my art teacher told me adding black to make darker skin tones just washes them out. it also means you cant mix that whole batch of paint with white at all. because of the black in there, it just turns grey. we used darker reds and blues (alizarin and pthalo) to make all dark tones. he did not allow black paint on our palettes at all.
My teacher never aloud black either. No artist I know uses it consistently only on special occasion. I also never did skin tones like this though. My professor was big on layering washes and stuff from light to dark. This gave this skin depth and made it look more natural
also on the note of darker skin, you need to add a bit of red or purple to not make it look ashy as black does darken but it also lessens the saturation
I avoid using black at all costs lol- for me I always mix dark brown and dark blue to create a deep colour which doesn’t make other colours look ashy, for skin colour I just kinda wing it (honestly no idea what I do I just kinda look at a colour and can sort of guess how to build it up- I only use 8 colours, dark brown and white, and then red blue and yellow of which I have a warm shade and a cool shade which seems like a pretty limited palette but I feel like I have all the colours i could desire, exept maybe extremely bright colours ofcourse but I haven’t needed any of those so far)
For digital artists who draw in cartoon styles: When it comes to middle tones you can range from yellow to light brown, you dont need to change the actual brightness that much. When doing darker tones try to go towards a darker reddish-purple instead of just making it blacker. This is because you should save your darker tones for your lineart, this same thing applies to black hair. Something similar happens with pale characters, dont just make em literally white, you may need that tone for stuff such as the shine in the eyes. If you want a pale character to look paler than a pink character, just desaturate em and make em look a bit more lavender-like. Of course this depends on your artstyle, im just sharing what works the best for me. All of this works the best when you work with a gray canvas instead of a pure white one.
Thank you, I was literally just wondering this! However, I am tired and lazy so I cheat by colour picking from a massive reference sheet of a skin tone photography piece I found online 😂😂 (if you do this to make sure that you always pick a highlight a midtone and a shadow from that chosen picture!)
@@JuniperDenn LOL yeah i get it Tbh im kinda lazy too so thats why i simplified it aswell Black and pale ppl are the ones who are affected the most by environtmental lighting, so thats why i make both of em "bluer" at the extremes (representing the sky's lighting) This ofc doesnt work in other settings but still looks natural enough so i leave it at that :p
Since you already had a lot of white and black in the mix when mixing the darker tones, it made the color appear a lot more grey and faded than darker skin tones are in real life. Just something to keep in mind!
Not really, I'm so pale that I am more gray than warm, so when I'm drawing I always mix even a tiny bit of black to make my skin less warm and less alive XD
So I'm not an artist BUT I am a black woman who knows we come in different shades. I've seen comments say "we weren't allowed to use black in skin tones" WHY? Makeup companies for YEARS used to just add red and yellow to make brown shades but brown skinned people skin tones vary and black is a great way to showcase our darker skinned brothers and sisters 🤷🏾♀️ We aren't just a simple brown paper bag color, we come in many shades. Why you think the call us "colored?" 🙄 I hope watching this artist who obviously isn't afraid to blend black to create many different shades of POC will encourage/challenge other potential artists to be bold and showcase all people in many different shades 💜
Because it's wrong, and the shade turns grey if you need a lighter value. Mix in a darker value purple, then use chromium oxide green to get the shadow colour. If you saw how realistic my paintings look you wouldn't think this. I also can match any skin ton using red, yellow, white, and indigo + purple(looks almost black but not quite and won't turn grey)
This may sound weird but my cat absolutely loves your videos, whenever she hears the scraping sound she start purring and meowing until I turn the screen to her. We even joke about using it at vet visits and stuff
Please show one that doesn’t make the darker skin tones so dull. Black is NOT to be used as the main source for darkening because it’s highly desaturating and unnatural.
Non of them are super natural. It’s just to show beginners how to start making skin tones. Eventually you get to a point where you can make more natural skin tones that take more finesse. Stop making this about skin color. The light ones aren’t natural either.
@@Walle0426Yeah, I agree. Adding white or black both will desaturate the colors. The light tone looks too pink to be natural, the mid tones are really orange, and the dark tones are grey/muddy.
@@Dimension_Of_Wishes he can keep doing it wrong if he wants to but this video seems to be aimed towards inclusivity which it failed miserably at doing.
