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SKIN: a tutorial - Part 2by ~navate

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Drawing & Painting / Photoshop

Whew… okay. This section is very long, and a little intense. I realize I am simultaneously telling you to choose a unified palette, AND throw color all over the place. It’s definitely the most difficult and advanced section of the entire tutorial.

DOWNLOAD THE SUPPLEMENT CHART HERE

Import it into a program with a color picker, and go nuts. Compare the swatches, look at how the colors, saturation, and values changes. It will help, promise.
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IN THIS SECTION:

Skin tones: how to achieve a range of skin tones (light, medium, dark, and fantasy) using the basic formula laid out in Section I.

This tutorial is very extensive and will be publish in four parts. If you just found it, please be sure to start with Section I!

SECTION I: Skin Basics. Expanding beyond the usual shadow-midtone-highlight formula, and how to use each tonal range most effectively.

COMING SOON:

SECTION III: Background color and ambient light. How surrounding colors affect skin.

SECTION IV: Building a skin tone, blending and texturing. The technical section showing how to paint skin start to finish.
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This tutorial uses mostly digital work as examples, but the theory behind it should apply to ALL mediums. But of course it goes without saying that this is hardly the end-all-be-all of skin painting tutorials. Just my way of thinking about it.

Also-- this should go without saying, but I will say it anyway: the ONLY WAY to learn how to paint/draw anything well, let alone realistically, is to STUDY COLOR THEORY AND FORM. All the stuff I blather on about in this tutorial is meaningless unless you take the initiative to learn the fundamentals of color and figure drawing.

You can find color theory resources here in my journal.

Please, any questions, concerns, criticisms, etc: comment below.

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SKIN: a tutorial - Part 2 by ~navate One of the most comprehensive tutorials I've seen on DA - don't forget to check out the first part as well! ( Featured by ^Elandria )

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*marinamaral May 4, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I quoted your tutorial here: [link]

~Elemental-Elegance Apr 28, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Holy MOLY!! You're fabulous!!

~lilkolo91 Apr 28, 2013 Student Filmographer

...I've been searching everywhere for a tutorial like this...I think I love you... <3 <3 <3

~stevep12 Apr 27, 2013

very nice work !!!

~Kyorukki Apr 17, 2013

Thanks so much >w<

~joemomma16 Apr 9, 2013

Thank you so much for posting this, it's wonderful. I've been looking for ways to realistically color skin with the colors chosen for me as well (I have no knowledge on colors) I'm a noob when it comes to coloring and plan to take classes, now with your tutorial I can prepare myself beforehand and have an inside look. Faved, and watched!

~Lewnett Apr 3, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I really am curious on section III of how light affect skin colors. I hope it'll come up soon

~Yumezaka Apr 2, 2013 Professional Filmographer

Wow. This is truly helpful!!

*Val1121 Mar 28, 2013 New member Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Thank it s help me for paint skin tones black sorry for my bas english

~chillinchikjw Mar 25, 2013 General Artist

SWEET NECTAR THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!! Thank you so much for existing and being so kind to share your awesome knowledge of digital painting of varieties of skin tones

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