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Published: 2010-06-28 19:00:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 59356; Favourites: 1149; Downloads: 1685
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A mini-tutorial on achieving realism and individuality in a face.
Some of you might have seen this in my blog, but I wanted to post it here too. Hopefully itβll tide you over a bit until I get my ass moving on the skin tutorial (I know, I knowβ¦)
Enjoy, I hope you find it helpful!
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I love your tutorials; they are so helpful!
Honestly, I've never thought about this before.
Now, every time I draw a face, I'll remember this tutorial and pay closer attention to those nuances.
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What I can never understand is how you can keep someone young-looking while still adding these nuances, firstly.
Secondly, how do you develop your palette for a face? Skin tone is difficult.
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For younger faces, keep everything softer and less craggy than the example here. You need to have a lighter hand and keep things more subtle. If I smoothed out the example's face a bit, he'd loose ten years but still have plenty of structural detail around his face. The basic idea is to not treat the rest of the face as this boring, flat area.
I'll be going over choosing palettes for skin tones in part 3 of my big skin tutorial.
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I see. Nuances are kept even more nuance-y and light, skull structure should be visible, but not emphasized as much. *takes notes* Makes sense, older people's skin sags a bit more and would fall over the bones and muscles and hang from them.
I will be looking forward to your next tutorial!
Thank you!
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This is just what I need. Thank you--and lovely picture, by the way
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Yeah, when I do my paintings, I spend more time on the little things than I do on the main features of the face. Not that my work is anything CLOSE to yours, but the concept is the same! 
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What is hard about that, is that usually when we try to add details to the face, the person looks (sometimes a lot) older =/ Anyway, good tutorials!
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For younger looking faces, just keep the nuances softer and toned down.
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Yeah I'll try that one day ^^
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Yup, I think it can be very helpful, especially for a person who makes every person's face the same, like me D:
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Having a reference library of faces helps with this too.
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yeah, I already have something like this "library", but for me it was more like "concept pictures". I'll try to collect more pictures just for "individual face training". Thank you :3
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Nice tut. Find it kind of interesting how the second face looks like a mature version of the first.
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Good observation.
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Awesome, I'll try to keep it in mind. Very helpful indeed. (:
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Yeah, seriously, where is this skin tut?
Kidding, I know you're busy!
Thanks for the advice, will definitely pay more attention next time!
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*cries*
I have a pretty low-key week ahead of me, so I am hoping to make some headway on it.
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No no don't cry my dear!
I just can't wait, is all.
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Awesome reminder! I've gotta practice these things more...
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Very good advice. You definitely put a lot of thought and work into your work.
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Thank you, I will try to realize your advices the next time I paint a face
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Thanks a lot for posting this! It's very helpful!
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Awesome.
Thanks for this, I've been racking my brain on a couple of these things.
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Have to keep reminding myself of these things
Great tips, thanks! :>
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