Wich color acrylics...

[pmfs]

Hi!

...is more appropriated to highlight and tone down violet based in your experiences?
I made an experience unsuccessfully mixing violet with flesh and after white and violet and black for shadows, but the result are pretty bad, perhaps diluiton are not correct??

Thanks in advance.

 

[Disco58]

I've sort of just arrived in the figure world, so I'm a bit of a newbie where colors other than military camo are concerned. You mean people actually use colors, something other than olive drab, brown and shades of gray?! By god I think I could used to this! Depending on how light you want the highlights, I'm thinking lavender, pink, mauve or like a dusty rose maybe... Not sure what you mean by 'tone down' though. I'm not up on the terminology of color, but if you want to dull the intensity of the blue and red, I'm thinking throw in a touch of medium gray. There's my 2 cents worth.

 

[Einion]

I made an experience unsuccessfully mixing violet with flesh and after white and violet and black for shadows, but the result are pretty bad, perhaps diluiton are not correct??

Can you try to describe in what way? Dilution shouldn't affect the results.

[Wich color acrylics] is more appropriated to highlight and tone down violet based in your experiences?

To dull down violet paints often the ideal mixing complements are greens surprisingly. But you can always try grey; grey is often the best way to dull colours down since it works pretty consistently on nearly everything.

What works best for highlighting very much depends on which violet and what type of colouration you're aiming for - bright and clean, subdued, dirty - and which pigment(s) the paint is made from also plays a big part (some violets will react very different to white compared to others).

Sometimes you might find that just white will give you the colour that you want in your highlights and other times a light flesh mix might be perfect, but a light tint of green could work too.

Einion

 

[pmfs]

Thanks Guys´s appreciated.