How to draw human skin with a pencil. Learning to draw human skin

How to draw skin with a pencil?

1. Matvey, why are you writing advised?
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   by the way gt;
   Hardly anyone has ever seen a skin-colored pencil. If you have, then you are lucky

   I'm probably lucky, I have pastel pencils in shades that are very close to my skin. Goes great over watercolors. and for finishing fine parts they are not replaceable at all.
   But the answer is otherwise very sensible.

2. red and yellow don't work
3. Leonardo's in Aviapark sells a set of Faber Castel pencils in leather color. By the way, excellent quality and makes life very easy.
4. It would seem, why is it so difficult to draw skin? A couple of wrinkles, some shadows, paint - and you're done! Wait, how to color it? !

   You need to paint the face with special care; moreover, this is often the smallest detail of the drawing. But in this article, I'll look at ways to achieve skin color in three of the most widely used techniques.

   I'll probably start with the simplest technique - drawing with a pencil.

   Hardly anyone has ever seen a skin-colored pencil. If you have, then you are lucky. I will tell you about color combinations to achieve skin color. Usually, for these purposes, I take pink as a base and add yellow, orange or brown on top in the right proportions (most often yellow in a 1:1 ratio). You can also take yellow as a base and add red or brown. The combinations depend on the desired result. To express shadows, tan and blush, you can use basic combinations by simply thickening the colors.

   Particular attention should be paid to the fact that if you have applied too much of one color, you should not “mask” it with a thick layer of another. It’s better to carefully (!) wipe the pencil with an eraser. But, even if a thick, rich color is needed, there is no need to first apply a thick layer of one color, then a thick layer of another. It is better to apply thin layers of each color (it turns out something like a layer cake: pink-yellow-red-pink-yellow-red...) until the desired thickness is achieved.

   Next I'll look at painting with gouache.

   There is nothing complicated here. It is enough to dilute the desired color in the palette and apply it to the drawing.

   Common colors used to obtain skin color are red, white, yellow and brown (2:1:1:1). However, ocher (2:1:2) is often used instead of yellow and brown. To achieve the desired color, tan or blush, parts of a particular color are increased or decreased. It should also be noted that it is not advisable to use pink instead of a red-white combination.

   To achieve a pale complexion, do not apply a thin layer of paint so that the paper shows through. You just need to add more white or yellow paint.

   You can also add small amounts of blue and green colors (both when drawing with gouache and when coloring with pencil), however, this should only be done if you know exactly what you want and what you should get (for example, a sickly look or a shadow).

   And finally, watercolor.

   Watercolor is the most capricious of paints. Therefore, I would advise you to look for the color you need in the sets. If you combine colors, you will end up with either a daub in the drawing or a daub in the paints. However, if you practice enough, take good paper, paints and a brush, you can get the desired color, again by applying the base and adding the desired colors.

   By the way, if you have watercolor pencils at your disposal, the task becomes much easier. In this case, you need to color the drawing as with ordinary pencils (in no case less carefully) and brush over the drawing with a damp brush.

   Well, that's basically all.

5. Here the skin color pencil has nothing to do with the world. You need to study here.

How to color your hair with markers

Step 1

First, take your sketch ready and clean. When using markers, make sure you use ink that won't smudge with water!! You don't want your markers to cause the ink to run and ruin all your work. You also don't want your marker strokes to get "ruined" by the ink on them. For this tutorial I'm going to use copic markers, I find they are the easiest to use as they have a brush tip which allows for soft blending of colors. However, any markers will do, whatever you feel comfortable working with. When working with copics, always test them on paper to make sure they don't bleed too much. Make sure you have natural white light in your work area as yellow light can distort colors! Anyway, let's start the lesson!

Step 2

Here, I chose the first color (Copic color: Water BG15) and painted in the direction of the arrows. I usually start at the roots and edges. To get the highlights on the right side of her hair, I drag the marker down, stop and you can see it leaves a jagged edge, then start at the bottom and work my way up to get a nice highlight line. It may take a little practice, but once you get to know your copic, it will get easier and easier each time. I also left the highlight in the middle of the curls to show that they have volume.

