skin tones.

[Mr_Liebe]

I've started coloring my drawings, and I'm having trouble with skin tones, flesh tones, whatever you want to call them.Could you give me some basic ideas of what colors I could use for the flesh of my characters?

[apples13]

I've started coloring my drawings, and I'm having trouble with skin tones, flesh tones, whatever you want to call them.Could you give me some basic ideas of what colors I could use for the flesh of my characters?

take a drawing you like with the skintone you want put it into photoshop and use the eye drop tool to get the color o.0

[Rubisko]

The more educational way of doing apples suggestion would be to get a photo with the skin tone you want, guess the color using the colorwindow in photoshop(or whatever program you use), then check with the eyedropper tool to see if you were right. Btw, don't forget to set the eyedropper to something else than point sample, use the 3by3 average or even the 5by5 average, otherwise you'll just sample a single pixel and it will rarely be the color you expected.

Also:
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=Digital+basics+Tutorial#/d1gvoou
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=169521

[Mr_Liebe]

I don't have photoshop, or any of the programs that some of you people use, I'm more of a traditional artist.

[GunZet]

Skin tones are a tough thing to master for any medium of artist. Usually it's a varied mixture of a bunch of different colors, and it depends on the lighting too.
Some references.
http://www.idigitalemotion.com/tutorials/guest/skin_tone/skintone.jpg
http://www.deviantart.com/download/23032337/Skin_Tone_List_by_CelProjects.jpg
http://www.deviantart.com/download/91443190/Custom_Skin_Tone_Palette_by_ShoneGold.png

[Mr_Liebe]

Lol, damn, it's going to take a few years to really get all these things I'm learning down. Well, thanks for the replies, good people.

[Cloudy]

Download Gimp if you don't have ps, it's free.

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

I notice you ask a lot of questions, I just hope you are taking what people are telling you and putting it to good use :)

[Mr_Liebe]

I've had serious problems with viruses in the past, bit I'll see if have enough cash for purchasing some programs off of amazon or something.

Oh, and I do, when I can recall the stuff, it's a shit load to remember.:)

[corastaur]

If you're a student: http://students.autodesk.com/

as a student you can get this for free: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=17691598
It's pretty easy to use and I like it a lot

[Celestial-Fox]

This is the best skin tutorial I've ever seen in my life. How to use the swatches are in the comments section. (Click the image below.)

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/333/c/5/SKIN__a_chart___SUPPLEMENT_IMG_by_navate.jpg (http://navate.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d2efaai)

[CypressDahlia]

If you want to learn how to color skin, you're better off just studying color theory in general. Unless you're going to be drawing characters in flat, even lighting against white backgrounds, you'd be surprised at how skin changes color based on the surrounding environment.

[Mr_Liebe]

I think I'd be better off studying general color theory, thank you. I'll try to keep the background thing in mind, as well.