I remember years ago trying to figure out how to paint my relatives and friends (who are black) and looking up resources I was appalled to see that most of the "professionals" who painted black people seem to think there was only one dark skin tone (and it was often a dull, mutated brown). But when I was trying to paint my friend and her dad they were 2 completely different browns and were not mutated or dull in tone. So thank you for this! Even showing that darker skin tones come in different 'warmth'.
This is the BEST video I've seen that explains how to mix the wide range of skin tones, without having to purchase a new 'skin tone pallet'. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 😊
After 28 years of being too scared to give into my artistic impulses, I’ve decided to take up watercolors. Something about the free flowing nature of the process with water resonates with me for why I want to nurture the artistic side of myself. For now, what interests me in watercolor above acrylic, oil, pencil, ect. Is that sometimes a mistake can be made that turns out to make the painting even better/unique in the end. Something about watercolor happens that even at the end of a painting if it looks like a preschool photo, the process and interactions with the water and pigment still created a process that was fulfilling. I’m sure that other mediums have similar aspects. But something about the carefree, yet intentional approach to watercolor is fascinating. Something sort of like you are intentionally allowing randomness. I find a lot of similarities to this in every day life as well as an outlet for unhealthy emotions that are caused by a lack of control in the world. Anyways, I just wanted to say that your videos have helped me a lot. There is a lot of self doubt when creating something it seems. But your videos have kept me consistent because you explain things very clearly. Thanks a lot!
FYI: If you don't get the same mixing results in this video, be sure to check the pigment numbers on your tubes, NOT the marketing names, because they can vary widely! From what I can tell, the three main pigments used in this video were: 1) PR 254 -- "Pyrrol Red" in Daniel Smith, but also known as "Winsor Red" in Winsor Newton or "Scarlet Red" in Schminke, etc. 2) PY 97 -- "Hansa Yellow Medium" in Daniel Smith, but also called "Arylide Yellow FGL" in Da Vinci or "Hansa Yellow Deep" in M. Graham, etc. 3) PB29 -- "French Ultramarine Blue" in Daniel Smith, but also named "Ultramarine Deep" in Sennelier, or "Permanent Blue" by Rowney, etc. Happy mixing, -- L
This video was randomly recommended to me and I'm so glad, because I've been having trouble figuring out how to mix different skin tones and this is super helpful, definitely going to have to sit down and try it all out! Thank you! And your channel and art is beautiful, so glad to have found all this!
ive always had such a hard time explaining this to people and your tutorial condenses it so well! thank you, i can show this to my friends when they ask me about painting skin tones!
Omg, I’ve watched so many videos on mixing and I got nothing from them. But you sir, FINALLY made it sink in. It’s so much simpler than I was trying to make it. You sir are the king of face color mixing.
I agree, French Ultramarine is the most beautiful blue - dare I say, the most beautiful color, period. Your method of mixing skin colors is the most intuitive one I've learned so far, and it's probably the one I'll be using from now on.
It absolutely contests for the top spot of most beautiful colours doesn’t it! Let me know how you get on with trying this method, and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to comment here or email me 🤗
I have never truly understood color theory and every color wheel has been so overwhelming to me. Your circles color wheel MADE THE LIGHTBULB COME ON! THANK YOU!!!!!
I've been watching ton of videos on watercolor skintones and this was easily the most helpful. Easy to follow and understand. Clear examples of actual range of skintones. And helpful hints. Bookmarking this for future reference. Thank you!
This is probably the best tutorial I've found for making many kinds of shin in for watercolors, it's so helpful. I'm sure many may agree! And you demonstrate many ideas questioning people(like me) think up here! Thank you so much, it seems like such a nice easy technique to learn from!
I'm 2 years late, but this video was just lovely watching all the beautiful colors of skin and the warmth with which you taught us pulled a smile and made me want to go play to find what my palette can do. Thank you for the knowledge and the inspiration! 😊
Your explanation is so well done. I usually have a hard time understanding peoples tutorials because of the way they explain, but this was just so clean and clear. This really helped out a beginner like me.
