Painting African-American skin?

[Ksu93]

When it comes to painting figures, I am satisfied with my current method of
painting caucasian skin, which works just fine for most armies and wars, but I
have never figured out a good way to paint realistic African-American skin. Can
anyone share their successful techniques with me?

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[RLobinske]

>When it comes to painting figures, I am satisfied with my current method of
>painting caucasian skin, which works just fine for most armies and wars, but
>I
>have never figured out a good way to paint realistic African-American skin.
>Can
>anyone share their successful techniques with me?
>
>

For darker skin tones, I use red-brown adjusted with dark tan or flat black to
get the desired tone. Very fine addtional adjustments can be made with red or
yellow. Make plenty and store in a sealable container. You can then tint
with dark tan and shade with flat black to highlight paint.

Richard Lobinske

[RLB74]

I paint with oils and find the best mixture is the normal skin tone you used
but darkened with more burnt umber than for caucasian tones