#skin tones

[kelogsloops]

forever repeating 'trust the process' in my head while making these marker portrait studies 😅 #brbchasingdreams

🎵 Blue Wednesday - Things In Between

[sandinmybed]

dan warm undertone phil cool undertone! I kinda knew this but it's really obvious here

Dan might be slightly olive toned too. this would explain why phil looks so good in Dan's black clothes and Dan looks so nice in white and in colour particularly red

[chlobody]

Held back

[miamaimania]

"Embrace" by Gerado Vizmanos ⟲

[telugu-girl-13]

googling my skintone results be like

im "dark brown", whats yours

[dhabitahpunk-art]

[physalian]

Describing skin tones with food!

I am 100% not any authority on how you should describe non-white skin-tones, disclaimer.

I remember reading in a few places when writing my various diverse casts on ways to describe traits that are culturally specific here, but can’t really be called the same in fantasy settings (like dreadlocks).

I had a sensitivity reader for a Black-coded character who called me out on accidentally saying she was “white-knuckling” something. Honest mistake, I didn’t think twice about what “white-knuckling” literally means, it’s always been shorthand to convey fear and stress. Whoops.

But the other thing I remember seeing in quite a few places was avoiding using food to describe darker skin tones, and the one food I saw everywhere was, of course “chocolate”.

Majority consensus was that using food as a descriptor can look derogatory, especially something like chocolate that tends to also pop up in fiction that fetishizes darker skin tones, it’s always chocolate. Food is something you consume for pleasure, not something that denotes respect and autonomy of a person.

It's a small, small thing, and I don't think one instance of 'chocolate' is going to earn you a spot on a pyre, but it is cliche, and we can do better!

Issue then being that when you think of brown things, the immediate options you think of aren’t the same caliber as pale things. Wood types, and even then those are… eh? Mud is brown, dirt is brown, clay can be brown. Most woods aren't a perfect match-up for the wide range of darker skin tones and saying "her skin was black like black wood" is ridiculous and "her skin was black as soil" is insulting.

I think nuts and other natural materials are okay? (not the authority, not the authority at all) But it does then come down to which similes you use dependant on the story you're writing. If we're writing about a nature sprite and say their skin is the color of an acorn... yeah that tracks. If I'm writing a CEO of a major coporation, and describing their skin as the color of acorns, that's weird.

Whiteness on the other hand gets things like snow, paper, milky, creamy, alabaster, ivory, lily, daisy, etc. Even when whiteness is described with food, ‘milky’ doesn’t carry the same undertones as ‘chocolatey’.

I do go out of my way, for characters where it fits, to deliberately describe white skin tones with food just to shake up the balance a little bit and see if anybody notices.

So! Some pale-skinned food comparisons if anyone else wants to try with varying levels of cheekiness, and also to emphasize just why ‘chocolate’ can be a little bit insulting:

Cream

Milk

Eggshell

Powder

Banana

Yoghurt

Pear

Mozzarella

Cauliflower

Mushroom

Potato

Butter

Macadamia

Cashew

Parsnip

Water chestnut

Coconut

Truffle

Tofu

Wonder Bread

Sushi rice

In all seriousness, I used this post as part of my research way back when. At the end of the day, you don’t usually have to get that specific, certainly not every time mentioning their skin pops up in the narrative.

I can imagine using the above words if a character is either joking or insulting someone else ("that cauliflower fuck"), but not in any casual context, much less romantic or as a means to describe attractiveness. It’s just for fun plz see the satire.

[lamaery]

100 Portraits Challenges - Part 8 and 9

Not real ambitions for character associations here. Just looking for interesting faces and a broader diversity of skin tones.

Part eight

49-50) American actress Julia Jones

51) American actor Ritesh Rajan

52 - 53) Sikh American designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia

54 - 55) Indian actor, martial artist and stuntman Vidyut Jammwal

Part nine

56) Harvey Guillén as Guillermo De la Cruz

57-58) Canadian/American/Gambian YouTuber Khadijah Mbowe

59) One of the portraits of the Humanae Series by photographer Angélica Dass

60) German rock musician Gil Ofarim

61) Ivorian model Aminata Sanogo

The Humane series by Angelica Dass is pretty neat. It shows both the broad variety and similarities across humans from all kinds of ethnicities.

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[ask-draxum]

ATTENTION

THIS MAY BE USED FOR ART!!! FINAL SKIN TONES AT END SEPERATE! I put the final skin matches in blobs w/ the characters name so that can be used for a ref

I haven’t slept in two days as this has been plaguing me but I FIGURED IT OUT

I gave in and FIGURED UT OUT (it’s 11am where I am and I’ve been hella busy lately, forgive misspellings)

So there’s lots of human TMNT, specifically ROTTMNT fanart out there, I love it

BUT

I wanted to know what their real skin tones would be

SO, I PRESENT THE CHART

I went through and grey (gray idc) scaled it and matched it up (video of process at end)

the 1, 2, 3, 4 thing is if there was a match that was close but not perfect, so they’re ranked by match with multiple in each category because there are different shades, warmer and colder (I blended all the 1st places at the end)

Then here’s this

For draxum, the blended version didn’t fully match like the turtles blended 1’s did so I figured out that one of his options was actually a number one choice for answers

Fully finished thing!!

Aaaaaand finally vid of the process!!

[waywardsou2]

Guys I need help

I'm making a Jayvik love child (the sister of Sasha) and I need to know which skin tone looks better.

(Just so you know this child is supposed to look more like Jayce, compared to Sasha who looked like Viktor)

[marlynnofmany]

It occurs to me that any scenario where aliens call humans "pinkies" is assuming that the majority of the humans they meet are actually paler than human average. Is there a sci-fi setting where humans are called "brownies"?

(That brings with it the potential for confusion about dessert food and household fae, too. Which is fun.)

[kelogsloops]

a portrait study in markers! #brbchasingdreams

prints | tutorials

[crewes-creations]

Recently, I've been getting into sub-dermal colour zones. I find them so fascinating, and its such a cool way to add hints of colour and realism to your work. I decided to make a colour map of the body, since I haven't found any full body maps online, in addition to an example for others for anyone else who wants to try it :D

This colour map is not set in stone, so feel free to experiment!

The effect can be subtle, but I've absolutely fallen in love with the effect. What do you guys think?

[jaeharuart]

I've changed up the way I paint a bit and had to go in and make some edits to my custom skin tone swatch set so they didn't run into brightness/burnout and over-saturation issues. So here's a new sheet with all of them for anyone who wants it. You can get the actual photshop .aco file that has them all organized by list title, name, pale, light, medium and dark groups when you switch your view out of the default and into the "small list" mode, like I have mine in all of my videos to more easily find stuff, on my Patreon if you want. I just exported all of my swatches for Patreon again though so you'll have all the different shades of blacks, whites, metals, and golds I have saved in my swatch sets as well. Otherwise just eye-drop and save the ones you want from this sheet I guess. Idc. Enjoy.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JaeHaruArt?fan_landing=true

LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/jaeharuart

[mr-orion]

Please share this with other people, I spent hours working on this :)

I made this resource for digital artists to have something to reference and quickly color pick from for flat coloring. While I tried to include a diverse set of skin-tones some skin-tones are best conveyed by their highlights and undertones. Therefor they can't be conveyed by just one color, so I encourage people to play with highlighting and shading!

Please tag me if you use this to make art, I'd be delighted! :D

Also I may edit the pallet collection if people are able to suggest enough skin-tone colors that should be in it! I tried not to miss too many and if I don't get any suggestions I'll take it as I did a good job.

Anyway, please like and reblog! And follow because I'm an attention gremlin (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