Mixing skin tones: Light family, warm half tones got a little loud, and other mistakes. Figure I'd quit while I was ahead :))

I finally returned to the course after a long time. Just finished this assignment. It took me 1 hour and 30 minutes!

I've been in an art school now working on my portfolio 2ND YEAR.. STILL LOTS TO LEARN. I AM GRATEFUL. THERE WAS AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF INFO PRACTICE INSTRUCTION ON THE WHOLE GAMET mixed media, oil, inks, marketing yadya.. I can not tell you how overwhelmed i BECAME because THIS right HERE WAS NOT SHARED!!! importance of value separation and THE limited pallet. 2 colors, BLK WHITE. so so glad i found you by watching your FOF artist podcast interview... congrats BTW!! WE WERE GIVEN COLORS AFTER FIRST FEW LESSONS OF DRAWING...THROWN A HOLE LOT AT US ALL ONLINE..SIGH. still it will be worth it as i am finding what i need right here. Great Videos, good teaching, hands on practical sense.

In retrospect, I think I should have made the cool halftone a little darker. The warm reflective light also seems a little green. I tried to keep the warm accent warmer by adding a little alizarin crimson. It may be difficult to tell in the photo. Really liked this exercise.

Hi Morgan, Here is my attempt at the skin mixing chart, appreciate any feedback, Thanks!

Value and skin tone charts.

I find it useful to turn my phone camera b&w filter on to check my values when using color, as you can see here

Hi Morgan, This is my submission for skin mixing chart assignment. The red color I use is vermilion.

Here is my value scale assignment. Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks!

Here is the value exercise

Hi Morgan, This is my submission for Skin mixing chart assignment. I also have two questions. Q.1: How do you decide the intensity of skin tones ? When I try to mix realistic looking skin tones, the chroma gets too low and if I try to mix skin tones with a little more chroma, it starts looking cartoonish. Q.2: I'm not sure if it is discussed later in the course or not but in your example, you did a little hue shifting in case of halftone. I came across this term not too long ago but I have seen that it makes the transition of a color from light to dark more natural. Like in your example, the halftone leans towards Red and your average light leans towards Yellow. When I try doing this, my halftone either starts looking too Red (Not in the same hue family as average skin tone) or if I don't add Red, the transition from Average light to Halftone doesn't look natural (I think due to lack of hue shifting). I tried shifting hue but your's look way more natural and correct. p.s. Please tell me what I should add to my current mixtures to make them better. Please help, if I get this, I'll be able to color properly.

Premixing for Ethan done! Soon I will start to put in the average darks. 🥳

Attempt #2 : I can't seem to stop making orange flesh tones, I even follow your exact steps. Going to try again. I feel as if mixing colors is a bigger battle than the actual painting.

Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about these. I think my light family has become a spray tan family. Seems very orange compared to your example. Will try again!

These are the skin tones I came up with. I don't know if its my monitor, but the light looks a little cool to me. I went from warm shadows to cooler lights. I tried to keep the colors close to what you are mixing with your limited palette. The lightest light is probably way to light, but I think the rest is ok.

late coming!

You are simply a genius at what you do11

Morgan - you are absolutely brilliant and your sense of humor makes my day! These videos are pure gems! Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing your amazing talent!