[Lesson 9] Painting Light Skin Tone
Did you finish with the basics? Are you ready for kinda-more-advanced stuff?
Yay, that’s super exciting!
In this, and the following two lessons, you’re gonna see how to paint skin tones. This is one of the most frequently asked questions I get all the time – especially because we don’t want our illustrations to have the ugly orangy tone that the common flesh watercolor has.
So, dive into the lessons, practice what you learn, and create tons of faces featuring your favorite skin tone (or ALL of them!)
Before Starting
To have a perfect learning-practice day, make sure you are ready:
- 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.
- 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!
- Put your favorite music, and now you’re ready!
Let’s go!
Light Skin Tone
Materials:
Now it’s your turn!
It was fantastic filming, editing, and creating these videos for you! And it’ll be even more fantastic to see your progress and how you’re doing with these lessons. So, feel free to send me an email, post a comment here, or share your progress via Instagram (I want to see it all your color wheels, or your experiments with color and the basic techniques!)
Hope you like today’s lesson and videos, I made them with all my love 🙂
If you have questions, post a comment here and let me know!
LOTS of LOVE!
TODAY’S ASSIGNMENT
- Read and watch the lesson.
- Grab your materials.
- 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 😉
- Stretch your paper.
- And practice recreating the skin tone I showed you today 🙂
