Mixing flesh tone acrylic painting: How to mix & match skin tones in painting
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- willkempartscho... How to mix flesh tone with acrylic paint. Basic colour mixing techniques. Learn to mix flesh colors that can be used for painting a portrait. This simple mixture will help to learn about color mixing when trying to paint people with realistic skin tones. Match the flesh colour to your own skin tones.
How to mix a good base flesh tone using red, yellow, brown & blue and white. For a more subtle palette using oil paints & instructional videos and painting techniques visit willkempartscho...
Acrylic colours used:
Titanium White
Cadmium yellow light
Permanent alizarin crimson (W & N)
Burnt Umber
Ultramarine Blue
All paints Golden heavy body acrylic apart from Permanent alizarin crimson which is Winsor & Newton
I have watched a lot of tutorials on creating skin tones, this by far is the best I have watched so far, the best part is how you have explained starting from primary colors and adding a bit of gray to kill the intesity. Well done and thanks!
I was nearly tearing my hair out in clumps due to frustration until i saw this. Brilliant! Thank you!
+M. Owen. pleased it helped.
Will
Been struggling with skin tone for months now. Wish I would've looked it up on UA-cam sooner. Watched multiple videos but yours was the most helpful. Thank you!
Sir,i admire the way,how patiently you tell all the details.........It was a gr8 help
Great tutorial! I am glad we have people like you, who has great knowledge,good presentation skills and of course the will to make these videos! Thank you!
Hi Blix, so pleased you've been finding the videos helpful in your painting. Acrylics do dry very quick, so what you can use is a stay wet pallete. This helps to keep the paints wetter for longer and enable you to have more time with your painting.
Hope this helps,
Cheers, Will
I'm a great painter but not when it comes to people. Been working with skin tones for months and this really helped! Thank you
Great to hear it Breanna, so pleased you found it helpful.
Will
Yes by far the best I have seen, you really give a simplicity to an already overly complicated affair that need not be., Your clear instructions to be applaude
Thanks very much Jonathan, really pleased you found the steps simple to follow.
Cheers,
Will
I have found, above most tutorials, that all your videos are the most helpful, especially when using acrylics...I started out in oils so I understand their differences. This is the best of explaining skin tones, I have made two attempts to paint a portrait of my granddaughter and while I feel more confident of mixing her skin tones now, however I am still at odds as to blending the colors. thanks, Teresa Antosyn
Paul Antosyn Hi Paul, that's great it, skin tones can be a tricky one so pleased it helped.
Cheers,
Will
Thanks Ahmed, great to have you on board.
Cheers, Will
Excellent. Finally someone explains this, directly and objectively. Really cool!
skin tones and shading have been the bane of my life..usually don't paint people for that reason..this vid is priceless..thank you for making it understandable..feel a lot more comfortable now doing faces.
Thanks for subscribing and glad you're enjoying the videos,
Will
Thanks Pete, pleased you found it helpful.
Cheers,
Will
Good one Philip, really pleased the video helped and you're feeling more confident to tackle a portrait!
Cheers,
Will
This is a great video for those of us that have/need to match foundations to our clients. Those of us that are makeup artists can truly benefit from this video. Thank you for using your hand. It's not that giant of a leap for me to use my face or client's face, as a target to match. Your vids are awesome.
You are so welcome! never thought of it for matching foundation 🤣
Hi Ann,
Glad this tutorial helped, I don't have any tutorials for painting facial features at the moment.
Will
Hi Noel, thanks very much, pleased to hear you are enjoying them, also thanks for the sub!
Will
The best tutorial ever for mixing skin tones. Brilliant. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for posting this video, the information and demonstration you've provided is truly a rare gift. It's wonderful but painful to admit I've learned more from just watching two of your you tube videos than seven weeks worth of painting at college. Not to mention the teacher is the head of the art department. Whoa is this school. Thank you so much. :)
You're welcome Kim, thanks for your kind comments, so pleased you've been finding them helpful.
Cheers,
Will
you're such a great teacher! Truly thankful that you have been so dedicatd to making these tutorials❤️
Very kind of you to say so Lee, pleased you found it if help.
Cheers,
Will
This was extremely helpful! The last time I mixed colors and made a flesh tone with paints was yearrrsss ago with help from my teacher so I forgot how to do this but this is actually better than what he taught me, so THANK YOU SO MUCH.
+xxx xxx So pleased you found in helpful in your colour mixing,
Cheers,
Will
Very easy to follow tutorial! Most of the videos and tutorials I've seen are so complicated. You made it very accessible! Thanks!
Pleased you found it easy to follow Erik.
Cheers,
Will
Thanks Rujewitblood, using the colour wheel this way can really help when mixing colours.
cheers,
Will
My pleasure - glad it helped,
Will
Very useful, soon I'm going to practice using this technique to paint portraits of my dad.
Cheers OpeiGrafikka, pleased you found it helpful,
Will
I'm painting my first portrait today, so this was extremely helpful - Thanks so much!
dan watkins Pleased it helped Dan,
Cheers,
Will
This iso helpful. I got my first acrylic portrait commission, and i've been practicing and looking for some tips on painting skin. your tutorial has proven to be the most helpful
Good one llana, so pleased it helped, good luck with your portrait commission.