Step 3

I applied a slightly darker shade (Copic color: Teal Blue B18) and this shade will cover part of the first color, the painting process is the same as step above, just make sure to leave the base color, especially in the highlight area. You will see the shading appear!

Step 4

Until next time!

Original: http://www.mangarevolution.com/tutorial_di...?tutorial_id=72

How to color eyes with markers

Step 1

There are many tutorials on how to draw eyes, but few on how to color them. So I decided to show you how to color different eyes with markers. However, you can use a similar technique for digital painting as well ^ _ ^
The first eye, here, is a fairly ordinary eye shape, and I decided to paint it with golden shades. First I used the base color, pale yellow, for the iris. Then I wedge in a shade of darker yellow and begin to get the shape. Then I use yellow ochre, and finally sepia brown to show off the shape more. TIP: If something happens and you accidentally run over the edges, you can always use a small brush and some white acrylic paint to fix it! Also, you can add more sparkles to the eyes by using white acrylic paint to make them more sparkling! I usually fix my painting after I've completely finished it.

Step 2

Evil eyes. Unfortunately my scanner doesn't pick up red, so bear with it. First make a layer of bright yellow, you will see this at the base of the eye and it will make the eye appear to be on fire. Then do a layer of light orange, and here I started putting in a darker orange shade. After this, blend the dark orange towards the top of the eye with some red. Finally, using gray, shade up to the top of the eye. Gray is your choice whether you want a bright red or a darker, more sinister look with gray.

Step 3

Quite realistic. First make a layer of pale blue. Then use dark blue or water color and use it to define the shape of the pupil. Now time for the sexy part! Shade the base of the iris with a darker blue color. This trick gives the eye a sense of depth - a great idea for you to use. Finally, I made another layer darker, and added small lines in the iris to achieve a sense of reality! By playing with this you can get many different effects in the same style.

Step 4

Big eye! Okay, this eye style is very different from the others, in this one the majority of the eye is dark and there is only a small speck of color at the base. I first started with caramel brown, then took a dark sepia color and decided on the shape. I didn't leave too much caramel brown. Then I slowly, hierarchically paint with brown colors, and finally finish with dark gray or black at the top. I really love these eyes, I think they are cute but kind of mysterious, they have a lot of depth.

Step 5

Now, with the skills you have, you can draw any eye, and you can also apply this tutorial to gems and jewelry! It's very effective! Just leave a white rim around one edge of the gemstone for a realistic and sunny look!

Until next time!

Original: http://www.mangarevolution.com/tutorial_di...?tutorial_id=71

How to draw skin with markers

Step 1

In this tutorial I decided not to use copic markers for the skin, so you can see that even cheap markers can get the job done. First of all, get a sketch ready for coloring. Remember, use waterproof ink for tracing! Now make a flat layer of the base skin tone, just leave white areas along some of the lines and some areas on the face.

Step 2

Then, with the same color, make a second layer in the shadow area, under the eyes, under some of the hair and edges, under the chin and on her hand. I know these steps are a little unsympathetic, but we will add details ^ _ ^

Step 3

This is where the fun comes in! adding blush! Using a pinkish/wonderful color, start painting her cheeks and other areas. This gives her a little personality, and more depth to the character. You can also add it to your lips! Don't use too much of this color.

Step 4

In the final step, just add some gray, here I added on her back, under her chin and under her hair to give depth to the painting. I also made her lips a little redder and that's how you drew it! Not as difficult as it first seems eh? If you think you've painted over too much white, or you want to add a little sparkle after, use a brush and white acrylic paint!

Original: http://www.mangarevolution.com/tutorial_di...?tutorial_id=73

In this lesson I will show you how to create a palette of human skin colors, so that you can then use it in a drawing. I create colors for a white man, there is no specific reason for this except that these are the colors I am most familiar with. This technique also works well for creating other skin tones.

