#skin rendering

Not totally sure if this will be helpful to anyone, but my partner was asking about the recent coloring I was doing under my shading layers. It is still kind of experimental for me and I am definitely still learning, so take this with all of the grains of salt, but I thought I'd share!

(Also please forgive any typos. I was rushing to make this in under an hour because I had work in the morning, haha. And, to be fair, my laptop is so old that the keys are falling out and sometimes come with my fingers when I'm typing.)

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Darker skin tones which I definitely didn’t forget about because it’s late:

Focus on highlights instead of shadows, and note that darker skin is very reflective.

As shown here:

I’m splitting it up into 3 parts

PART 1: SKIN RENDERING

Note: Do not forget to make multiple Layers.

1: Base Color

2. When choosing the whites of the Teeth and Sclera and always use a lighter version of the skin color

3. After Choosing the eye color using a darker color shade the tops of the eyes beside the pupil.

4. Now using a darker color shade of the base skin color (we are gonna call this color A cause it is very important) Shade the under eyes, eyelids, lips (bottom, top or both are fine) ,the neck, under the nose and the top of the head (this shadow usually follows the bangs of the hair but they are bald rn)

5. Using Color A and an Airbrush gently airbrush over the cheeks and nose and switching to a hard brush changing the opacity to 4.1% make two lines to shade the neck more.

6. Moving down I usually airbrush the fingers and when the chest is visible the chest as well

7. Erase the in a triangle shape usually stopping where the collarbone is.

8. I rarely have to render under the belt but when I do I airbrush the knees and toes