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ceruleanvii — dark skin tone
Published: 2011-03-09 04:59:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 30707; Favourites: 1067; Downloads: 1206
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I wrote this up awhile back and completely forgot about it! When I was working on this image I wanted to see what others had done, but I had a very difficult time finding painted portraits of people with darker skin tones. Lots of photos, but not a lot of paintings. So I thought I'd share what I figured out while I worked on it - hope it's helpful.Related content
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I've rarely seen black skin captured so beautifully, well done!
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I totally wish you had a video tutorial for this so I could see your technique.
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Wow. That is AMAZING!!! How did you get it to the detail where you can even see the pores ? O_O
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Does this painting that you drew have a tutorial ? (the dark skin lady)
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do you have any tutorials on other skin tones? this one is nice
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Awesome.
I used this on my latest piece - still getting the hang of it (just getting into colouring humans) but this tutorial was super helpful.
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Much thanks for this, in particular the advice about the highlights providing definition as opposed to the shadows of lighter complexions is a very useful insight.
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well, I really apreciate it a lot.
beside this is a really good work,
it`s worth imitation and there`s a lot to learn.
I would like you to put a whole tutorial about it.
thanks.
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Ah thank you very much, this is very helpful. I've had a lot of trouble painting/drawing dark skin tones, not quiet figuring out what was going wrong. <3
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Gorgeous 
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Thank you very much! This is amazing and very helpful!
Just one question: In one of your previous tutorials I saw, that you paint in black and white first and then add color. How do you get the colors to be that saturated? Do you use layer modes for this or the brush settings?
I once tryed this myself but the colors were all dull no matter how I set the layer-modes... :/
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Sometimes I start with greyscale but not always - and for this one I didn't. I've noticed that the ones I do with greyscale first do end up slightly more muted.
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Thanks for the quick answer.
Seems logical.
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Wow! That looks amazing and I'm sure many will appreciate this tutorial when they need a hand with darker skin tones.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to share this. It's a valuable resource I look forward to using in the future.
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I notice your brush shape here isn't completely round but has that spongey sort of edge. Does this have something to do with how you manage to define all those pores?
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No, the pores are defined with a textured brush -
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Feel free to elaborate.
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I have another tutorial where I go into this -
[link]
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Thank you for this.
I like the palette you have but the green is distracting to me for some reason, it could be the saturation but I'm not sure if that really can be in someone's skintone; of course I know this is a sketch and you're just showing how they all look together but I'm not sure if I want to use green in my palette. Who knows though, I may try it out later.
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hmm, the green is blue-green to me and more reflected light than skin itself. It probably could be toned down.
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Reflected light makes more sense. I've been trying to branch out more to better understand skin tones (because white/pale tones are somehow more difficult for me than any other, so I'm trying darker skin tones and it's easier for some reason) and your palette has helped me a lot.
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beautiful. I wish you would do a turoail on just her lips, They're amazing!
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This is truly helpful indeed. Thank you for this. This painting is go gorgeous.
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Love the attitude that expression is priceless! That added splash of blue hue brings the image to life a true wonder!
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Great one, she's so beautiful.i seen the finished work but didn't know you layered that many tones into her that's really neat
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