Good video! I'm a silk painter now, but I began as a watercolorist. When I was doing watercolor portraits one of the recipes I used was: Alizarin Crimson + Yellow Ochre + Ultramarine Blue. These 3 colors were so versatile! Now, because I have to use the CMYK colors due to using dyes on the silk and then steam setting.
I've just started doing watercolors and I read books, video's, and I've learned so much from your expertise. I know this is old hat for you, but this is just what I needed to fire me up again. TY🤩
I am amazed the way you've taught. The video is lengthy no doubt, but I would encourage you to take lessons with such details as it helps naive like us to :- 1. Understand the art in true sense. 2. Gives confidence to try myself. 3. Shows scope of experimenting 4. Teaches the topic in some depth giving details of what and why . Thank you so much.
This is so informative! I always found my darker skin tones looking kinda muddy, this definitely helped! My question is: how do you layer dark skin tones without watering down the paint?
Hi Marina! Ah, that is where I struggle to be honest, because the pigment sits on top of the paper when the paint is strong so it reactivates more easily and is quite difficult to layer. I tend to use wet-in-wet techniques a bit more often for this so it’s worth experimenting, and when I’m a bit more confident I’ll make a tutorial 🤗🖤
This was such a helpful video!!! You know normally I do my drawings with colored pencils, since I have used them my whole life, but I do like watercolors and try them out whenever I feel like using them. I never really had fun by painting just fruits or landscapes with them so I wanted to do portraits the way i do them with colored pencils. With your video I´m able to do it, since you have shown a wonderful palett and also an easy and cheap way to do it. I ,always thought I need as many colors as i can do draw skin tones, but actually I only need three main colors. I also have to say that I never really knew about the color wheel thing but after you explained it I was like "Well, that´s a cool way actually." Thank you for this video, since there aren´t many of them here explaining it the way you did it here. I think this video is going to help everyone struggeling to find the right color and also thinking they need lots of colors, instead they could use only three. I hope you will do some more videos about watercolor art and also explaining some more of your basic hacks and tipps for beginners or already artists trying to expand their knowlegde
Whenever mixing not-so-basic blue or yellow or red colors.. I imagine these unique colors origins in basic blue:red:yellow ratio.. Like for example I think of cerulean blue as about 4:1:2 ratio of blue:red:yellow, and for Magenta red as 1:4:1 (depending on the magenta hue if more purplish or yellowish there will be different ratios).. so I always keep that in mind when mixing to measure how much I need of basic colors to neutralize or to tone up and down..
Great video! I tend to stay away from cerulean in my skin tones as well! I go with transparent/semi-transparent colours for my skin tone mixes. A staple in my palette though is Trans red oxide it's really a beautiful natural red that mixes well with so many other colours to make a wide variety of skin tones.
This has helped me alot!! I could get skin tones, but would end up eatting so much paint trying to get to the tone I wasn't because I didn't really know what I was doing.
I absolutely loved your explanation of how to make sure colors. It was the most precise and understandable that I have seen yet. It would make it easy to replicate the results I do have a question. You mentioned that you were testing out a blue color and we’re not at liberty to share it yet, it’s been two years. Are you willing to share now I would prefer to have a non-granulating blue do use in this process. Thank you so much for doing such a lovely job.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This was the perfect tutorial at the perfect time. I'm just getting started with watercolors, so I really appreciate that you showed the mixing palette so I could see the consistency of your mixes as well as how the colors are combined. I just did a test a couple days ago to see if I could mix my own skin colors with the little Daniel Smith "Sketcher" palette. Now I know why the ones I made using Cerulean Blue got so funky. lol
Hi! Thanks for an awesome video! I will definitely revisit it! ☺️ If you are interested in learning more about primary colours (you mentioned magenta Not being one) Biana Bova has an awesome and very in depth video on primary colours. She talks about the traditional Red-Blue-Yellow that's historically used in painting, the Magenta-Cyan-Yellow, that is more versatile in the sense that you can achieve more and brighter colours with it (though I certainly see an advantage to starting with a warm red in skin tone mixes), but the pigments have not always been accessible to artists in the past, and also the primaries in light and our eyes. It's long but I found it super fascinating! And just ignore this if that's not up your alley, I just wanted share in case you were curious. I might be a bit of an oddball to be so excited about such things 😁
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I remember years ago trying to figure out how to paint my relatives and friends (who are black) and looking up resources I was appalled to see that most of the "professionals" who painted black people seem to think there was only one dark skin tone (and it was often a dull, mutated brown). But when I was trying to paint my friend and her dad they were 2 completely different browns and were not mutated or dull in tone. So thank you for this! Even showing that darker skin tones come in different 'warmth'.
