Description
LEARNING HOW TO CAPTURE SUCH QUALITY HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER!
Inside You can find guidelines for rendering accurate skin tones in a lot of media, including watercolor, oil and pastel. You can begin with a review of the five essential painting elements (drawing, value, color, composition and edges), then learn how light and color influence the appearance of skin tones. Best-selling artist Chris Saper provides the advice and examples that make every lesson and technique easy to be aware―immediately bettering the quality of your work. You can discover how to:
- Paint the four major skin color groups (Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic)
- Refine these colors into dozens of conceivable variations within each group
- Select your palette and mix hues for clean, beautiful colors
- Determine the color and temperature of light that falls on your subject
- Paint direct and indirect sunlight, artificial light and highlights of light
- Master the four elements that decide color in shadow
- Use photographic references when you’ll’t paint directly from life
You’ll also find seven step by step demonstrations and an appendix of sample color charts for each major skin type under a range of lighting variations. It is all you want to bring your portraits to life!