Do's and Don'ts of Skin Tones Painting | How To Paint Skin 

remember kids, this is why color theory is important 👍

imagine if this video was narrated by morgan freeman

Good old Titanium Hwite

I wish you were my art teacher.

oh this was just damn gorgeous

Thank you for the diversity 😊

Oh my god, I've been in so many art classes and have never been taught this. When you pulled out the primary colors + b/w and started busting out skin tones, my jaw dropped. You've been such a good teacher on all of these how-to videos! Thank you!!

when doing hair, remember the frizzy natural hair PLEASE i never find tutorials about that type of hair

it's taken mem 2 years to find the right video to explain to me how to paint and i finally found it thank you so much

can you make a guide on the underpainting?

You know, I usually just draw and listen to what's going on in the video as I'm working on commissions, but MAN. When you bring in my man Morgan Freeman(MY GOD) I just could not tear away at how stunning you made him look(that and the fact I love that 1000 year old man lol). I love how your instructions weren't confusing and you even made me to stop doing digital for a while and work with some traditional mediums, there's just something so pleasing and satisfactory about painting that just gets me. Beautiful work, I'm sorry for gushing can't wait to see more!

Robin. Sorry to hear about your divorce...sadly I've been there and done that. Wish I'd tried art to help me recover, as I feel it would have helped me hugely at the time. I hope you will feel back to your self again soon hun. God bless you and may He walk with you always. I simply love watching you paint, it's so soothing. You are extremely talented hun! Have a great, great day. Be well. Bye for now. All the best in your life journey from here on in. Ttfn x

The Morgan portrait looks amazingly rich with colors! I love painting people of color for this reason❤️. The paint mixing section was really helpful, thanks robin!😊❤️

how do you get an exact outline of their faces to start with? i would love to see the process you have to execute that. i always struggle getting the exact outline of someones face. it would be the biggest help if you could show me or tell me what you do? i love your work and im trying my hardest to get to this level

Amazing.... I struggle a lot with light skin tones, I always seem to end up with something too pink or too orange. I think I'm getting better at it with more practice but it just frustrates me

these are amazing and i'm so glad you did a darker skin tone because it's harder to find decent tutorials on dark skin tones but they are just so beautiful and interesting to paint! what kind of oil paints and medium do you use? i'm looking into trying oil painting but i want to be sure i'm buying decent things because oils are so expensive and i don't want to end up with money wasted on a poor quality brand xx

I love that you chose Bill Murray and Morgan Freeman.and not Bella Hadid and some Kardashian

Love that you did both dark and light skin tones, great video!

This is SO HELPFUL. Most people who do skin tutorials they only do one skin tone. This helps so much to have two different people with different skin tones as your references. THANK YOU!!!!

this was CRAZY helpful! Especially the color mixing portion! It's really easy to get bogged down by relative colors for skin tones but seeing you mix them was so helpful!! Thanks!!

your tips have helped me so much! Do you prefer using oil iver acrylic?

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Thank you you are awesome! What an amazing God given gift you have! Been teaching art for fifteen years and haven't seen anyone with your skills at your age!

This is my second video of yours and I must say.. I’m obsessed 🤩 awesome quality and love that you’re you’re down to earth and relatable while teaching 🥰 10/10 def recommend!

Clonts i love you so much. Thank you for doing a darker skin tone.

This is so helpful, my A level art exam is next week and I'm painting faces! Thank you!! ❤️

I absolutely love these dos and donts they help me so much both in traditional and digital mediums! Thank you!

This video is so useful! I rewatch it every time I paint a face just as a refresher. Thank you for the helpful video, you’re very talented!

I didn't even need to watch the full video, the intro song and the dramatic music made me subscribe 😂😂😂

First of all, the paintings were amazing. You are so talented, Robin. Second of all, your kitchen looks nice🙂

Thank you so much for working on BOTH light and dark skin tones its VERY helpful!

This actually has such good lessons in, so many people can point but not teach to paint so thank you! Xx

Your vids are so helpful. thanks

u are my inspiration, thank you

this is probably the first tutorial/tip videos i've seen on painting darker skin, and its really good too so thanks!

Omgg I watched these videos religiously in middle school!! You're basically the main reason I ever picked up painting I'm so glad I found your channel again

Dat bob Ross Thalo blue tho

have you seen the history of the entire world video lol just askin the mini jingles at the start kind of reminded me of it

YOURE ACTUALLY!!! a wONDERFUL educator. i love u

Geez!! You make it look so effortless!!! Beautiful paintings!!

Could you also use the same methods if you are only unsing acrylics? I find it hard to mix all the colors togehter on the face because it dries so fast!

can you do a video on painting a whole figure?? I know you do faces, but how would one stick that on a body

Hey, I have been following for for a few years now and this Fall 2020 semester my University art class is using this video for lessons. I hope that makes you proud!

Your shading is up there girl! Whatever skin tone I’m sure you’ll nail it. True artist

How did you get the sketch of them before painting them? Transfer paper? I use transfer paper, but I noticed the sketch was not black, but yellowish.

lol i thought these canvases were super big

Dear Robin, I wanted you to know that I think you have an amazing personality! Thank you for being a inspiration! God bless you !

