How to Paint Skin Tones in a Portrait: Subject 1

Video Transcript

"As we move into our skin tone on our first subject things are going to start getting a little more interesting in our painting. I'll take some of the bright red color we have here, also going to take and put in some flesh tone and mix her up. We're also then going to add in some white. It's going to have the affect of paling the red and this is going to be the color, a very, very thinly applied color, for our base skin of subject one. Start applying here and you are going to notice right away I'm doing something very different from my previous painting. I'm not worrying about shape and line and I want to make sure I have this on incredibly thin. This is like half media. You can see I'm going up and over what we've already drawn in. But the media is so thin I can still see the lines underneath. Make sure it's a nice solid layer here. Coming down around in nice large sweeping strokes. Not even really worrying about different colors and pigments at this point. All I want to make sure and do is that all this white skin area is covered up. Not leaving anything else uncovered. You are going to notice around the edges you are going to go up and over some things will be a little bit of mixing, no problem. This is a base layer for skin and it's a base layer for clothing underneath here. so don't worry about that. Just make sure that there is no white, that's the chief concern. If you have white you have not completed your entire base color. So we are going to wrap up this around here until the entire subject is covered up. Now if you see yourself finding some edges up here where it's a little uncovered, what you do is you lay your brush down like this, just squiggle upwards a little bit and pull back, pull back, pull back and pull back. This is a nice way as opposed to having the broad brushes where it would be very easy and it's more difficult to get those nice lines that way. So continue on with this technique until all the skin color is covered up. "