DRAWING SKIN WITH PRISMACOLORS! Coloured Pencil Drawing Tutorial Episode 5

hello everybody welcome back to my channel so today's video is the fifth episode in my color pencil tutorial series and today I'm going to be focusing on how you can draw a realistic skin using prismacolor colored pencils and I've had lots of requests to do this tutorial so I thought I would do it even though I don't really use personal clothes that much to draw skin I mainly use the Karen - luminance at the moment so for the white pencil i will be using karen - because i don't have a white prismacolor pencil but the white prismacolor pencil will work just the same so i'm going to be drawing for different types of skin so with your in a light tone and in a mid-tone and then a brown a turn and then like a dark brown skin color just to show you the variety of skin tones that you can create using the prismacolor pencils and the personal kind of pencils that will be used in are the pencils that you would get with the portrait set by prismacolor so after i do each skin tone i will list the color pencils that are used to do each one so i hope you enjoy the tutorial if you do please give it a share which will really help the video on my channel anyway let's get on with the first skin color so the third thing that I did was I applied a layer of light peach all over the area and then I also added a layer of peach on the shadowed areas at the bottom of the circle once I've done that I then used the color beige which added more of a realistic tone and took away some of the pinkness of it and then I finally added some cream to the light area where the highlights are at the top of the circle one side done now I then used these colors again and I just kept building up the layers so when I'm drawing skin I start off by doing a lot of light layers and then I increase the pressure as I add more and more layers because once you've applied pressure and burnished into the paper it means that you flatten this you to the paper so you can't apply much more color pencil over the top of that so it's really important that at the start you don't apply much pressure at all I also added some and pink and pink in there as well to add more of a pinkish healthy glow to it especially if you're drawing women and they have blusher on this is the kind of colors you would use on the cheeks also on the darker regions I used a bit of light umber as well just to give it more of a shadow so when I'm applying the pencil I try to use or motions rather than lines but I will go in a certain direction but I'll do this with my wrists going in a circular sort of motion which helps get more of an even coverage and prevents having stop and start points and it also means you get smooth blending rather than it looking really streaky once I built up the colors how I wanted them I then went in with the light peach and I use this with a lot more pressure to try and burnish and blend these colors into the paper but I still wasn't applying loads of pressure because I wanted to add some more layers on top of day [Music] when I'll furnish in the highlighted regions instead of using that light peach I used a white kaolin - pencil instead but the prismacolor white would work the same and I also use the white colored pencil to smooth over the rest of the skin and that's basically it for the first skin tone so the important things to remember I to use circular motions when you're applying your color pencil and also that you don't apply much pressure at the start and to build up those layers of different colors to get as much depth and three dimension into the skin as possible so that it looks a bit more natural okay so now listing all the codes that are used in this first skin tone but I'll also write them in the description below as well the first skin tone that I did have more of a pinkish undertone so for the second skin color I'm going to give it more of a yellow undertone and so I start by applying a layer of Jasmine and then I add a bit of beige and then I start adding light under for the shadowed areas so once again I am using circular motions and I've done a lot of other tutorials on how I draw skin as well so if you want to hear me talk more about the techniques that are used to apply the pencil and stuff like that then make sure you go and check out those other videos but they are when I'm using the current - luminance colored pencils rather than the prismacolor [Music] [Music] so once I finished adding the light umber I then go in with the salmon pink which adds more depth to it and gives it more of a pinkish tone so it's not just yellowish and then I carry on building up the darker shadows by using the dark brown in conjunction with the light umber and as I apply more and more layers I'm applying a bit more pressure each time to build up the coverage and lose some of that white graininess once I've done that I like to blend it with a layer of cream color and then I go in with the beige color and apply a lot more pressure all over the skin for the highlighted regions once again instead of just using beige I use from that white color as well and I also use the white color all over the skin to help blend out and make it a bit more smooth [Music] [Music] once I finished blending with the