You can also use less saturated terminators on parts of skin that are stretched across bone where there are thinner muscles or tendons. A good example is the top portion of your skull or jaw line depending on how much weight your character has.
most of the bigger issues when coloring is picking a decent color for tan/brown skinned characters, and working accordingly without it looking desaturated or orange im always more for cel shading personally, so your lasso/selection tool tricks have always been a great help in that regard
I mean I understand but the difference between cel-shading and regular grayscale shading is the degree of blurr you give between shades and base colors, the smoother the transitions, the smoother the shading, and that's frankly up to you how you want to do that, the smoother and accurate you aim for, the more work hours you will spend on your grayscale.
something's that's helped me is to do photo reference studies of darker skintones, you'd be surprised at how reflective brown skin is, if you change it to greyscale. There's an old tutorial out there on deviantart that has a color guide on how to "start" certain skin tones.
fun fact: japanese artist that have an anime style usually will use three colors for shadows. first one is just the casual, where the light isn't present. the second one is a bit more detailed, like in hair or behind the ear etc. and the third one is optional but for more detailed in already-shaded places (such as folds on clothes, the neck etc.)
wow amazing class as usual, could you please teach us how to draw a character within an environment? and how to know the perspective of a pose? (I always struggle when practicing)
It’s crazy learning to warm/saturate the terminator isn’t more common. Growing up I had all of the Gnomon DVDs (Scott Robertson, Ian McCaig, Neville Page, Carlos Huante, Alvin Lee, David Finch…) Neville did mention warming/saturating fleshy areas but the shadow terminator was never mentioned (to the best of my recollection) As always, thank you, Marc!
I'm convinced Marc has a way to listen to every single thing we say about things we actually struggle with. Just yesterday I was complaining about my skills in painting skin tones and now this video appears out of nowhere. This happened with other videos of his and I'm genuinely confused... Should I feel grateful? Scared? Both?
The last Cel shading video took my art to another level, but this sliding-to-red thing... this is the philosopher stone that I was missing! Great advice again from the greatest art teacher!
Wow, I scoured through hours of worthless skin-toning tutorials to find this GEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the cel-shading process tyty, sir. Now I need to find a good one for tights and pantyhose.
Just loving this tutorial! This method definitely enhanced my art now, I'm working on an art piece today and applying this method when shading skin. Feels unreal when you see the results when done right, it will make you question whether you shaded that or some pro artist!!!
I use gradient maps in CSP set in color blend mode, how I learned to add the terminator is simply playing with the mixture rate of the color nodes, and in the in-between regions of the base color and darker shades, I add a thin band of red and play around with the position and I am able to add the terminator easily this way. However you need a good grayscale and make sure your color gradient maps are set in Color blend mode to preserve the grayscale's values.
I dont think Marcs thumbnails get enough attention. They are literally so pretty, sometimes I just scroll trough them all. This man really knows what hes doing.
Going through photoshop tools that can be used is super underrated, and is the one part I wish I knew more about - photoshop just has so many tools, and I just rely on plain curiosity to figure out this kind of stuff (takes ages though). Most other artists teaching just snap past those parts, don't talk about it, or gloss over it even though its integral to digital art, emphasis on the digital, SO THANKS!
Whenever I'm struggling with something about art. Marc comes in with a video solution. Slaps it on the desk and leaves without saying a word, like a legend.
If you also wanna play around with colors, try taking the color of the sky and adding that in a little bit! Like for a blue sky, shading with a red closer to purple. This is definitely a great way to do, but don’t forget you can ALWAYS change up the rules and find what looks good to you! I personally like shading with green. It won’t work for most images, I just think it looks cool. I also tend to shade with super saturated colors. This video is a great base for learning to shade.