We're going to start by creating a skin color palette, but let me first show you the reference photo I'm going to use for the painting. It's impossible to create a palette that works well in all lighting, so lighting needs to be looked at on the models first. Color, direction, strength (intensity) of light and environmental light all paint our skin with vibrant, changing colors.

On a sunny day with blue skies, your skin will have yellow (warm) highlights and blue (cool) shadows. And in winter, your skin will have cold and pale colors... All these are changes made by light. Of course there are pigment changes too, but they vary from person to person and are not so much related to lighting.

Reference photo (photographer unknown) and finished drawing.

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I found this photo online a while ago and kept it, thinking that I would need it later...
Now I think this is the best photo for this tutorial. Her body is well lit on the left, while the right side is completely in shadow. This gives us a good opportunity to study the skin in maximum light and shade. The photo was decolorized by the photographer, so we have to guess the colors ourselves...

Step 1: Palette.

We'll start by creating a palette for her skin. To create a palette, I simply open a new document about 500*500 pixels in size and draw small patches of the colors I'm going to use. But one flat color looks bad and makes it difficult to imagine color in dark and light areas.
If you have little experience in drawing skin, I recommend that you look at some photos of skin. In fact, it's not that difficult.

Try to find images that are both lit and dark, preferably with neutral lighting (an evenly lit room or cloudy weather outside). Use the Color Picker Tool - move the cursor from light to dark areas of the skin and watch how the color changes. Notice how the marker on the color ring and the marker in the color triangle move.
If the image is compressed, the markers will likely move very unevenly due to the noise created by the compression. I've found that skin colors for the most part fall in a range like this:

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HSV changes from light to dark

*Color is located in yellow and red area
*Saturation changes in a non-linear way

What does this mean in relation to painting? First of all, this means that you can't just pick white for the highlights, medium skin color, and black as the shadow color and use Painter to get the colors in between. Famous and talented artists never use black (in its pure form). There is always some light in the darkness.

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Two Gradients and Photoshop Gradient Editor with 3 Color Gradient

In the image above, I used Photoshop's Gradient Editor to generate a 3-color gradient (left). I chose light skin tone, medium skin tone, and black, leaving Photoshop to figure out the colors in between. The gradient on the right is made of more than 15 colors.
The difference is that the light and dark tones are more saturated in the gradient on the right than on the left. I think the left gradient has too much gray mixed in and it doesn't produce the rich, red shadow areas you often see on skin. Yet, once again, this is not a hard and fast rule that you should blindly follow.

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3 color gradient curve; 15 color gradient curve.

Some examples of palettes I've created:

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This is the palette that was used in this tutorial, there are other options below.

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Now you can create your own palette

Step 2: Sketch.

Save the reference image to your computer and open it in Painter. Create a new document with the same resolution as the original image (327*390). Open both documents at the same time, place them side by side and try to make a rough sketch of the woman's outline (Pens Tool - 1-Pixel).

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Very quick sketch.

After you have completed the first quick sketch, select the Canvas menu item and change the image size to 1000*1193 pixels. At this resolution you can finish your sketch.

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Left: more details added, right: completed sketch.

Step 3: Add color.

Save your sketch and start filling it with colors from your palette. I used the Pens – Flat color brush. I started on the left side of the body (her right). I didn't use any bright colors in my palette, so the left side of her body is too dark at this stage. I don't use the 3 brightest colors until the rest of the body is finished and smoothed out.

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Left: Filled the highlights with midtones, Right: Added other midtones.

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I start smoothing using Blenders – Just add water tool.

Step 4: Body work.

After smoothing I added some darker colors from my palette.
I personally think the hardest part of this painting is the edge where the skin meets the shadow. A soft, blurry edge creates the impression of a rounded shape, while a contrasting edge creates a sharp edge.
You also need to be careful not to mix black into the midtones. This will produce a gray gradient similar to the 3-color Photoshop gradient you saw earlier in this tutorial. To avoid this, use at least 3 dark tones in the palette where the skin goes into shadow.

