This is in fact one of the best, if not the best video on RUclips concerning flesh tones that has ever been shown! If you do portraits, like I do; you have constantly searched for better methods of finding flesh tones! This is byfar one of the best demos on youtube! This is the method that I use and discovered it by trial-and-error just as he has so vividly explained. You can learn to paint simply by asking questions; you must put miles on your brushes! You will become your best teacher!
Scott, you are highly HIGHLY appreciated 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. People charge for information like this and here we are getting it for free. No amount of words can express my gratitude., thank you so much!!! 🙏🏾 Before I came across your videos I used to watch Fabiano Millani and just never understood how he was getting his colours and values correct. You sort of have the same painting style and you've clarified this method vividly. Highly appreciated Scott!!!
Even though I follow a different painting technique (mainly because yours is so far above me), I LOVE watching your videos - because of how informative they are, and of how your warm, generous and funny personality comes through. Thank you so much.
I’ll simply say” You Da Man!!” I’ve been painting for years and this has placed another piece of the infinite jigsaw into place🤩🥳. We who struggle are eternally grateful 🙏 Have an awesome day buddy!!😜
I’ve been painting for years but never leaned towards portraits because of the complexity of skin tones, highlights, hues, values and chroma. However you’ve made it very easy to understand and I will try to get over the fear and start tackling portraits. Thanks for this tutorial. Subscribed to your channel.
This is so much better than many of the videos on the same subject. This is well explained, and it is not just someone painting to music and explaining nothing.
Hi Scott, I would appreciate if you include the reference photo in your videos and how you use the reference photo, like as it is or enlarge upto the size of the canvas, how you keep your palette near your work area etc details would help us reorganize our way of working on portrait too! Thanks.
Scott… This was an impressive (and entertaining) video and we all appreciate it very much, so thank you! It's amazing to see how you are to apply paint across the surface to represent the changing colors of the face without blocking it in first or to just slather the paint! There's certainly a lot to consider that go far beyond just what colors to use when you're considering light sources, shapes, skin textures and more when some people just think it's a formula of someone else telling them what basic colors to use. Subscribed!
I am Happy you came back Scott. I bought your video a while back and it was great. I love the new you. You seem much more approachable now and more personality shiningZ I am so glad to see you return to RUclips. Cheers 🥂
As a professional makeup artist with over 20 years under my belt, I have to applaud your highly attuned eye for nuances in painting the flesh! Scott, astonishing blending, control, light effects, color accuracy! Thank you so much for sharing your hard won techniques here! Masterful painting and very well done video too! I'm new to painting faces (on canvas vs makeup:)) and your approaches will be my referential guide going forward. Checking out your Patreon next... Many thanks Scott xoxo
Scott, so glad I found your videos. My painting instructor directed us here. You’re an excellent teacher, I so appreciate your effort to present this material so clearly. It’s perfect watching how you mix and apply oils. Definitely one of the best learning experiences for me.
Humor an a great instruction😊 so happy i found you. I am struggling so much with a portrait for a friend whose child passed away. Struggling so much with skin tones and am using your techniques! Very much appreciate you!!!
absolutely 💯 the best flesh video out there. I am stoked that you do darker flesh tones in this video too. I have decades of experience and still you teach so well I am constantly learning from you. the beat of the best 👌
Thanks for such a crystal clear explanation, I’ve been sceptical to paint portraits for this very reason, color mixing and you’ve just given me a great clarity on the same!
Thank you for being so generous! You're one of the very few skilled artists I came across here on RUclips who teach technical knowledge on how to mix color for skin tones variations. Keep it up, and more power to you!
One of the most informative and helpful uploads on painting skin tones I have seen to date. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; it is very much appreciated
I love the way you painting , and you are very good teacher! Thank you. very much. You gave me a lot of i tips how to improve my skills ….on painting .
So happy to come across your video in which you had generously share and teach the techniques. This is the best so far and will still the best I have seen on youtube. Thank so much.
I am so appreciative that I found you. I think you are absolutely the best! You have so much knowledge, also technical, but explain it and show it, that one can follow and see exactly how it works. There is so much in it, you have so much expertise and your artwork is exquisite. You have such an easy going way and humor, but are so full of important knowledge. You are so different than everyone else- the why’s and how’s is something no one else can make it so clear to comprehend - there is a lot in it, a bit high for me - but you show how like no other - I just love watching you perfectly mixing and applying those skin tones, exactly the perfect tones and applying them so exactly, I could watch you for hours on end - you love what and how you do things and it shines through perfectly. You are an amazing teacher - what an enrichment for every artist. You are pretty unbelievable - I am not guilting the lily, you really are exceptionally fantastic! Have learnt so much just by watching and listening👍🏼. Lynda🧚🏼♀️💕
From spain Absolutely grateful with your videos showing your technique with oils. Thats what i was looking for: a way of painting as similar as possible to drawing with pencils on paper. I have just an amateur level.
