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12 years ago
out of all my colored-pencils, only 2 make decent skintones :i
(for caucasian-esque skintones like in the image)
iirc they are Light Peach and Beige.
As a result I actually decided to use the same color for whites and japanese.
and using the second color for most hispanics and most other asians.
Yet that pic above has three count'em THREE different skintones. le sigh
And it's not like i bought the wrong colors, at least I don't think. There aren't even many colors that could qualify as caucasian skintone, probably not even 10, so of course I bought them all. And out of those only 2 really worked.
(There's always other brands come to think of it,. maybe I can for example get "Light Peach" in one brand and "Light Peach" in another, and assuming the color is slightly different, voila: two different skintones)
This is not counting black and dark-skinned characters.
The color brown looks great, but I have one character I decided to want coffee colored so I used "ginger root" ...
....sigh
Thing is, coloring smudges the sketch lines making the colors darker
(this by the way makes it impossible to color nipples. They all end up soot colored.)
anyway she looks like a.. barf colored she-hulk
thanks a lot "ginger root"
When I use the same color elsewhere on the page, where I didn't draw, the color actually looks better because the pencil from the lines didn't muddle the color.
By the way when it gets dark, "ginger root" actually starts to look like a green, like pea soup. When I turn the lights on, it looks bronze-ish/coffee again like it's supposed. Like magic. Pretty weird and I havent seen any other color do this so far, but it probably doesnt matter I guess since it's not like it will show up green in the scanner.
I had the same thing happen to me with a dark olive shirt. >_<
(for caucasian-esque skintones like in the image)
iirc they are Light Peach and Beige.
As a result I actually decided to use the same color for whites and japanese.
and using the second color for most hispanics and most other asians.
Yet that pic above has three count'em THREE different skintones. le sigh
And it's not like i bought the wrong colors, at least I don't think. There aren't even many colors that could qualify as caucasian skintone, probably not even 10, so of course I bought them all. And out of those only 2 really worked.
(There's always other brands come to think of it,. maybe I can for example get "Light Peach" in one brand and "Light Peach" in another, and assuming the color is slightly different, voila: two different skintones)
This is not counting black and dark-skinned characters.
The color brown looks great, but I have one character I decided to want coffee colored so I used "ginger root" ...
....sigh
Thing is, coloring smudges the sketch lines making the colors darker
(this by the way makes it impossible to color nipples. They all end up soot colored.)
anyway she looks like a.. barf colored she-hulk
thanks a lot "ginger root"
When I use the same color elsewhere on the page, where I didn't draw, the color actually looks better because the pencil from the lines didn't muddle the color.
By the way when it gets dark, "ginger root" actually starts to look like a green, like pea soup. When I turn the lights on, it looks bronze-ish/coffee again like it's supposed. Like magic. Pretty weird and I havent seen any other color do this so far, but it probably doesnt matter I guess since it's not like it will show up green in the scanner.
I had the same thing happen to me with a dark olive shirt. >_<
