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[Lesson 10] Medium Skin Tone

How did you go with the light skin tone?

Found it easy? Difficult?

Once you do it a couple of times it becomes piece of cake 😛

So, here’s another lesson to help you with skin tones!

Before Starting

To have a perfect learning-practice day, make sure you are ready:

  1. Gather all your materials, and set them in your favorite place to work with watercolors. Check out the materials list for this lesson below the video.
  2. Sketch a face before you click play. In the video, I show how to paint the skin tone, so you have to have a sketch of a face ready to use in the watercolor paper you will use. If you need help with drawing faces, check my other course (and workbook) Fashion Drawing Basics 😉 – And, the more sketches you have to practice with this skin tone, the better!
  3. Put your favorite music, and now you’re ready!

Let’s go!

Medium Skin Tone

Materials:

Watercolor paper: I used 180grs/m2
 
Watercolors: Flesh tint, burnt sienna, and violet.
 
Other: Water, brushes, and a mixing palette.

Yay, your turn!

Let me know about your progress and how you’re doing with these lessons. Feel free to send me an email, post a comment here, or share your progress via Instagram 🙂

If you have questions, post a comment here and let me know!

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TODAY’S ASSIGNMENT

  1. Read and watch the lesson.
  2. Grab your materials.
  3. Sketch a face at least twice – the face I’m painting is looking down so I don’t have to paint the eyes – because that’s from another lesson 😉
  4. Stretch your paper.
  5. And practice recreating the skin tone I showed you today 🙂
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