This reminds me of years ago on Twitter, a black girl was losing her mind at how black skin tones were often portrayed in animated shows as purplish browns and all the artists in her comments were trying to explain color theory to her.
it was a more pink complexion rather than yellow. If you wanted the pink to be warmer, you could add more yellow but it will look wack and more like a blush rather than a skintone
@aliveslice yeah, it should be way higher, especially with the amount of people in the comments who r saying they dont understand color theory, so there are no confusions
Also for anyone not used yo mixing paints, darker colors tend to be more pigmented than lighter colors so when adding darker paints always start small and add more if needed. Notice they used like the whole yellow blob pretty quickly because yellow is lighter and more of it is needed.
In my language, only the color on the very left is called "skin color", so I first didn't understand what you were doing. It is sweet of you to include differen tones like this😊
I am on holiday in Ushuaia, Argentina and when I was in El Calafate, Argentina, I had a serious sunburn, and that was the first time I had gotten a sunburn in my life and I looked like the first one because I was so pink 😂
Important thing to remember is that every time you add white OR black the color becomes more gray/dull. So if you have the perfect skintone but it's a bit off tone-wise you gotta learn the way to lighten or darken it both with primary colors AND white/black
Istg color theory is the bane of my existence, tf u mean mix ALL 3 for a skintone, im just gonna start painting _exlusivly_ multicolor aliens from now on😭
@@zimbim7562That wouldn't work, becausr then u can't have different undertones. U could use a brown as base and then add the primary colors and black and white to get different skintones tho. I would recommend using the base colors because it teaches you what adding different colors does which is a really useful skill when u want to be an artist
Y+R+B = 3 yellow + 2 magenta + 1 cyan if spoke in actual primary colors. Adding the reverse color (blue-yellow) makes desaturation, it's how to obtain any color that is not full neon saturated, not really realistic for most drawings.
@@Aztonio What do u mean by reverse colour? The complementary colour? Because that would be yellow - purple or blue - orange. If u mean something else, could you explain?
People think "white" people are a thing. It's like studying animals, they only have interest in collecting the exotic ones and forget the diversity around them or get bored with all the details. Actual racism doesn't consist in pure hate...
If only makeup companies knew this
They use this technique only
@@wonderlandzzz and still manage do use it poorly
@@chrisbacano3982 because many people have neutral undertone, which means that they need to use green
I was so about to comment that 😭😭
South Korea
my art teacher told me adding black to make darker skin tones just washes them out. it also means you cant mix that whole batch of paint with white at all. because of the black in there, it just turns grey.
we used darker reds and blues (alizarin and pthalo) to make all dark tones.
he did not allow black paint on our palettes at all.
My teacher also never allow us to use black at all. Even for hair!
W art teacher
yeah, i was gonna say, the darker skin tones looked a bit too grey/ashy, this seems like a good idea
my art teacher also never allowed black. if we were painting skin he'd get pissed if he saw black that was a strict rule he had lol
My teacher never aloud black either. No artist I know uses it consistently only on special occasion. I also never did skin tones like this though. My professor was big on layering washes and stuff from light to dark. This gave this skin depth and made it look more natural
also on the note of darker skin, you need to add a bit of red or purple to not make it look ashy as black does darken but it also lessens the saturation
yess!!!
In my head I was screaming this. “Just use all three to darken, and adjust the temperature from there!” XD
I avoid using black at all costs lol- for me I always mix dark brown and dark blue to create a deep colour which doesn’t make other colours look ashy, for skin colour I just kinda wing it (honestly no idea what I do I just kinda look at a colour and can sort of guess how to build it up- I only use 8 colours, dark brown and white, and then red blue and yellow of which I have a warm shade and a cool shade which seems like a pretty limited palette but I feel like I have all the colours i could desire, exept maybe extremely bright colours ofcourse but I haven’t needed any of those so far)
japanese picrew artists when they discover coloring darker skin isn't just turning down the brightness of pale skin 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Bro fixed racism 💀
For digital artists who draw in cartoon styles: When it comes to middle tones you can range from yellow to light brown, you dont need to change the actual brightness that much.
When doing darker tones try to go towards a darker reddish-purple instead of just making it blacker. This is because you should save your darker tones for your lineart, this same thing applies to black hair.