This video gets my nomination for inclusion on the list of All-time Top 10 RUclips Art Instruction Videos. The idea of working from a Base Color that is average in terms of hue, value, and chroma and using various mixing strategies to modify it based on identification of color variation effects dictated by function, structure, and light conditions would seem to represent an incredibly useful and powerful paradigm for color management in portrait painting work. I am colorblind, and I see how this will help me stop struggling so mightily with color. Wow! ... I really want to run to the easel and paint right now! But I think I am going to watch this several more times first.
1st " X " watching your video. For someone who is very visual in nature I appreciate your onscreen displays of the mini color spectrum. It makes understanding your process sooo much easier to envision when you can see certain colors away from the canvas itself. Thanks a million.
An excellent presentation! It's the first time I've come across your videos and although we don't paint in the same way, I'm sure I can apply what I've learnt here.
Scott, you are so awesome! I miss you so much my friend. Wish you lived closer! ~On my list of people I care for and former mentors I feel eternal gratitude towards, you are way up there! Happy New Year 2023
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S EXACTLY WHAT I DESPERATELY NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND IN ORDER TO DO MY NEXT PORTRAIT!
From time to time I see and re-see videos from you. And, despite the fact I read you and learn from you since 2009 (and in person in 2010, and from your first video tutorials), Im still amazed how you manage to explain things soooo good, so clear, so brillantly. And in a way, they are always the same concepts but in every video you manage to add something more, somo additional idea, metaphor or tip to enlight even more those same concepts and ideas
"If your apple doesn't have red and green, its not a red and green apple GASP!!!" SO funny! The humor does not detract from the content, which is awesome.
Thank you!!! I used to paint 40 years ago while my dad, who was an artist, was alive. We used oil paint. Now i am retired and have been trying again. Because of the cost of oils AND the odor i have been using water color or acrylics. But, there is nothing like the effects you can acheive with oils! Poraits are my fav. to try so thank you soooo much for this instruction!!! I found you from a reel on instagram
Do not use turpentine from the hardware store, that's pure poison; buy odourless mineral spirit from an art store or simply dilute your paint with linseed oil, it is not toxic at all.
@@redangrybird7564 thank you for the suggestion! I think i did buy the cheap oderless T. Thank you for taking the time to read and reply!!!! Have you ever tried oils that are water based?? It sounds like sn oxymoron
@@belindabrownharper4496 I also have health issues with chemicals, so I bought Cobra (Royal Talens, a Dutch manufacturer) water soluble oils some time ago, they are OK but they take up to 2 weeks (or maybe a month) to dry, they also do not have much pigments, look like cheap student grade oils. Nowadays I use normal oils and I dilute them with just linseed oil.
@@redangrybird7564 i hope your health issues are not serious! Thanks for the info on the water soluble oils!. How do you prevent spontaneous combustion from happening with clean up materials?
@@belindabrownharper4496 my health is improving, thanks. Have you ever experienced spontaneous combustion of some items? I clean my brushes with old cotton rags but I do not put in the rubbish until the oil in the rag has dried. I leave those rags overnight unfolded on top of my working table. I don't soak the rags in oil, I do not use it in excess.
Scott, This video has been most helpful for me. Your explanations were insightful. And your methods for mixing are extremely useful. An inspiring video. Thank you.
I don't really know. I think I forgot to add it one day and realized I didn't miss it. I could hit the red pitches I needed in flesh tones with alizarin and orange. I like simplicity so if a color no longer seems all that important, I stop using it. But it's still perfectly viable and if it is helpful to you, I would definitely continue to use it. There's no real reason not to. Thanks for the question!
This was very informative. I go back and rewatch and rewatch. Learning about light and how it effects what you are painting is so essential for me. I didn't quite understand why there was so much more chroma under the chin, and you explained it to me. Now I know why certain colors are used for that area. Thank you!!!
You are so very clear with your explanations, though I have to keep pausing if I want to make notes because you talk very quickly. I have found this very helpful as portraits are my favourite to paint.
Thanks Mario! I use taklon synthetic rounds. You can use most any you find at art stores...but I really like the Beste brand from jerrysartarama (I'm not affiliated with them in any way). I use their regular rounds, sizes 2, 4, 6, and 8 mostly.
