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Green
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#21864 2007-09-10 23:35 GMT |
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I am working with acrylics and attempting to make a skin tone.
Any advice on what to mix to make a tan or peachish color. I would assume red, yellow, and white, but i'm not sure. If anyone happens to know how many parts of whatever colors are needed, that would be great. The colors I have to work with are blue, yellow, red, white, and black. I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. |
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Eli
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#21865 2007-09-10 23:42 GMT |
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with acrylics its harder to mix complex colours. you are better off buying a flesh tone then altering that colour how u want it.
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Melissa
79 posts |
#21866 2007-09-11 00:13 GMT |
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you really need to buy a brown to get a good flesh tone, but it can be done with careful mixing of all three primaries... it just might not be good. Its much easier to just scrounge up the 3 or 4 dollars or whatever to buy a tube of burnt sienna paint. with the burnt sienna you should only need it and white to make a decent skin tone, you can adjust it with your primary colors from there for your needs.
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MagicStick
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#21867 2007-09-11 00:23 GMT |
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for the most part when it comes to skin tones i personally use alot of white and just add red yellow and brown in small amounts until i can find the certain tone of skin i like.
if you cant find brown paints try mixing red yellow and blue (unequal amounts) to get a sort of brownish color. try adding highlights light and shadows to give the skin a more realistic feeling. hope this helps |
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David
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#21868 2007-09-11 00:26 GMT |
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I think you are correct....start with white first in the largest quantity, then using something like a toothpick, add a tiny dap of the yellow, perhaps two of the red....its going to take a lot of adjusting. At some point you will need the slightest bit of black.
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RainDrop
42 posts |
#21869 2007-09-11 01:37 GMT |
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They make a color called flesh tone. I've had a big tube of it, since college when someone suggested it for covorage of an 8X10 foot figure painting. Oddly enough, I discovored then that skin tone is really pretty much layering of a lot of different colors. I usually like to start with a sepia color which is like a red/black and then lighten to tones of yellowish/white mixed with the sepia as the flesh turns into the light. But there are slight variences to green and blue as a shadow rolls over and possibly even dark red/black or blue black in the shadows.
The key is to look closly at the shape of the light and paint in vague general colors getting more specific as you model the paint. |
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Cat
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#21870 2007-09-11 03:49 GMT |
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The bulk of most flesh-tones is white.
First mix a brown: You mix red and yellow to get a reddish orange. Ad to that a bit of blue. Just a drop. It will now be a brownish color. (You can always ad more but never take it out so be very careful) Take a dab of white and ad to that some of your brown. You now have a flesh-tone you can vary to the tone you want by adding more white (or any color for that matter as long as you do it in very very very small amount. |
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Jules
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#21871 2007-09-11 05:53 GMT |
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dear sir man any way im an artist my self and i work with all formats its yellow red and white you mix the red and white to a wet skin of the inside the mouth and then ad your yellow very slowly till you get it its very hard at first until you will get a final color that your happy with yes and its your eye then that see,s the end result anyway most color when wet will darken after drying! it takes a little practice and then you'll get
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