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Reader Question: Face Paint

October 2017·p. 128

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Aidan Daly mixes black into flesh colour for facial patterns, adding more skin colour as the pattern crosses raised features. Following the underlying lighting makes decoration belong on the face instead of appearing as a flat symbol.

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