Something similar happens with pale characters, dont just make em literally white, you may need that tone for stuff such as the shine in the eyes. If you want a pale character to look paler than a pink character, just desaturate em and make em look a bit more lavender-like.
Of course this depends on your artstyle, im just sharing what works the best for me. All of this works the best when you work with a gray canvas instead of a pure white one.
Thank you:)
Thank you, I was literally just wondering this! However, I am tired and lazy so I cheat by colour picking from a massive reference sheet of a skin tone photography piece I found online 😂😂 (if you do this to make sure that you always pick a highlight a midtone and a shadow from that chosen picture!)
@@JuniperDenn LOL yeah i get it
Tbh im kinda lazy too so thats why i simplified it aswell
Black and pale ppl are the ones who are affected the most by environtmental lighting, so thats why i make both of em "bluer" at the extremes (representing the sky's lighting)
This ofc doesnt work in other settings but still looks natural enough so i leave it at that :p
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to want to know this.
I loved it, thank you!
“Hey whats your skin color?”
“Mix Blue, Red, And yellow.”
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wait why would someone ask you skintone when they see you-
@@lorijackson3414virtual chat
@@lorijackson3414maybe over the phone?
@@lorijackson3414 colour blind people
how did you get apple in your name?
Since you already had a lot of white and black in the mix when mixing the darker tones, it made the color appear a lot more grey and faded than darker skin tones are in real life. Just something to keep in mind!
it was just an example 💀
“What is this sorcery?”
-Makeup companies
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he hey sports@@jordandaboer
Oh my God... What a delightful video, both visually and audio... I wanted to spend another 12 hours just watching this... It's so satisfying ❤❤❤❤
"What's your skin tone?"
"It's 20% blue, 20% red, 30% yellow, ans 30% white."
i'm gonna start giving people hex codes when they ask
@bubbillusion
My skin tone is #ede5da. What’s yours?
So you are #CCA26F
@@Phone_guyFnaf #003cff
@bubbillusion
That’s cool!
never add black to a mixture that already has white, it will end up being grey! Unless you are painting a zombie lol.
Not really, I'm so pale that I am more gray than warm, so when I'm drawing I always mix even a tiny bit of black to make my skin less warm and less alive XD
@@JulieKasprik Hello! You are not more "gray than warm", you have cool tones which can be achieved using more blue within your paint mixture
@@xhxneybeex you beat me too it lol as soon as I read that I laughed. I would use chromium oxide green mixed in for the shadow colour also.
My son loves your videos like this. He heard the first tap and came running. Can you make longer videos?
I’m currently working on a long one. It’s a drawing tutorial though so no tapping unfortunately 😂
Awwww this is cute
Rare wholesome comment found on youtube
This is so cute what-
Hope so
So I'm not an artist BUT I am a black woman who knows we come in different shades. I've seen comments say "we weren't allowed to use black in skin tones" WHY? Makeup companies for YEARS used to just add red and yellow to make brown shades but brown skinned people skin tones vary and black is a great way to showcase our darker skinned brothers and sisters 🤷🏾♀️ We aren't just a simple brown paper bag color, we come in many shades. Why you think the call us "colored?" 🙄 I hope watching this artist who obviously isn't afraid to blend black to create many different shades of POC will encourage/challenge other potential artists to be bold and showcase all people in many different shades 💜
Because it's wrong, and the shade turns grey if you need a lighter value. Mix in a darker value purple, then use chromium oxide green to get the shadow colour. If you saw how realistic my paintings look you wouldn't think this. I also can match any skin ton using red, yellow, white, and indigo + purple(looks almost black but not quite and won't turn grey)
Wow! Your Chanel is so satisfying to watch, thank you for helping me relieve stress❤❤❤
I also watch this to relive stress. It’s really satisfying for some reason.
Whatever
The noises make my head hurt tho
Channel*
I agree with you bro!
man , I love colour theory, it´s so fascinating!
U have the best painting channel on youtube!
cap this ain’t even paintin lol bro
This is color theory not painting
I agree
Painting?
Bob Ross’s resting soul : Aight, let me go fk myself….
Dude I don’t even draw traditionally but this helped me understand the color compositions in a newer way, thanks!
ヘラで混ぜる音がめっちゃ良くて好きなんよ
This is so satisfying to watch 🥰
This may sound weird but my cat absolutely loves your videos, whenever she hears the scraping sound she start purring and meowing until I turn the screen to her. We even joke about using it at vet visits and stuff
That. Is so. Cute.