Oh god I desperately needed all of this. Hyped for the hair painting.

so helpful thank you! I recently got some water soluble oils because you don't need any of the harsh chemicals of normal oils - but I find it so hard to apply the paint thinly and evenly for detail:( I would be so grateful if you could give me some tips for doing detailed paintings with oils! I really want to improve at realism.

I HAVE A GREAT IDEA! why not make a palette on glass and put the glass on top of a reference for colours. So just print the reference 2 times: one for colours and one for the whole picture.😂❤

You're amazing! such a deep grasp of the importance of the location of highlights and shadows. Thanks for the tips!

This is the most helpful tutorial I've ever seen, thank you so much omg

i remember when i was 13 i asked someone to teach me how to paint realistic portraits, like an artist teacher, and they said u have to learn yourself, but then i found this channel, and so now fastword a decade, i am very disappointed that they said this.

I NEED UR HANDS AND TALENT XD

Thank you so much for sharing your gift with us and also the wisdom you have! You are an amazing artist and a beautiful person!

Great! I never thought of starting the painting with acrylic before the oils. That is cool. Thank you for the tip!

The painting is cool and all but the title is misleading. This is a tutorial on how to draw skin not on things to avoid and how to correct common mistakes. Great video and skill.

I thought that she was painting the pelts of hoodies enemy's

Thank you for your help! Beautiful portraits by the way!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

this week I have to paint a self portrait for my summer course and Im so happy I came across this video.

Morgan Freeman for president 2020

“We’re mixing primary colours-“ *Doesn’t use the primary colours*

wow young lady. After all the skin tone videos i,ve sat through finally came to the most comprehensive and informative one. Many thanks

Hey Robin. I love my kids and I love watching your videos. You are amazing at portraits. Cant wait to watch more from you.

Glad to see Jenette McCurdy is doing well even after icarly was cancelled.

u can *literally* make *clickbait* out of these *drawings*

Apparently I'm using your techniques in digital painting and it is much much more easier now to color blend. Thanks for this!!

OH MY GODDDDD. THAT PHOTO REALISM ON POINT DOE! ✨🔥

i now understand the "more malanin" thing.

Colour Theory is the most important part of painting plus I can an lot from you, thanks for this tutorial of do's and don'ts.

this was soooo helpful. i'm so glad you did both skin times

Your tutorials are great!!! I am very thankful to you for the effort and time you spend to help other art lovers! You explain in such an interesting way and I definetly appreciate the vlog/story element in your videos :)

This is insanely helpful for a beginner like me. Thanks Robin!!!

wow... your realism is stunning.

Super awesome mixing. Thanks!

such clear explanations and great paintings, thank you!

This helped me so much. Even though I'm not aiming for photorealistic paintings I love to paint people and for that a great skintone is a must. Thank you 😘

Robin, you're so talented! Keep up the fab work x

You're my favourite realism artist ever and I made a presentation for art class about you :) You're always going to inspire me! this helped me figure out how to make skin tones, so thank you very much!

I love watching these videos, they always inspire me to paint more :)

This is great! As soon as you pulled up the different acrylic paint bottles up, I knew this was going to be good. I have these EXACT same kinds, and I was wondering how to make a realistic face portrait. This was very helpful, thank you!!

I'm not a painter but this really helped me understand color correction for video editing. Great tutorial!

Watching your videos got me full marks on my ART GCSE's thank you so much.

Wow amazing I’m learning all about mixing colours and working on skin tones, great tutorial I’m an artist myself but love that I can learn off RU-vid and talented people. Thank you for your help 👍

looove you!! this was so helpful, this just came in the exact moment I need it

Very informative ! So much talent in one video . 😊🎨

Such a helpful tutorial! Such amazing paintings also.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR THANK YOU

I've been working on a Morgan Freeman painting, and I've struggled with it forever, this helped so much ♡

You have NO IDEA how much you just helped me. Acrylics and I have always had a strange relationship whenever skin tones came up. And now suddenly it clicked! Of course I still need practice... but you managed to help me so much in such a short time. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Unfortunately I am not able to post a picture here (to show my progress) but I will link you in the instagram post to show everyone out there how grateful I am 😂

I know nothing about painting but watched this anyway. Terrific talent and presentation!

This was SO HELPFUL! Haha I had no idea I could use primary colors for skin tones!! Thank you!! I only paint for fun, so I don’t know too much. This was really easy to understand and totally blew my mind! Great work!! The paintings turned out great!!

it's always nice to receive good advice. thank you for your time and expertise

Thank you! Love your style... art wise and teaching wise. :)

Reading through some comments I see a ton of gushers . . . I would also be one! Your a talented and wonderful Teacher and Artist, this is truly evident that even after 2 years people are still finding your content and learning from it! I learned many of the "tips" that your presenting years ago and yet if you do not practice it, you will not retain it! I also spent years as a digital artist and that Damn Undo key is the bane of my current existence! You can develop so many bad habits from its use and I was/am not immune!!! I am relearning and I want to thank you for being so generous with your time and efforts. Sometime we just need that push or refresher to get back on track! Thanks Robin!

You've enlightened me, great tutorial

thank you, you're vids help me sooooooo much when i paint

Fantastic! A proper use of acrylics and oils.

Yup! This was awesome! ❤️

It is amazing the way you hold the brush, i love it, also.