You can make a character sheet. And then continue to use that same reference. You can also have the character have a distinct Shape and Color scheme which will help out a lot. Lucas Peinador is one of my favourite artists who teach character art
Wow, what a fun coincidence. I recently started this new project that involves me drawing some highly-detailed close-ups of my hands. Just from observing them, i noticed that patches of my skin (especially in between the darker top of the hand and lighter under part of the hand) tend to have reddening. So from mere observation, i added the terminator red before even realizing there was a name for it. And now im watching your video and realizing theres a name for it. How exciting!
a simple color picking method i like to use is scott robertsons method, which is going half way to black from your local color, usually down towards saturation but you can also go half way to black toward a desaturated color if that is your intent
Marc your classes are so fun and easy to understand. I'm glad I found your amazing channel. I still remember I found your channel years ago through Whyt Manga channel, probably he used your content without credit that time and you were upset.
I frequently browse through art that I tend to look at and I definitely see this sort of process in order to make skin pop out and lively, good video :3
Holy shit this was one of the most powerful things Ive been able to learn. So much struggling gone in 11 minutes. THANK YOU MARC. especially for making it so simple to understand. When I'm learning new art concepts I literally have to be spoon fed or I can't understand it.
Damn Marc, ur Recepie is Awesome. When im drawin chars im alway did it almost same like ur recepie by instinct but there was the Red Part missing and also the Percentages where always a little more. Im ever had the feeling that there have to be a Universal Code for this Skintones and HERE it IS, thank you Bro. I knew it all the time, there had to be a Davinci Code for Skintones😍😍😍
Really love your videos, Marc! It teaches us how to go professional in digital art, and it actually works! Now the only thing that holds us back is when we ourselves don't pay attention to your classes~
Wow, I am currently in training to do the skin tone for my artwork. What an amazing timing you uploaded this video for reference. Thank you Marc Sensei!
Wow, the warm terminator was new for me. Awesome tip! Could you also do a video about hard and soft shadows? My shading is often too soft but somehow I don‘t know where to place hard shadows and where I should fade them out. Would love to learn your technique!
Thanks for another cell shading vid, Marc! 😊 In any of your future vids, can you discuss tips or body mechanics, to minimize neck or back pain? I feel there's not enough vids on youtube explaining postural health for those that work long desk hours. Please consider! 😁
I had just rediscovered this THIS VERY WEEK! Adding what I call "colour variance" or better know as subsurface scattering. And now I can quickly creat good looking skin. Just a note though....This is not the best for realistic skin HOWEVER the only mod you'd need to make is darken AND SATURATE your darker skin tone much more. And after that, add dark accents like occlusions along with brighter tones and highlights and VOILA! Realistic skin tones. Thanks for verifying me AGAIN MARC!! Please keep up the excellent teaching and I hope my Like gets you and the family a fabulous meal.
🥰I learned so much from this amazing video! I like that there is a formula to choose pretty colors of base and shadow so its hard to mess it up! for new videos suggestions, how about you share more of your daily routines of art practices like when you were a student until now, and what's your fav drink/food when you are drawing or something, anyway I love all your videos Marc and I'm happy with your art school program, I'll be starting term2 next week ^^ thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us artists.
I learned this from Rinotunas work, but as things get dark from the light to the core shadow things get super saturated toward the mid tone, but from the mid tone onward to the shadow it moves toward desaturation. so the colours move in a side ways triangle. I started to experiment with this idea and its consistent with Master Marc's teaching
Wow, how are you doing that you keep releasing a video that is what I'm looking for at the moment. another amazing vid now I don't have to worry too much on my skin shading.
*scrambles into class and jumps into desk after smashing like on the way in*
a marc brunet video a day, keeps the bad art away
This is so true.
New quote to keep to heart
Marc's video a day keeps the bad art away
Better phrasing imo
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You can also use less saturated terminators on parts of skin that are stretched across bone where there are thinner muscles or tendons. A good example is the top portion of your skull or jaw line depending on how much weight your character has.
