Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin
How to use colors in black skin painting
A course by Wilno Fakie , Digital Artist
About the video: How to use colors in black skin painting
Overview
“As we saw in the previous class, the three main aspects for painting black skin are: the use of base colors with a more reddish tone, the low contrast in the shadows and the more evident specular brightness. In this class, we're going to go a little deeper into these aspects and see, in an uncomplicated way, the easiest way to find the base tone of each skin within the color spectrum. In addition, I will show the importance of specular shine in black skin painting and how this aspect is one of the most important when it comes to bringing our art to life. And even though there are many people who believe that using specular brightness in their images can be very complicated, I will show you the main points where you can add this brightness without error. Seeing things from a different angle than we are used to requires a lot of practice and observation. But trust! Little by little, you will become aware of these aspects and the identification of these elements will become easy and automatic. And this step is very important!”
In this video lesson Wilno Fakie addresses the topic: How to use colors in black skin painting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin. Learn to depict the diversity of African features in Photoshop with the right tones and lighting for each context.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to use colors in black skin painting In the last class, we saw the main aspects to paint black skin. In this class, we're going to delve a little deeper into this subject. The first aspect we are going to talk about are the reddish base colors. This means that when we choose the base tone of the light skin, from the brown skin and the dark skin, we have to take into account that even if these tones are all inside the black skin, they all have a specific base tone. For example, the base tone of the light skin usually found here in the orange area and in the transition between oranges and...”
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Course summary for: Digital Painting and Portraiture for Black Skin
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing
Wilno Fakie
A course by Wilno Fakie
Wilno António, better known as Fakie Art or Wilno Fakie, is a self-taught digital artist specializing in portraits of black people. After creating an artistic profile on Instagram in 2017, he realized that most creators did not make characters from this ethnic group, which is what motivated him to turn his attention to this group. He believes that his art, which combines realism with characteristics from the cartoon genre, is a means of expressing himself beyond words, in addition to inspiring other creators to include African beauty in their work.
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