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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.

:spotlight-left: DOWNLOAD THE SUPPLEMENT CHART HERE :spotlight-right:
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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:star: IN THIS SECTION: :star:
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!

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

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

:star: You can find color theory resources here in my journal.

Please, any questions, concerns, criticisms, etc: comment below.
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~Ramani-Rayne 3 days ago
Yay, more reference! Thanks for making these!

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=vaslittlecrow 3 days ago   Digital Artist
Are you planning to write anything about creating natural looking blue black skin. I think most of the ebony rules would apply, but blue black really does present some major challenges.

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~navate 3 days ago  Professional Digital Artist
I'm rewriting this section to include super pale/albino skin and super dark/blue-black skin. :) So--eventually!

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=vaslittlecrow 3 days ago   Digital Artist
Fantastic. Thank you!

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~DanteXLeon 4 days ago  Student Traditional Artist
On behalf of every learning artist, I thank you. This is very helpful. :+fav:

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~ded-pxl May 15, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Very helpfull, THANK YOU! Fav :)
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Mood: Love *RobertStudio22 May 12, 2012  New member Student General Artist
ounce again this is really helpful thank you for making this lovely tutorial
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*cgart4u May 2, 2012  Professional General Artist
wow amazing, I was just fassinated how you explain everything so deep in detail, I will deffnately try these ideas
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~KashiSKTH Apr 30, 2012
Re-creating any of this would be totally beyond my skill level, but this is a fascinating guide.
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Mood: Thrilled ~oriencor007 Apr 25, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
This is really helpful. I've worked in prismacolor pen and pencil, and have photoshop but it's daunting to shift from what you know to a new medium. Thank you!
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