Nice tip! Ty
most of the bigger issues when coloring is picking a decent color for tan/brown skinned characters, and working accordingly without it looking desaturated or orange
im always more for cel shading personally, so your lasso/selection tool tricks have always been a great help in that regard
For real! This is always my struggle.
I mean I understand but the difference between cel-shading and regular grayscale shading is the degree of blurr you give between shades and base colors, the smoother the transitions, the smoother the shading, and that's frankly up to you how you want to do that, the smoother and accurate you aim for, the more work hours you will spend on your grayscale.
@@basedoppenheimer1497 I can confirm that I have no idea what you said, my sorries, but your advice is appreciated!
something's that's helped me is to do photo reference studies of darker skintones, you'd be surprised at how reflective brown skin is, if you change it to greyscale. There's an old tutorial out there on deviantart that has a color guide on how to "start" certain skin tones.
fun fact: japanese artist that have an anime style usually will use three colors for shadows. first one is just the casual, where the light isn't present. the second one is a bit more detailed, like in hair or behind the ear etc. and the third one is optional but for more detailed in already-shaded places (such as folds on clothes, the neck etc.)
wow amazing class as usual, could you please teach us how to draw a character within an environment? and how to know the perspective of a pose? (I always struggle when practicing)
It’s crazy learning to warm/saturate the terminator isn’t more common. Growing up I had all of the Gnomon DVDs (Scott Robertson, Ian McCaig, Neville Page, Carlos Huante, Alvin Lee, David Finch…) Neville did mention warming/saturating fleshy areas but the shadow terminator was never mentioned (to the best of my recollection) As always, thank you, Marc!
I'm convinced Marc has a way to listen to every single thing we say about things we actually struggle with. Just yesterday I was complaining about my skills in painting skin tones and now this video appears out of nowhere. This happened with other videos of his and I'm genuinely confused... Should I feel grateful? Scared? Both?
same lol
I am struggling with shading skin, and you made this video, thank you, Marc.
The last Cel shading video took my art to another level, but this sliding-to-red thing... this is the philosopher stone that I was missing! Great advice again from the greatest art teacher!
You know what else is boosted by 10-20%? My art skills evertime I stumble upon your channel again and go through the backlog. Thanks marc!
Wow, I scoured through hours of worthless skin-toning tutorials to find this GEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the cel-shading process tyty, sir. Now I need to find a good one for tights and pantyhose.
Just loving this tutorial! This method definitely enhanced my art now, I'm working on an art piece today and applying this method when shading skin. Feels unreal when you see the results when done right, it will make you question whether you shaded that or some pro artist!!!
I use gradient maps in CSP set in color blend mode, how I learned to add the terminator is simply playing with the mixture rate of the color nodes, and in the in-between regions of the base color and darker shades, I add a thin band of red and play around with the position and I am able to add the terminator easily this way.
However you need a good grayscale and make sure your color gradient maps are set in Color blend mode to preserve the grayscale's values.
This man is an absolute beast. I've always had trouble on skin coloring, and you made it look so simple !
Marc has got to be one of the best art teachers on this app 🛐
I dont think Marcs thumbnails get enough attention. They are literally so pretty, sometimes I just scroll trough them all. This man really knows what hes doing.
Going through photoshop tools that can be used is super underrated, and is the one part I wish I knew more about - photoshop just has so many tools, and I just rely on plain curiosity to figure out this kind of stuff (takes ages though). Most other artists teaching just snap past those parts, don't talk about it, or gloss over it even though its integral to digital art, emphasis on the digital, SO THANKS!
Whenever I'm struggling with something about art. Marc comes in with a video solution. Slaps it on the desk and leaves without saying a word, like a legend.
@Marc Brunet how about a video of "How to make a Stunning Portfolio" ? I'd love to see that. Thanks
HOW IS HE SO SMARRRRT??? I’ve been struggling with skin for awhile now. This feels like a cheat code.