This is in fact one of the best, if not the best video on RUclips concerning flesh tones that has ever been shown! If you do portraits, like I do; you have constantly searched for better methods of finding flesh tones! This is byfar one of the best demos on youtube! This is the method that I use and discovered it by trial-and-error just as he has so vividly explained. You can learn to paint simply by asking questions; you must put miles on your brushes! You will become your best teacher!
Scott, you are highly HIGHLY appreciated 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾. People charge for information like this and here we are getting it for free. No amount of words can express my gratitude., thank you so much!!! 🙏🏾
Before I came across your videos I used to watch Fabiano Millani and just never understood how he was getting his colours and values correct. You sort of have the same painting style and you've clarified this method vividly. Highly appreciated Scott!!!
Even though I follow a different painting technique (mainly because yours is so far above me), I LOVE watching your videos - because of how informative they are, and of how your warm, generous and funny personality comes through. Thank you so much.
I’ll simply say” You Da Man!!”
I’ve been painting for years and this has placed another piece of the infinite jigsaw into place🤩🥳.
We who struggle are eternally grateful 🙏
Have an awesome day buddy!!😜
I’ve been painting for years but never leaned towards portraits because of the complexity of skin tones, highlights, hues, values and chroma. However you’ve made it very easy to understand and I will try to get over the fear and start tackling portraits. Thanks for this tutorial. Subscribed to your channel.
0:13 Fell off my chair laughing! You're a funny guy! I love your paintings, I have some of your tutorials and loving them, keep em coming!
This is so much better than many of the videos on the same subject. This is well explained, and it is not just someone painting to music and explaining nothing.
There are paid training tutorials as well without the music which you may opt for.
I appreciate your help greatly. Your instruction is from another point in time when people valued the art of teaching and helping others progress.
Thanks so much, I appreciate it! It's definitely fun to make these so I'm glad the instruction is useful
👍🌟🧡
a spectacular coaching.
Hi Scott, I would appreciate if you include the reference photo in your videos and how you use the reference photo, like as it is or enlarge upto the size of the canvas, how you keep your palette near your work area etc details would help us reorganize our way of working on portrait too! Thanks.
Anyone who's learning to paint portraits NEEDS to watch Scott!! 😍
Scott… This was an impressive (and entertaining) video and we all appreciate it very much, so thank you! It's amazing to see how you are to apply paint across the surface to represent the changing colors of the face without blocking it in first or to just slather the paint! There's certainly a lot to consider that go far beyond just what colors to use when you're considering light sources, shapes, skin textures and more when some people just think it's a formula of someone else telling them what basic colors to use. Subscribed!
I am Happy you came back Scott. I bought your video a while back and it was great. I love the new you. You seem much more approachable now and more personality shiningZ I am so glad to see you return to RUclips. Cheers 🥂
One of the greatest teachers out there! The first course I ever bought was yours. I learned a lot. Keep up the great work!
As a professional makeup artist with over 20 years under my belt, I have to applaud your highly attuned eye for nuances in painting the flesh! Scott, astonishing blending, control, light effects, color accuracy! Thank you so much for sharing your hard won techniques here! Masterful painting and very well done video too! I'm new to painting faces (on canvas vs makeup:)) and your approaches will be my referential guide going forward. Checking out your Patreon next... Many thanks Scott xoxo
Hands down best painter on RUclips.
Thank you...wonderful artist.... wonderful, generous teacher....
Scott, so glad I found your videos. My painting instructor directed us here. You’re an excellent teacher, I so appreciate your effort to present this material so clearly. It’s perfect watching how you mix and apply oils. Definitely one of the best learning experiences for me.
Humor an a great instruction😊 so happy i found you. I am struggling so much with a portrait for a friend whose child passed away. Struggling so much with skin tones and am using your techniques! Very much appreciate you!!!
absolutely 💯 the best flesh video out there. I am stoked that you do darker flesh tones in this video too. I have decades of experience and still you teach so well I am constantly learning from you. the beat of the best 👌
Thanks for such a crystal clear explanation, I’ve been sceptical to paint portraits for this very reason, color mixing and you’ve just given me a great clarity on the same!
I was waiting for you since painting the eye...10 Year ago
Good lesson thank you.
Thanks!
Learned more in this video than I did in hours of others,,,awesome
my new favourite youtube channel.
Brilliant tutorial
Thanks!