People who know their colours and colour theory is ✨THE BEST✨
Love your brush btw 🥸
Hey Mesii Desk! I have a lot more to learn I’m sure but glad you enjoyed hearing about what I know so far 🤗
I used to use different diluted burnt sienna washes with pink, but I recently started experimenting with primary colors and it really is fascinating
For myself it’s not the mixing but putting them into faces but need to practice. Tyvm!
Ty for color names
Albeit, red and blue are not actually primary colors. It is magenta and cyan
This is the BEST video I've seen that explains how to mix the wide range of skin tones, without having to purchase a new 'skin tone pallet'. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge 😊
After 28 years of being too scared to give into my artistic impulses, I’ve decided to take up watercolors.
Something about the free flowing nature of the process with water resonates with me for why I want to nurture the artistic side of myself. For now, what interests me in watercolor above acrylic, oil, pencil, ect. Is that sometimes a mistake can be made that turns out to make the painting even better/unique in the end. Something about watercolor happens that even at the end of a painting if it looks like a preschool photo, the process and interactions with the water and pigment still created a process that was fulfilling.
I’m sure that other mediums have similar aspects. But something about the carefree, yet intentional approach to watercolor is fascinating. Something sort of like you are intentionally allowing randomness.
I find a lot of similarities to this in every day life as well as an outlet for unhealthy emotions that are caused by a lack of control in the world.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that your videos have helped me a lot. There is a lot of self doubt when creating something it seems. But your videos have kept me consistent because you explain things very clearly.
Thanks a lot!
I LOVE how you achieved those deep skin tones. You showed such a white range of skin tones.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🤗🖤
@@Finelinernerd WIDE** that’s embarrassing 😳
I knew what you meant, autocorrect’s my arch nemesis almost daily 🙈
I expected a war in the reply section of this comment.
@@harishrangra8096 same! I don't know if I'm relieved or disappointed 😂
This video is fantastic!! I love how you've covered the topic so thoroughly and shown so much variation. ❤❤❤
Thanks Arlee! What a lovely thing to say, it’s made my night 🤗🖤
FYI: If you don't get the same mixing results in this video, be sure to check the pigment numbers on your tubes, NOT the marketing names, because they can vary widely! From what I can tell, the three main pigments used in this video were:
1) PR 254 -- "Pyrrol Red" in Daniel Smith, but also known as "Winsor Red" in Winsor Newton or "Scarlet Red" in Schminke, etc.
2) PY 97 -- "Hansa Yellow Medium" in Daniel Smith, but also called "Arylide Yellow FGL" in Da Vinci or "Hansa Yellow Deep" in M. Graham, etc.
3) PB29 -- "French Ultramarine Blue" in Daniel Smith, but also named "Ultramarine Deep" in Sennelier, or "Permanent Blue" by Rowney, etc.
Happy mixing,
-- L
ive been crying searching for a REALLY beginner painting skintones and then i found you! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! OMFG YOURE A GOD SEND
Such a comprehensive video! All the swatches are so juicy and satisfying!
Thanks lovey! 🖤🖤
This has got to be the most helpful video I have ever watched!
This video was randomly recommended to me and I'm so glad, because I've been having trouble figuring out how to mix different skin tones and this is super helpful, definitely going to have to sit down and try it all out! Thank you! And your channel and art is beautiful, so glad to have found all this!
