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KristinaGehrmann β Skintone Tutorial part 2+3
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Β© Kristina Gehrmann
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This is the second and third part of a big skintone painting tutorial I did last year. (it just wasn't until now that I found the time to assemble everything and finish it)
Please note that this is just "my" way to learn/paint/observe, and I can't guarantee that it'll make things "click" for everybody; I'm not a teacher after all and still have SO much to learn!
By the way, I put this in the "Photoshop" category since I used Photoshop here (with a Wacom Intuos tablet), but ANY painting program (Gimp, Painter, SAI, Opencanvas) can be used; since this isn't a software-specific tutorial - it's just about painting skintones!
Have fun, and thank you for reading!
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Thanks for this it will be very helpful for my next piece of work me and a friend are swapping styles, she's done one of my pictures in hard cells and I'm doing it soft cells x3 so this is very helpful xP and I use photoshop so that's even better xD
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this is really great I just want to let you know that I appreceate people like you taking the time to make these ... SUPER PROPS!
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your very welcome keep up the great work!
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Superb tutorial... I just have a question about mixing colors with PS brushes: when I ventured into a project, it seems that I change always the blending modes of the brushes between lighten and darken, and the project takes forever. How do you set your brushes to make them mixed together?
Thanks
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I use the "Normal" mode for brushes almost always. To make mixes/overlays, I press the pen onto the tablet only very lightly. This results in lower opacity
(provided that you use a graphics tablet and have set your brushes' opacity and size to pen pressure in PS)
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Thanks for the clue. I feel very newbie... I have a Bamboo graphic tablet, and I did not know that we could set those modes, really 
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Check out this tutorial - It explains the whole brushes thing quite well:
[link]
... among many other things; it also explains how to make your own custom brushes
You're welcome!
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You`re very kind, thanks!
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... thank you.
Thank you.
~Thank. You.~
I've found lately that I have no idea how to approach coloring skin. I thought I'd tried everything- doing the color-blob thing, constantly observing and trying to figure out every little tone from my favorite pictures, and the best I'd ever end up with was spray-tanned Barbie tones. This was extremely helpful in making me realize that realistic skin tones don't just depend on certain colors, but can be created a ton of different ways. It's a great tutorial. :]
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Thanks so much been looking here and about for something very similar to this! +fav & +watch!
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these are so helpful, i have such a hard time with skins ; w ;
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Super, dass du so nahtlos weitermachst! Deine Art ist wirklich mal etwas anderes. Ich glaube, das kann sowohl AnfΓ€ngern als auch Fortgeschrittenen wirklich helfen, auch als AnstoΓ im Hinterkopf.
Und gut, dass du jetzt ein lesbareres Farblayout gewΓ€hlt hast! Vielleicht nicht ganz so schick, aber viel besser lesbar.
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This is extremely helpful, especially because I have no sense of which colors to use with which BG....
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