Thank you for being so generous! You're one of the very few skilled artists I came across here on RUclips who teach technical knowledge on how to mix color for skin tones variations. Keep it up, and more power to you!
You are one of the best teachers for painting portraits. I absolutely love your realistic portraits!
One of the most informative and helpful uploads on painting skin tones I have seen to date. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; it is very much appreciated
Thanks so much Joanne!
Agreed! 👍
Just discovered your page and bingeing! Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us 🙏🏾
Omg, thank you so much for this free lesson. It helped me a lot !) Perfeeect❤️
You are amazing sir ...
Thank you so so much...🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!
I love the way you painting , and you are very good teacher! Thank you. very much. You gave me a lot of i tips how to improve my skills ….on painting .
So happy to come across your video in which you had generously share and teach the techniques. This is the best so far and will still the best I have seen on youtube. Thank so much.
Mixing into the base color. Yes.very helpful.
Thanks, now I understand your previous videos better, the form was already clear :)
Great, thanks!!
Thank you so much! This was so helpful and I am subscribing! 😊
It amazes me that an artist of your talent would have an almost equal talent to teach. I’m 75 and I will take a swing at it .Steve
I am so appreciative that I found you. I think you are absolutely the best! You have so much knowledge, also technical, but explain it and show it, that one can follow and see exactly how it works. There is so much in it, you have so much expertise and your artwork is exquisite. You have such an easy going way and humor, but are so full of important knowledge. You are so different than everyone else- the why’s and how’s is something no one else can make it so clear to comprehend - there is a lot in it, a bit high for me - but you show how like no other - I just love watching you perfectly mixing and applying those skin tones, exactly the perfect tones and applying them so exactly, I could watch you for hours on end - you love what and how you do things and it shines through perfectly. You are an amazing teacher - what an enrichment for every artist. You are pretty unbelievable - I am not guilting the lily, you really are exceptionally fantastic! Have learnt so much just by watching and listening👍🏼.
Lynda🧚🏼♀️💕
From spain
Absolutely grateful with your videos showing your technique with oils. Thats what i was looking for: a way of painting as similar as possible to drawing with pencils on paper.
I have just an amateur level.
Scott, thank you,thank you thank you! You have provided us a basic color concept to work from.love you brother
thank you scott you are a beauthful teacher
Best information sharing on portrait color I've seen- and I've seen many.
Thanks much! 👍 Yours will be my first Patreon subscription.
This is the best and most practical I've seen.
This video gets my nomination for inclusion on the list of All-time Top 10 RUclips Art Instruction Videos. The idea of working from a Base Color that is average in terms of hue, value, and chroma and using various mixing strategies to modify it based on identification of color variation effects dictated by function, structure, and light conditions would seem to represent an incredibly useful and powerful paradigm for color management in portrait painting work. I am colorblind, and I see how this will help me stop struggling so mightily with color. Wow! ... I really want to run to the easel and paint right now! But I think I am going to watch this several more times first.
1st " X " watching your video. For someone who is very visual in nature I appreciate your onscreen displays of the mini color spectrum. It makes understanding your process sooo much easier to envision when you can see certain colors away from the canvas itself. Thanks a million.
outstanding channel very helpful.
Thanks Jack!
Thanks, Scott . . .
REALLY THANX ALOT!🥺💖💖
I will be returning to this video often. So much valuable info!
Thank you !
Wow. What an awesome video!! The way you explain adding colour back in as you darken the tone will definitely help me! Thank you 🤘
This was very helpful. Thanks 😊
Great advice
An excellent presentation! It's the first time I've come across your videos and although we don't paint in the same way, I'm sure I can apply what I've learnt here.
Very well explained. Thanks a lot!!
Scott, you are so awesome! I miss you so much my friend. Wish you lived closer! ~On my list of people I care for and former mentors I feel eternal gratitude towards, you are way up there! Happy New Year 2023
Now I understand why my highlights looked chalky. Very informative and helpful.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S EXACTLY WHAT I DESPERATELY NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND IN ORDER TO DO MY NEXT PORTRAIT!
From time to time I see and re-see videos from you. And, despite the fact I read you and learn from you since 2009 (and in person in 2010, and from your first video tutorials), Im still amazed how you manage to explain things soooo good, so clear, so brillantly. And in a way, they are always the same concepts but in every video you manage to add something more, somo additional idea, metaphor or tip to enlight even more those same concepts and ideas
"If your apple doesn't have red and green, its not a red and green apple GASP!!!" SO funny! The humor does not detract from the content, which is awesome.
Awesome video! Thank you!!
