Artist/art teacher Dianne Mize examines the possibilities of creating Skin Tone Shadows. www.diannemize.com Join this channel to get access to perks: / @inthestudioartinstruc...
You explain color control in a way I've never encountered before. Not just getting to a color, but how to control the entire hue, tone, value, and saturation with precision and predictability. Simply fantastic. Thank you.
Dianne, thank you for this tutorial! I am working on a portrait and wondered if you mix all your light and shadow skin tones ahead of painting or as you are working. How do you lay them down and blend them? Any good tutorial that addresses that application? 🙏🏼🎨🖌️
Thank you for this quick tip. It does help me out because I am learning how to paint human faces. I can do animal faces easily, so it's time to challenge myself!! Been painting since I was 10. I'm 63 now, have a nice collection - but nothing with human likenesses.. been a procrastinator - it's been time to do it .. this gives me motivation and inspiration! Thanks Diane 💖💖💖
As always, you are just marvelous! In all these years, I have never not been inspired and informed. Thank you for your generosity, sharing your incredible talents with us. 🌷🙏🏻🇿🇦
Thank you Dianne for bringing clarity to painting, as usual. I found your channel about 8 years ago (can’t believe it’s been that long!) and can’t thank you enough for sharing of your expertise. That’s a multitude of valuable information bites!
Great video, I realized my colour wheel is not as accurate as yours and will download and take it for print. Skin is challenging and takes time, I want to improve the process 😂
Dear Dianne, do you use the same colors in all your artwork, or do you make a choice based on the idea or artwork and why? looking for wards for the answer 😊.
I have a selected palette of colors from which I work, but for individual paintings, my color selections depend upon what I'm observing in my subject and how I want to interpret it.
As always, so helpful Dianne. I have an unrelated question! People talk about "squinting" when we're painting to get rid of the details (? And some of the computers?) to see if you're on the right track. I don't know how people do it, it gives me a headache (!) Do you have any suggestions for other options other than squinting...? Stepping back helps but it's not quite the same. ❤ thanks again...!
Apparently you are using too much energy. All we have to do is to gently drop our eyelids towards closed, to the degree that images become blurry. This reduces the sharp edges of images so that we can see the light and shadow patterns more easily.
Nice instructions. Basically, all skin tones of all races are desaturated and these tones can fall on the light, medium or dark side. Also, the skin tones can be affected by lighting causing shadows and values to change in about the same ranges.?
Thank you so much for all your explanations. But with soft pastel it's not so easy to mix complementary colors on the surface, it tends to be moody ...!
You can do it! Identify your pastels according to each stick's hue, value and intensity. Then mix them by matching the values. The larger sets include the neutral colors, by the way.
They need to look again. The temperature of a shadow depends upon the temperature of the light and colors of reflected light. AND it is light that enables us to see saturation. Observation is always better than making rules.