Hi Mei! Firstly welcome to the channel 🤗 I hope you enjoy playing with your watercolours and I’m so glad you found this useful 🖤🖤
I love when artists have a messy palette, it means it’s actively used lol
Wonderful tutorial. You helped me a lot. Thank you
ive always had such a hard time explaining this to people and your tutorial condenses it so well! thank you, i can show this to my friends when they ask me about painting skin tones!
Hey Brenda! I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to hear that you felt this was organised well, it makes it all worth it 🖤🖤🖤
Omg, I’ve watched so many videos on mixing and I got nothing from them. But you sir, FINALLY made it sink in. It’s so much simpler than I was trying to make it. You sir are the king of face color mixing.
You literally explained this in the simplest way compared to other artists on here. Thank you 😊
I agree, French Ultramarine is the most beautiful blue - dare I say, the most beautiful color, period.
Your method of mixing skin colors is the most intuitive one I've learned so far, and it's probably the one I'll be using from now on.
It absolutely contests for the top spot of most beautiful colours doesn’t it! Let me know how you get on with trying this method, and if you have any questions don’t hesitate to comment here or email me 🤗
I have never truly understood color theory and every color wheel has been so overwhelming to me. Your circles color wheel MADE THE LIGHTBULB COME ON! THANK YOU!!!!!
Im so excited for this video! I’ve recently gotten back into painting, so this came at the right time. ❤️
I’m glad to hear you’re getting back into painting, and I hope you enjoy your journey with it 🖤🖤
I'm a beginner and I've watched so many skin tone tutorials but yours is the best. Keep it up you did great 😊
Hi! What a lovely thing to say, I’m so pleased you found it useful 🤗 let me know if you have any questions when you try this 🖤
I'm in the same boat and I absolutely agree!! It's above the others by a HUGE amount!! 😁👌🎨
This was sooooo helpful! I’m a beginner and I feel like I have a better grasp on mixing skin tones now. Thank you!!!
Best example I've seen yet. Thoroughly explained in a simple way.
Ummmm excuse me... you dropped this 👑
Great video thanks
Nobody that I've watched has explained the color wheel so well where I understood. I'm gonna make my own color wheel and see how it goes
Wow, I’m amazed at wow you are able to achieve all these skin tones from primary colors. You also explain what you’re doing so well.
Thank you for taking some of the mystery out of skin tone colors, I could cry from gratitude.
I've been watching ton of videos on watercolor skintones and this was easily the most helpful. Easy to follow and understand. Clear examples of actual range of skintones. And helpful hints. Bookmarking this for future reference. Thank you!
Hey Simone! I’m delighted that you enjoyed it and found it helpful 🖤🖤
This video is so beautifully helpful. ❤
This is probably the best tutorial I've found for making many kinds of shin in for watercolors, it's so helpful. I'm sure many may agree! And you demonstrate many ideas questioning people(like me) think up here! Thank you so much, it seems like such a nice easy technique to learn from!
I know this video is 2 years old, but this was the MOST helpful skintone video Ive found yet, thank you thank you thank you!!
just after 1min i had to subscribe thankes for the helpful info
Out of all of the skin colour mixing videos I’ve watched this is by far the most helpful! ❤
I have honestly learned more from your videos than I've learned from any watercolor books I've read. Thank you so much for all you've shared❤
I appreciate this a lot!!! I just got a new water color pallet, and i wanted to know how to make skin tones!! Thank you!!!
Absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Betty Hayways brushes. They are all I use for just about everything. ❤️❤️❤️
Super interesting information! Thank you very much!
I'm 2 years late, but this video was just lovely watching all the beautiful colors of skin and the warmth with which you taught us pulled a smile and made me want to go play to find what my palette can do. Thank you for the knowledge and the inspiration! 😊
Your explanation is so well done. I usually have a hard time understanding peoples tutorials because of the way they explain, but this was just so clean and clear. This really helped out a beginner like me.
That was a really well made video. Benn painting for years and I just make opaque skin tones. Now I can make transparent ones
I have to say that is the best skin tone mixing Tutorial I have ever seen thank you. I have really been Struggling to learn mixing skin tone
As a person of color and a budding watercolorist, I found this very interesting and valuable.
