This guide covers North European and Sub-Saharan African skintones pretty well, but what about e.g. Middle Eastern, East Asian, or South East Asian skin colours? They're often perceived as being more yellow, but I'm not convinced it's as simple as that. Or the more "olive" Mediterranean skin colours?
The mixing your own skin tones portion of the video should be able to cover what you're looking for with just different ratios. You can achieve more olive tones with less red. You could also use "unbleached titanium white" instead of white to get a color that has less pink to it. This is similar to "ice yellow" often used within the hobby but more desaturated so if you're going to use something like ice yellow just be aware of how much yellow goes into the orange mix and you might need to add more blue.
Great video! I'm still very much getting used to how paint mixes together compared to how colours in digital space works, and this video is really helpful.
that's actually just the default in photoshop whenever you open the "hue / saturation" adjustment, so you can ignore it! The important thing is that the value of the hue bar is "0" meaning no changes have been made to the orange circle … now that you've mentioned it though, that is pretty confusing haha. Thanks for drawing my attention to it!
I love doombull brown, it's similar but I don't think I'd call it a match. I'm sure you could get some nice skin tones from it, but maybe it would need to be desaturated a bit. Would be fun to play around with and see!
This guide covers North European and Sub-Saharan African skintones pretty well, but what about e.g. Middle Eastern, East Asian, or South East Asian skin colours? They're often perceived as being more yellow, but I'm not convinced it's as simple as that. Or the more "olive" Mediterranean skin colours?
The mixing your own skin tones portion of the video should be able to cover what you're looking for with just different ratios. You can achieve more olive tones with less red.
You could also use "unbleached titanium white" instead of white to get a color that has less pink to it. This is similar to "ice yellow" often used within the hobby but more desaturated so if you're going to use something like ice yellow just be aware of how much yellow goes into the orange mix and you might need to add more blue.
I just bought a whole load of paints to do a varied set of skin tones but I'm 100% going to try hull red/white mix, it looks really good!
that sounds super fun to play around with, and thanks! glad you liked the mix
Hull Red! Huh! I already have it . I'll have to give this a shot.
awesome, thanks for watching!
Great tutorial - interesting how well Hull Red works with this workflow
thanks! and ya I thought that was a fun little trick - glad you enjoyed
Great video! I'm still very much getting used to how paint mixes together compared to how colours in digital space works, and this video is really helpful.
thank you! So glad you found it useful
try transparent PR101 as a starter, rather than common opaque brown ones
Cool, I really love burnt sienna so it was fun to read about the pigment and learn it's so flexible. Thanks for watching!
at the 0:59 mark, why is the circle orange but the mark in the Hue bar is pointing at cyan?
that's actually just the default in photoshop whenever you open the "hue / saturation" adjustment, so you can ignore it! The important thing is that the value of the hue bar is "0" meaning no changes have been made to the orange circle … now that you've mentioned it though, that is pretty confusing haha. Thanks for drawing my attention to it!
Citadel doombull brown matches hull red
I love doombull brown, it's similar but I don't think I'd call it a match. I'm sure you could get some nice skin tones from it, but maybe it would need to be desaturated a bit. Would be fun to play around with and see!