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<blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 475483" data-attributes="member: 527">Its so true.&nbsp; Monsters have a built in safety net; they're supposed to have strange flesh tones and bulging eyes.&nbsp; Paint the Princess of Beautifultania with a skin tone thats slightly too red and she looks like a lumberjack.&nbsp; But give an Orc one eye twice the size of the other and he just looks his face is scrunched up in anger.&nbsp;&nbsp; A lot of what I learned about blending flesh tones and doing eyes I learned on my WH Ork army.&nbsp; Green after green, blended up into yellow highlights.&nbsp; When it was finally time to do &quot;real&quot; flesh tones, I had had a lot of practice.&nbsp; Of course, I still started with a GW Ogre, because 1) he's huge and cool, 2) he's still a monster if things dont go quite right.Here is <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&amp;threadid=16372" target="_blank">The Ogre</a>.&nbsp; He's a little glossier than I remembered, but you can see some of the work with the flesh tones in the face and on the arm pretty well.&nbsp; His chainmail is very uniform and glossy in the pic; its much dirtier in real life.&nbsp; I paint the silver on and then do a couple washes with different greys and blacks to get a crusty, lived-in-by-ogre sort of look to it.&nbsp; My photo skills are still a disaster, I've done very few photos that I think look more than 75% like the mini in question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gizzard, post: 475483, member: 527"] Its so true. Monsters have a built in safety net; they're supposed to have strange flesh tones and bulging eyes. Paint the Princess of Beautifultania with a skin tone thats slightly too red and she looks like a lumberjack. But give an Orc one eye twice the size of the other and he just looks his face is scrunched up in anger. A lot of what I learned about blending flesh tones and doing eyes I learned on my WH Ork army. Green after green, blended up into yellow highlights. When it was finally time to do "real" flesh tones, I had had a lot of practice. Of course, I still started with a GW Ogre, because 1) he's huge and cool, 2) he's still a monster if things dont go quite right. Here is [URL=http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16372]The Ogre[/URL]. He's a little glossier than I remembered, but you can see some of the work with the flesh tones in the face and on the arm pretty well. His chainmail is very uniform and glossy in the pic; its much dirtier in real life. I paint the silver on and then do a couple washes with different greys and blacks to get a crusty, lived-in-by-ogre sort of look to it. My photo skills are still a disaster, I've done very few photos that I think look more than 75% like the mini in question. [/QUOTE]

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