Today, I worked on the new icon. After laying down the sanquir, a dark green base coat for the skin tone, I start adding the warm skin tones. The darker tones go on first, and then lighter tones layer on top of those, much like real skin.
The trick, I find this time around, is that the faces are much smaller than the previous icon, so the brush strokes are smaller. It's too easy to paint outside of the boundaries. Towards the end, I was fighting the paint and the brush.
At this point, the mask-like appearance isn't a bad thing, as I am laying bright colour on top of dark. A richer selection of colours will add more life to the skin tone, and glazing will smooth out the harsh gradients.
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