PAINTING THE ILA

Highlights Then the highlights, however, you could leave the flesh

without doing any more work, and that would look fine, but

with darker flesh it is nice to make it really zing, so I like to

do a couple of highlights on the basic colour. All applied using the Detail brush. The colour for the first highlight is a mix of Oak Brown and

Tanned Flesh, which gives a nice warm lighter brown. This

goes over the first two coats forming a highlight, paying

particular attention to the nose and to delineate the fingers,

knuckles and toes. Leave some of the first two coats showing

around the edges and in the musculature. The facial detail is clearly delineated by the highlight.

Again the next stages are optional. For this final extra highlight

I mixed in more Tanned Flesh to the highlight mix and applied

it to just the very highest points like the nose, knuckles,

cheekbones, chest and so forth. And the final touch was

painting the lip in with a mix of the final highlight colour with a

touch of Pure Red, on the bottom lip only.

Above & below. The first highlight is a mix of Oak Brown and Tanned Flesh.

Below. The extra highlight mix is applied to just the very highest points like the nose, knuckles, cheekbones, chest and so forth.