How to Form Skin Color
In this post, we bring you a new technique and mixture to form skin color easily, avoiding beginner mistakes.
Let’s prepare a light skin tone.
We’ll start with Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Naples Yellow, and Cadmium Red. We’ll mix them and see if it needs more white or any other color.
I don’t want to discard any of the colors I’m preparing because I know I’ll need them at some point, perhaps for another mixture.
It’s not convenient to clean the palette since we always reuse everything.
This seems very important to me because not only do we save time preparing new mixtures, but we also save a lot of money on paint.
And if there’s paint left on the palette when you finish the painting, you can easily transfer the oil back into the tube or cover the palette with a plastic bag to keep it clean for your next piece.
We can add tiny pinches of Cadmium Red. VERY LITTLE, as it’s an invasive color, but it will give the skin a better tone.
I’m adding little by little; I don’t want to overdo it. This is always the best method for color mixing.
BIT BY BIT.
We now have our base color ready.
The first step would be to block in with mid-tones.
Then I’ll use more light, more pink, almost towards the shadows.
But with this mixture, we’re ready to start painting a face.
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NEW TECHNIQUE: How to Paint Hyper-Realistic Lights and Shadows in 3 Simple Steps
If you want everyone to be amazed and ask you how you achieve such realistic lights and shadows, then you need to learn this technique.
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In this VIDEO, you will learn:
The KEY element to correctly position lights and shadows so that each object shows depth and feels real.
How to calculate the color mixture for a natural look when applied to the canvas (even for faces and different skin tones).
The MAJOR mistake that many beginner painters make when mixing colors, making them appear inexperienced.
The third color in the shadow mixture that almost no one uses and how to calculate it (it is essential for cast shadows).
And much more.
