painting skin

Now time to paint the skin. The setting is full of warm colors, and because of that gives the feel of heat. After blending the girls skin I added some sweat (made from a light color in the same skin tone family). I'm starting to color the man now, you can see that before the blending stage I layout a series of cross hatches, to see the majority of certain colors will show in some areas. As with the girl I use color swatches off to the side to easily select the same colors to keep a unity of colors within all of the skin.

just for fun

just for fun, i'm going to show some progressions of how i paint. This piece I will be experimenting with dynamic color lighting. As you may notice my scribbles where the light sources are. i also scribbled in a quick idea of where the background is going. This is a dark picture, so i begin the skin tone with the next to darkest color that will appear on the skin. Since the lighting color is still in the experimental stages i played around with the colors on the face only, to get a feel for how the light reacts with the skin, placing color swatches to the side as a quick reference of the colors that i used. next i'll fill in the rest of the skin with this same color scheme.