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Skin Tone tipsby *moni158

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These are skin tones that I’ve collected from some of my pictures.

Usually I’ll make the skin tone while I’m colouring but sometimes i will take them from a bunch that I’ve saved in my pallet.

Making a skin tone is quite easy (for cell shading). Realistic or painting styles colours are quite a lot more complex and require a lot more tones.

Cell shading needs 2 to 4, and some times even 1 colour with a gradient overlay can look nice.

When picking your colour its best to start with the middle tone. If you don’t like it change it a bit with the Contrast or Hue and Saturation options till your satisfied. For the next tone you can make another layer above and set it to multiply and add the same colour overtop on an opacity of about 50%. This is good but if you want a more lively skin tone its best to do it by hand and choose a darker tone a with a bit more red or purple in it. If you want another darker tone apply the same principles but there should be less contrast so don’t make the colours too different.

For the lightest tone you just want it to pop out a little and dot it onto the parts that stick out the most ( top of shoulders tip of nose, line the lips...etc)

Once your done and if it still doesn’t look quite right remember you can still edit the saturation and hue, if the colours don't differ enough add contrast, if the colours are to bright bring down the saturation

hope this was helpful
feel free to use them if you want to

drawing hands

drawing eyes

love 17 17

joy 10 10

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

sad 1 1

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~pawcanada Mar 15, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

As someone who always finds it difficult to get the right skin tone, I find this very helpful. Thanks

~RukiaLui Mar 6, 2013 Student Artisan Crafter

I FINALLY FOUND A GOOD SKIN TYPES

~redcar5 Jan 19, 2013

cool skin

~xxEvilBlondiexx Jan 10, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks for making this! I'm sure it will help me a lot. I just started trying to work with coloring, and skin tones are what give me the most trouble.