Preview | Painting Skin Tones in Pastel with Alain Picard

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In this ArtistsNetwork.tv video workshop, you'll learn how to paint six different skin tones using chalk pastels. Preview Painting Skin Tones in Pastel with Alain Picard to learn his approach to matching realistic skin tones for a variety of skin colors. You'll be introduced to the basics of color, where Alain creates a color wheel in pastel to show how different hues and tones create the colors that can be found in various skin types. Catch a glimpse of two different skin types to be surprised by the unusual range of colors found in skin.
Then visit Artistsnetwork.tv for access to the full-length video workshop to discover how to apply color charts and concepts of hue, shade and tone to set up a pastel palette in a variety of colors and pastel types. Follow along with Alain to create a chart for each skin type, ranging from pale skin to dark brown or black, containing nine different shades in a range of cool, neutral and warm. On the way, you'll also learn how to apply the chart to your portraits so creating realistic skin tones in pastel becomes easy. You'll be ready to create your own skin charts and start drawing your friends in no time!

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@Lee-iq7wg 6 жыл бұрын

Omg his pastel collection is INCREDIBLE

@sharonbuck7364 7 жыл бұрын

This so informative. your instructions are easy to understand, and reveal so much to me about color. I am 70 years old and starting to study art. I always have been able to draw, but color has been my downfall.. thank you so very much for your videos. On a personal note your voice is soothing, your hair is just lovely, and your are very pleasing to the eye.. all in all and enjoyable informative video..Thank you

@artistsnetwork 11 жыл бұрын

Hi @SuperGamingBird! Congratulations on your class advancements :) Glad the videos here on Artistsnetwork.tv keep you painting and learning new techniques. While we can't give advice on what your next steps are -- other than to please keep painting -- we wish you much Good luck!

@michaelwilliams7822 6 жыл бұрын

I love what you are saying!The beauty of humanity...

@maggiecasner9010 Жыл бұрын

I'm a fan! I do many animal commissioned portraits, but someone wants me to do their portrait and their husband from a photo. I'm scared to death! Your instruction is helping me a LOT! I'm intimidated but excited at the same time!

@TahiraButt 4 жыл бұрын

Please post the link to this full tutorial.

@9HereticPrincess9 11 жыл бұрын

Hi artistsnetwork, thanks so much for uploading this! I've worked with pastels before (just drew a very simple picture of flowers that l created myself) they were definitely different to work with, but l had fun! :)

@artistsnetwork 11 жыл бұрын

Hi soulcomfort1, he uses a variety of pastels from different brands and soft and hard. I know it's not exactly a solid answer, but most of our pastel artists say to try some out and find what works best for you.

@RedSoxKal 11 жыл бұрын

yeah looking at the pastels again, I can tell that the cylindrical shapes ones are Unison and the square ones are Terry Ludwig. Hard Pastels could be NuPastels

@cg8397 8 ай бұрын

Hard pastels are definitely NuPastels, he mentions in another video on his KZfaq channel that he uses only that brand of hard pastel.

@SuperGamingBird 11 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to say, I am 12 years old. I absolutely love painting with arcylic, watercolour and pastels. I just wanted to say that I watch every single one of your videos and I love them. I just was wondering where should I move on from. I have showed my art teachers at school and they have set me GCSE tasks and I have to go in a classroom with year 10's. How should I move on?

@donnapage1877 4 жыл бұрын

I watched your full video on artistnetworktv and I have a question. Is there an easy way to determine which skin type your model has or does it not matter if one uses your technique in selecting the pastels?

@sujanithtottempudi2991 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you,very useful. 🙏

@ynotann 11 жыл бұрын

It looks as if some of Alain's pastels are the Unison brand. These are beautiful soft pastels to work with and I believe they are hand made in England. Ann in Victor Harbor, South Australia.

@shinanbarclay67 4 жыл бұрын

Inspiring and very helpful; easy to understand; thanks; now to do...

@Cre8iveSignWorks 11 жыл бұрын

usually i find the artistsnetwork to not be of any use to me at all.... but this was very interesting and helpful

@debykalush9199 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this awesome information!

