Hello my friends and welcome to another Tuesday of tutorial!
I am Leonardo Pereznieto and by popular demand I will give you some tips
of how to paint skin.
We will use zinc white, yellow ochre, cadmium red, alizarin crimson,
phthalo blue, and burnt umber.
And we will mix the base skin color very easily
with the zinc white,
yellow ochre...
and the cadmium red.
Just like that.
Of course if you use little yellow, it will be more pink because of the red and white,
and by adding more yellow, it will become more orange.
Now I divide this color that I am mixing
and to one part of it I add more white.
Then I divide it again and add more white.
So we end up with three different values of this, from lighter to darker.
Now we can add some blue to the same mix, to get a cooler version of it.
And we can also make three values from lighter to darker
so we have a cool version in a warmer one, of each of the three values.
And also since our original mix is a little bit orangy, with more red and white
I make another one more pinkish.
We could get started with just this,
that's the basic, but I'll mix some more for the shades.
This time I use the raw umber, white, yellow, red, alizarin crimson and blue.
That is all of them [laughter]
and I prepare some different versions of it, as well.
Good! now let's do a rapid sketch, I normally use burnt Sienna for this
but I don't have it in this set, so I mixed raw umber which is a dark brown with
a little bit of red and that gives us something very close to the Sienna.
With this I do the line and also shade it, roughly.
Without any detail, we just lay down the main shapes and main values.
We are painting by the way the back of a woman
in a rapid sketch as I said.
This is not meant to be accurate or totally correct...
this is a rapid sketch like one of the ones we should do before embarking into a large painting
to work out the colors we want to use and the pose,
and composition and all of that.
Mixing raw umber with the blue, I got this dark color for the background.
And now let's begin painting the skin!
with the colors we prepared originally.
I'm starting with the lighter and cooler one
and then I add a little bit of the next eh darker color.
And let's paint with a slighter warmer one, on this side.
Now I mix a more reddish one, for the shoulders.
The shoulders sometimes tend to be a little bit more reddish,
because they are more tanned by the sunlight.
By the way it doesn't matter if you don't have the exact same colors to start with
because I'm not adding any of them directly,
as you see I'm mixing them with the other ones in one way or another.
So for example, if your red is darker or your yellow is different
it really doesn't matter much, you would just adjust
your mix with more or less of that color, to get the one you want.
I'm using here, for the first time water mixable oil paints.
I have stopped painting in oil
because as the solvents needed to paint with them are toxic
I get a reaction to it and sometimes it gives me migraines,
even when working in a ventilated space.
So now I decided to give a try to these water mixable oil paints.
Which they feel practically the same but instead of harmful solvents
you use water, and you add a special type of linseed oil
which is made for this colors.
As you see I'm blending the paint on the canvas
to smooth out the look, just in the same way as with regular oil paints.
Which is great!
The list of materials that I am using, as always, is in the description below the video.
It is an amateur mistake to make just a pinkish color and with that paint all the skin.
It looks poor and unrealistic.
Instead try to add different variations...
like more blueish, more reddish and so on to make it more rich.
As a general principle, and it is not a rule but a principle, you can make the lights cooler
that is more bluish, like in this example the surfaces that face toward the right,
and the shadows warmer or more reddish, like in this case the surfaces facing toward the left
or you can decide to do it the other way around,
with the lights warm and the shadows cool.
This is not a law and if you don't do this
you won't get arrested by the painting police [laughter],
however, that makes it look more alive
and vibrant.
If you made it all the way to this point in the video, I would like to know it.
Please in the comments write me the secret code:
¨Plenty of skin¨ [laughter]
so I know you did.
Very good! ¡excelente!
it's ready!
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on Tuesday ;)
Subtitled by Grethel Trejo