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Post subject: How to do redheads?
Posted: Mar 29, 2003 - 12:22 PM
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How do you do red hair and beards??
What I do is Brown base, reddish brown than highlight with yellow. Must it's more reddish than red. What's your tip?
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Posted: Mar 29, 2003 - 05:36 PM
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Thank Nuffle, it's about painting! |
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Posted: Mar 29, 2003 - 08:29 PM
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I know it sounds otherwise...
Hey ! But if you guys have advice concerning the "otherwise", go ahead !
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Posted: Mar 30, 2003 - 10:38 AM
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Posted: Mar 31, 2003 - 12:36 AM
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I prefer blondes...
Anyway, start with Dark Flesh and then blend fiery orange / blazing orange in. For the final highlight, mix a bit of Sunburst yellow with fiery / blazing orange. It worked for my Marauders...
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Posted: Mar 31, 2003 - 07:54 AM
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for my Dwarf slayers I started with blood red as an undercoat, then I drybrushed a (good) layer of Blazing orange then (some) Fiery orange (that's the lighter one of the two, right?) and finally a bit of yellow (sunburst, I believe)
It worked pretty good; if you want more layers, you can always start mixing paints for more layers in between...
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Posted: Mar 31, 2003 - 07:58 AM
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I did my troll-slayers the same way as RedFang, though with only one color of Orange, and a little white drybrushed over the yellow.
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Posted: Apr 01, 2003 - 05:28 PM
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In my opinion, it depends on the effect you are going for. The methods described above create a blazing, bright orange head (or beard) of hair, which is decent for troll slayers. However, if you're looking more for a redder hair, I generally start with a deep red color as a base, and sucessively add brighter layers of red on top of that. Generally I'll highlight with a mixture of blood red and fiery orange to create a shinier feel to the hair. |
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Posted: Apr 04, 2003 - 08:36 AM
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for genuine red/ginger hair (and speaking as a ginger myself) start with dark brown and then mix either small amounts of orange or the dark red to ir (scab or gore.. can't remember which is darker)
red hair is never red or orange, it's nearer brown |
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Posted: Apr 07, 2003 - 07:51 AM
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Indigo wrote: red hair is never red or orange, it's nearer brown
Yeah right, sounds like a genuine redhead talking
Martijn (dark blonde) |
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Posted: Apr 07, 2003 - 10:02 AM
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I do it the other way. I put an orange base and then apply a wash of bright red. The color you want depend on the amount of water you put in your red. That's for bright red head! And then drybrus with orange mixed with yellow to your taste. (sounds like a recipie! )
By the way, what'a red head? I guess you should mail me to explain that! |
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Posted: Apr 09, 2003 - 07:17 AM
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For trollslayers "orange" hair try undercoat white, paint golden yellow and then ink it with orange ink - simplest way. To get a little variation between figures, change your yellow, darker and lighter tints.
For red heads, try undercoat white, paint bloodred, and then magenta ink for a smack-in-the-eye red. For a more realistic colour, try undercoating with snakebite leather, heavy drybrush with blood red and then highlighting with a 50:50 yellow/bloodred. |
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Posted: May 13, 2003 - 10:43 PM
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I do my redhaeds similar to Elan, White undercoat then I dip the brush into the orange paint and then into water, dab a bit of the water off and use the paint like a wash, this will give you a light orange colour. You need varnish after this as the colour will wear/fade quickly. After the varnish it looks fantastic.
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Posted: May 15, 2003 - 05:41 AM
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dark flesh
red gore
red gore / blood red
blood red
blood red / orange
orange
orange / yellow
orange / even more yellow
that's a lot of drybrushing my friends |
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Posted: May 15, 2003 - 07:06 AM
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Drybrushing? Shame on you Dave
Blending is the way,
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