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Left: Some shadow areas are enriched with a browner tone;
Right: smoothing.

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Left: left chest improved, forearm worked; middle and right: working on the arm.

Step 5: Head.

Increase the size of your document to 2500*2983 pixels in order to draw the face. If your computer is too slow at this resolution, you can cut out the head, paste it into another document, and then enlarge it.

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The head is roughly sketched.

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Lip colors are not taken from the palette.

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Left: more details; right: more shadows, also adding highlights, using the 3 brightest colors from our palette.

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We work on the neck.

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Left: add hair with a very dark color; right: hair processing completed.

Step 6: Final Details.

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We paint the most brightly lit areas with 3 light colors in the palette.

To enhance the skin tone, I added a dark blue color to the right side of the skin. I also increased the contrast a bit.
There are some problems with the anatomy... Her forearm is too short, her neck looks weird, her head is too small, etc...
But! Skin colors are good! (is not it?;)).
Finished drawing.

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Personally, I love these colors the most. Warm browns, rich reds and oranges and fresh pinks. Although the picture may have been a bit exaggerated, these colors are considered by most people to be skin tones.

However, more important than color is the combination of light and shadow in a painting. By working out the distribution of brightness, you can depict the skin in almost any imaginable color it might have. Blue, for example. I completely ignored it in this tutorial, but it usually shows up in areas with thin skin. For example, under the eyes, inner part of the forearm, top of the foot, chest, etc….

As I said in my previous tutorials, this is my way of creating a drawing, and not a general rule for everyone! It's best to draw using Photoshop and a tablet, but other drawing programs may be suitable if they have similar tools and capabilities. If you have strong masochistic tendencies, then you can try to draw with a mouse.

STEP 1

Let's start with a step-by-step portrait drawing to achieve the best result. As you can see, I have put together a palette of colors for myself that I will work with. I may not use all the colors, but it's a good palette to start with. Leather isn't just pink, peach, and brown—you can also add a little purple, blue, yellow, and even light green. I started with a peach color in the middle and drew a rough version of the face - its shape, and also applied a lighter color with low opacity and flow (about 40%) on the upper part of the face, on the brightest areas.

Interesting start. I chose the darkest brown shade and used it to paint the shadows. You can already start drawing out some details if you want - as I did with the upper lip, for example, just to give it shape. Try not to apply the color too tightly. Don't make rough sketches and remember that you can always go back and make the transitions from one color to another smoother (something I plan to do later). I try to paint on the entire surface of the skin at the same time, since if I paint individual areas one by one, the skin texture will end up appearing patchy and uneven.

Then I chose a lighter tone: a reddish peach, next to the dark brown. With this color I will smooth out the transitions from the darkest areas to the lightest. It's worth noting that the colors I chose to paint the skin belong to different shades. Light colors have a yellowish tint, while dark colors have a reddish tint. Using different shades when depicting skin helps achieve more vibrant color!

At this stage I started tidying up the shadows and working on the details. I chose a light shade from my palette and started highlighting certain areas. Here, as when applying shadows, the opacity and flow of the brush were set to 30% (the brush is also round, quite large in diameter and with a hardness of 80%). I advise you not to use a very soft brush, as this can make your face look “doll-like” and unnatural. Of course, if you want to achieve a plastic effect, then choose a soft brush, but this is a lesson on painting SKIN!

Now I started thinking about using texture. I changed my brush. In this picture I showed a sample of the brush that I used (actually, it happened by accident, but I decided to save this sample). In Photoshop, this brush is called Chalk brush, and to change its diameter you just need to move the slider. You may want to work with a very large diameter on a large canvas, as this makes it easier to draw details. As for brush settings, it's much easier to set them on a tablet - you can set the size, opacity and angle jitters in "pressure sensitivity" and the result is the perfect color ratio and amazing textures.

