Now when you are about to pick a new color to start painting shadows or mid-tones what you need to know is you want to be sure to pick a color that is equally saturated, and I am explaining better this concept in the following picture:Īs you can see, when choosing a darker color to go with your base, you should pick within a range of a “C” curve, not picking down to the darker and desaturated ones. This helps me as I like to work with more layers of colors, from the darkest ones to the lighter ones. Step 3 – First dark areasĪs soon as I have my sketch and flat base, what I usually like to do is draw a few rough darker areas, as you can see here below. Later I will explain how to change from one skin tone to another. Now keep in mind that it could be really any color, but in this case I recreate a Caucasian flesh complexion so I am choosing accordingly.

Step 2 – Choosing your base colorĪs your sketch is done, it’s time to choose a flat color, which will work as a base for the following steps. In this case, I used a picture from Pinterest as a reference image. Now if you want, you can find some reference pictures of human faces online from different websites such as Pinterest, or Pexels, just be sure the reference image you are using is a clear image, try to avoid extreme close-ups of the face, instead, choose for a picture that is as clear as possible, so that you can exercise easier. It is not mandatory, but it’s very helpful.

Let’s start! Step 1 – Prepare your sketchĪs you can see from the image here, a clean sketch may be very helpful. We will see all the steps from sketch to painting. The following tutorial has been made using procreate with an iPad Pro, but it would be the same on any kind of device.

You can try this technique with anything you like : PC, iPad, procreate, it doesn’t matter.

What we will going to see today is a first basic and easy approach to understand basics notions that may be helpful for some of you interested in painting. Today we’ll dive in some basic notion of painting human features, in particular we will see how to paint human skin.

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