How to Make a Brown Skin Color With Paint

Video Transcript

"This is a demonstration on how to make brown skin color. The first thing you do is start with a base color. Your base color is white with vale of green and burnt umber, and it is going to turn out a little bit like a pearl, pearl color. Okay you are going to take a glob of white, the vale of green I mean there is just a teeny bit. Vale of green is a very strong color so we are going to use just a teensiest bit of that, and the teensiest bit of burnt umber. So we are going to mix these two with the white, see how strong that vale is it is almost too dark, but we are going to put a little bit of burnt umber in there. You should end up with a color that looks a little bit like a pearl. Dab a little bit of this onto the regular. So I'm going to dab that. See it is like a pearl color almost. Now we are going to start with, take our base and we are going to start with the little darker shades for a brown skin. Take our base, and we are going to add to our base, we are going to add a little burnt umber to warm that up a little bit. We're going to add just a little bit more to the base color on there, okay. Take a little bit of the base, add a touch of the burnt umber, a little bit more. Skin colors are often difficult, they have to be played with until you feel you have got them right. Now we've mixed up the base with a little burnt umber to warm it up, and you will set that is coming up pretty good. That would be one shade, and too when you are painting a person with a darker skin you don't use just plain, a plain brown. You would use variations of that. Then we are going to put a little bit more burnt umber, and we are going to put a little yellow ochre in there, and a little bit of cad red light. Until we get just a little bit darker, maybe a little bit more burnt umber, and a little bit more red. Red and yellow makes it a little bit more warmer, and right now we are aiming towards a little warmer color. Okay now we are going to have this as the base with a little burnt umber, plus yellow ochre, and a little cad red. And you put that in there, and that gives you a little bit of darker, you might want to use that on more of the shadow side of your figure. Now, the next color is you take your base, and you add a little fatal blue and alizarin crimson this would be for the shadows of the face, because men especially have the beard line, and that is often a little cooler color. The shadows are a little bit more cool so we are going to go back to our base color. We are going to add a little alizarin crimson and fatal blue. You have to be very careful, fatal blue is an extremely strong color. I mean it will color anything. Add a little of that, and a little alizarin crimson, which is over here. We're almost getting a little put of a purply color. So anyway we are getting a darker color for the shadows now. Okay, we are getting there. This is a shadow color, especially for men where they have the whiskers on their face, it is a kind of a dark color. And it is mixed with a little fatal blue, alizarin crimson with a base color. And you can see that it is really dark almost a grayish color, has a lot of blue in it though if you look at it carefully. This next color is our base mixed with yellow ochre, cad red light, and a little cobalt blue. This is probably for the highlights on the face. You will notice that when you look at portraits that the nose is usually more red, the middle of the forehead is a little more red, the chin is a little more red, cheeks are a little more red, ears are red. Believe it or not your ears are red around the edges. So we are going to mix up our colors here, and we are going to paint this right here. And that gives a color for the highlights. The next one is the base this is another different slightly different shadow color. It's a base mixed with extra fatal green, burnt umber, and burnt sienna. You mix all of those together, and you get a really dark shadow like maybe underneath the nose when you are painting a portrait there is your nose shadow. The next is just kind of a medium tone for a dark complexioned person. This is a little warmer color, this is a base color mixed with cadium yellow and cadium red. And that is a nice overall color for faces. The next color I have is another cooler color, and this is the base mixed with cadium yellow, cadium red, and a little cobalt blue. This again would be a gradual transition color from a portion of the face. From the lighter colors, and before you get to the shadow colors you might use this color here."