
What you will learn in this course.
In this section we'll talk about what we'll do in Part 1 - the pale skin tone, and what tools you will need. Please be sure to collect the PDF downloads from the "Resources" section of this Lecture.
Learn what white charcoal is, how it behaves, when to use it, and how we will use it on our portrait.
Let's talk about skin tone sets. Yay, nay? Why or why not?
Using an olive brown color, let's start shading.
Using another shading method, let's add some brown to our shadows.
Lips are tricky. Let me share some professionals secrets on how to make them look amazing and realistic.
In this segment we'll use the fast-shading technique to breathe some life into our character.
The illusion of shadows and how they appear purple.
A lot of our perception of color is actually based on contrast rather than hue. Let's see what adding a dark brown color will do to our portrait.
Learn amazing and easy-to-follow skin tone coloring techniques from a professional artist.
Lisa Mitrokhin - painter, illustrator, author, YouTuber, and instructor - is here to teach you all of her secrets on coloring pale, olive and dark skin tones. All you need to play along is paper, colored pencils (of any brand), and your enthusiasm.
Research shows us that human beings respond to human faces a lot stronger and more positively than to anything else, followed only by dogs, cats and sunsets.
That means that using portraits in your art, whether it's drawing, painting, or coloring, will make your work more likely to be noticed and admired.
This course is structured in three parts, with short (5 to 15 minute) lessons designed for you to follow at your own pace. Lisa starts the course with pale skin tones, moves on to olive skin, and completes the journey with dark skin tones.
Wether you're a colorist, a drawing student, or an accomplished artist, Lisa provides everything you need to follow along. Each skin tone comes with an original Lisa Mitrokhin digital painting, a grey-scale coloring page of the same character, and a sepia coloring page. Print out the coloring pages and color-along with her.
You will learn her color selection strategy, new and different shading techniques, the theory of skin tones coloring, and understand why certain colors appear the way that they do on skin.
After completing this course, you will be able to apply this theory and these techniques to any coloring or drawing.
Important note: this is NOT a portrait drawing course. This course focuses ONLy on skin tone coloring technique. You do not need to know how to draw to take this course.