This was the best demonstration I have watched on mixing skin tones.
You saved me many hours of trial and error. Thank you!!!
This is exactly what I was searching for. Finelinernerd your explanations and demonstrations are excellent! Thank you! 👍👍
Ive watched a bunch of videos about skin tone with watercolor and yours is by far the best. Thank you
That ultramarine blue on your palette is begging for mercy !
Thank you! This is my first skin tone tutorial and I loved how you simplified it and shown the different swatches based on what we have in our pallets
im in the mood for watercoloring skintone, but I also need to learn the color whele! this video is a gem! ty
Finally someone, who was able to explain me this so easily! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you very much, it really helped me and saved my time! 🙏
Lovley demo!😎
Good video! I'm a silk painter now, but I began as a watercolorist. When I was doing watercolor portraits one of the recipes I used was: Alizarin Crimson + Yellow Ochre + Ultramarine Blue. These 3 colors were so versatile! Now, because I have to use the CMYK colors due to using dyes on the silk and then steam setting.
I've just started doing watercolors and I read books, video's, and I've learned so much from your expertise. I know this is old hat for you, but this is just what I needed to fire me up again. TY🤩
I am amazed the way you've taught. The video is lengthy no doubt, but I would encourage you to take lessons with such details as it helps naive like us to :-
1. Understand the art in true sense.
2. Gives confidence to try myself.
3. Shows scope of experimenting
4. Teaches the topic in some depth giving details of what and why .
Thank you so much.
Definitely the best skin tones tutorial on TH-cam so far for watercolours and I've seen lots of them. Thank you for this tutorial. 🤗
Just awesome info about skin tone
Finally, someone doing a video just on skin tones! Thank you!
This is so informative! I always found my darker skin tones looking kinda muddy, this definitely helped! My question is: how do you layer dark skin tones without watering down the paint?
Hi Marina! Ah, that is where I struggle to be honest, because the pigment sits on top of the paper when the paint is strong so it reactivates more easily and is quite difficult to layer. I tend to use wet-in-wet techniques a bit more often for this so it’s worth experimenting, and when I’m a bit more confident I’ll make a tutorial 🤗🖤
@@Finelinernerd I'll definitely try experimenting with it. Can't wait for your tutorial tho!
Great tutorial 😊
This was such a helpful video!!! You know normally I do my drawings with colored pencils, since I have used them my whole life, but I do like watercolors and try them out whenever I feel like using them. I never really had fun by painting just fruits or landscapes with them so I wanted to do portraits the way i do them with colored pencils. With your video I´m able to do it, since you have shown a wonderful palett and also an easy and cheap way to do it. I ,always thought I need as many colors as i can do draw skin tones, but actually I only need three main colors. I also have to say that I never really knew about the color wheel thing but after you explained it I was like "Well, that´s a cool way actually."
Thank you for this video, since there aren´t many of them here explaining it the way you did it here. I think this video is going to help everyone struggeling to find the right color and also thinking they need lots of colors, instead they could use only three.
I hope you will do some more videos about watercolor art and also explaining some more of your basic hacks and tipps for beginners or already artists trying to expand their knowlegde
You have simplified this for me. Love the tones. Thank you so much!!!
I'm beginner in watercolours and that will help me a lot. Just what i needed to learn for mixing skin tones. Thanks for sharing, great video ❤❤❤
wow!!! this was so helpful! thanks!
Thank-you for explaining this! I have had such a difficult time figuring out skin tones… turns out I just needed to go back to basics!
Well for goodness sake! I’ll dig out my old colour wheel and be able to look at it now with some actual understanding. Thank you. 🙂
Youre An amazing artist James! And you're adorable! Thanks for the lovely videos 🎉
Whenever mixing not-so-basic blue or yellow or red colors.. I imagine these unique colors origins in basic blue:red:yellow ratio.. Like for example I think of cerulean blue as about 4:1:2 ratio of blue:red:yellow, and for Magenta red as 1:4:1 (depending on the magenta hue if more purplish or yellowish there will be different ratios).. so I always keep that in mind when mixing to measure how much I need of basic colors to neutralize or to tone up and down..
