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Bishop_Six
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I'm working on a picture of a vampire right now(Yes, I know the vampire thing has come and gone). I'm using a photo reference(of an actual vampire! hehe), but I simply can't get his skin tones right. How am I supposed to get realistic looking skin?
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SporQ
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 4:10 pm |
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well, you have the basic flesh color, but actual skin derives a lot of color from the enviroment, so it would depend on the lighting. also, with a vampire, the skin would be paler, almost white, so the ambient light would affect it even more.
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Seeg
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2001 6:45 pm |
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Hi there, I have a short blurb about painting skin tones on my web site at the bottom of the tutorials page. It is a brief synopsis of what I give my students at the start of each semester. Let me know if you have any questions.
www.seegmiller-art.com
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jzero
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2001 8:44 am |
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Seeg, I have a rhetorical and unanswerable question, which is:
WHY COULDN'T I HAVE SEEN YOUR ADVICE WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL TWELVE YEARS AGO?!?!?!?!?
Your little tips pages are founts of good, practical knowledge that I found very hard to find when I was a student. I went around in a very frustrated state for a while because I couldn't figure out 'how to paint', and I couldn't find anyone who would teach me down at the brushstroke level. Damn!
But since I now have the power of the Wacom tablet, thankfully I'm making up for lost time, and maybe I'll have something good enough to post here.
Thanks loads!
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Seeg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2001 7:06 pm |
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Thanks Jzero. I hope that I help in some small way.
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quaternius
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2001 4:26 pm |
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Just posted some skin tones info. with jpeg palette and Painter *.TXT color set on my geocities site. It might be of some help.
http://www.geocities.com/cubic44/skin1.html
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[This message has been edited by quaternius (edited February 26, 2001).] |
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Bishop_Six
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| Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2001 5:25 pm |
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| Thanks, I'll look at that when I have some time. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 9:58 pm |
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| Seeg, if you dun mind me asking....where do you teach? |
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Seeg
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| Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2001 11:28 pm |
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Coil,
I teach at senior illustration at BYU in Utah. |
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