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Skin Tones - Page 3 of 6
By  Stephanie Shimerdla
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Make SURE you have the correct background color at this point. Not only will you use the colors from the palette that you've made, but you will also be tying the whole piece together by painting the background color itself into that skin tone in various places.
There are some reddish colors in the palette as well as some pinks, and these are used to help "warm up" the entire face, particularly the cheeks, ears, and nose.
For the purposes of this tutorial, I went in and painted a rough idea for the eyes and lips first, since we're focusing mainly on skintones here.
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In Photoshop, I'll use a soft brush at a low opacity to start placing color over the base skintone.
This is when the basic shape of the face is revealed, as well as the light source(s) that you have chosen. See how much of that blue from the background I've brought into her face itself? That will all be muted once we blend, but it will really help to bring the whole piece together. If you have a multiple color background, bring in a bit of each color in different places.
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Highlights, as I mentioned in the color theory part, are mostly turquoise with this skin tone, which really helps to make the pinks in the skintone "pop" out at you and creates some nice contrast. In the more shaded areas of her face, however, I don't really use that light turquoise color. The highlights in the shaded areas are basically the "base" skin tone itself.
Very little detail at this point, just the basic shapes.
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FARP Article Guestbook
| Date | Name | Comment | | | 31 Oct 2006 |  sea babe | Thanx for the wonderful tutorial,
what type of paper did you use i noticed that is may have a very small or nonexistent tooth and if it does how did you get all of the layers and sections to adhere properly. | |
| 24 Nov 2006 | Poppie | That is sooo cool she is so pretty!!
that's just amazing! | |
| 12 Dec 2006 | Obi-quiet | Honey, that is just about the best facial coloring tutorial I've ever come across, and I've seen quite a few in my time.
I've also never EVER come across a color theory that actually starts someone on the track of figuring out shades and tints (I've ALWAYS had issues with that and have never known how to fix it!). If you have a color theory tutorial, well, that would make me a very VERY happy aspiring artist.
Thank you so much! | |
| 27 Dec 2006 | Mer-girl | This is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO helpfull! Better than makin' em' pink, yellow, or orange (EWW!) | |
| 9 Jan 2007 | Irrevenant | Very cool tutorial, thank you.
One thing you might want to add to the tutorial is the reason blue is added to the colouring of shadows etc. (ie. because it's tinted by the blue light from the sky). It might help people understand/remember the fact better, as well as making it clear that blue tinting isn't appropriate for features illuminated by electric light or firelight. | |
| 18 Feb 2007 | Bella | for sea-babe above, ITS PHOTOSHOP IDIOT. thats what all those 'photoshop' references are from, and where all the screenshots are from. duh.
anyway, this is a fantastic tutorial! it explains stuff really well, and the colouring is amazing. | |
| 21 Mar 2007 | Anonymous | I've been two hours looking for a good portrait tut. This one was very good. Would like to see more from the author. | |
| 9 May 2007 |  Tiffanie L. Gray | A very good overview tutorial on the tones and colors for skin and hair.
Perhaps in your next one, you can add more about actual tools and techniques you use in photoshop to achieve such glorious, smooth results!
Beautiful picture. | |
| 2 Sep 2007 |  Sofie Lemontzis | Amazing tutorial and pic! I would like to see more tutorials from you, especially one about the technique you use for drawing hair in photoshop because I find that very tricky. | |
| 10 Dec 2007 | Quazzie | Many many thanks for taking the time to help those of us who still suck =-] | |
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