white I added some more of the salmon pink color and also the terracotta and burnt sienna on the shadow regions because when you add the white color pencil it washes out the colors slightly [Music] [Music] [Music] so these are all the colors that are used for the second skin tone and now moving on to the third skin tone this is where it's a slightly darker but more tan skin tone as well so because this is a darker skin tone I am using more of the darker color pencils and so the first layer that I'm applying is using the light umber and are playing a very even coverage to the whole of the skin and I'm using very very light pressure and I'm going in circular motions but I'm switching my directions to make sure that I go in all the little crevices and get a really even smooth coverage [Music] you once I've done that I then go in with the dark brown and I use this on the really shadowed areas at the bottom of that circle and as I'm veering away from the shadows I used less and less of the color pencil to help transition into the highlighted regions I then apply some more light under to build up the coverage and also transition the shadows into the highlights a bit more once I've done that I then go in with the birth okra and this adds more of a warm glow to it and stops it looking so flat and then I blend it out a bit with the fan color and I add a bit of thumb and pink to again give it a healthy glow and a bit of a pinkish touch to it [Music] you now I'm just laboring the colors again so I'm using the dark brown on the shadowed regions and then I'm using a lot of the light under to help blend and transition as well and now I'm really starting to burnish the colors into each other by applying a lot more pressure on the color pencils so when you've run skin and you're trying to decide what colors you need to use issues for to get your reference photo and pull it into a simple program like paint or something and then use the eyedropper tool to identify what the color is that you're trying to draw [Music] you [Music] so now I just wanted to show you another technique that you can use to blend color pencils and especially when you're drawing skin you might want to use this because it works really nicely with rackspace pencils so another way that you can get really smooth skin is to use solvent and here I'm using a zester pencil blend and what you can do is apply bit this on the paintbrush and then once you've applied all your layers you can use a really small amount dis solvent and it will blend really nicely and you can get some really nice smooth results but this is quite a tricky technique so you may need a bit of practice before you're able to do this really well one good thing about solvent is that once it's dried you can go over it with more layers which means that you can get a lot more layers using this technique because the solvent doesn't damage the tooth of the paper okay so moving on to my last green color this is a much darker skin color and I'm starting off by applying a layer of light number again but in this case because it's a dark skinned color and applying a bit more pressure on to that light umber and I'm also applying an even coverage over the whole of the skin [Music] next I'm going in with a dark brown and I'm using this in the shadowed areas and quite a weight up the skin is Wow and because this is a dark skin tone I can apply the first layers with a lot more pressure because I need to start building up the darkness and because this is a dark skin tone in order to get this dark skin colors I need to apply a bit more pressure onto the pencil of a star [Music] so there is a look so flat I'll be going in with the color henna and I'm using this on the mid-tones up into the highlights this is a pinkish tone but it's a lot deeper and this is really complementary to the skin tone and especially this is the color that women of the skintone might have on their skin as blusher and once I've added that I'll then go in with the beige and I'll use it on the highlighted region again I want to show you how you can use solvent to blend all these skin colors so I'll be using Lestat pencil blend again to show you how you can achieve smooth skin but this time once I've applied to solve and I'm then going to wait for it to dry and go over it with an additional layer of colored pencil anyway that's it for this tutorial I really hope you found it useful remember if you did it was really helped me out and the channel if you could share this video and also if you're new to my channel I'm doing this series every Tuesday so feel free to subscribe if you don't want to miss out on my future color pencil tutorials I've always I'll leave a link to my online store and my social media sites in the description below thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you in my next video bye [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Kirsty Partridge Art

Views: 582,927

Keywords: coloured pencil, drawing skin, how to draw, colored pencil, prismacolor, drawing realistic skin, drawing, coloured pencil tutorial, tutorial, art, drawing for beginners, techniques, polychromos, step by step, painting, blending, artist

Id: Vy7B7q7WAGg

Length: 18min 8sec (1088 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 01 2017