Oh my God! The whole face is now purple! I also cropped the drawing to fit more text next to Step 5. I didn't do that on purpose, I swear! Anyway, I just added a lot of purple using a brush with a low opacity of about 15%. This color is mainly present in areas of the design that are either in shadow (like my neck) or have a pinkish tint (like my cheeks). Don't worry, I know it looks like war paint - we'll fix that later. I also adjusted the eye, hair and mouth to get an idea of ​​how the shadows would fall on the face.

In some areas of the face, color should not be added, but removed. I made that purple shade less vibrant. If you're applying the purple color to a new layer (it's a good idea to create new layers for any changes if you're afraid things won't go the way you want), then use the Eraser with low opacity, low density (flow) and a high level of softness to get rid of unnecessary purple color, or you can use a brush with low opacity (opacity) and low density (flow) in order to bring back a peach tint instead of purple. The result is a sheer yet textured finish. =)

Another thing you should consider when drawing skin is light sources. Skin can reflect light much more than people think - that doesn't mean it has to look like a mirror, but it still reflects some colors. The best example to illustrate this effect is the children's game where you hold a buttercup under your chin, and if the yellow reflects on your skin, then it means you like butter. I hate oil, but yellow always reflects on any skin :)). In this case, the orange light is reflected on the neck and under the chin, so I added that along with the bright white highlights on my shiny nose using a hard-edged brush.

Sorry about the hair that came out of nowhere, but I just couldn't leave the drawing unfinished. =P I did a little more work on the skin in this drawing. I zoomed in and added a few details. This is why you need to use a large canvas; you can be less careful in your drawing. I highlighted the chin with a subtle light line along the contour, and I also lightly drew it on other parts of the contour. I also added some green tint (with low opacity - 5%) and pink (also with low opacity (opacity)). It brings the drawing to life!

Here I applied the final touches. I added some texture to the neck in much the same way as I did with the purple color earlier - I used a Chalk brush, painted everything in very lightly, then brushed the base color over the entire face again to make the color less noticeable. . I also added some golden yellow to the jaw and nose. Don't be afraid to use different colors and paint very rich shadows and bright highlights. Many people find that the skin in their drawings looks too flat, in which case this drawing technique helps solve this problem.

Em? What? Yes, I know that the lesson probably turned out to be quite fast and not entirely clear. It's quite difficult to explain everything in one portrait, so I'll demonstrate some of the drawing techniques I used. Let's talk a little about color palettes. There are three palettes presented here. The top two are simply terrible, the bottom one is better and resembles the one I used in my drawing.

Now, I hope you understand what I meant - I used an orange tint in the first two pictures, but the shadows look green and give a sick look. Making the shadows more red in the last drawing gave the skin a more natural look, even though the sketches look quite rough.

Of course, every person's skin tone is different. The transition from one shade to another is common to all skin colors. It is not at all necessary that the shadows be reddish and the highlights yellowish. Experiment! For the dark skin on the left, I used rich and dark colors, transitioning from purple shadows to more orange highlights. Pale skin requires a desaturated orange shadow with an overlay of a variety of colors - pink, pale yellow and blue, since fair skin is very thin and blue veins show through. The skin color swatch pictured on the right was created using my palette and includes more yellowish-orange shadows and pinkish-red highlights, which I think is perfect for portraying Asian skin types. Create your own color palettes. :)

Now let's talk about texture. I didn't use much texture in my drawing, but you can work with it more carefully. I will explain what angle jitters are. You can see the different effects you can get by changing some of the parameters. You'll achieve amazing textures by setting the angle to "pen pressure" in a special brush (such as the Chalk brush). Please note that this is a very interesting effect even on this straight (well almost straight) line.

