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Skin Tones - Page 4 of 6
By  Stephanie Shimerdla
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Now I've begun to blend. You'll notice that for the much darker shaded regions, I used a darker version of the same "purple" that we came up with, but I tend to add a bit more brown to it, as well. The outline/shading for the nose is a good example of this darker color.
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Lips, if you're going for a more natural color, are generally not far off from the base skin tone. For these, I took a slightly darker version of almost the same shade, but verging a BIT more toward the red side. To |
find your highlight and shading colors, use the same steps that we went through together for the base skin tone itself. The colors won't be all that different.
Even with it a bit more blended, you can still see some of the palette colors
in there, like the blues and purples and reds. Feel free to experiment with that purple-ish color that you're using for shading. You can add a bit more blue or brown or orange to it until it looks just right. I do just that with her forehead over the next couple of steps.
It's just a process of trial and error, mostly. Until you become a master painter, I suppose, which I most certainly am not. :)
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Here, I'm playing around with the forehead that still doesn't look right (now it's too dark). I've warmed up the cheek and nose a bit with some oranges/reds.
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The lips were given a bit more texture and detail. I used to add far too many shadows to lips, trying to give each one of those lip-lines a highlight and some shading. That generally tends to make the lips look too dimply/lined. Go for the basic shape, and then put just a few hints of highlights and shadings in to -suggest- the lines rather than trying to detail each one.
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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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