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Is the attached the image you're working off?
There's nothing wrong with using pure white on an image
White occurs in nature- it usually is surrounded by shadows etc to give it form though
Using the same colour but darker is better than back, but certainly with a pastel colour like a skin tone you don't use black to darken it ^^; You could try layering your tones. The face natrally has different tones in it, and you could use blues and greens to tone the face, wait for it to dry, then go over in a skin tone or something. The reference I linked goes from skin base tone to a much redder tone, to a mahogany colour then to black in the darkest spots, but use black as a secret weapon- not the first line arsenal. You can go dark easily in water colour- not lighter. If the reference is correct, then you'l want a sky blue highlight on the edge of his face, and to block in a dark colour to black out your background right now- it'll help you pick your tones. Don't go black- Paynes grey might be a nicer colour. You can make it black later if you want.
Napples yellow is an ochre colour which you could start an asian skin tone with, but it's a little far around the palette for European skin. It needs more pink tones to bump it's hue around but you'll have to be careful not to muddy the colour too much. Peach is a terrible colour, but you can add Naples yellow to it and find something? Be careful how much it darkens it though (I donno- I'm use to coloured pencil ^^; ) Paynes grey is a *better* alternative to black as it is blue based, but not for skin tones.
Sorry- I'd be more helpful if you were using coloured pencil or paint
It's getting to the threshold of my watercolour knowledge.
There's nothing wrong with using pure white on an image
White occurs in nature- it usually is surrounded by shadows etc to give it form though Using the same colour but darker is better than back, but certainly with a pastel colour like a skin tone you don't use black to darken it ^^; You could try layering your tones. The face natrally has different tones in it, and you could use blues and greens to tone the face, wait for it to dry, then go over in a skin tone or something. The reference I linked goes from skin base tone to a much redder tone, to a mahogany colour then to black in the darkest spots, but use black as a secret weapon- not the first line arsenal. You can go dark easily in water colour- not lighter. If the reference is correct, then you'l want a sky blue highlight on the edge of his face, and to block in a dark colour to black out your background right now- it'll help you pick your tones. Don't go black- Paynes grey might be a nicer colour. You can make it black later if you want.
Napples yellow is an ochre colour which you could start an asian skin tone with, but it's a little far around the palette for European skin. It needs more pink tones to bump it's hue around but you'll have to be careful not to muddy the colour too much. Peach is a terrible colour, but you can add Naples yellow to it and find something? Be careful how much it darkens it though (I donno- I'm use to coloured pencil ^^; ) Paynes grey is a *better* alternative to black as it is blue based, but not for skin tones.
Sorry- I'd be more helpful if you were using coloured pencil or paint
It's getting to the threshold of my watercolour knowledge.Comment ID 88667
This images is similar to the one I am using but on the right side the Avengers with a blue background. And I cropped and printed the image out on an ink jet so the colors I was looking at when starting out where washed out really bad and now I have a photograph that I am using. I am kind of afraid to mix in other colors since the paper is not good quality and I doing Dry Off could rip a hole in it and I don't want that.
I did start out building up the layers slowly in sections so there are parts of the face that have a thick layer and some that have a light layer. and I started out with the black shading because of the printed out image I was looking at, the one I am looking at now the black is not needed but I am so far along that I am just going to go with it. I have added a light green background that I need to build up closer to the face to get that transition of dark to light.
I have a set of flesh pencils that I worked with and it helps but this is so much done I am just going to go with the flow of it already. Though there are some hard lines around the shadow that I can see about adding the other colors to get rid of them. Cerilium Blue should do the trick since the sky blue pigment is to bright.
Thought the lips gave me a lot of trouble since the Scarlet was being a pain and I had to find the right balance of pigment gathered by water to get the pink I wanted and then built up to keep it from going full red. I keep back tracking here, I am terrible irritable at talking about things. I did use some Napels Yellow but it was not giving me to look I wanted, again going back to the printed out image I was using for the color aid. Then I did it as a personal piece to hang on my wall with the other men. Though next time I can always do something different.
I did start out building up the layers slowly in sections so there are parts of the face that have a thick layer and some that have a light layer. and I started out with the black shading because of the printed out image I was looking at, the one I am looking at now the black is not needed but I am so far along that I am just going to go with it. I have added a light green background that I need to build up closer to the face to get that transition of dark to light.
I have a set of flesh pencils that I worked with and it helps but this is so much done I am just going to go with the flow of it already. Though there are some hard lines around the shadow that I can see about adding the other colors to get rid of them. Cerilium Blue should do the trick since the sky blue pigment is to bright.
Thought the lips gave me a lot of trouble since the Scarlet was being a pain and I had to find the right balance of pigment gathered by water to get the pink I wanted and then built up to keep it from going full red. I keep back tracking here, I am terrible irritable at talking about things. I did use some Napels Yellow but it was not giving me to look I wanted, again going back to the printed out image I was using for the color aid. Then I did it as a personal piece to hang on my wall with the other men. Though next time I can always do something different.
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