There are many ways to create texture and it all comes down to trial and error - everyone's skin is different and I can't cover every skin type, but I'll start by describing some painting techniques you can use. On the left the drawings are close, on the right they are distant. First I used a Chalk brush to create light strokes. You can draw with this brush without lifting your pen from the tablet, or you can paint with light touches (these techniques are only suitable for those using a tablet, as you need pressure sensitivity, but you can also adjust the mouse: but then you will need to work more on creating the effect of different skin textures, because you will have to constantly change the size/opacity/etc. of the brush.)

Here I added more strokes using a light colored Chalk brush. I reduced the diameter of the brush a little compared to the previous drawing, then began erasing areas using a round, soft Eraser with low opacity and low density (I applied these strokes to a new layer, so when you erase, the dark layer begins to show through).

I applied the light tone again throughout the design and then erased the small dots that would represent the pores on the face. You can even choose a darker color and paint larger pores with it to create the effect of deep pores. Pores on the face are more noticeable around the nose and along the cheeks. You may enhance this effect on skin with an uneven surface.

Veins - I drew the pores and on the bottom layer added thin pale greenish-blue lines with a brush with very low opacity and very low flow. But the veins cannot be placed in random order. Many small veins are visible on the temples, neck, wrists and arms, feet, palms. It all depends on how pale your character's skin is and how thin that skin is. In some fair-skinned women, you may see veins showing through in the chest area or on the thighs, and if the person is thin enough, you may also notice veins on the hip bone, calf, or biceps. Study the pictures and photographs carefully. =)

You can also add lots of other details - cute freckles, scars, spots and whatever you want. Just remember to work on a large canvas. These little dark freckles, painted on with a round brush, actually look quite messy upon closer inspection, but look great once you zoom out!

Anyway...I'll stop here. The lesson is already getting long enough - if I decide to write more, I will need to create a continuation of this lesson. Experiment, put your knowledge into practice and carefully study people's skin - but for now, I hope this lesson helped you. =)

Leather is a very durable and beautiful material and has been widely used since the beginning of mankind. In this tutorial I will show you how to draw a beautiful shiny leather dress. You can use this technique, which is described here, to create other objects, such as a leather jacket or a piece of leather armor.

What you will need

• Pencil HB
• Pencil 2B
• Pencil 3B
• Pencil 8B
• Ballpoint pen (or better yet, an empty ballpoint pen!)
• Shading
• Nag eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• 3 sheets of paper

How to Draw a Shiny Leather Dress

Step 1

Using a pencil HB, carefully draw a sketch of the body. You can use the mannequin drawing as a guide.

Step 2

Add details to the body: chest and stomach.

Step 3

Draw guide lines along the body to define the 3D shape of the dress, and also outline the tight-fitting dress.

Step 4

Draw “waves” in places where there are folds and stretches in the material. You can learn more about drawing folds in this tutorial:

Step 5

Angle the pencil to shade the side of the dress, saving separate areas for the “highlight paths” in the middle.

Step 6

Draw a dark seam along the entire dress - this will be a striking detail that breaks the flow of the material.

Step 7

Also shade the front of the dress. Maintain a bright highlight path on the seam side.

Step 8

Using a feather brush, carefully blend the shading, adding a soft edge to the shine as you go. Once the blender is coated with graphite, you can use it to “add” a soft tone between the folds.

Step 9

By using 3B pencil, shade the side of the dress. Be careful with the folds! Maintain a thin border between the shadow and the outline to create an area of ​​reflective light.

Step 10

Blend using a blender.

Step 11

Shade and blend the rest of the side, keeping the tones lightly around the highlight.

Step 12

Darken the seam to correct the shade with the current contrast.

Step 13

Darken the front of the dress, leaving areas for reflective highlights. Without them, the dress will lose its 3D shape.

Step 14

Using a pencil 8B, add the final shading. Press down harder on your pencil, but don't ignore the shading that's already there.

Step 15

Take a nag to “draw” the highlights. Don't overdo it with white highlights or your skin will look like latex!

Step 16

Finish the drawing by pressing even harder on the pencil. 8B, as well as filling in any unnecessary white spots created by the paper texture.