Undertone Skin Coloring

• Categories: Skin Coloring, Technique tutorials, Toread
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• Posted by: admin on 2nd Nov 2012 at 9:00am

I am going to share how I achieve a green undertone with pale skin coloring on Flora from the Toread line.  This is another fun way to color skin on many stamps that portray a mythical fantasy-like image.

You can easily achieve the effect with just a few markers.

The markers you need for this tutorial are: FS1,EB1,EB2,DG1 and blender

Step 1: Lay your undertone first with DG1, preferably where your shading is more likely to sit.

Step 2: Lay FS1 right on top of DG1 to add more depth.

Step 3: Add EB1 around the edge lines of the skin.  Adding EB1 will help tone down the brightness from FS1 and keep all the other colors well muted.

Steps 1 and 3 are working on the undertone of the skin.

Step 4: Use DG1 to bring the undertone back.

Step 5: Puling inward with FS1, color toward lighter area (center of face).  After you finish this, with a steady relaxed hand, do the “tip to tip” technique with FS1 and blender in a circular motion of highlighted areas.

Step 6: Lay EB2 around the edge lines to cast shadows.

For Step 4 through Step 6: each time you lay a color you want to move to the next shade to color over less of the working area (such as the highlighted parts).

This is the final result and I made an option of flicking small marks around the skin to add a realistic effect with CR3.

I hope my method was useful and easy to understand.  Happy coloring!

Spectrum noir recipe:
Skin: FS1, EB1,EB2,DG1,blender
Hair: EB1,EB2,BG5,BG10,LV2
Horns: 1G1,1G2,EB2
Eyes: TB1,TB8
Stems: LY1,LG1,LG2,DG1,DG2,JG1,JG7,BG3,PL1,CT4
Dress: BT4,BT5,GT1,BGR4
Leaves on dress: LG5,CG2,FL3
Flower band: TN1,FL2,LG5,CG2