Monday, September 11, 2023

Gong Soldier, or: I Heard the Gongman Call My Name

Having consistently failed to apply Cauciasian skin tones with any sense of artistry, I've turned my hand to other varieties. This gong-ringer turned out darker than I had hoped, so perhaps he's South Asian rather than East Asian. 
 

1 comment:

  1. You'd use that skin tone, perhaps one slightly greener (like an olive, or army green) as the underpainting and then apply thin thin thin light peach and/or even thinner very light yellow ochre mixed with white (maybe half and half) and mix in the tiniest dot of cadmium red to paint over that. I do it all the time. But consider the thinnest paint you can, and then go even thinner than that for multiple layers.

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