AsianPerzuasion wrote:Hi! Just a quick question. My tb league body is way too dark and I would like to make it lighter. Is the oil pastel method the best for this? Or is there a makeup like foundation that could give me the results I'm looking for. Maybe there is other methods I could try? Thanks!
Good question. It would help if you illustrated with the
body and the head sculpt(s) you are trying to match. Technically speaking, it might be easier to make (partial/slight) paint adjustments to the head than the
body (more on that below). Oil pastel works well for repainting the
body and getting a pretty permanent solution (it is very very hard to wash off, but not completely impossible, in my experience). The problem with oil pastel is that there is a relatively limited number of available colors (though that depends on what pastel set you get) and blending different colors is rather difficult. So you need to find the right color(s), and they need to have the right consistency and intensity once on the
body. Applying the pastel lightly might not work well in theory, because you are likely to end up with application lines and gaps between them, even after you rub them in with the make up sponge. Sky reports that oil pastel was unsuitable for getting a consistent and successful light color
body -- but you are talking about making the
body lighter, not a complete repaint. Gooboo has been experimenting with oil
paint (not pastel), look at his results (though what he does with white and with darker paints are two different experiments that might not be relevant to what you are thinking of doing).
All that is harder to do than repainting some or all of the head sculpt. Now I realize that one might not want to mess with the perfection some head sculpts can be, but there are ways to do so more or less subtly. For example using very watered-down acrylic paint (include some Liquitex Professonal Ultra Matte Medium to keep it from being too shiny), gently applied with a q-tip (at least in the larger areas) -- especially under the chin line, ears, and back-of-the-head hairline (if you are afraid to treat the face). Depending on how great the mismatch, you might be able to get away with the face itself being lighter. Or you can use the same technique more sparingly to give it a more appropriate matching color while still not obscuring the finer details (eyebrows, eyelashes, etc). I was a bit bolder this time around, but take a look at my James Dean repaint (sorry, I forgot to include a "before" photo as usual) --
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t3909-star-ace-james-dean-head-repaint