How to paint STYLIZED SKIN EASY

Finally! Here is the how I paint skin tutorial! This is generally how I approach painting skin IN MY STYLE, and I tried to make it approachable for those who are fairly beginner. I show examples of a light skin tone, a dark skin tone and a fantasy skin tone! I hope you guys find it helpful.

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I am using Clip Studio Paint in this tutorial but the principals can be applied to other software and apps as well.

0:00​ What are we doing?
1:08​ Skin gradients in paintings
2:04​ Photo reference
4:16 Painting a tone map
6:39 Coloring Example 1: Light Tone
10:30 Shading
19:29 Highlights
23:54 Coloring Example 2: Dark Tone
28:31 Coloring Example 3: Fantasy Tone
34:12 Painting the eyes

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[LynxArcane]

This is just incredible.... now it makes sense why my faces looks like some yellow lemons with no colors whatsoever 😂

[GiaArtz]

Ok so your color scheme in the beginning of the video inspires me. It’s your hair color plus the orange hat then the purple in the background = instant color palette.

[deitterronquillo]

Am I only one who's a bit surprise that the artist looks like an animated character herself?

[AunaAmireArt]

Yayyy!!! I prepared a sketch to color in while watching this tutorial 🤩 I haven’t found a good tutorial to go over this topic. Thank you so much for making this

[gabbiemok]

You look like a character from overwatch. For a minute i thought you were animated. lol. 1st time on the channel. Helpful video. Thanks alot💜

[humbyanamat]

Perfect TImiNG I JUST STARTED EXPERIMENTING WITH COLORING SKIN MY GOD

How did you know O-O

[alexfolmer]

For fantasy colours skins I usually try to think what colour their blood is, like for a blue skinned character I'd make their lips and blush sort of greenish rather than red (A good way to tell if you're not sure is moving the hue until the skin looks like a real human colour and check if the blush looks normal)

[hannahd]

1:31 - 2:00
This simple break down of colors on the face just blew my mind. Like it's so obvious when you finally see it, how did I not figure this out sooner?? THANK YOU SO MUCH. 🙏

[tommie]

One thing to make note of when using reference is to be aware of the colour temperature and tint of the reference photo. In the portrait she used for the Black skin tone, I noticed the picture had a lot of blue colour temp with a green tint - but these things can easily be adjusted, so it might be a good idea to change the reference photo to match your art's lighting situation! :)

[happyfinchstudio]

Ahhhh! Great tutorial! So, because YouTube tends to attract terrible contents, here's a long ass comment of good stuff: Your video quality is good. You've clearly taken time and care into putting it together and it's truly appreciated. I found your break down of the color bands very helpful--it's been years since I've seriously done anything digital seriously (I was last using CS5 lol), so I'm new to CSP and super rusty, so I find this video and your art to be a great motivator for me to get back into it. Thank you for putting in so much effort for your fans and followers, and I hope this comment makes your day. ... AND DEMAND COMMENTERS BE POLITE.

[jdawggie]

Skin coloring has to be one of the more harder things to grasp, and clearly your time in the art exhibits/museums did not go to waste. thank you so much for your time and this tutorial, it helped me immensely with the heat mapping!

[iamnotjadetettrazinni]

Dude... THEY'RE ART IS SO FRICKIN GOOD

[batyalivni]

This is the most helpful thing I've found yet for my art. Rest assured I will be using this. I am so grateful for the tutorial, and keep it up!

[kitten.philosophy]

thank u so much for clarifying why and which shadows are going to be hard or soft, , i would often watch tutorials for facial shading but never get an explanation for where hard and soft shadows are and what determines them and my paintings would turn out really fuzzy or plainly unpleasant so this is extremely helpful!! :D

[froggggggie]

T^T the fact that u r so underrated hurts me. Af

[kathrynd]

These came out beautiful! thanks for including a fantasy skin! Also, this was hands down the Best digital skin tutorial I've ever watched. you explained it in a way that made so much sense! I have struggled with my digital art being to airbrushed for so long and struggling to add shadows and highlights well so thank you so much!

[catherinej]

I've always experimented with different ways to paint skin for years and every time I think I've settled, I find a new method to try!! Not that I didn't already do this, but I've never tried using hard light for skin. I'm going to have some fun with this!!

[shaiovo]

My goodness this was made around 2 months ago and how did I JUST notice this thank you so much this was awesome!!! <3

[paolosanchez]

the watching makeup vids strategy is so true! i have been watching makeup vids before i was drawing, so that helped me with the "basics" of shading, , also thank you for this video chrissa!!❤❤

[ziyanda_theartist]

"It's okay, girl, get some sleep..." That really spoke to me 🥺😢 This is such a wonderful video, though, thanx so much!!! I'll be coming back to this~