel in the area you want to shade. Just dab the pastels (don't rub!!) into the areas that would normally be in shadow or have less light hitting them.
Take a fairly stiff brush - I use Micromark's fabulous dry brushes (also available on the interweb) - and mix your color, the gently tap the pastel in the area you want to shade. Just dab the pastels (don't rub!!) into the areas that would normally be in shadow or have less light hitting them.
Take a fairly stiff brush - I use Micromark's fabulous dry brushes (also available on the interweb) - and mix your color, the gently tap the pastel in the area you want to shade. Just dab the pastels (don't rub!!) into the areas that would normally be in shadow or have less light hitting them.
Take a fairly stiff brush - I use Micromark's fabulous dry brushes (also available on the interweb) - and mix your color, the gently tap the pastel in the area you want to shade. Just dab the pastels (don't rub!!) into the areas that would normally be in shadow or have less light hitting them.
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