Painting Darker Skin Tones - The ESSENTIAL Guide.
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2022
- In this portrait painting tutorial, realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you how to paint a portrait of someone with dark skin. Alex demonstrates how to make dark skin colours using a limited palette of just three colours, Titanium White, Transparent Oxide Red and Ultramarine Blue.
You can see a full length version of this oil painting tutorial, fimed in real time
on Alex's Patreon Channel.
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The main difference when painting a portrait of someone with dark skin compared to someone with lighter skin is that there will be much wider range of tonal values. This means the shadows, lights and highlights will appear further apart from each other and the lights will appear much darker. For this reason, a really common mistake is to think dark skin tones are shadows, when in fact they are in areas of light. To solve this problem in portrait painting, as well as thinking in terms of light and dark tonal values, it's really important that we study study our subject's form and observe which parts of are facing towards or away from the light source.
Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.
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I laughed at the model trying to stay awake! Great vid.
Thank you John!
Poor Rihaad was having a hard time keeping his eyes open. :D
Geez, what a model, such incredible features and angle
Great video! You do a great job of well....simplifying the process.😅
Gotta say tho, Riaz is really struggling to stay awake😂
This was a fascinating video, and absolutely magical to see such a brilliant portrait emerge from so few colours.
Thank you John! Glad you liked it.
@@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.
This was at the right time! I was having problems with applying paint firmly onto the painting. After seeing this, I found out that I was not pulling out enough paint. This video has also given me a good insight into properly blocking-in the subject, paying attention to the planes and the form.
I was also going to use the colour-temperature palette soon, so you uploaded this at the right moment.
Thank you Nidhi. Glad it was helpful.
Really helpful, thanks for not complicating!
You make it look so simple! Thank you for the content. Amazing work
So excited everytime you post something new! Amazing job!
Thank you!!
Thank you Alexandra. Glad you liked it.
Thank you Alex! Great study and beautifully simplified once again.
Thanks Benny!
Thanks Alex, love the methodical approach.
I love this guys chill voice and how he doesn’t use music so good
As always, the work of his portraits is incredible, incredible that with such a limited palette you have achieved this incredible relationship to the model. Congratulations and thank you for these masterful demonstrations.
Thank you Monica!
Thank's Alex, you explain it so well, simple and informative 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Azime! Glad it was helpful.
Beautiful work. As usual.
Thank you. I love your simplicity and your videos always inspire me.
Thank you Garin!
Amazing painting and stunning model
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
I absolutely love this. You explain things so clearly and I learn so much from your videos! Thank you for showing us your amazing knowledge and skill :)
Thank you Saba! Very glad you like this.
One of my favourites of yours Alex.. beautiful work! :)
Thank you Erin!
Really great video! Very interesting what you can achieve with such a limited palette 🔥
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
On point as usual. I loooooove this video it came just when I needed it
Thank you Ada. Glad it was helpful.
This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing. Love your videos.
Thank you very much Andrey! Glad you like them.
I just love your videos. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you very much! Glad you like them.
like allways, Alex Tzavaras is the best
Thank you very much Maria!
amazing as ever
Your videos are always so good. I am working very hard to use thicker paint but find it extremely hard. I love how much paint you pile on.
Thank you Suzanne. Premixing some of your colours with a palette knife is a good way of making sure you use enough paint.
like this video always fun to see alex
Totally gorgeous!
Thank you very much Dipak!
Such a beautiful portrait, your content is amazing thank you
Thank you very much!
Wonderful demo! Thank you!
Thank you Ann! Glad you liked it.
This is too much value, please never die
Thank you! Glad you like it.
Fantastic!
Amazing video. Can’t wait for part 2 on Patreon
Thank you! Part two will be out by the end of this month.
This is the real mathod of oil painting incaretabl mathod keep going Alex Tzavares.🙏🙏👍🌱
Thank you Yamato San!
Amazing really amazing. What a knowledge and skill.
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
Iam waiting . thanks
Brilliant job, sir; especially so with your handling of the mouth 👌
Thank you. The mouth was one of the trickiest parts.
Wow 👏👏👏 a great demo ☺️
Thank you!
Amazing 👍
Fantastic tutorial but the model falling asleep is so funny to watch too :D
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
excelled work,, what a nice demo of flow ,,,thnx a lot sir
Thank you Sunil. Glad you like it,
Estoy mejorando mucho mi técnica desde que veo tus videos.Muchas Graciaaas. 🙏🙏
Thank you! Very glad you're finding my videos helpful.
Very cool tutorial!
Thank you!
stunning
Thank you!
Wow...Awesome...❤👏👏👌👌👌👌👍
Thank you Sandy!
Wow your very talented!!
Thank you Jessica!
Mate needs some coffee :) Great video, thanks Alex!
Thank you
This is a brilliant demo. 3 colours!!! 1 sitting
Thank you Jack!
Great video! I'll check out your Patreon.
Thank you Michele!
i have a plexiglass whit a grey side i use spraycan to the greyside
That would work.
I love your UA-cam Channel😁
Thank you!
Great job Alex , you’ve being doing such a great job I just wanted to comment about the color limitation , limited pallets with dark , transparent pigments often tends to mute the colors of the subject and drives you to only use white as the only opaque medium to increase the chroma , so you should always keep in mind that you may need another opaque pigment on your limited palette to get more chromatic colors
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
Please Alex make a another real time video.
absolutely awesome demonstration and explanation of the limited palette whch is called the warm-cool is it not? I believe some people switch blue out for black in this palette which also works as well but i think the blue is better because we are actually getting the option to use ACTUAL blue in comparison to just grey. Lovely painting ! I always enjoy your paintings and videos! I have missed your portraits a lot! I would also love to see you doing more figure or still life
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.
Hello sir great video how to paint like that? Please do the needful and reply sir
The limited palette works well
Yes, I reckon it's very good for flesh colours and quite easy to use.
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting yes could focus on the tones more
Hi, in my opinion, it is amazing this superb painting is produced using only 3 colours. Would Winsor and Newton's Indian Red be a close approximate to Red Oxide, please? Your tuition is in my opinion easy to listen to, well-paced and excellent in content.
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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Great, Thank you! What is the reason you specificly use transparant oxide red instead of a solid red?
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.
Great video!! Do you use any medium or only turps?
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:
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Great tutorial however I noticed the skin color in your portrait is quite yellow compared to the model's. Is this a fault of the limited palette you chose?
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.
I thought the model was just a picture so still he was🙈 Then I thought I was going crazy when the picture seemed to blink😅
can i use only three color when paint light skintone and is that also a good way and to learn to paint skintone whit these color
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.
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thanks
@@SIMPLIFYDrawingandPainting thanks alex iwill try this first whit three colors first and then late try zorn pallett thanks for your suport
While I think I am improving on the form of the face, I am having such difficulty with the eyes. My lack of progress in this area is causing my enthusiasm for portraits to wane and I don't want it to. How do you maintain a likeness while using quite thick paint and simple shapes for the eyes and still achieve a fantastic likeness?
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
what do you use for pallet mostly do you have a favorite
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.
He's sleepy 🤣
🙏👏👏👏👏👏👏………
Did he just blink?
I love this. Just fyi, it's OK for white people to say 'dark skin' as opposed to 'darker skin'.
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.
Refreshing to see an old school master in the age of duck-taped bananas and "non-material sculptures" being sold for hundreds of thousands $ and €. Thanks, Alex..!