Exactly what I was thinking too.😂

Οh ho ho u mean the guy from the Ratatouile

OH SHOOT, I can see him now

HELP I JUST WATCHED RATATOUILLE

i thought this was going to be a reference to some dumb tiktokers trying to cancel the thumb emoji

Velazquez did so, often :)

why green color specifically?

@@marimoerostraw between green and red you find range for human skin tone. You work your way up from dark hues, so dark green.

Lol. Ok, disregard my comment about a green base. I studied Fine Arts some centuries ago, there were still dinosaurs roaming on earth (no it wasn't a meteor what destroyed them, BTW, they just got super bored here, and migrated to Alpha Centauri system in a huge egg shaped space ship they built. They sometimes send us an UFO just for the laughs). Yes, many painters used a green base as it was convenient for many reasons, and probably Velazquez used (always a mix, not using a pure green pigment) green for some backgrounds (but many of the times it was a gray, or even gray-ish brown). But I just checked that Velazquez mostly used other tones as a the lowest color base. Many of the times dark red (or brown) was the tone left after applied the preparation. Sometimes was a grey or almost black base. The technique would often be for faces/body parts to start from that base adding lights (with very clear tones, not pure white), slightly, and building up so volumes, contrast, and "3D". Kind of quite similar to what is explained in this video, yet being a somewhat different technique. In any case, my tip: Don't get too attached to a particular technique. There's nothing particularly right or wrong. Neither a end and be it all way to do it. The actual Velazquez, which is one of our most undeniable geniuses of all times, would be constantly changing in techniques, color base, stroke style, level of detail. And not always for preference, often for speed reasons. What I would mostly extract from here is that it is great to start from a darker base, and red gives you a lot of the convenient tones for skin, specially in blood accumulation areas. Green is the complementary color of red (dunno if that was said), so it's also a great choice for generating contrast between light and shadows, but people must be very aware that whatever the lighting you choose for your scene, it does mandate hugely over the projected shadows colors and all tones, there's not a fixed rule of green and red. What is super convenient is to be aware that the skin in a face will have many subtle tone changes, and that is what differentiates a flat portrait from a rich one. But not "inventing" the tones, but training your own observation skills, appreciating those tones in reality, those subtle differences (often those are killed in a photo versus in reality, be aware of that), being able so (thanks to constant observation) later on to generate a face from imagination with that tones richness, but always going from general masses to later on the details, from "global" first, to further on detailing, like always in drawing and painting. I think the technique shown here is super convenient to generate a very nicely rendered portrait, whith very beautiful range of tones, and a u get a lower chance to do a "too flat" or boring portrait this way. I just tend to try these things (and many others) in my own workflow, but keep always in mind the main principles about lighting (in reality), etc, as those (and all the foundations in art) are the ones to rule. Also, so that you can of course "bend" the rules as you prefer, at some point, for your personal expression, if so desiring.

@@3polygons I appreciate your comment a lot! Thank you for writing it!

Seriously!! That was a lightbulb moment!

That's exactly why red tones are needed in almost all kinds of skin. As long as the character has red blood, the red undertones will be necessary.

What is the app???

More than "blood flow" (as I'm super literal and 'cause blood flows for all our body lol) I prefer "areas of thinner skin". Our eye leads, lips (face in general tho), hands and feet have a way thinner skin than the rest of our body (being the back our zone with thicker skin). Also, nose and ears deserve a special treatment as they are "just skin" (cartilage, not muscle or bones, so they are especially translucent).

You can search the channel. This is a cut from an old video, they teach you how to paint different skin tones.

I thinknit was from ahmed aldoori

Yeah it’s in the extended version.

I use this method sometimes and personally, with darker skin tones I would start with blue or purple base color and work with darker reddish or yellowish/orange tones, depending on if I want their skin to be cooler or warmer

I know that omnia has one that works well!

My guy released a tutorial video on this technique I tried it and spent a good five hours 👌 it works. I got my girlfriends olive skin at the cost of my sanity.

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OMG SAME I WAS WAITING LIKE whens the lyrics gonna start 'I wish i didnt have to rhyme everytime i sing'

@@PopfishJr IKR

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Yeah, it is!

Ahmed Aldoori.

Nope! This is Ahmed Aldoori. You can check out the full video this is from linked below the title of this short.

Exactly!

Trying again and again is a solid way to do it!

I use makeup logic here: colder base tones for paler skins, neutral for inbetweenies, and warmer for browner/darker skins. Start with a base and overlay with an environmental tone layer, either when laying down the base or after most of the image is completed. Depends on how much you like to work the colors yourself or let your tools do the work.

Any color you want

He has a whole course on i, available on Proko! www.proko.com/course/painting-and-skin-tones-bundle

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