Painting Darker Skin Tones - The ESSENTIAL Guide. 

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With all due respect, but Im sorry I don't understand your comment? He was just saying as in darker in comparison to whom he painted on this video. Which is a perfectly acceptable of saying it as no color was implied. However, I do wonder now why you decided to include color in ur comment? Some find being called white just as derogatory as calling some one black.

@@Handles-R-Lame "darker in comparison to whom he painted on this video" I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Is he painting the person darker than he already is? The way I see 'darker skin' is 'darker than white skin', which implies a certain norm or standard in painting.

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@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting I've been working on the colour temperature exercise on your patreon, so it was awesome to see the same principles applied to a portrait.

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That would work.

Thank you Suzanne. Premixing some of your colours with a palette knife is a good way of making sure you use enough paint.

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This palette uses a warm brown, like burn sienna. I prefer transparent oxide red to burnt sienna because it is more transparent. Which makes no difference here, but makes it better for mixing dark colours in other paintings.

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Thank you. The mouth was one of the trickiest parts.

You can try the Zorn palette. Titanium white, Yellow ochre, Vermillion ( I use cad red light) and black. It works great for me!

You can definitely mix quite good skin colours for people with lighter skin with this palette. I used to use it a lot for figure painting, But I find my paintings of lighter skinned people done with palette tend to look a little greyer without the chroma in the yellows. So it's probably easier to use something like the Zorn palette that includes yellow. The Zorn palette is also effective for dark skinned models.

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@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thanks alex iwill try this first whit three colors first and then late try zorn pallett thanks for your suport

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I only used solvent to tone the canvas, after that I only used paint straight out of the tube. I made another video about mediums and the circumstances when I might use them here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-22zHMjpdK2Y.html

Thank you Eslam! I agree, this palette definitely has limitations. Even though it's only two colours, I find it's actually not particularly easy to use. It's ok for flesh colours, but there are many hues that it is impossible to match exactly, like greens and yellows. So it forces you to think about temperature relationships. This is why using this palette is a great learning exercise.

@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting yes , I get your point

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Burnt Sienna is a good alternative, but I've never used Indian red. It might be ok, try it. I've heard of painters using Indian red as part of an earth palette, which is the kind of palette earlier renaissance/classical painters would have used? I don't know, maybe something like yellow ochre, Indian or Venetian red, Ivory black and white?

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Yes, I reckon it's very good for flesh colours and quite easy to use.

@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting yes could focus on the tones more

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Yes, you're unlikely to be able to get an exact match with with this limited palette. Also, there could be some difference because of the way the camera picks up the colour. The colours when filming never appear exactly like they do in life, either in the painting or from the model.

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I usually aim for something that I can recognise as my subject, sort of like a caricature, right from the start when I block-in all the larger shapes. But with portraiture, once you start adding details to the features, achieving a likeness really does come down to accuracy in drawing. More than any other subject portraiture demands the greatest degree of accuracy. You can still do quite a lot of correcting, but to maintain a likeness without disrupting the thicker paint underneath, it helps if you can place the details in the right place. This is why I like to use the back of my brush to place details because if they're wrong you can just paint over them without making a mess.

@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting Thank you for your generous answer. It always comes down to practice, practice, practice but I am impatient, impatient, impatient

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Yes black would work, but because this is a warm cool palette and blue is cooler I've always felt it would work better. Also, because the transparent oxide red is quite an orange brown, it could be considered a palette consisting of two complimentary colours. I've heard of artists using, yellow violet or green red combinations and also achieving realistic results? Though I've never tried it. It might be an interesting exercise?

@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting oh wow im not sure ive seen that one before (the yellow violet and green red combo! not for portrait at least?). I do enjoy seeing people utilize green in skintones so i can imagine this complimentary scale actually achieving interesting results!) Please do a video like this someday ! Otherwise i should give it a go myself - not sure i have the right pigments on hand though for the exercise yet! I think Proko used a limited palette of yellow and violet in a plein air once a long time ago and it turned out pretty amazing to be honest - a little like a filter over a photo but still looked very convincing and you'd never have guessed it was a simple purple and yellow palette.

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Thank you! Part two will be out by the end of this month.

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I like using a glass palette with the underside painted grey. I have a couple of different palette boxes, but for these demos I use a cheap ready made photo frame with piece of grey paper behind it.

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