How to make skin color?

Every novice portrait painter or artist must necessarily learn to create a realistic shade of human skin. As you gain experience, you will develop your own, convenient for you, technique of mixing colors.

In general, the ability to correctly select and mix colors is a whole art, because each person has his own individual skin tone. After you learn how to create realistic skin colors, you can experiment with surrealistic images and shades. Consider options for how to make skin color.

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How to make skin color gouache?

By mixing different shades, you can make the skin color perfectly accurate. But first, you need to determine what kind of shade you need, since one or another combination of colors will be used to recreate them.

Create a light skin tone:

• Selection of colors - you will need to try to mix several colors. In order to get a light skin color, prepare the following colors:
  1. White;
  2. Blue;
  3. Yellow;
  4. Red.
• Mixing colors - paints are most conveniently mixed on a special palette. If you don’t have one, then any other work surface will do. For example, you can use a piece of thick cardboard. Apply a drop of each color to the palette.
• Mix all the paints in equal amounts - with a brush, mix the same amount of blue, yellow and red paint. By mixing the three primary colors, you get a dark foundation - this is how it should be, because later on you will lighten it.

Important! Before dipping a brush in a paint with a different color, be sure to rinse it in a container of water.

• Compare the shades - there should be a shade in front of your eyes that you would like to copy. Compare the resulting base with the shade you want to achieve. If you are sketching with a photo, then consider its lighting.
• Lightening - if you need to achieve a lighter shade, then add yellow and white paint. With the help of yellow paint you get a warmer shade, and thanks to white - a colder one.

Important! Paint should be added a little, and mix well before adding more.

• Add red paint. If you already have a fairly light tone, but still do not have a realistic shade, then you can add a little red paint, but not too much, unless you are trying to get a shade of skin that is charred in the sun.
• Adjust the color - again compare the resulting color with the one you want to get. If the shade is too light, you can add a little blue and red. But, if the shade is too different from the desired, it is better to mix it all over again.

Important! You can mix several color options, and then choose a more suitable one for your picture.

Create a medium skin tone:

• Selection of colors of the desired shades. In order to make the skin color of a medium shade, a greater number of colors should be mixed. Prepare the following paints:
  1. Yellow;
  2. Red;
  3. White;
  4. Blue;
  5. Natural siena;
  6. Burnt umber.
• Mixing colors - similar to the previous instructions, apply a drop of paint of each color to the palette.
• Mix yellow and red. By combining the same amount of yellow and red paint, you get an orange color.
• Add a blue color. Gradually and gradually add blue paint to the base. If you want a darker shade, then try adding a little bit of black paint.
• Compare the shades. Before you should be that skin tone that you need to copy. Compare the base you have received with the shade that you want to get.
• Add red paint - mix red very little. It is better to add paint gradually and gradually so that you do not have to redo the base.
• Create a darker olive color - mix an equal amount of natural siena and burnt umber. You should have a dark, concentrated mixture. Add the right amount of this mixture to the base.

Important! This mixture can be used instead of blue. To get a darker olive color, you should add a little yellow mixed with green.

• Mix until you get the right tone - combine the colors until you get at least five shades that you will be satisfied with. From them you can choose one option that suits you.

Important! It is better to use one or two shades.

Create dark skin tones:

• Selection of colors of the right colors - in order to achieve a truly realistic hue, here you have to experiment a bit. Prepare the following paints:
  1. Natural siena;
  2. Burnt umber;
  3. Red;
  4. Yellow;
  5. Purple.
• Mixing colors - all on the same principle as before.
• We make the foundation. Mix an equal amount of natural siena and burnt umber. Also mix an equal amount of yellow and red paint. Then gradually add the yellow-red mixture to the first mixture.
• Compare shades - compare the basis you received with the shade that you need to achieve.
• Create a dark skin tone. To make the skin color more saturated and dark, you can add a little purple. Dark violet is suitable here, which can be obtained by mixing dark gray or black with violet. You need to mix until you get the perfect option.

Important! Black paint can ruin the base, so it should be introduced quite a bit and gradually. Try mixing until you get the perfect result.

• Create a lighter shade. To lighten a slightly too dark color, use burnt umber instead of purple. Take a small amount of the mixture and see what color you get.
• Lighten the shade. This can be achieved by adding orange to the base. Orange will brighten the base well, giving it a natural look, while white can dilute too much.
• If you have achieved the desired result, start drawing.

Important! To add shadows and chiaroscuro, use gray. When drawing skin, it is desirable to use several shades at once.

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How to get skin color from plasticine?

In plasticine animation, living characters are often animated, so to create their hands, faces and other parts of the body, a color that resembles the color of human skin is needed. Making leather color from plasticine, in fact, is not so difficult, you only need to show a little patience.

If you could not find plasticine in the store you already need the color, then it can be obtained by mixing other colors. To obtain skin color, we need the following colors:

• White is the whole piece;
• Dark pink - 3-4% of the whole piece;
• Other colors - 5% each.

When you mix these colors into a homogeneous mass, then approximately what color is obtained will be seen.

Important! It is better to add not too many bright colors of plasticine, because here it is very easy to overdo it - if the brightness is not enough, juicy colors can always be added, but diluting too bright a color will be very expensive in relation to white plasticine.

It should be remembered that the skin has many shades, so do not be afraid to experiment. For example, if you mix brown in this gamut, then you will get darker skin, and if black is added, you can make the skin color of an African-American.

In general, if you are not sure, it is better to take all the white plasticine and little by little interfere with all the other colors.

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Armed with the acquired knowledge, it's time to move on to practical exercises. Be sure, most likely, the first time you will not get the perfect skin tone, but after a couple of experiments the result will be definitely better and you can complete your masterpiece.