If you also wanna play around with colors, try taking the color of the sky and adding that in a little bit! Like for a blue sky, shading with a red closer to purple. This is definitely a great way to do, but don’t forget you can ALWAYS change up the rules and find what looks good to you!
I personally like shading with green. It won’t work for most images, I just think it looks cool. I also tend to shade with super saturated colors. This video is a great base for learning to shade.
Hey Marc,can you teach use anatony but for different ages?,i think it'll be useful since your anatomy/body proportion change as you age/grow.
Thank you for another art tip, Marc, and also for correcting what I can do for the artwork. 🙂
can you do a video on drawing the same character again
You can make a character sheet. And then continue to use that same reference.
You can also have the character have a distinct Shape and Color scheme which will help out a lot.
Lucas Peinador is one of my favourite artists who teach character art
i swear this channel gives me about 50%-80% art horsepower everytime i watch a video
Thanks! The terminator tip was golden.
It cant be a marc video without the epic intros and explosions
Thank you for presenting such a universally-applicable method. I’m going to try it on my favorite OC, who has purple skin and blue blood.
This is by far the best skin tutorial I have ever seen.
To update everyone if anyone remembers I finished my first year and now I'm in my second year SPECIALISING IN CONCEPT ART.>:D
Wow, what a fun coincidence. I recently started this new project that involves me drawing some highly-detailed close-ups of my hands. Just from observing them, i noticed that patches of my skin (especially in between the darker top of the hand and lighter under part of the hand) tend to have reddening. So from mere observation, i added the terminator red before even realizing there was a name for it. And now im watching your video and realizing theres a name for it. How exciting!
I can finally finish my profile picture. Thanks, Marc.
I don't remember when I learned this trick first, but yes yes and yes. I apply it consistently for years now and it works! It just works!
Big shoutout, Marc! You're an absolute lifesaver - my career owes you big time! 🙌
can u do a vid for shading? Like differentiating cast shadows from form shadows? That’d be rly helpful!
I think this is the only UA-cam channel where I hit like instantly every time. No matter what you know it’s gonna be a banger
the intros are still very funny and entertaining, ty Marc you're the best
10:10 id like to see something on ambient occlusion and how to apply it better, the most recent video i could find was like 5 years old
This is very helpful Marc! I've seen your old skin tutorials, but I'm always grateful to see another refresher. Great videos every single time!
Marc Brunet is a Mine of Gold
Always enjoy your inputs and explosions. Motivation is at an all-time low, but I always feel less stuck when I watch your vids.
You are my real teacher Sir Marc😍
a simple color picking method i like to use is scott robertsons method, which is going half way to black from your local color, usually down towards saturation but you can also go half way to black toward a desaturated color if that is your intent
Marc your classes are so fun and easy to understand. I'm glad I found your amazing channel. I still remember I found your channel years ago through Whyt Manga channel, probably he used your content without credit that time and you were upset.
I frequently browse through art that I tend to look at and I definitely see this sort of process in order to make skin pop out and lively, good video :3
I love your charisma, bro. Thanks! ❤😭
that is an incredibly cool trick. im so grateful for the fact that this only costs a like and a sub!
Can you make video on useful Photoshop features?
Simple. Straightforward. Absolutely amazing video!💓
Thank you so much, these classes helped me see how easy art can be and inspired me to push through my hesitation to start and learn
god you are actually so awesome you've helped me so much, thabnk you so much for these videos, you are awesome
These are some good tips especially putting red on the base skin tone thank you very very much
My ariciate for giving your advices for free(even they are not all, it's more than others)
Thank you so much for the terminator explanation, this helped immensely. Love your videos so much!
It’s gonna be long time before I get enough for the course, but it is what is, looking forward to the day I attend
Wow you make it look so easy! Goalsss
This tutorial was so simple yet helpful. Thank you, Marc ❤❤
Holy shit this was one of the most powerful things Ive been able to learn. So much struggling gone in 11 minutes. THANK YOU MARC.
especially for making it so simple to understand. When I'm learning new art concepts I literally have to be spoon fed or I can't understand it.
