| Deviant Login | Shop | Join deviantART for FREE  |
Take the Tour  |
#TutorialsClub
#TutorialsForYou
#Walkthrough-Rookie
#Tutorial-Central
#Dragon-Age
| Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Drawing & Painting / Photoshop | ©2012-2013 *DragonReine |
CLICK HERE TO GO TO LINDA BERGKVIST'S "PAINTING REALISTIC HAIR" TUTORIAL HOSTED ON CGSOCIETY.ORG 
The Journal Portal
Browse Journals |
Polls |
deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]
Keep in Touch!
|
Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
|
Sta.sh
I suggest reading Lauren K Cannon's (aka ~navate) skin tutorial (Part 1 and Part 2), because she not only talks about colour, but how tone and blending affects how a skin colour is perceived. Comparing Agrona with, say, Blakely Shepard in my "Reunion" painting, you can see how I treat the highlights and shadows very differently.
Marta Dahlig (aka `blackeri) is also another great painter of the human figure, and she has a free-to-download tutorial hosted by ImagineFX magazine that details how to paint more uncommon skintones, like porcelain skin (pale, translucent, almost milky-white skin), darker skintones, baby/vampire skin, and "ginger" or redhead skintones. It can be found here: [link] Marta also explains how to blend the colours into the skin, as well as give a few tips on the brushes to use to get certain skin effects.
- Reddish tones go to the warmest parts of the skin, where blood vessels tend to be more concentrated. Examples will be the nose, cheeks and ears of the face (i.e face midzone), and the extremities of the limbs like hands and feet, as well as touches on the elbows and knees where the skin is thin.
- Yellow tones go to the places where bone is very close to the skin. Examples include the forehead (face upper zone), as well as the bony protrusions of bent joints like at knuckles, knees and elbows.
If I may suggest a little more, you should really check out these tutorials:
[link]
[link]
[link] <--- this one has about 6 parts, read them all, and take the exercises given
There are all useful and talk more about the theory of colour and light in art, and how they affect skin in particular.