Just, i’ve started to learn painting and mixing colours, so I feel satisfied after this video. I mixed an amazing collection of colours🧚🏼
Thanks❤
Great video! I tend to stay away from cerulean in my skin tones as well! I go with transparent/semi-transparent colours for my skin tone mixes. A staple in my palette though is Trans red oxide it's really a beautiful natural red that mixes well with so many other colours to make a wide variety of skin tones.
I was searching for this in whole youtube
I checked many channels
But you gave me what I want
"Thank you "
Great video!! for mine, it didn't work very well when I mixed red, yellow, and blue, but when I mixed rust with red or pink it worked better
Wonderful visuals & explanations.
You are a great at teaching...not just a great artist...very natural and honest .... especially when you laugh ❤️
This has helped me alot!! I could get skin tones, but would end up eatting so much paint trying to get to the tone I wasn't because I didn't really know what I was doing.
Thank you so much for adding the colour wheel theory
Informative, easy to follow and well presented 👍
I absolutely loved your explanation of how to make sure colors. It was the most precise and understandable that I have seen yet. It would make it easy to replicate the results
I do have a question. You mentioned that you were testing out a blue color and we’re not at liberty to share it yet, it’s been two years. Are you willing to share now I would prefer to have a non-granulating blue do use in this process. Thank you so much for doing such a lovely job.
Brilliant one of the best tutorials on colour mix, simple, well explained and rewarding. Thank you
Thanks for the tips!
I love you, you just saved me from ripping all of my art apart
Thank you SO MUCH for this great video. I love to paint darker skinned faces in pastel but this has inspired me to go for it in watercolor.
thank you this is helpful I just dug out my paints and I am anxious to get started.
Oooh! I hope you have fun playing around! 🖤🖤
I have seen quite a few videos on skin tones with watercolor, and this is the best video that I have seen!! Thanks a lot!
The award for the best video explaining how to mix skin tone goes to you ♥️♥️✨
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This was the perfect tutorial at the perfect time. I'm just getting started with watercolors, so I really appreciate that you showed the mixing palette so I could see the consistency of your mixes as well as how the colors are combined.
I just did a test a couple days ago to see if I could mix my own skin colors with the little Daniel Smith "Sketcher" palette. Now I know why the ones I made using Cerulean Blue got so funky. lol
this video is literally incredible. how does this not have more views
So interesting to watch the blending possibilities to make a skin tone. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for explaining this so well!!!!! I'm excited to try this
Very interesting! Never thought that the color wheel would be so useful for this! Thank you for sharing!
Very nice! Helpful instruction! Thanks for video!
I feel so grateful for you. Thank you for putting in the time to share this knowledge with us
Just started getting into water color yesterday litteraly . It seems that your channel is one of the best at teaching.
This video is amazing, 10/10 for the explanation!! Thank you so much!
I can’t praise this vid enough. Really clear, excellent info. Thanks
Hi! Thanks for an awesome video! I will definitely revisit it! ☺️ If you are interested in learning more about primary colours (you mentioned magenta Not being one) Biana Bova has an awesome and very in depth video on primary colours. She talks about the traditional Red-Blue-Yellow that's historically used in painting, the Magenta-Cyan-Yellow, that is more versatile in the sense that you can achieve more and brighter colours with it (though I certainly see an advantage to starting with a warm red in skin tone mixes), but the pigments have not always been accessible to artists in the past, and also the primaries in light and our eyes. It's long but I found it super fascinating! And just ignore this if that's not up your alley, I just wanted share in case you were curious. I might be a bit of an oddball to be so excited about such things 😁
I'm always so amazed by how well you do skin tones! 💕 Awesome video!
This is the best video I’ve seen to help me understand skin tone! Fantastic, thank you!
That was amazing. About to start portraits and that was tremendously helpful
This is the most helpful video I have ever seen on skin tones, thank you!!
What a great video. Thank you!