Thanks for making us know of this.
Awwwwww adorable 🥺🥺
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Ew man wtf thats so weird
That's so adorable tho what her favorite video?
I like your videos !
I love how inclusive you are with the skin tones! Most artists dont and usually only add lighter ones 😮
Well, he wasn’t inclusive with Caucasian skin tones, they only got ‚pig‘
@@alebe7224 well, it’s easy to tell that you only need to add more white to wash the pink out
yeah the artists are kinda racist
There’s always one who has to link it back to racism
It's a bit hard to achieve darker skin tones. It isn't racist or anything
Please show one that doesn’t make the darker skin tones so dull. Black is NOT to be used as the main source for darkening because it’s highly desaturating and unnatural.
Black people are dull?
Non of them are super natural. It’s just to show beginners how to start making skin tones. Eventually you get to a point where you can make more natural skin tones that take more finesse. Stop making this about skin color. The light ones aren’t natural either.
@@Walle0426Yeah, I agree. Adding white or black both will desaturate the colors. The light tone looks too pink to be natural, the mid tones are really orange, and the dark tones are grey/muddy.
Buddy let the guy do what he wants to do.
@@Dimension_Of_Wishes he can keep doing it wrong if he wants to but this video seems to be aimed towards inclusivity which it failed miserably at doing.
I usually mix my red and yellow first, followed by a bit of blue and a lot of white to get bright tones for gouache
The joy i have with color theory 😊 it's so satisfying
Why this is so satisfying??? 😫❤
This reminds me of years ago on Twitter, a black girl was losing her mind at how black skin tones were often portrayed in animated shows as purplish browns and all the artists in her comments were trying to explain color theory to her.
you should also add more red/yellow as u darken so it doesnt look too ashy
then do it yourself
@@heiltothekingthis is a tutorial about skin tones he should do that
WHY AM I SOOO OBSESSEDDD WITH THISSS CHANNELLL!!!???
Omg he is so smart and brilliant
👍🌷
Love your blends 🎨
'red and white for a warmer tone'
*makes a cooler tone*
it was a more pink complexion rather than yellow. If you wanted the pink to be warmer, you could add more yellow but it will look wack and more like a blush rather than a skintone
Exactly what I was saying, why was there no comment about that?
@@jil12345this should be top three comments even though I'm sure it's a mistake. Yellow for warmth, red and blue for cool
@aliveslice yeah, it should be way higher, especially with the amount of people in the comments who r saying they dont understand color theory, so there are no confusions
Warmer ❌
Cooler ✅
Also for anyone not used yo mixing paints, darker colors tend to be more pigmented than lighter colors so when adding darker paints always start small and add more if needed. Notice they used like the whole yellow blob pretty quickly because yellow is lighter and more of it is needed.
sensational 😩✨
In my language, only the color on the very left is called "skin color", so I first didn't understand what you were doing. It is sweet of you to include differen tones like this😊
Not some of these commenters finding ways to bring racism into this. 😂 Nice job, now I know how skin tones are made. Thank you! 😊
bc racism still exists 😭
@@clownmonomaniac2630 please, tell me what is racist about this video.
@@ZomeyEditz he might not be talking about the video, just everywhere else
@@Brandonle2019 true, true
@@ZomeyEditzracism is funny to joke abt what is your problem
One of the most satisfiying channels :> ❤
Cool tutorial!
So impressive 😮
early! that was soooo satisfying amd i might use that in the future so thank u!
God these are so freaking satisfying!
How can this be so satisfying 😭
Great stuff. Thank you.
Everybody’s skin colour is. beautiful. And different.
Wholesome, thank you 💖 including yours 😊
Total life saver for beginner artists😅
I loved this vid, I’ll be definitely using the last one in the future!! 😂❤😊😅
Thank you omg!!! This is soooo useful😭❤❤you dont even know!!❤❤😭
We all got some Blue in us nice 😎👌🏼
Yay! You made the skin tone videos! I asked you to do this video in a few comments. Thank you!😊
I like the second skin tone
Not all of them?
I mean I do, I'm not being racist tho- please don't take it the wrong way
@@Qiqi-l6pRacist racist everything is racist 😂
Nice 👍 now I can have a new skin color😂
Keep in mind black and white also desaturates them!
