in this short video I'm going to show you a recipe for how to mix oil pastels for light
and dark skin and I'm also going to show you how you can apply that to drawing from a photograph
hello and welcome back to art bikes in this tutorial I'm going to be working with this
small pack of oil pastels you can get larger packs with more colours in them when these
act like a bit of a shortcut for example this pack here has got a much wider range of pinks
so that might make it quicker to mix skin tones so if you've got a bigger pack then great fantastic
if you've got a smaller pack that's going to do just as well because you can mix any skin tone
with just a few colours now all skin tones whether they're light or dark are made up of red and
yellow now if I'm working with lighter skin tones I'm going to need a lot of white unsurprisingly
this sort of creamy beige colour is also quite useful as an in-between colour when
we're blending you don't need this if you've not got one of these in your pack
that's not a problem I'm going to start with a thin layer of white
and then
thin layer of red
and then a thin layer of yellow might want a little bit more yellow than red
now once I've done that I'm going to go over the top with the whites
which I'm going to use to push the colours around on the paper to mix them together
so I'm going to use this sort of swirling motion to try and mix the colours together
now for me that's a little bit too light still so I think I'm going to go in
with that beige colour as my kind of shortcut again
and that might be a little bit too yellowish so I might add a little bit more red
at the top see what happens and then gonna use that white again to kind of just gently
blend that in yeah that was too much red
as we get down into the bottom we'll be able to blend that through
I've added too much red I can just add
a bit more yellow to balance it out
you'll notice I've got these little bits and I can just pick those up with my pastel
and wipe them off yeah
perfect right so that's my light skin tone okay for my dark skin tone dark skin is very
similar so instead of white I'll start with this sort of rusty brown colour from my pack
so just like with the light skin tone I'm going to put some layer of that down
first and I'm then going to come in
with my red
and
my yellow
and I'm then going to blend that together
with that brown I think there's a little bit too much red in this at the moment by the looks of it
I might add a touch much more yellow to that there we go
now to lighten up the light skin I'd obviously add some white if I wanted to lighten up this
darker skin tone I could work with white but personally I find that beige I mentioned earlier
works a little bit better now you can see here that this is getting starting to get quite thick
so what I can do I can get sort of a hard object to something like a lollipop stick or
an old ruler is quite useful don't use your mum's best cutlery and I can just use that
to scrape off
the top layer of the oil pastel you can see it coming off there and I can then go in
with my other colours just there I can blend those together
now if I wanted to go for shadows with my light skin tone a blue is quite a nice option
as is that rusty sort of reddish colour personally I prefer the blue it's what I'd use when I'd be
painting the blue in this pack is quite strong so I'm putting that down very gently knowing
that I'm then going to come back over the top with my reds and my yellows to try and blend
that colour in and it will give me this sort of quite useful might even come on with some of that
beige this useful kind of grayish colour which is actually the kind of colour you get in your
shadows quite a lot with skin I might even come with the edges I'm avoiding black here
because i'm using a lot of white if i use black I'll get a really unnatural grey which you'll see
if you do something digital but you wouldn't see in real life very much at all now with my darker
skin tone I could go in with my blue but actually the black will work slightly better for this
again I'd use that other color that i've got to then blend that and mix that in
and that's how I'd get my sort of overall colors
so in the context of a face where would I start well I'd start looking at the lighter areas
of the face and where the darker areas of the face were so that would be where
I'd add more white or where I'd perhaps add more of my blues or my dark browns
so I'm going to give you a quick example here so I'd start off by working with my whites
to sort of lay down areas that I know are going to be lighter this makes sure that these stay
lighter when I'm adding my colours later on I might then also start to look for areas that are
perhaps slightly pinker than other areas of the skin and I'd lay those down with a layer of red
and then after that I'd go over areas that are slightly yellower
and I'd start to then layer those colours up on top of each other
because remember we need to make sure we've got red and yellow in our mix
I'm also at this stage gonna come in with that beige colour because again
it's quite a nice in between colour and it helps to kind of bind the colours together
I could also start to at this stage lay in some of my shadow colours
and I then can go in like we did before with that white and blend all of those colours together
now I won't stop at this stage I'll then go back in and I'll start to edit the colours
so I can see some of these colours aren't quite right yet
so for example I can see here that I didn't use quite enough red in this area so I'm going to
lay down that red and then blend it back in again notice how I'm swapping between my colours all the
time I'm never laying down just one colour and then leaving it I'm always blending it back in
with another colour and i'm doing the same again with the blue which I mentioned earlier and making
sure I've blended that in so it doesn't stand out as harshly skipping ahead just a little bit now
you may remember earlier I mentioned that I want to try and avoid using black when I'm working with
light skin tones there is a small exception to this some areas of the face more specifically the
nostrils will have this really really dark tone in them and so that's one of the few places that
I'll use black and you'll notice that I'm trying really hard to make sure that I don't use it very
much and I'm then blending that very quickly out into my sort of rusty brown and my blues
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