Painting eyebrows.

[Uruk-Hai]

Im finding it difficult to paint eyebrows on figures, especially shading and highlighten them. Anyone can share some thoughts on this with me?

Cheers

 

[Anders Heintz]

Tjena Janne!

Hoppas att allt ar bra!

I am by far no expert at painting eyebrows, as matter of fact I am terrible at it, so I would love to hear others techniques on this.

But what I do, is paint them a brown color, and try to make the edge a little 'jagged' to simmulate the hair instead of a straight line, then I just add a lighter brown to act as highlights.

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[Alex M.]

If it's a 1/35 or 54mm i don't bother to paint them. Just put a REALLY dark brown line under where the eyebrow would be, and it'll look like they're there. Painting em on a smaller figure can look funny..as i learned..the hardway.

Alex

 

[Lou Masses]

Painting eyebrows can be tough unless you're looking for a Breznev (sp?) look.

The easiest thing to do I find is to use oils. If you look at an eyebrow there really only is hair above the eye. On the sides, it is basically a few wisps but no real definition.

I generally paint the entire face in oils and while the oils are still wet, I add small amounts of a dark color such as sepia (in very small quanitities) or burnt umber and blend into the surrounding flesh color. Usually one pass will do-at this point you're not looking to get the full color just a blend. Once dry go over lightly with the dark color again towards the center of the eyebrow leaving the edges blended.

Hope this helps.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Thanks for the tips.
I also went to Mike Blanks site to study the photos to get some idea how to do it and I got some ideas I will try out.

Cheers