You ❤are master🥰😍always you help me 😎Thank you my friend
Thank you Hasan!
Just love the way you explain this!!!
The info i got from your page is insane, i def will look into your patreon
Thank you!!! I used to paint 40 years ago while my dad, who was an artist, was alive. We used oil paint. Now i am retired and have been trying again. Because of the cost of oils AND the odor i have been using water color or acrylics. But, there is nothing like the effects you can acheive with oils! Poraits are my fav. to try so thank you soooo much for this instruction!!! I found you from a reel on instagram
Do not use turpentine from the hardware store, that's pure poison; buy odourless mineral spirit from an art store or simply dilute your paint with linseed oil, it is not toxic at all.
@@redangrybird7564 thank you for the suggestion! I think i did buy the cheap oderless T. Thank you for taking the time to read and reply!!!! Have you ever tried oils that are water based?? It sounds like sn oxymoron
@@belindabrownharper4496 I also have health issues with chemicals, so I bought Cobra (Royal Talens, a Dutch manufacturer) water soluble oils some time ago, they are OK but they take up to 2 weeks (or maybe a month) to dry, they also do not have much pigments, look like cheap student grade oils. Nowadays I use normal oils and I dilute them with just linseed oil.
@@redangrybird7564 i hope your health issues are not serious! Thanks for the info on the water soluble oils!. How do you prevent spontaneous combustion from happening with clean up materials?
@@belindabrownharper4496 my health is improving, thanks. Have you ever experienced spontaneous combustion of some items? I clean my brushes with old cotton rags but I do not put in the rubbish until the oil in the rag has dried. I leave those rags overnight unfolded on top of my working table. I don't soak the rags in oil, I do not use it in excess.
AWESOME VIDEO! I get it!!!! And I'm going to do a portrait right now using all you've taught me here! Thanks a million!
Thank you so much for deep experienation
So much info in just one video. Beautiful, useful and very interesting. Thank you so much
Wonderful! You help me a lotttt
Hi .. this is the beat out of the tons i have seen
This is the most helpful video on flesh tones EVER! Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
What an awesome lesson. I so needed this Thank you
Scott, This video has been most helpful for me. Your explanations were insightful. And your methods for mixing are extremely useful. An inspiring video. Thank you.
So helpful, simply, and effectively explained
Hi Scott, was wondering why you removed the red from your palette? Thanks for this🤙🏼
I don't really know. I think I forgot to add it one day and realized I didn't miss it. I could hit the red pitches I needed in flesh tones with alizarin and orange. I like simplicity so if a color no longer seems all that important, I stop using it. But it's still perfectly viable and if it is helpful to you, I would definitely continue to use it. There's no real reason not to. Thanks for the question!
@@waddellwebisodes Ah gotcha.. Thanks again! Your webisodes are a goldmine👍🏽
@@waddellwebisodes 👍
This was very informative. I go back and rewatch and rewatch. Learning about light and how it effects what you are painting is so essential for me. I didn't quite understand why there was so much more chroma under the chin, and you explained it to me. Now I know why certain colors are used for that area. Thank you!!!
Dvd quality video. Thanks
بالرغم اني كنت اتمني لو في ترجمة..
بس حقيقي حبييييت اوي.....
so loved.. ❤❤
very informative. nice job.
I always enjoy your videos. I appreciate you sharing what you have learned and your teaching skill. Thank you
Thank U so much very well explained ❤
Great video, there's a lot learnig ,great explanation ...
You just opened me a world!!😮❤🎉🎉
Amazing, Thank you
1:59 got me lol subscribed!
Absolutely amazing!
Thank you
Excellent! Very helpful! Thank you.
nice, well done and good work, regards from South Agrica mate
Very useful thanks a lot 😊
Valuable knowledge thank you for this 🙌 is there a reason you don’t use burnt sienna in your palette ?
I really found this extremely useful...thank you!
You are so very clear with your explanations, though I have to keep pausing if I want to make notes because you talk very quickly. I have found this very helpful as portraits are my favourite to paint.
This is gold, thanks ❤
Fantastic video.
You express yourself well 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for your deep explaination!
Great video!
Great info Scott. Thanks for sharing.
just love it--- THANK YOU---
Really interesting. I love your blending. What type of brushes do you use to achieve the blending Scott?
Thanks Mario! I use taklon synthetic rounds. You can use most any you find at art stores...but I really like the Beste brand from jerrysartarama (I'm not affiliated with them in any way). I use their regular rounds, sizes 2, 4, 6, and 8 mostly.