Damn Marc, ur Recepie is Awesome. When im drawin chars im alway did it almost same like ur recepie by instinct but there was the Red Part missing and also the Percentages where always a little more. Im ever had the feeling that there have to be a Universal Code for this Skintones and HERE it IS, thank you Bro. I knew it all the time, there had to be a Davinci Code for Skintones😍😍😍
Thx for the video Mark, been struggling how to find the proper color for the skin shadow, this helps a lot!
Really love your videos, Marc! It teaches us how to go professional in digital art, and it actually works! Now the only thing that holds us back is when we ourselves don't pay attention to your classes~
I would love more fantasy skin tones if you would teacher please
Thanks Marc, you're always the best!
right as i was about to start rendering my drawing, noice
woah this really blew my mind, it really is life changing.
OMG TYSM!!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ THIS SAVED MY LIFE
Thank u Marc!
marc carrying the art community as usual 👍
This is great. Just need to learn how to shade in the first place.
My Senpai, the best teacher in the World!
Definitely another great video, I always struggle a bit with my cell shading.
*Adds red*
*Creates masterpiece*
Thank you as always Marc. This should help me a lot!
Wow, I am currently in training to do the skin tone for my artwork. What an amazing timing you uploaded this video for reference. Thank you Marc Sensei!
wow its amazing. Thanks very much.
Always so excited about your tuts. Inspires me.
Incredibly useful and insightful video! Thanks boss! You have more than earned my like!
Wow, the warm terminator was new for me. Awesome tip!
Could you also do a video about hard and soft shadows? My shading is often too soft but somehow I don‘t know where to place hard shadows and where I should fade them out. Would love to learn your technique!
Thanks for another cell shading vid, Marc! 😊
In any of your future vids, can you discuss tips or body mechanics, to minimize neck or back pain? I feel there's not enough vids on youtube explaining postural health for those that work long desk hours. Please consider! 😁
genius!!!! you the best
I had just rediscovered this THIS VERY WEEK! Adding what I call "colour variance" or better know as subsurface scattering. And now I can quickly creat good looking skin.
Just a note though....This is not the best for realistic skin HOWEVER the only mod you'd need to make is darken AND SATURATE your darker skin tone much more. And after that, add dark accents like occlusions along with brighter tones and highlights and VOILA! Realistic skin tones.
Thanks for verifying me AGAIN MARC!! Please keep up the excellent teaching and I hope my Like gets you and the family a fabulous meal.
Great video! thank you!
🥰I learned so much from this amazing video! I like that there is a formula to choose pretty colors of base and shadow so its hard to mess it up! for new videos suggestions, how about you share more of your daily routines of art practices like when you were a student until now, and what's your fav drink/food when you are drawing or something, anyway I love all your videos Marc and I'm happy with your art school program, I'll be starting term2 next week ^^ thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us artists.
I learned this from Rinotunas work, but as things get dark from the light to the core shadow things get super saturated toward the mid tone, but from the mid tone onward to the shadow it moves toward desaturation. so the colours move in a side ways triangle.
I started to experiment with this idea and its consistent with Master Marc's teaching
Kooleen could never
Thank you!
Thank you so much for all your videos! They help a lot! Easy to understand (and with humor ^^)
This BLEW my mind!!!
Your videos are just life savers. Thank you so much 🧎
too much knowledge i love this.
thank you for this
*Very* handy topic.
Wow, how are you doing that you keep releasing a video that is what I'm looking for at the moment. another amazing vid now I don't have to worry too much on my skin shading.
Thank you Marc, appreciate these videos!
Oh man! Nice. Hope this works for redskin!
Thanks Marc!!!
awsome as usual.
How about how to draw lips and eyes from any angle. especially 3/4
Almost 1.5 Million subs ..yeah baby!
Thank you for this tutorial😍
amazing man