Cheers,
Will
Brilliant! Interesting! Would never have thought you could get a skin colour with those colors. Thank you for your teaching!
wow. that is the most creative use of the color blue! i would have never thought of that!! thanks!
Good one Camry, pleased you found it helpful,
Cheers,
Will
Hey Nicholas, pleased it helped,
Cheers,
Will
Thank you so much ive been searching seemingly endlessly for a tutoriol for skin tone matching and I finally found it! You my friend have one more subscriber!
Thanks Tim, pleased you found it helpful and thanks for the sub!
Cheers,
Will
Pleased to hear you found it helpful,
Cheers,
Will
I never heard or thought of using the colour wheel like that, this is great advice, really useful
The best skin tone tutorial, incredible enlightening. Saving up for your "How to Paint Natural Skin Tones with Acrylics - Portrait Course"...in the mean time lots of foundation work to practice on with great videos like this! thanks!!!
So pleased you found it helpful Michael.
Cheers,
Will
@WorldOfNicky Thanks Nicky, glad you enjoyed it!
Will
Hey LeoDeGrand,
So glad this has made mixing skin tone easier and thanks for the sub!
Will
Thank you so much! This is so much help, I have an art assignment that I'm freaking out about but this helps so much. Thank you!!!! 💚💚💚
Very helpful, I am not a fan of the color wheels but doing pieces with portraits and this concept/explanation really makes it motivating to take a bit more time in the beginning then I won't fumble through the rest of the process. - Many thanks! - Jon
+Jon Baldwin Pleased it helped Jon.
Will
really helpful, no way i would be able to do it without this video
@lolaphotography4 Thanks lola, it's a great exercise for getting used to matching skin tones. Often, our first attempts can be really far out and too pink. We always have a tendency to think skin is pink and this can help to get you more in tune with your colour mixing,
Will
Very good. Thanks for mixing the colors So that makes my skin. Briljant. The best on UA-cam.
Thanks for the lessons... mostly interested in your base colours. I don't put blobs of paint on a palette because they would be dried out in no time and skinning over. I'm new to portrait painting... pretty expert at landscapes now. I'm finding mixing bottles of various flesh tones working for me using glazing medium, thinners, GAC 100 and lots of dry fan brushes at hand.
This is extremely helpful! My school only has acrylic paint and we are very limited for colour, but I had no idea you could create colours with the ones you used! Thanks!
Great to hear it,
Will
those paints look great! Really liked how you took the time and effort! thanks for the video.
Welcome Aaron, pleased it helped.
Will
Fantastic tutorial on mixing flesh tones! Thank you so much.
this is the first video I've watched by you, and its super super helpful, thank you so much!!!
Good one Kathy, so pleased the video helped with your congratulations card.
Cheers,
Will
As someone who is partly colorblind and uses mostly graphite, and also in AP art this is very helpful
+nick Betroski Good one Nick, pleased you found it helpful.
Cheers,
Will
Clear, useful tips/knowledge about mixing flesh tone acrylics! Thank you for sharing! Subscribed!
Thanks Georgeta, pleased you found it helpful, and thanks for the sub!
Cheers,
Will
Pleased you found the lesson helpful.
Will
@deblovetrains thanks deb, glad you enjoyed it,
Will
Thank you. This was very well-presented. I can't wait to try it tomorrow morning (or later tonight).
Thanks Daniel, hope it helps with your portraits.
Cheers,
Will
Hi Lindsey,
I use Golden Heavy body acrylics, but any artist quality acrylic will give you a good coverage.
Cheers,
Will
Good one, pleased it helped with your school project.
Cheers,
Will
good one Resha, pleased it helped.
Will
This is so helpful! I've been looking through video about how to paint skin but none explain how to get the colours which is how I mess up! (I tried painting a woman yesterday and she looked like she had the worse fake tan @__@) I had considered getting a card with a shape cut out to single out colours but having the wheel around it makes it a lot easier to identify how to mix it. Thank You!
Thank you for this video! I have mixed and mixed, painted and painted over, and still struggle with the skin tone of an elderly man with a reddish complexion. I'll have another go at it and be a little more patient! I love the color wheel hole hint, and the process you used to match the color to your skin. Here's hoping for success today!
Really hope it helps Kim
@@willkempartschool It did help! I'm a rank beginner at painting portraits, but I'm happy with the final product on this one. Thanks again.
Will .. thank you for the tutorial, really helpful before painting a portrait
I love portrait so much
I'm looking forward to trying this!
Hey Mary,
Thanks very much,
Hope it helped your portraits,
Will
Thank you so much! I needed to learn this for my Portrait of Garry from Ib for an art class and this tutorial was amazing! subscribed for more
Smashingly brilliant. Like your style and going to subcribe. Thank you for posting. I am just beginning to learn acrylic after many years with watercolour.
Brilliant stuff, glad it helped!
