Skin Mixing Chart
Skin Mixing Chart
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Skin Mixing Chart
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Angel Kritikos
I finally returned to the course after a long time. Just finished this assignment. It took me 1 hour and 30 minutes!
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An overview of using a limited pallet to create a skin ton chart.

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Morgan Weistling
An overview of using a limited pallet to create a skin ton chart.
Tim Norris
First day of mixing color ever so I'm pretty satisfied with this. Not much temperature separation in the highlights. Reflected light is a bit cool. And average shadow is too warm... I feel like I could nit pick and mix forever, but I'm gonna move on to the next exercise and only return if someone tells me it's definitely worth my time to revisit something.
Tim Norris
I did a study with these colors and learned a lot. The average shadow was way too warm and definitely needed the nit picking. I plan to mix more before continuing. This course was worth every penny.
Tra Grin
1mo
not sure...
Sita Rabeling
Made another grayscale and tried to match the colors in the video for the skin tone chart. This took more time than it probably should, but I’m happy to learn :)
Matthew Evans
Hey Morgan, feel free to coach me like Fred fixler! here’s what I got. The left most greyscale is my finished one. The others are practice
@duanelangston
I painted this on a matte board that is possibly too dark of a gray, but I tried to match the hue and value as close to the video as possible. The background made my swatches look lighter than there really are. Hope I came close
@iyanuoluwa
@angelov
5mo
Skin mixing chart
@lovenrockets
Mixing skin tones: Light family, warm half tones got a little loud, and other mistakes. Figure I'd quit while I was ahead :))
Angel Kritikos
I finally returned to the course after a long time. Just finished this assignment. It took me 1 hour and 30 minutes!
Sherri Laferriere
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.
@lauralana
8mo
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.
@lauralana
8mo
I just used Brandon's good suggestion to use the monochrome filter on my phone to test the color values. I think perhaps the cool average light is a tad too dark, instead of the cool halftone being too dark as I said above. I might lighten that up just a tad if I were to redo it. Thanks for suggestion, Brandon!
Cindy B
9mo
Eric Johnson
Hi Morgan, Here is my attempt at the skin mixing chart, appreciate any feedback, Thanks!
Morgan Weistling
looks good.
Angelina Del Buey
Value and skin tone charts.
Morgan Weistling
the color charts are a bit too dark overall on the shadow values. You have a better range on the black and white
@sparlin
9mo
Brandon Dennis
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
@lauralana
8mo
Such a good idea!
Francesco Tu
Hi Morgan, This is my submission for skin mixing chart assignment. The red color I use is vermilion.
Morgan Weistling
Looks good. Vermilion is fine.
@itzkj
1yr
Here is my value scale assignment. Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks!
Morgan Weistling
on the cool side your average skin is a bit too dark
Ana Aguilar
Here is the value exercise
Madhu Girish
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.
Morgan Weistling
These mixtures look great I see no problem
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