I am so happy someone actually put all or most of the skin tones out there.Most people I see don’t
I don’t even care about the color its just nice listening to this
I love your videos❤❤
Explaining melanin using paint would be a VERY good idea.
Very cool! 👍 😃
Thank u so much for teaching me art
The last one looks likethe same likethe 2nd one❤
My respect for this person after seeing they made different skin colors 📈📈📈
Amazing ❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Proof color theory is real: This video
Love the range that you presented
He has a lot of knowledge about colors
🌷🎨🦥
Thanks for making this inclusive!
And always remember: Brown is just Dark Orange ;)
I love ur vids!
the last one is me in the sun for 10 minutes lol
I am on holiday in Ushuaia, Argentina and when I was in El Calafate, Argentina, I had a serious sunburn, and that was the first time I had gotten a sunburn in my life and I looked like the first one because I was so pink 😂
It's just the amount of each color you put in. Huh. Cool.
My online friend: “Yo, whats your skin color?”
Me: “Blue, Yellow, Red, White, and Black.
Thanks this helps a lot
"Add black to darken."
Me, a mixed person: "... Yeah that adds up."
You know you can get a palette and then mix the 2 colors that mixes to your color-
twinn!! Being mixed is so silly😅
😂
Here i am being somewhat do an orange colour tht looks yellow when i wear black but looks brown when i wear white, its so weird
i like the sound 😄😄
Bro really paid attention in art class👁️👄👁️❤❤️
Make more and more videos becuse its very very very satesfying❤❤❤
bro solved racism with 3 colors
so satisfying to listen and watch 😂
Mans was teaching us color theory, making ASMR and being inclusive, all in one. And he didn’t even ask for anything in return.
Love the darker tones
My pale ass skin was none of these😭👍
Just add more white! 😂😂
same
The melanin in paint form hit different 😩
Me now: Interesting 😮
5yr old me: *draws on yellow skin* CALL ME PABLO PICASSO
This is more helpful than i thought
Does anyone else think the sound of the metal stick hitting the table satisfying?
Meeee :D
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Important thing to remember is that every time you add white OR black the color becomes more gray/dull. So if you have the perfect skintone but it's a bit off tone-wise you gotta learn the way to lighten or darken it both with primary colors AND white/black
Damn, very impressive and neat.
Too bad I use colored pencils 😔
Neat to know I will take this into consideration
Istg color theory is the bane of my existence, tf u mean mix ALL 3 for a skintone, im just gonna start painting _exlusivly_ multicolor aliens from now on😭
or just buy 1 base brown and add black or white as needed lol
@@zimbim7562That wouldn't work, becausr then u can't have different undertones. U could use a brown as base and then add the primary colors and black and white to get different skintones tho.
I would recommend using the base colors because it teaches you what adding different colors does which is a really useful skill when u want to be an artist
Ideally you just mess around for a year or more. Slowly getting to know what more specific colours do.
Y+R+B =
3 yellow + 2 magenta + 1 cyan if spoke in actual primary colors.
Adding the reverse color (blue-yellow) makes desaturation, it's how to obtain any color that is not full neon saturated, not really realistic for most drawings.
@@Aztonio What do u mean by reverse colour? The complementary colour? Because that would be yellow - purple or blue - orange. If u mean something else, could you explain?
This is so helpful!
Not to hate on dark skinned people, but why were there so Many dark skin tones, and ONE light one???
I have very light skin, its not pink
People think "white" people are a thing. It's like studying animals, they only have interest in collecting the exotic ones and forget the diversity around them or get bored with all the details. Actual racism doesn't consist in pure hate...
Whoaaaa… that’s cool!
Paint changed races 8 times 💀
So?
It’s so satasfying to listen to❤😅😮
I wonder what the metallic and neon versions of this look like 🤔
Why is this so satisfying even tho I'm not an artist
foundation companies be like ; note it down
Ive never cried harder at 1 line in my life
"I gave you all I had"😢
And then there’s my skin tone, I gotta tell you how to mix it:
Just use white straight out of the tube and you’re done ☑️
SAME LOL
Glad you included Oompa Loompas too 👏
People who's skintone is none of them
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I'm black so I am one of them :\
*Finally, I know everything**
(That is useful)