Painting bruised flesh

[Lucio]

Looking at a small side project to paint up some Clan Pestilens miniatures and to fit in with a theme, I want their robes to look liked bruised flesh

What colours (Citadel prefered) would people use for this?

[Jazarith]

I would start with a base of bugmans glow and a wash of druchii violet. Depending on how bruised you wanted it to look do a layer of bugmans glow than edge in Cadian Fleshtone.

[Lysandestolpe]

I would honestly carefully drybrush some purple on there. That way you can control how much you want on there and you can get a smoother blend.

[flemingmma]

https://youtu.be/Xy7AoKAywHk

[AGPO]

There's quite a few tutorials out there, but my method is to give a flesh toned base layer two washes of 1:1 druchii violet:medium, then another wash of pure carroburg crimson. Focus the colour towards a wound or the centre of the bruise so that it looks like it's spread from the source of the trauma.

[Lucio]

Thanks all, admitedly my purpose was a little odd, as I wanted to paint a Skaven Pestilens Priest's robe to look like bruised flesh. Waiting for some better light to take a photo

[Lucio]

This is what I managed using the tips above, not sure it's practical on the day to day guys

[TheOtherJosh]

That is a pretty creepy robe.... 

[sal4m4nd3r]

I paint  A LOT of bruised flesh. My general recipe is:

rakarth flesh base

layer over all the rakarth with kislev flesh

shade with reikland flesh shade

layer over that with screaming skull avoiding the areas where the shade is the darkest

1:1 druchii violet shade and medium directly in the recesses.

Fine highlight of pallid whych flesh if you like. Here is the result of this recipe on my bloab rotspawned model. 

 

 

Alternatively, just base rakarth, heavy brush of screaming skull, light shade of druchii, maybe some sephia in some areas to add a bit of yellowing to some bruised areas then light drybrush screaming skull. 

 

For any scheme I would highly advise to prime white.