Will
Very helpful. I would've never thought blue could be used in making skin tone :)
Welcome Amanda,
Cheers,
Will
Thanks you explained this so well, going to try it out and see if I can get a good skin colour
angel whispers good one, really hope it helps.
Will
Subbed after this. Very good explanations much better than my art teacher. Thank You!
Just found your videos.. no need to look further..excellent information.. look forward to more from you.. thanks..
Hey Carolyn,
Yes, Oil paint would be mixed the same way just be careful not to use the Cadmium or Lead white on your skin, paint a swatch on a piece of card and hold that up to the colour wheel to check tones,
Cheers,
Will
I bet you could frost the hell out of a cake
Because the mix is orangish I add blue because blue is the complementary colour of orange. Have a look at my brown jug video for a fuller explanation,
cheers,
Will
Wow.amazing ..explaining in detail.. thank you!
Hey Artist626, Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for the sub!
Will
I've been looking everywhere for something like this and it really blew my mind! Thanks a ton! -Subscribes-
+ImNotAmazing You're more than welcome, hope it helped with your portraits.
Cheers,
Will
pleased it helped.
Will
@blitzkriegxgirl
In this video I'm using a tear off palette.
You can make a stay wet palette by wetting some kitchen roll, putting in the bottom of a plastic tub, laying some grease proof paper on top and then putting your paints out on top of that.
With a lid on it will help to keep your paints wetter for longer, to buy one is about £10.
Hope this helps,
Will
this was really simple and helpful! thanks!
gohar harutyunyan Pleased you found it helpful Gohar.
Cheers,
Will
I've always been terrible at choosing the starting shade. I can pick up on where there's more yellows, reds and blues but I could never get the right overall colour. So thank you so much!
mjacksonisperfect You're welcome, pleased it helped.
Cheers,
Will
Hey Miss Eeyore,
Pleased it's helping your portraits!
Will
wow really helpful i should try this technique because i dont have any skin tone color acrylic paint so really help full! :)
Pleased it helped.
Will
Hi OddballAnn, yes you can do the same mixes with oils, just don't paint the swatches on your hand if you are using cadmium colours or any paints containing lead.
Will
Thank you that was a great lesson on skin tones.
So pleased it helped Isobell.
Cheers,
Will
Good one Julius,
Cheers,
Will
Boy am I having trouble with flesh! Have painted the face about 10 times so far so will try your method today and thanks for the video.
+Lynette Hope it helps Lynette,
Cheers,
Will
Thanks Will finally got it to look ok but now on another one. Is this art a drug? LOL
I was so happy to find this tutorial! I was wondering if you could do a tutorial all about shadows and shading with acrylics? I painted a ballerinas feet recently based off a photo, the composition of the photo was quite dark and shadowed. As I painted the dancers legs due to the way I painted shadows, they ended rather corps like.
Hi Odetta, you might find this tutorial of interest:ua-cam.com/video/Ik2gwIAgS1U/v-deo.html
That is actually cooool! I was looking for make up and ended up with this ;)
No, you can still use this same technique, just try isolating a square of the skin tone and try to match that colour.
Will
Will, here are the things I need to know about what one can do further with the mixed skin tone: 1) how do you mix the skin tone in large quantity? Do you keep repeating the steps in mixing the recipe and putting it aside until it becomes a big pile? 2) how do you lighten and darken this shade to make a value scale from light to dark?
Hi Sunday, you can transfer a larger mix to a stay-wet palette when working on a larger portrait with acrylics.
Cheers,
Will
It's called a palette knife and you can get hold of them in any art store.
Cheers,
Will
Thank you so much for sharing this, this really helped. It's amazing!!
thank you for sharing this! :D Thanks to you I could finally paint the perfect skin tone! ;D
Bubbleswazhere You're welcome, really pleased it helped with your mixes.
Cheers,
Will
Huge help! Thanks for sharing!
excellent demo, thanks.
Great video, sir. Thank you.
You're welcome David, hope it helped.
Cheers,
Will
willkempartschool
It absolutely did. In fact, I went and bought your color mixing instructional series a little while after seeing this video. Stayed up way too late last night learning what I SHOULD have learned in art school. About the best $75 I ever spent... well worth it. Thank you.
David Goodman Cheers David, so pleased you're enjoying the colour mixing course, looking forward to seeing your results.
Cheers,
Will
Thanks MagicWorld7
Thank you, the video has been really useful and extremely helpful. Greetings from Mexico.
+Vita G Lizardi You're welcome Vita, pleased you've found it helpful in your portraits.
Cheers,
Will
+willkempartschool Out of curiosity, is there any reason in choosing Cadmium Yellow Light as opposed to Yellow Ochre, or it is just a matter or personal taste?
+wolf727 HThe cadmium yellow light gives you the most range, but I would usually recommend a yellow ochre or yellow ochre pale to start with as the cadmium can sometimes be too harsh. You can then decide on the brightness/muted style of the portraits you like to paint and then match the intensity of the paint to that.
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Will
+willkempartschool Thanks Will for the information - very kind of you to reply.