Sijun Forums :: View topic - Fred? Spooge? Joachim? Micke?... Help with woman's skintone

YourMum · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 8:23 am

Hi men! Here is some test picture - mouse painted and invested time is about 30 mins. This is my first try to draw woman. I just tried to paint unkown woman or exactly try to paint good enough skin tones. I dunno. What do you think about those tones? How could I improve them? Maybe do something different..dunno. :I Give me some feedback, please. I'm going to paint a portrait of me so I wanted to try this. One thing I hate.. the brown shades but I don't know how to skip or replace brownish look?!? Help me gurus and others.. please.

-Juha-

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Danny · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 8:44 am

Dudette..

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Ian · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 9:01 am

Hey that looks really nice! You seem to have gotten very frustrated on the right there.

I would check your light source, start with a lighter tone, and work from there. Sorry if im being a bit vauge...im really tired, I should seriously hit the hay. But it looks good, stick with it, don't put this one in the 'ol "unfinished" folder.

Ok that is all I have to say about that.
Iyen

eetu · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 9:09 am

i had precisely the same problem with my selfportrait. i took an outrageous reddish-purplish color and started toning with low opacity.. of course your reference (if any) might warrant a different color.. but some areas at least could use a touch of red..
http://katastrofi.uiah.fi/~eetu/pencil/morko1.jpg -> http://katastrofi.uiah.fi/~eetu/pencil/morko3b.jpg

eetu.

micke · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 9:24 am

Errhm. this turned out like horse shit.CRAP!!
Don't have time to comment more...Gotta leave for a birthdayparty. Hopefully my beer is cold enough by now

M

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Joachim · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 4:34 pm

I wish i had time to do an overpaint, but sorry I don't at the moment.
micke did a nice version overbrushing, but what I would consider is to think and study your face and see were and why colors are different on different places. Like, more red chins, and around the nose. Were the skin is more fatty, the different textured surfaces which gives differnt shininess, etc.... The skincolor, what makes it interessting is the variations of colors were you have less skin, more visible bloodstreams...sometimes vains that can almost give prple skin color, more hairpores (if that's how you spell that?) which greys out the skincolor, and all of this. Even though you don't show these things clearly, small subtle differences is what makes it interessting.

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kardis · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 5:27 pm

haha micke.. you sure have high standards huh? that's great.. i would consider it a masterpiece, if i, myself, managed to pull that up.. unfortunately i'm not

when you got time, mind sharing you techniques with me.. us..?

-kardis

p.s. yeah, i want to know about skintone too.. how you pick and where they go? study a light source? erm.. i guess i ought to make a trip to the library again

Jason Manley · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 5:34 pm

see my post below about skin tones and

one a couple days ago by agent 44 on flesh tone advice.

YourMum · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 11:17 pm

Okay guys, thanks a lot! And micke.. I think your sample is simple and nice to get better knowledge of this topic. Thanks.. I try to do something with more variance.

Hear ya!

-Juha-