@artistsnetwork 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@marka9200 8 жыл бұрын

I think I figured out why I had so much trouble painting a portrait with pastels... I don't have any of those colors ... although my starter kit had 36 colors, coming from oil painting, i naturally tried to mix colors and create the flesh tones i needed... it ddidn't work and the paints greyed out... i quickly lost my lines and the face was distorted... can you create flesh tones with a starter kit, if you don't have the color in your palette... can you create your own palette with a few colors?

8 жыл бұрын

+Mark A You can try it, but is hard and nonsense. It is better to buy one by one the tones you need more often. I had the same problem and i finally bought some amazing colors . also brands of pastel and paper are important. for 12$ you can change drastically your palette. 6 colors (skin colors) could make the difference. try to buy darker browns and more brighter tones for skin. look for charts or go directly to your shop. Rembrandt brand is good, sennelier and schmincke are softer more creamy with very good size. probe them all as you can afford them

@Lee-iq7wg 6 жыл бұрын

It depends if you're going for photorealism

@gloriabrothers5508 5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't Asian skin tones fall between olive & perhaps a light brown? Or, what do you think? Also, Native American skin tones vary widely from light to dark, depending on region, for instance North Eastern Woodland tribes may be lighter tone than Southwest Desert tribes. Many people don't realize that Native Americans were referred to as "Red Skins" related to their use of Vermillion powdered pigment. Although, like any other peoples, it was possible for excess sun exposure to "redden" their skin tone, somewhat. Well, that's your Native anthro briefing for the day, 😄 Apologies for rambling. Love your videos. ThanX muchO.

@RedSoxKal 11 жыл бұрын

It looks like he's using the Terry Ludwig pastels and using the Dakotapastel pastel holder

@artistsnetwork 11 жыл бұрын

Alain recommends a variety of hard and soft pastels in assorted warm and cool colors. He doesn't mention particular colors, but rather warm brown or cool, gray brown for instance.

@914peru 11 жыл бұрын

A question on the dvd do you name the particular color on the pastes so I buy only those particular colors to start good pastels are not cheep

@soulcomfort1 11 жыл бұрын

What brand of pastels does he use?

@cg8397 8 ай бұрын

NuPastel, Terry Ludwig and Unison.

@user-dt9ie9ws5v Жыл бұрын

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@kilaasimller2422 3 жыл бұрын

Do you take portrait orders? ❤

@cg8397 8 ай бұрын

Yes, he does.

@crystalganatra9504 2 жыл бұрын

This is missing type 6

@halfabee 7 жыл бұрын

Pity you can not inform us what pastels to purchases to paint these skin tones. I might actually have purchased this video lesson.

@cg8397 8 ай бұрын

He uses NuPastels, Terry Ludwig and Unison in this video.

@didierleprince6106 8 жыл бұрын

Alain Picard. I bet you are french. :))

@cg8397 8 ай бұрын

French-origin American, but he can't speak French at all so he mispronounces all French brand names in his videos (Sennelier, Girault, Canson Mi Teintes, etc.).

@renzo6490 5 жыл бұрын

Where do these 6 skin types originate from? What is "Naturally Brown Skin" ?? Is there a "Naturally White Skin "? He places primary blue in the wrong spot on the color wheel. He states, ''The primary colors....cannot be mixed with any other colors." Of course they can be mixed with any other colors! What he means is that no mixture of other colors can make the 3 primaries. He explains that the face is divided into thirds. Top, Middle, Bottom. I quote: "The top zone is a warmer zone. The middle has a lot more red. And the third often neutralizes. If the middle zone has a lot more red, how can it be said that the top zone "is a warmer zone'? Wouldn't an area that has the most red be the warmest? And, what does he mean when he says the third zone 'neutralizes' ? Neutralizes what?? " On men..the bottom third will go almost blue because of the beard." Unless the man has white or blond hair !! He refers to the middle as the neutral zone when he compares a piece of chalk to the girl's face in shadow. But I thought he said that the neutral zone was the bottom third of the face.