The pink, yellow and grey are awful, pure awful to work with.
Bountiful babies brought out both the pink and the grey. Their pink makes a great base tone for doing ethnic babies, but for white/caucasian babies its awful.
The grey they brought out recently, its supposed to be a neutral colour. Eeek its not. Just about every artist i know even the top artists have had real trouble trying to neutralise it into a more normal colour before they can start painting properly.
Well memorial baby A is in this grey!
Bountiful baby have since had such negative feedback about the colour that they have changed the colour again on newer kits, but it still means i have to work with it as baby A is to look like the real baby and this kit is the closest to her.
I got her 'warmed' up and less 'ill' looking, but now ive gone too pinky. My newborn tones on her just arent right! Its that grey vinyl.
I guess if you build a wall with a wobbly foundation layer the rest just isnt going to be right. And thats whats happened here. Plus her lips are a bit 'lipstick' looking for my liking.
I tried to correct the pinky-red with a green wash but its all just going very 'pear shaped' as the saying goes. So im going to strip her back and start again, whilst scratching my head as how to neutralise her grey vinyl this time!
Normally with most peach to orange kits you would mix up neutralising paint of either mint green, terquoise or pale pale blue.
This time im going to try and warm the vinyl up (not literally heat the vinyl but paint a softer warmer looking color to neutralise her).
So i think i'll start with a few very thin layers of yellow ochre and take it from there!
Here are the different vinyl colours. I had already started working on baby A's vinyl at that point, so shes a tad less grey.
Look how yellow Lotte kit is comparred to the others as well!
This is baby A so far
But as i said im going to strip all her paint off and start again!!!
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