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Skin Tones - Page 4 of 6

By :-) Stephanie Shimerdla

5. 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.

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. :)



6. 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.

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

DateNameComment 
21 Mar 200745 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:-) Sophie Eriksson
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 200745 Quazzie
Many many thanks for taking the time to help those of us who still suck =-]
6 Dec 200845 Chris
That is so beautiful. Beautiful picture also very real looking
6 Dec 200845 Chris
agree w/ Irrelevant, that it would be more helpful to add that information. Still a good tutorial though : )1
8 Jan 201045 MzHades
Hi. I really liked this tutorial, it was well done. However, I just have a question. What do you do when faced with darker skin tones? How does shading work when you’re drawing something like a drow elf? Just wondering.
26 Jun 2010:-) Eden Halt
wow this picture is beautiful, but i din’t really get the whole tutorial thing. it was really confusing... like why would your paint turquoise on her face? maybe i’m just stupid but... i didn’t get it
17 Aug 2010:-) Erica Lynn Wilkinson
Epic! Nice tutorial!
19 Sep 201045 DragonReine
@ Rachel Eden
Can’t say if this is why the original uploader of the tutorial used it, but this is from personal experience working with color.

The turquoise tone was picked for fair skintones because the presence of the cold color strengthens the warmth of the overall skin color, and it gives the skin that ’natural’ look (because in real life, color is rarely completely warm or completely cool).

In order for the turquoise to work, however, three things must be remembered:

1) Generally it works better for very fair, pinkish ’cool’ skintones, the kind you’d find on ’Nordic’ skin.

2) The turquoise should be quite light, not completely saturated ’pure’ turquoise.

3) Use it sparingly and blend it well.

Hope that answers your question.
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